Prue Acton: Colour and Design

RMIT Short Course

The course will run over two consecutive weekends in January (11–12,18–19 January 2020)

This Colour and Design Short Course is multi-discipline.

Everything starts from colour. It's our primary visual and emotional communication with the world. And Australia does great colour!

At the heart of colour theory is the colour wheel — of its time, beyond its time.

The Moriarty Colour Wheel — a definitive guide moriartycolour.com allows us to work with pigments yet also work in light — RGB-CMY, with hue numbering aligned with digital graphics. And use the colour wheel to match colour by Hue in situ, back to digital RGB-CMY and then check back to the printed work. Never trust your camera or your memory!

During the four-day course we will use pigments for practical abstract exercises in:
colour matching and colour mixing
creating great colour palettes — beyond personal taste, towards the universal
using the Moriarty Colour Wheel to preview colour ideas in other hues
predicting colour effects in weaving, twisting yarns, layers, transparancies, as well as broken and optical colour, and underpainting

And work towards individual projects and goals, whilst also looking at and analysing the works of the great colourists in art and design and the colours of nature.

Find out more:
Further information and how to enrol
Colour and Design PDF