GoldBrush AcademyGoldBrush AcademyComplimentary handbooks and studio tools for painters who want their work to sound like them.
Mixing, matching and choosing colour with real watercolour paints, and the physics behind it.
What do these paints make? Mix two or three real watercolours from Daniel Smith, Winsor & Newton, Mission Gold, Da Vinci, Holbein or the common colours, with water, ratios and glazes.
How do I mix this colour? Tap it in a photo and get two- and three-paint recipes: which tubes, how much of each, and how much water.
Which colours belong together? Turn the harmony filter over a painter's wheel for complementary, analogous, triadic and tetradic palettes, with value, chroma and the tubes to paint them.
The mosh pit and the sandwich: why a mixed wash darkens and a glaze glows, with live reflectance curves and the Kubelka–Munk model for the curious.
Seeing light and dark before colour: the big shapes that hold a painting together.
Handbooks and guides to read slowly, away from the easel.
Tools we are building now, for value, drawing, perspective and critique.
Your reference in greyscale beside a value scale, to find the darkest dark and the lightest light.
A drawing grid, the rule of thirds, the golden ratio and dynamic symmetry laid over your own reference.
A considered critique of your painting and its photo reference: design, value, colour and edges, in the language of the atelier.
One-, two- and three-point perspective lines over a photo or a blank page, with the horizon where you set it.
New tools join the atelier every few weeks. Sign up with the handbook to hear when they open.
