Master Colors debuted its new course of color composition tutorials. Each features a downloadable Photoshop template from the works of the great 20th Century colorists, Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse.

The first template lesson uses a wonderful design taken from Matisse’s famous cutout series to teach control over flat graphic color design. By the fifth tutorial, the artists can try to execute their own version of one of the great masterpieces – The Almond Tree by Bonnard.

At first the painting appears almost too complex to render in Photoshop. However, the tutorial breaks it down so that the artist can control the piece from beginning to end, while gaining mastery of various color composition techniques.

Free tutorials, templates and a demo of Master Colors’ HVC Color Composer plugin for Photoshop and InDesign can be downloaded from their Web site.