The document provides instructions for a basic color course for design students, beginning with selecting a reference photo or watercolor sketch and converting it into a contour drawing. Students then create a grayscale with at least 16-20 gradations of watercolor paints and apply it to the outlined landscape. Next, they take one watercolor hue to make a monochrome scale of its tints and shades, and use it to create a monochromatic landscape. Finally, they make a color wheel with a grayscale of each color and apply it to create a polychromatic landscape based on the reference.