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Is there any brand of ultramarine blue which doesn’t granulate as much? I’ve noticed when mixing that ultra granulates the mixes but haven’t found one that doesn’t granulate & don’t like using Indarthrone blue. Do love perm rose with ultramarine & like doing mountains.

You mentioned that Scarlet Lake is strong and staining. What are the difficulties you find with staining colors. I find it difficult to know when it’s best to use a staining or non staining watercolor

Love your work. It’s actually inspiring to see an artist’s growth over the years. Definitely boosts morale. Thank you for sharing your artwork and journey with us. I love your cats and snow leopard painting. I would love to learn those from you.

Can’t wait for the next dog dogtober!

Thanks for sharing! Your artwork is beautiful. I also love to paint animals and landscapes. Keep up the awesome work. :)

I love seeing your progress over the years, amazing how far you've come along and the improvements youve made, its funny how some you arent keen on are some of my favs lol this gives me optimism if i paint moreeee i will improve more, and to give things more a go as i have this fear of not doing well which is silly, but can put me off completing or even starting a painting. I have soo many half done, then start thinking of a next. I feel like getting to a point where i dont more onto another untill i have all tbe half done complete. A lot of your paintings are so beautiful, you are super talented and i loveee how youve kept them all over the years and remember so much about all your paintings 💖💖💖

Hi hi!!!! I hope you enjoy this artwork tour! Take a shot every time I say "adore" (or don't, you might not survive). It was really fun to take a trip down memory lane and I hope for those of you feeling overwhelmed or stuck, keep at it! Improvement won't happen overnight but it WILL happen ❤❤❤

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Totally agree about birds’ feet being gross 😂

I prefer Michael Wilcox's *Perfect Color Choices for the Artist,* *The Wilcox Guide to the Best Watercolor Paints,* and *Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green.* These three wonderful books, with their detailed and complete explanations of color theory as it relates to mixing watercolor paints, have been invaluable to my understanding of watercolors. Key to understanding color (again, as it relates to pigments used for painting) is to appreciate that every color of paint is actually a combination of two main colors-blue pigment, for example, is either a violet-blue (mostly blue with some violet as the secondary color) or a green-blue (mostly blue with some green as the secondary color). Likewise, yellow pigment is either an orange-yellow or a green-yellow. Continuing on with this example, to mix a green using blue and yellow, you'll need to mix together a green-blue and a green-yellow (not a violet-blue and an orange-yellow). *The Wilcox Guide to the Best Watercolor Paints* is an exhaustive description of all the different colors of pigment made by the 30 plus major worldwide brands of watercolor paint. I've also found the *Quiller Color Wheel* by Stephen Quiller (particularly the 27" by 27" poster size) to be an excellent resource for appreciating the dual-color nature of all pigments. I use the *Stephen Quiller Porcelain Palette* (13” X 13” X 1¼”) with the following watercolor pigments (all, but one, Schmincke Horadam Aquarell)-starting at the top and going clockwise around the palette leaving an empty well between each of the pigments: *Aureolin Hue 208* (an orange-yellow), *Lemon Yellow 215* (a green-yellow), *May Green 524* (a yellow-green), *Sap Green 530* (a blue- green), *Helio Cerulean 479* (a green-blue), *Ultramarine Finest 494* (a violet-blue), *Brilliant Blue Violet 910* (a blue-violet), *Brilliant Red Violet 940* (a red-violet), *Ruby Red 351* (a violet-red), *Transparent Red Deep 355* (an orange-red), *Saturn Red 359* (a red-orange), and *Chromium Orange 214* (a yellow-orange). In the double wells in each of the four corners of the pallet, starting with the two wells in top left-hand corner and going clockwise, I have: *Transparent Sienna 653* and *Transparent Ocker 657,* *Madder Brown 670* and *Transparent Umber 671,* *Ivory Black 780* and *Graphite Grey 788,* and *Payne’s Grey Bluish 787* and *Titanium White* (Daniel Smith-the only pigment that is not Schmincke). There’s lots of room for mixing pigments in the large center well of the porcelain pallet. All the watercolor pigments were chosen for their primary and their secondary colors as well as their transparency and permanence. Enjoy : )

Fun!

Happy Easter paint pals! Hope you enjoy these quick Easter themed watercolour projects. The egg one is super fun and teaches you so much. Give it a go even if you just paint monochromatic circles instead of colourful eggs - it's a great lesson in water control! --Emma

Happy Easter, paint pals! Hope you like this short, beginner-friendly real-time tutorial :) a little looser than my usual painting style, but a bit of fun! Happy painting! --Emma

Hi hi!!! I hope you enjoy this real-time tutorial, painting a gouldian finch in greyscale watercolour :) realism can be pretty intimidating if you're new to watercolour, but give it a crack anyway, you'll learn heaps and I'm there to talk you through it step by step! Hope this helps you see how important values are in art, and how focusing on only colour can sometimes leave your paintings a lil flat. If you have any questions feel free to drop a comment below --Emma

Loved this one!

Hi hi!!! I hope you enjoy this real-time tutorial, painting a gouldian finch in greyscale watercolour :) realism can be pretty intimidating if you're new to watercolour, but give it a crack anyway, you'll learn heaps and I'm there to talk you through it step by step! Hope this helps you see how important values are in art, and how focusing on only colour can sometimes leave your paintings a lil flat. If you have any questions feel free to drop a comment below ❤ --Emma

Your channel deserves many more subscriptions! I am finding you introductory videos very helpful for me as a beginner watercolorist.

you're such a good lecturer. love how you impart information. thank you

I can't tell you how many times I've recommended to a beginner to turn both their current painting and the reference to black and white to compare values. I now do it for every painting from a reference. Adding darks to your paintings is sometimes scary, but a good painting is ALL in the values. Fun video!

Hiiii! Hope you enjoyed this video on values 😃 as much as colour mixing/using a limited palette helped me get the hang of watercolour, what REALLY helped me lift my watercolour game after that was learning all about values! So so important for achieving realism, and I usually find myself painting more from a greyscale reference than colour! Let me know how this video helped you, and I look forward to painting a monochromatic portrait with you in the next one! ❤

Love ❤❤❤ your videos!

This also serves as a good way to get comfortable using plenty of paint, I love that! I'm always concerned about waste but this feels good to be reminded about reuse.

So happy to have you back on TH-cam! I am determined to start painting for realz this year, I've been intimidated by it for far too long

Hope this vid on colour schemes helped you! Don't forget to check out my other colour theory videos (in their own playlist!) or learn more about colour theory and mixing in my free online course at paintwild.com/wildcolours 😊

Interesting. A bit confusing keep switching between W&N professional and Cotmam. Two videos would have simplified this, though it was useful to see common pigments.

"Promo SM" 😎

Loving your “nerdiness”! It’s fascinating and I like to understand the why’s rather than just accepting what I’m being told.❤

At the beginning of my watercolor journey, I hated granulating and opaque watercolor paint. But as time goes by, I feel there is a time and place for them. I wouldn't use either on a botanical painting. But I live on the ocean. Granulating colors are a must for seascapes. Opaque colors are better on Yupo paper. My biggest rule is to utilize single pigment paint as often as possible. But that's just me. 😊

I love your explanations. So easy to understand.

This is the video I needed - thanks

Great video explaining the basics of color theory and paint properties!

This was really interesting! I personally use a split primary for further variety but sometimes space can be limited or I just don’t want to deal with that many color choices. Would love to see your thoughts on split primaries!

Thank you for this video!! I have been looking for a way to mix the colours I need without breaking my budget. I wanted to buy the best quality of the 3 primaries then mix the rest. I hope you can show us siennas and umbers!!

Thank you so much for this video!! It's exactly what I needed -- seeing it "in real life", even as you didn't do it "perfectly" (my struggle!!) was so very helpful. 🤩

I pick a different set of primaries for every painting, according to what colours I need to be able to mix for that painting. But I wouldn't consider myself a beginer :P I keep around 30 paints on my palette at once, but I never use more than 4-7 on a single painting. That's how I keep from getting bored with using the same colours all the time, but still work with a limited palette to maintain colour harmony.

Thank you for a fantastic and comprehensive deep dive into both color theory and color mixing. I really enjoyed how you approached this ❤ I also find that ppl disagree slightly when it comes to determining on warm and cool colors, especially when it comes to blue. Could you do a breakdown on that? I find that there are different opinions on that. Some think that purple leaning blues are cold and green leaning blues are warm, because it’s leaning towards yellow, which they argue is warm, but when I try to research, I find arguments pointing in the direction towards purple leaning blues are warm. Since you gravitate towards cool colors, and have done a deep dive into colors, maybe this is something you can explain in a logical way?

14:19 What warm yellow used in the bottom rows? Have you tried transparent yellow PY150 or PY128?

8:42 My guess, Phthalo Blue in Cotman is pretty strong, much stronger than the rose and lemon yellow, so it may make difficulties for beginner to learn color mixing. Ultramarine even when it is not the 'right primary color' is much manageable in mixing and it is also the most popular blue in traditional palette.

Thank you !!! I happened to sneak a peak at your Paint Wild handmade watercolours... beautiful blues and greens ... and magentas... you also have great reviews on them, so that may be a reason they're Sold Out!!! Thanks for sharing... I started watercoloring at 68 (3 years ago) and had quite a collection going of convenience colors! I didn't know about pigments... your lessons would have been a great help... I'm seriously happy to be swatching my favorites! Need to start painting again soon! Happy 😊 painting!!! From a California Gramma ❤

Bizarrely, Prussian blue (PB27) actually recovers from fading if you put it in shade with good airflow. And we all still enjoy the vibrancy of the last several hundred years of Prussian blue paintings. I don’t get the modern obsession with extreme lightfastness.

At last someone who knows where magenta goes! ❤❤❤❤

Hey hey! Hope you enjoyed this lil tutorial on creating a colour wheel of 12 colours from 3 primary colours 😊 I looooove colour mixing, so I hope this made you feel more comfortable trying it for yourself! If you want to grab the colour wheel templates or take the rest of my free colour theory course (with the tiger's eye tutorial too) you'll find it at www.paintwild.com/wildcolours 🎨

Wow these comments are so rude. You explained everything very well and simply. And your color wheels look fine. I already knew all of this and I still enjoyed the video! 😊

I made color wheels with limited palettes last year using a set that was only $9.00. I learned a LOT by going through the process, enough that I wrote about it in a blog post. Your review of color theory is much more informed, and I love it.

I'm 54. We had maybe 12 clors at most in our paint swts in Art classes. My teachers has us learn & mix the B & W gray scale of 10 and we had to mix the color wheel/spectrum. We had few convenience colors in small midwest town in the early 80s. Which means we HAD to get creative 🎨 🖼 😊

Hi, I loved your video very much. Well done :)

Another beautiful color! What do you use to mix them? A California Gramma ❤

I agree!!! Just subscribed! ❤A California Gramma ❤

Absolutely beautiful color!!! I've been watching artists that make their own metallic watercolor paint... that's why you popped up on my utube page! Also like Chameleon metallic watercolor paint!!! Was getting inspired to make some, but it's less expensive to buy a few pans! Thank you from a California Gramma ❤

Aren't there only 3 primary colors? Blue, red, yellow. Your choice of words can be confusing to beginners.