Honestly, basic art kits of acrylics should be like this. Not only would it allow people to learn about the color wheel but also it makes the colors be more vibrant in general. Thank you for this video! Now I will have a better idea of the list of colors I will get for myself.
@@josephjohn7209 this is basically why gouache has more pastel colors because of opacity and watercolors are vibrant because they're mostly trancluscent. it took me a long time to figure out too... i wish they taught this in the art class too along with the color theory and temperature.
@@josephjohn7209 I love the green gold honestly but That's Just Me. I love warm, vibrant greens a lot so having it in my kit is fun, and it was one of the first golden fluid paints I bought because it was a unique mix I hadn't seen much before and I loved it a lot. I think putting it in a beginner kit would be a bit silly though, and teaching transparent vs opaque colors for mixing is better. Goauche can be so hard for this reason. Black is not necessary for most people though I agree, I think for beginner artists you should remove black from your color selection entirely, lock it in a box, and when you've mixed a lot of different blacks you can pull out a few different black paints and experiment.
I started with watercolor and when I saw his set up it looks like a dual primary plus burnt umber/sienna which is literally what good starting watercolor kits look like. I don’t know why acrylic kits are so weird and wild. I’m knew to acrylics but it seems acrylic paint makers don’t like dual primaries at all. Starter sets instead tend to have a green you don’t need, not and only one red or blue. It’s weird to me.
Something to keep in mind when mixing colors is whether you're working with a warm color or a cool color. I was taught when you lay out your palette, you want to have a warm red (usually cad red), cool red (I use alizarin crimson), warm blue (cerulean), cool blue (ultramarine), warm yellow (cad yellow), and cool yellow (lemon yellow)-- and white and a few earth tones, of course. If you mix a warm and a cool, you're gonna get a more subdued, gray color (which isn't always a bad thing!), like the purple he mixed with the cad red and ultramarine. Pay close attention to the temperature of the color you want to mix. If you keep this in mind, you can mix anything with 7 colors.
Their is no such a thing really, the whole warm vs cool colour is BS. A colour is simply a pigment, it is neither cool or warm. Assigning a "temperature" or more correctly an emotional response to a colour is subjective, based on the colour it is being placed against. Getting the right colour by learning to match the value, hue and chroma.
Titanium white blows out the colours you’re working with, and unless you want pastels, it’s really not the most useful. Naples yellow makes a great brightener though like I get it, it’s for the meme, but this isn’t a Bob Ross video and you’re just spreading shit information so what did you really expect
@@puckbryn3583 I'm fairly new at color theory. I'm wanting to do a painting that has very intense colors... almost neon. But, I have no neon. So I'll add Naples yellow to my list. Thanks.
This is how I learned to paint. Had never picked up a brush before I turned 50. I'm SO glad my teacher taught me this way because I know that I can make almost any color I need with a very basic palette. I have a couple of mixes that I use now, since I've been painting for 11 years, but I know it's just for convenience. I consistently mix my own.
If you're looking for more popping colors, the CMYK color scheme is way more efficient when it comes to mixing colors - as you can see in the video. It's just simple, since these are colors used for printing and mixing more different tones tend to get darker, muddier etc. The orange for example, mixing cadmium yellow with magenta will give you the vibrant orange you want - the muddy orange is the result of an already desaturated red. I had advanced painting + printing classes in school and in some we were only allowed to use cyan, magenta + yellow and had to mix ALL the other colors ourselves and it worked! Really nice showing that in your video! I wish I had known that from the start :D
These are great colors. However is a long time nature painter, I have found a few additionals that you might want to consider. Hookers green and chromium oxide green are really good for trees. Yellow ochre and Indian red add a touch of realism. Prussian Blue, and alizarin crimson are deep accent colors. And a new one by Golden that I've been using is Titan buff. Just thought you might want to try some new things.
In art the primary colors are usually said to be red blue and yellow, altough the red used is usually too orange and the blue is too purple. Cyan and magneta is closer to the true primary colors. While mixing colors you have to be very specific with the type of colors you use, if you try to mix purple and the red has even a tiniest bit of yellow hue the result will be muddy
Adding a viridian or phthalo green is a good dies too, since it’s the compliment of cool reds. By mixing them, you can get a very deep purple that can be used as a black
This is very helpful! Im an acrylic painter beginner and having a hard time getting all the colors that i need/want. Thank you so much for sharing this! 😊
What the internet taught me is that the “real” primary colors are cyan, magenta, and yellow. And I’ve seen with my own eyes that artists really can make ANY color with those, simply adding black and white to get gradients
What a great introduction to mixing colors! I have wanted to try painting but have been intimidated by all those colors- just sticking to my pencils and charcoal. This little tutorial makes me feel like dipping my brush into something colorful! Thank you Chuck!
You just need black, white, then a warm and cool version of each of the primaries. But it's nice to have some pure secondaries and browns. Having more colours means less faffing about with mixing.
For anyone wondering if they need to stick to the brands in this video to get these colors, you don't just get the right pigments. Primary Cyan = 15:3 - Phthalo blue (Green Shade) + Titanium White Green Gold = PY3 Hansa Yellow + PY150 Nickel Azo + PG36 Phthalo Green (Yellow Shade) Magenta = PR122 Quinacridone Magenta (REALLY IMPORTANT many are PV19 which will NOT produce the same results)
Fantastic! I’ve learned more from you in the last couple of weeks than I have in my years of painting. Keep on making more videos please. Your work is great, and I’m motivated to paint now more than ever. I am definitely going to join for the longer lessons.
Love the comments so far! I gotta ask, do you prefer mixing colors like this or buying the pre-made colors? I know mixing is not for everyone. After all, our own personal preferences is what makes our art unique and awesome! :) Anyways, hope you guys are having a good weekend
Mixing, mostly. If I'm mixing the same base hue often and I have something close on-hand, I put some of that on the palette to help keep me sane-ish. Raw umber or burnt sienna, or sap green are probably my usual additions. Not that I don't have a stockpile of options should they be useful. (The first step in solving a problem is admitting you have one. I don't have have one. Nope. Nuh-uh. No probl...ooh, orange.)
Wow. Best acrylic color mixing and paint vid I've seen. I have been agonizing for some time over what acrylics to buy. I am going to replicate what you have done as a starting point. Thanks.
Thank you so much for a very informative video! I’m a nail artist and learning these basic art foundations can save me thousands of dollars when it comes to providing unique colored acrylic to my clients.
I've recently been trying to figure out what colors to try out, so the timing of this video is perfect! I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of the Atelier paints and how they compare to Liquitex and Golden.
I believe you when you say you really don’t need all the colors. It typically depends on what you are going to paint. Maybe we only need primary colors, and that could be mix with one another. Thanks for the techniques you shared! Also, I love and sooooo helpful when you explained all color mixture.
Ma sei bravissimo! Thank you very much, I watch and watch your video a lot of times, and then I took notes, so helpful, you have no idea how much you are helping me to grow as an artist. I am very grateful to all the people like you who are helping so much everybody else.
I usually only have cyan, magenta, yellow, light yellow ochre and burnt umber. That’s all I need. Sometimes I get a green and a burnt sienna too, but the first three are technically all that is needed to mix any colour... with black and white of course.
I think this method works really well for certain techniques and compositions. But when you're working on a larger scale, buying premixed colors can be more practical.
Ahhhhhh! I won? I really one?!! Holy Moly!!! Thank you so much Chuck! I am so excited!! I will send you my email address. Ahhhhhhhhhh! You are are an amazing artist AND teacher, and this giveaway was just too cool of you. 🙆♀️🖌✌❤
I have been mixing my colors and sometimes to my utter dismay! Color mixing is a challenge for me however I do persevere so that I will learn from my expensive mistakes as price of paints are not cheap, the good ones at least. Thank you for this color mixing tutorial Chuck. It will be my go to reference when I paint. You are truly a gifted artist and so grateful for all your tutorials and tips. Thank you so very much!!!
I was trying to decide what colours to take with me on a 3 week camping trip to Fraser island I have coming up, and I remembered this video! Thanks for your help as always!
Ohhh Chuck, hope you heal quickly, but I'm sure there are hundreds of paintings stored in your head that will be just as beautiful as the ones with physical reference, praying for speedy recovery for you 🙏❣️ Feel like your one of my grandson's💕
Thank you! As a wanna be painter I appreciate this kind of information on how to achieve those brilliant colors. That’s always been a mystery. Thanks so much!
I love M. Graham acrylics. Their single pigment Indian yellow and Azo green are two of my favs. Golden’s Quinacridon Crimson is a great sub for Alizarin Crimson. These three are a must.
It was very interesting to see there was no black in your line-up...not so long ago, it would've been there. I've seen you use it to some really dramatic effects, too. Enjoy seeing what all can be created by mixing. I have like a zillion colours in the oils I use, but still mix about everything I paint with. One thing I like to do is mix silver with some of the paints, for certain applications, to get a metallic colour. It really gives a great look to magenta and the Pthalo colours.
Always changing! I'll probably make another video a year from now why I like some different color! :) but on a side note, black hasn't left my workspace, I use a clever color with my oils. I'll be chatting about it at some point here
This is GENIUS! It's so helpful. I've been looking to buy a set of acrylics, as I'm more of a colored pencil/marker/watercolor person and have no idea what I'm doing. This was so freaking helpful and now I know which colors I need. Thank you!
I’ll have to keep coming back to this video when I start a new painting. Maybe I’ll take out the paint this week. Thanks so much Chuck. Excellent video!
This is a nice tutorial. Very useful for a lot types of paintings and a great lesson for beginners.... but, when painting portraits it's so much easier to start with Raw Sienna for skin tones, which is not one of your starting colors. And then there is Mixing White which is a transparent white, but then I understand that this video is meant for learning the basics. And for that it is a good video. I just don't want anyone to think that it ends here. There is so much more. Keep learning!
Oh wow, this was really helpful. I'm still using a kit of smallish acrylic tubes I got years ago. It has mars black, titanium white, cadium red & yellow, ultramarine blue, sap green, burnt sienna and yellow ochre, but I've been thinking what colours I'll need to add to it. Glad I won't need that many. Last time I painted it bothered me that I couldn't mix as bright colours as I needed. I'm very new to painting at all since drawing has always been my medium of choice, so now that I've taken up painting I feel like I need to actually start knowing what I'm doing instead of just doing it, and somehow getting to the result I was seeking. I feel like I've always been bad wth colour, but it's mostly just because I've never delved deeper into them.
Chuck..... the one thing your art work shows us all is the need to mix colors. The subtle value changes you make is what really sets your art apart. You couldn't buy enough colors to do what you do. I can always buy more colors, but learning to mix is really important. Having said that.... until I get better at it...… I HATE IT!!! lol
I think mixing colours,even though it takes longer,is better. When I first started painting about 3 or 4 years ago,I painted straight out of the tube..lol.. ,but doing that at the beginning helped me paint a whole picture and feel good about finishing a painting. Now, I am learning to mix colours. The only thing is sometimes I forget which colours mixed what.. haha. Thanks 😀
Thanks for this video--I'm newly retired and getting into painting again after a several year hiatus--you've saved me a ton of money--trying to decide what colors i need to start a basic palette is daunting. Thanks again.
Great that you write a list of your choice - Thank you for always very clear and very enthusiastic lessons in organizing the workplace and of course painting
Thanks Chuck for this video such a big help in creating these colors. I'm new with acrylics, been painting in watercolour, there's such difference in the two types. Your paintings are amazing!! Love them!
This is interesting. When I paint watercolors, my go to palette was Quinacridone Rose, Ultramarine Blue, and Hansa Yellow Medium. I don’t like cadmium colors. I’ve never saw the appeal. If I wanted a red color, I would use napthol red. So when I switched to acrylics, I took this palette set up with moth. I do like Cyan since the blue variations you can get are quite nice.
Ive been trying to settle on an acrylic paint color palette to store in my French easel, so limited space, and this video helped me so much thank you!!
I just found your channel and kind of binge watch this type of videos. A few days ago I got a primary color kit and bought phtalo blue, burnt sienna and naphthol red. I also got some cheap butt brushes and some other supplies. I guess I need to shop a bit more, because I always wonderd, why you dont only use the primarys and use pre mixed instead. Seems like I need to get orange, green and ultramarine as well. I´d like to make those beautifull realistic paintings like you and you have no idea how greatfull I am, for your realtime videos. This is the stuff I´d have needed like 15 years ago. Thanks for helping me on my journey and thanks for making your experience available for us
I joined your channel yesterday because I love the way you teach! I'm a 65-year-old retired high school band director who has decided to try painting in my "second life." You have inspired me and instructed me tremendously! I would love to see individual color mixing videos that I can easily refer back to. My memory is not what it used to be, so I have trouble remembering which colors make good browns! I have never painted before, nor taken an art class. :-( I do understand basic color theory, but mixing colors is not very straightforward. Imagine my horror when I painted a koala mama and baby with a lovely gray that I created, only to see it dry blue! After much experimentation, I determined that the Titanium White that I used had a blue tint! How was I supposed to know that??! Thanks for your efforts in putting together this channel!
Thank you Kim so much for being here, and it is great to meet you! Love to hear it, it is my pleasure! if you are using acrylics they can definitely dry differently, that is the challenge with them. I only use a few select colors these days, but maybe an updated video on how to mix the colors I do would be good to do. I'll jot that down for a day I have some extra time. Thanks again !
Jerry Yarnell was my first real introduction to acrylic painting. His preferred pallet has always served me well. I made the addition of adding Paynes Gray, myself, for convenience. Titanium White or Gesso Cadmium Yellow Light Cadmium Orange Cadmium Red Light Hooker's Green Burnt Sienna Burnt Umber Ultramarine Blue Dioxazine Purple Vivid Lime Green or Thalo Yellow Green Alizarin Crimson Turquoise Deep
Wonderful! I started out painting watercolor, and now just moved on to acrylics. I really like my limited palette that I developed in watercolor, and try to adopt that idea to acrylics. I really like your idea! I can't get cyan so I am going to substitute it with phthalo blue.
Began painting with a traditional professional, I was taught: white, cad. yellow, cad. red, crimson red, thalo blue, permanent blue, yellow orcher, burnt seinna, burnt umber. This pallet can be augmented with specialized colors depending on the subject & shouldn't be a closed book, so to speak. Happy painting.
Honestly, basic art kits of acrylics should be like this. Not only would it allow people to learn about the color wheel but also it makes the colors be more vibrant in general.
Thank you for this video! Now I will have a better idea of the list of colors I will get for myself.
@@josephjohn7209 this is basically why gouache has more pastel colors because of opacity and watercolors are vibrant because they're mostly trancluscent. it took me a long time to figure out too... i wish they taught this in the art class too along with the color theory and temperature.
@@josephjohn7209 I love the green gold honestly but That's Just Me. I love warm, vibrant greens a lot so having it in my kit is fun, and it was one of the first golden fluid paints I bought because it was a unique mix I hadn't seen much before and I loved it a lot. I think putting it in a beginner kit would be a bit silly though, and teaching transparent vs opaque colors for mixing is better. Goauche can be so hard for this reason. Black is not necessary for most people though I agree, I think for beginner artists you should remove black from your color selection entirely, lock it in a box, and when you've mixed a lot of different blacks you can pull out a few different black paints and experiment.
I started with watercolor and when I saw his set up it looks like a dual primary plus burnt umber/sienna which is literally what good starting watercolor kits look like. I don’t know why acrylic kits are so weird and wild. I’m knew to acrylics but it seems acrylic paint makers don’t like dual primaries at all. Starter sets instead tend to have a green you don’t need, not and only one red or blue. It’s weird to me.
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Brilliant video thankyou - is there a system you can recommend for learning what colour combinations make which colours?
Something to keep in mind when mixing colors is whether you're working with a warm color or a cool color. I was taught when you lay out your palette, you want to have a warm red (usually cad red), cool red (I use alizarin crimson), warm blue (cerulean), cool blue (ultramarine), warm yellow (cad yellow), and cool yellow (lemon yellow)-- and white and a few earth tones, of course. If you mix a warm and a cool, you're gonna get a more subdued, gray color (which isn't always a bad thing!), like the purple he mixed with the cad red and ultramarine. Pay close attention to the temperature of the color you want to mix. If you keep this in mind, you can mix anything with 7 colors.
Same as I learned in art school.
i can't seem to remember what is cool and warm colors
Their is no such a thing really, the whole warm vs cool colour is BS.
A colour is simply a pigment, it is neither cool or warm.
Assigning a "temperature" or more correctly an emotional response to a colour is subjective,
based on the colour it is being placed against.
Getting the right colour by learning to match the value, hue and chroma.
Yes all about warm and cool 👍🏻
Munsell theory. Once Ive read about it I couldnt change my colour mixing.
What everyone need :
*TITANIUM WHITE*
What everyone NEEDS (plural).
Titanium white blows out the colours you’re working with, and unless you want pastels, it’s really not the most useful. Naples yellow makes a great brightener though
like I get it, it’s for the meme, but this isn’t a Bob Ross video and you’re just spreading shit information so what did you really expect
Do you mean: TITANIUM HWITE?
@@puckbryn3583 I'm fairly new at color theory. I'm wanting to do a painting that has very intense colors... almost neon. But, I have no neon. So I'll add Naples yellow to my list. Thanks.
@@TheKandiO try this www.goldenpaints.com/mixer or some offered by search
I just bought cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Now, I'm a printer.
This was very good.
😂😂😂
Yup
I just bought red, green and blue. I guess I'm digital.
HHAHHAHA LOL
I HATE shopping, except for art supplies. Thanks Chuck!
ditto! I need supervision when I art supply shop or I'll empty my bank account. Welcome Ursula!
Lol same here! Some women are all about that clothes and makeup and I'm over here like.... I need some more art supplies lol.
Chuck Black Art thanks Chuck. You keep me inspired.
MaiScapes Acrylic Painting Tutorials same just narrowed my 500 to around 200
I buy too many. lol I barely even paint. I'm too scared of messing it up.
This is how I learned to paint. Had never picked up a brush before I turned 50. I'm SO glad my teacher taught me this way because I know that I can make almost any color I need with a very basic palette. I have a couple of mixes that I use now, since I've been painting for 11 years, but I know it's just for convenience. I consistently mix my own.
Rosemary, I just turned the big 50 and picked up my first brush too! It's just the beginning of a new amazing world of colors, both premade and mixed.
Trisha, nice to meet another Whitehouse! I just started painting exactly one year ago at age 55.
Than I must ask you advice Where to begin
Loved this video so helpful for me a beginner at 62 :)
I wish this video never gets to an end. I'm completely mesmerized by shades, hues, rainbows and amazing gradients
If you're looking for more popping colors, the CMYK color scheme is way more efficient when it comes to mixing colors - as you can see in the video.
It's just simple, since these are colors used for printing and mixing more different tones tend to get darker, muddier etc. The orange for example, mixing cadmium yellow with magenta will give you the vibrant orange you want - the muddy orange is the result of an already desaturated red.
I had advanced painting + printing classes in school and in some we were only allowed to use cyan, magenta + yellow and had to mix ALL the other colors ourselves and it worked!
Really nice showing that in your video! I wish I had known that from the start :D
These are great colors. However is a long time nature painter, I have found a few additionals that you might want to consider. Hookers green and chromium oxide green are really good for trees. Yellow ochre and Indian red add a touch of realism. Prussian Blue, and alizarin crimson are deep accent colors. And a new one by Golden that I've been using is Titan buff. Just thought you might want to try some new things.
Love and own those ones as well! I suppose mixing has just kinda become a passion in itself for me :)
AndreaPacko Prussian blue has my heart lol
Elin Winblad Prussian blue and iridescent pearl mixed ❤️
@@ElinWinblad me too- me & my Prussian are joined at the hip
It's because pigment isn't as true as white light so sometimes it is nice to have these special colors for a particular effect you want to create.
In art the primary colors are usually said to be red blue and yellow, altough the red used is usually too orange and the blue is too purple. Cyan and magneta is closer to the true primary colors. While mixing colors you have to be very specific with the type of colors you use, if you try to mix purple and the red has even a tiniest bit of yellow hue the result will be muddy
Adding a viridian or phthalo green is a good dies too, since it’s the compliment of cool reds. By mixing them, you can get a very deep purple that can be used as a black
This is very helpful! Im an acrylic painter beginner and having a hard time getting all the colors that i need/want. Thank you so much for sharing this! 😊
Did you continue to paint?
What the internet taught me is that the “real” primary colors are cyan, magenta, and yellow. And I’ve seen with my own eyes that artists really can make ANY color with those, simply adding black and white to get gradients
What a great introduction to mixing colors! I have wanted to try painting but have been intimidated by all those colors- just sticking to my pencils and charcoal. This little tutorial makes me feel like dipping my brush into something colorful! Thank you Chuck!
As someone returning to painting after some years away, this video is one of the best I've seen on colour mixing. Thanks so much.
I’m sitting on my porch in the rain watching this ... it’s mesmerizing lol
I could watch this all day , thank you !
Omg thank you! I was just wincing at the amount of money I’d need to invest in a full set of colors! Thanks this helps tremendously!
You just need black, white, then a warm and cool version of each of the primaries. But it's nice to have some pure secondaries and browns.
Having more colours means less faffing about with mixing.
For anyone wondering if they need to stick to the brands in this video to get these colors, you don't just get the right pigments.
Primary Cyan = 15:3 - Phthalo blue (Green Shade) + Titanium White
Green Gold = PY3 Hansa Yellow + PY150 Nickel Azo + PG36 Phthalo Green (Yellow Shade)
Magenta = PR122 Quinacridone Magenta (REALLY IMPORTANT many are PV19 which will NOT produce the same results)
Fantastic! I’ve learned more from you in the last couple of weeks than I have in my years of painting. Keep on making more videos please.
Your work is great, and I’m motivated to paint now more than ever. I am definitely going to join for the longer lessons.
the best thing to have is a cool and warm of your primary colors to mix rich purples, violets and oranges
WOW! BEST ever beginner paint needs and mixing video! Exactly what I needed!
I wish more art kits were like this! I’m super new to acrylics so finding your video really really helped! Thank you so much! 🙂
Awesome, thank you, I'm new at mixing paint colors, and this video will really help me create beautiful artwork.
Wow. This is the best video of this kind. I've seen many videos about mixing colours...but this is the best! Thank you so much!
Love the comments so far! I gotta ask, do you prefer mixing colors like this or buying the pre-made colors? I know mixing is not for everyone. After all, our own personal preferences is what makes our art unique and awesome! :) Anyways, hope you guys are having a good weekend
Chuck Black Art mix mix mix
Mixing, mostly. If I'm mixing the same base hue often and I have something close on-hand, I put some of that on the palette to help keep me sane-ish. Raw umber or burnt sienna, or sap green are probably my usual additions. Not that I don't have a stockpile of options should they be useful. (The first step in solving a problem is admitting you have one. I don't have have one. Nope. Nuh-uh. No probl...ooh, orange.)
I like the challenge of mixing my own but sometimes I want to shortcut. I love that green gold!
I hope that I can also mix colour like u.
Mixing is a chore, I admit, but I do think mixing colors yields a much richer result than squeezing g out a pre-mixed color.
Wow. Best acrylic color mixing and paint vid I've seen. I have been agonizing for some time over what acrylics to buy. I am going to replicate what you have done as a starting point. Thanks.
Thank you so much for a very informative video! I’m a nail artist and learning these basic art foundations can save me thousands of dollars when it comes to providing unique colored acrylic to my clients.
I've always been concerned about being able to duplicate a color. ..enjoyed your video very much
I have been watching this video every few months because is it so helpful! I always come back to this video for. Thank you!
I've recently been trying to figure out what colors to try out, so the timing of this video is perfect! I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of the Atelier paints and how they compare to Liquitex and Golden.
Bryan Reese I love these paints.. Atelier👍
I believe you when you say you really don’t need all the
colors. It typically depends on what you are going to paint. Maybe we only
need primary colors, and that could be mix with one another. Thanks for the
techniques you shared! Also, I love and sooooo helpful when you explained all color mixture.
your enthusiasm is infectious
Ma sei bravissimo! Thank you very much, I watch and watch your video a lot of times, and then I took notes, so helpful, you have no idea how much you are helping me to grow as an artist. I am very grateful to all the people like you who are helping so much everybody else.
I usually only have cyan, magenta, yellow, light yellow ochre and burnt umber. That’s all I need. Sometimes I get a green and a burnt sienna too, but the first three are technically all that is needed to mix any colour... with black and white of course.
Inspired me as a beginner to become more disciplined in buying and mixing. Thanks!
I think this method works really well for certain techniques and compositions. But when you're working on a larger scale, buying premixed colors can be more practical.
I mean yeah it shouldn't have to be said that if you're doing a wall sized painting mixing all your hues is gonna be a pain
Ahhhhhh! I won? I really one?!! Holy Moly!!! Thank you so much Chuck! I am so excited!! I will send you my email address. Ahhhhhhhhhh! You are are an amazing artist AND teacher, and this giveaway was just too cool of you. 🙆♀️🖌✌❤
This was great. I'm looking to graduate from craft acrylics but was trying to think of what would be the best shades to pick up. Thank you.
I have been mixing my colors and sometimes to my utter dismay! Color mixing is a challenge for me however I do persevere so that I will learn from my expensive mistakes as price of paints are not cheap, the good ones at least. Thank you for this color mixing tutorial Chuck. It will be my go to reference when I paint. You are truly a gifted artist and so grateful for all your tutorials and tips. Thank you so very much!!!
I was trying to decide what colours to take with me on a 3 week camping trip to Fraser island I have coming up, and I remembered this video! Thanks for your help as always!
I love this video and have watched it a number of times. Thanks for making it. Watched it with my son who is an art professor. And he enjoyed it too.
Ohhh Chuck, hope you heal quickly, but I'm sure there are hundreds of paintings stored in your head that will be just as beautiful as the ones with physical reference, praying for speedy recovery for you 🙏❣️
Feel like your one of my grandson's💕
I have been searching TH-cam for an excellent color mixing video. This is hands down the best one I've seen! Thank you so much!
Thank you! As a wanna be painter I appreciate this kind of information on how to achieve those brilliant colors. That’s always been a mystery. Thanks so much!
I am in the process of learning and this has been the best color chart I've seen yet. Thank you so much for your time and your effort. God-bless XXXO
Chuck, you are an amazing artist and a brilliant teacher.... I love all your videos and always learn something new. Thank you
I love M. Graham acrylics. Their single pigment Indian yellow and Azo green are two of my favs. Golden’s Quinacridon Crimson is a great sub for Alizarin Crimson. These three are a must.
It was very interesting to see there was no black in your line-up...not so long ago, it would've been there. I've seen you use it to some really dramatic effects, too. Enjoy seeing what all can be created by mixing. I have like a zillion colours in the oils I use, but still mix about everything I paint with. One thing I like to do is mix silver with some of the paints, for certain applications, to get a metallic colour. It really gives a great look to magenta and the Pthalo colours.
Always changing! I'll probably make another video a year from now why I like some different color! :) but on a side note, black hasn't left my workspace, I use a clever color with my oils. I'll be chatting about it at some point here
Perfect!!!
This is GENIUS! It's so helpful. I've been looking to buy a set of acrylics, as I'm more of a colored pencil/marker/watercolor person and have no idea what I'm doing. This was so freaking helpful and now I know which colors I need. Thank you!
Best colour mixing video I’ve ever watched!! Thank you so much!!!
Great tutorial. I'm thinking that painting is going to be my next Hobby, you just saved me a lot of time and money!
Great! Looks fun when you do it. You're always so upbeat!!!
I’ll have to keep coming back to this video when I start a new painting. Maybe I’ll take out the paint this week. Thanks so much Chuck. Excellent video!
i really enjoyed this! Cos I never use the traditional colours but have most of the fancy ones! happy Happy Colours!
This is a nice tutorial. Very useful for a lot types of paintings and a great lesson for beginners.... but, when painting portraits it's so much easier to start with Raw Sienna for skin tones, which is not one of your starting colors. And then there is Mixing White which is a transparent white, but then I understand that this video is meant for learning the basics. And for that it is a good video. I just don't want anyone to think that it ends here. There is so much more. Keep learning!
Grand merci!!! For me the problem was always really bright turkuaz colors. Like a lot and use a lot.
Oh wow, this was really helpful. I'm still using a kit of smallish acrylic tubes I got years ago. It has mars black, titanium white, cadium red & yellow, ultramarine blue, sap green, burnt sienna and yellow ochre, but I've been thinking what colours I'll need to add to it. Glad I won't need that many. Last time I painted it bothered me that I couldn't mix as bright colours as I needed. I'm very new to painting at all since drawing has always been my medium of choice, so now that I've taken up painting I feel like I need to actually start knowing what I'm doing instead of just doing it, and somehow getting to the result I was seeking. I feel like I've always been bad wth colour, but it's mostly just because I've never delved deeper into them.
Chuck..... the one thing your art work shows us all is the need to mix colors. The subtle value changes you make is what really sets your art apart. You couldn't buy enough colors to do what you do. I can always buy more colors, but learning to mix is really important. Having said that.... until I get better at it...… I HATE IT!!! lol
I think mixing colours,even though it takes longer,is better. When I first started painting about 3 or 4 years ago,I painted straight out of the tube..lol.. ,but doing that at the beginning helped me paint a whole picture and feel good about finishing a painting. Now, I am learning to mix colours. The only thing is sometimes I forget which colours mixed what.. haha. Thanks 😀
Thanks for this video--I'm newly retired and getting into painting again after a several year hiatus--you've saved me a ton of money--trying to decide what colors i need to start a basic palette is daunting. Thanks again.
You just saved me $$! I'm a beginner artist and now I know what colors to buy instead of buying all this paint. Thank you!
Great that you write a list of your choice - Thank you for always very clear and very enthusiastic lessons in organizing the workplace and of course painting
Thanks Chuck for this video such a big help in creating these colors. I'm new with acrylics, been painting in watercolour, there's such difference in the two types. Your paintings are amazing!! Love them!
This is interesting. When I paint watercolors, my go to palette was Quinacridone Rose, Ultramarine Blue, and Hansa Yellow Medium. I don’t like cadmium colors. I’ve never saw the appeal. If I wanted a red color, I would use napthol red. So when I switched to acrylics, I took this palette set up with moth. I do like Cyan since the blue variations you can get are quite nice.
I watched your video on paints last week and am loving the Golden liquids. The magenta really is amazing.
Good grief just heading in to start fresh after decades away wondering where do I start?! Huge smile, soft hug, thank you.
Ive been trying to settle on an acrylic paint color palette to store in my French easel, so limited space, and this video helped me so much thank you!!
thanks Chuck - excellent video - I love your enthusiasm - I get pretty excited about beautiful colours too!
This is the stuff! I need those 3 colors in my arsenal now.
I just found your channel and kind of binge watch this type of videos. A few days ago I got a primary color kit and bought phtalo blue, burnt sienna and naphthol red. I also got some cheap butt brushes and some other supplies.
I guess I need to shop a bit more, because I always wonderd, why you dont only use the primarys and use pre mixed instead. Seems like I need to get orange, green and ultramarine as well. I´d like to make those beautifull realistic paintings like you and you have no idea how greatfull I am, for your realtime videos. This is the stuff I´d have needed like 15 years ago. Thanks for helping me on my journey and thanks for making your experience available for us
You are an amazing painter, and teacher.
Thank you.
Absolutely fantastic. I have to get more paint now. 😊👍👍
nobody:
chuck: TWO MORE GREENS
Because of teachers like you I can learn from home as a student. Thnks!
Thanks Chuck. I have all those lovely colors but I add in the phathlo greens and blues, Diox purple, Prussian blue and Zinc White!
Get well soon!
Great video for me as a beginner! Really appreciate it!
CONGRATS to all of the winners.... These puzzles are all amazing !!
I joined your channel yesterday because I love the way you teach! I'm a 65-year-old retired high school band director who has decided to try painting in my "second life." You have inspired me and instructed me tremendously! I would love to see individual color mixing videos that I can easily refer back to. My memory is not what it used to be, so I have trouble remembering which colors make good browns! I have never painted before, nor taken an art class. :-( I do understand basic color theory, but mixing colors is not very straightforward. Imagine my horror when I painted a koala mama and baby with a lovely gray that I created, only to see it dry blue! After much experimentation, I determined that the Titanium White that I used had a blue tint! How was I supposed to know that??! Thanks for your efforts in putting together this channel!
Thank you Kim so much for being here, and it is great to meet you! Love to hear it, it is my pleasure! if you are using acrylics they can definitely dry differently, that is the challenge with them. I only use a few select colors these days, but maybe an updated video on how to mix the colors I do would be good to do. I'll jot that down for a day I have some extra time. Thanks again !
Perfect video! Every artist needs to know this.
Best mixing skills I have seen so far!
Golden's Quin. Magenta is one of my secret weapon colors as well. It's more than amazing!
GREAT colors!! Thanks a lot for this demo! You got me sold! Love you videos! It’s always great to see your smiling face & your beautiful art!!
Lauri
man, you're right. those colors look really good
Jerry Yarnell was my first real introduction to acrylic painting. His preferred pallet has always served me well. I made the addition of adding Paynes Gray, myself, for convenience.
Titanium White or Gesso
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Orange
Cadmium Red Light
Hooker's Green
Burnt Sienna
Burnt Umber
Ultramarine Blue
Dioxazine Purple
Vivid Lime Green or Thalo Yellow Green
Alizarin Crimson
Turquoise Deep
I found this video very useful, will help with mixing and matching colors, which I have trouble with sometimes (most of the time).
Wow! This was super helpful and straightforward 😍
Wonderful! I started out painting watercolor, and now just moved on to acrylics.
I really like my limited palette that I developed in watercolor, and try to adopt that idea to acrylics.
I really like your idea! I can't get cyan so I am going to substitute it with phthalo blue.
Hard to resist buying tubes of paint there so colourful.
Playing with color is quite satisfying
Congratulations winners!!!! Great info thank you!!!! Hope your calf heals quickly💝💝💝xxx
I love mixing the colors, so enjoyable!
Best color mixing on you tube!
Thank you I loved watching this and learnt a lot. Next time I will have my paints out and work those colours right along side you!🤩🎨🖌
Began painting with a traditional professional, I was taught: white, cad. yellow, cad. red, crimson red, thalo blue, permanent blue, yellow orcher, burnt seinna, burnt umber. This pallet can be augmented with specialized colors depending on the subject & shouldn't be a closed book, so to speak. Happy painting.
Brilliant colour mixing lesson, thank you 😊
I just find this really satisfying to watch
You get as excited about mixing paint colors as I do. You have me cracking up. Great video. I love the enthusiasm and passion.
Love your videos. It has helped me to keep painting. This video helps cause I tend to buy a lot of paint colors I really don't need. Thank you!
Thank you for this paint mixing lesson!