I avoided the color wheel for the longest time because I just wanted to paint! You, Emma, created this perfectly wonderful tutorial and I certainly feel enlightened and understand what the color wheel is all about. When you consider all the new methods for creating textures I don’t see why a new color wheel is even considered questionable. Excellent tutorial, Emma. At age 83 and watercoloring for about 4 months by watching TH-cam tutorials, especially yours, I have gifted a set of original watercolor note cards to two of my neighbors. Thank you so much, Emma, you rock!
What a great example! Also, because you made the centers or the points lighter, they look like an umbrellas! It looks like it curved down on the outside. I love them!
I was trying to do this with my husband a couple weeks ago and he is very much a cmy guy! As far as “making red” The magenta has red in it, so when mixing it with yellow it cuts the purple out of the magenta and takes the color back to red. I hope that makes sense. You’re not making red, you’re undoing magenta. Potato potahto I know 😂 color is freaking amazing! Great video!
Yes, yes. You're not really making red because red was already within the magenta color. By adding yellow to magenta you are effectively muting or neutralizing the blue/violet within it, leaving only the red/orange visible. The CYM system is not possible without using the RYB to create it. What came first... the chicken or the egg? LOL!
I have been in Italy for 6 weeks, and did not bring my paints but have binged your tutorials. I can hardly wait to get home to Canada and work on a colour chart, THEN I am going to paint. I have learned a lot from your tutorials. I am a 68 year old retired music teacher who always hoped that there was a painter inside of me. I took out my kids paints, watched some tutorials and VOILA! here I am, painting everything in sight. Thank you.
I made a colour wheel two years ago when I first started watercolour BUT now I'm going to do another one using C,M & CY. What an eye-opener, Emma! Thank you very much for this Shocking (!) Tutorial. Mel in Devon, UK. 👍🍰
@@EmmaLefebvre I think for the purpose of what you are testing out, I would go for the green version if possible, because it would be less likely to have a brownish tint when mixed. But according to the Winsor & Newton website, there isn’t a great deal to choose between them.
I was an fiber arts student in college when I first learned about the CMY color wheel with fiber reactive dyes, and won't confess how many years ago that was. It totally blew my mind! Last year, I made color wheels with my preschool grand children using the Crayola water colors, and they absolutely loved it. It is a fun exercise to do when you want to just play with paints
Wow I’m blown away. Always thought you could not mix red or blue Thank you for showing us how and the difference in the two colour wheels Makes a lot more sense to me now
Great tutorial. I’m familiar with both color formats but not CMY in a color wheel format. Just because CMY & (black) is used to print things like magazines doesn’t mean it can’t be broken down for painting. Beautiful colors. Thanks for sharing 😊
Very interesting, I never saw it in a color wheel before, impressive! Years ago in school, pigment colors are the absence of light, the cyan & magenta colors are the addition of light…..
I love it... I am slowly building my water color tube collection... Using Winsor Newton paint. This video came at the perfect time... Love all your tutorials 😊🖌️🖌️🖌️
A great video! I think what throws a lot of people off about CMY(K) is that the cyan in printer's ink (the most pricy substance on Earth!) is not what we typically call cyan. It is blue. The actual pigment used in your printer and by professional printers is literally phthalo blue (copper phthalocyanine).
This was a great tutorial. I’ve had a lot of confusion about this very thing and you have made t very clear. We don’t have to stick to certain shades of red, yellow an blue. We can create many versions of colour wheels. How cool! Thanks Emma!
When talking about paint (and not coloured lights😉), the definition of a primary color, is "a color that can't be mixed" and these colors are cyan, magenta and a cool yellow. No others. It can be explained by physics and biology of the human eye🤓. It as been aproximated for a very long time by yellow, red and a warmer blue, because pigments close to cyan or magenta were simply not available, and the closest were shades of red and blue. Now thanks to modern synthetic pigments🧪⚗ (PB15, PR122 or PV19), we can be more accurate. Fire engine red and royal blue both can be mixed, so they are NOT "primary". BUT it is possible to use them as "base" colors for a painting, it's just that some colors will be impossible to mix, such as bright purples, purplish pinks, lagoon turquoise or "acid" greens. Artist's were able to create masterpieces with this "base triad", with more moody colors, so there is nothing "wrong" to use it. Just use the right words.😋
I knew about this from accidentally creating a kickbutt red with a yellow and magenta. After that, I did some research and found three colors that are my closest approximation to magenta, cyan, and yellow for my travel palette. The purple that the magenta and cyan can mix is gorgeous! Love love love it! But, yeah, I know some artists who get really bent out of shape when I tell them about this.
Great video. I am not biased towards either. I find the expression of color is achieved by both wheels. The CMY purple is stunning. Thank you fir sharing this concept.
Last year I came across a similar video after I became frustrated with trying to mix a vibrant purple and always ending up with something like Shadow violet on the traditional color wheel. After watching several videos on color theory and mixing, there was one with the CYM color wheel and boom, there was the violet I was looking for. Thank you for explaining and sharing this with us!
Love the cmy color wheel!! It’s so fun to experiment with all the different “primary” colors. My colors are now much more pleasing to me. I ordered your brushes before they came out. Due to an upheaval in my life I only recently began to use them. Amazing! I’ve never used this nice of a brush! They hold so. Much. Water! Now I need to up my paint and paper quality! Thanks for your lessons!!
Thank you so much for reminding me of this. I used the CYM colors back when I did a lot of color printing in my darkroom using color filters. Over the years I forgot all about this. Thanks again.
Loved this! Die hard CMY here, but I think RBY is good for creating more muted colours, which I find is more useful in landscape paintings and shadows.
Thank you for demonstrating this color option. I’m planning to watch it again when I have some more time. The CYM wheel is beautiful. Your demonstration is very helpful and I hope I can duplicate the CYM combinations with the paints I have available. I use Windsor and Newton, so I’ll have to use what is in the box for now and shop later.
A split primary is what I find most useful - a warm blue and cool red make beautiful purples. The CMY color wheel feels like a crayola paint set to me - very vibrant and fun, but no real depth.
Yes! I was thinking this the whole time. It doesn’t help to use orangish red and greenish blue and expect to have a vibrant purple. It will get muddy. The idea of the video was great but it was a little biased.
MaimeriBlu makes a Cyan watercolor. There are gouache, acrylic and oil cyans, but for some reason not many watercolor. There are several liquid cyan watercolors. You could probably buy the pigment and make your own. I frequently see references to CMYK, where K stands for black (the B not being used to avoid confusion with blue). Not sure why black is added.
In printing 1) it's hard to achieve vibrant black by mixing printing inks 2) the majority of what is printed is black text and black ink cheaper than colored ones so it's reasonable to have black as separate color. Actually if typography going to print something of really good quality (like a book with high quality art reproductions) they would use machine where to cmyk added more colors, because there is still colors which can't be achieved by cmyk
Oh boy… I owned a print shop for 7 years.. try telling a “graphic designer” that uses Print Shop software .. which uses RGB that all of your printers are CMYK.. and that’s the reason their colors print so “dull and off”… best just to fix it myself and then print.. (thank goodness for Adobe programs) it’s quite a concept that is really hard for some people to understand.. this is great. 😁👍🏻
You're an excellent teacher, Emma. I have learned quite a bit from you. The CYM wheel does seem to produce brighter colors. I may experiment with it now. I had always used the RYB system simply to avoid confusion, but there may be a real advantage to using CYM at least some of the time.
Probably someone already mentioned this.... consider the inks used by inkjet printers (CMY + black); not RGB. I believe color photography also uses CMY dyes and filters.
Actually cameras use rgb. In general you use rgb in everything related to light (eye, camera, computer screen, projector) and you use cmy for everything which is mixed (paint, layers of film) It's related to subtractive and additive color models. Rgb is additive - the more of color you add the closer you to white, 255,255,255 is white where you add as much color as possible. Cmy is substractive - the more color you add the closer you to black. White is a clear paper without paint and the more you add the darker you go.
Yeah! I accidentally made red once with these colors and was like... Wow! You CAN make red! I understand that technically, that isn't how we define it, but it does work. Cool.
I like the CMY the best by far! I guess I am extremely confused about color wheels. I understand the principle of them but depending on the three colors you use, the amount of water, and the ratio of pigments every single color wheel can be different. Correct?
Fun video! I love colors and the color wheel. 😊 You are pronouncing the word tertiary wrong though. If you google it you can listen to both the UK and the US pronunciation. Just thought you’d want to know! 😊
TH-cam must be reading my mind because I want to dye a jacket that is khaki green black and this video pops up I know that it’s not about clothes but I was thinking purple would turn khaki green black what do you think I will contact RIT and ask them but I was just wondering if you would now thank you
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I avoided the color wheel for the longest time because I just wanted to paint! You, Emma, created this perfectly wonderful tutorial and I certainly feel enlightened and understand what the color wheel is all about. When you consider all the new methods for creating textures I don’t see why a new color wheel is even considered questionable. Excellent tutorial, Emma. At age 83 and watercoloring for about 4 months by watching TH-cam tutorials, especially yours, I have gifted a set of original watercolor note cards to two of my neighbors. Thank you so much, Emma, you rock!
What a great example! Also, because you made the centers or the points lighter, they look like an umbrellas! It looks like it curved down on the outside. I love them!
I was trying to do this with my husband a couple weeks ago and he is very much a cmy guy!
As far as “making red” The magenta has red in it, so when mixing it with yellow it cuts the purple out of the magenta and takes the color back to red. I hope that makes sense. You’re not making red, you’re undoing magenta.
Potato potahto I know 😂 color is freaking amazing! Great video!
Yes, yes. You're not really making red because red was already within the magenta color. By adding yellow to magenta you are effectively muting or neutralizing the blue/violet within it, leaving only the red/orange visible. The CYM system is not possible without using the RYB to create it. What came first... the chicken or the egg? LOL!
I have been in Italy for 6 weeks, and did not bring my paints but have binged your tutorials. I can hardly wait to get home to Canada and work on a colour chart, THEN I am going to paint. I have learned a lot from your tutorials. I am a 68 year old retired music teacher who always hoped that there was a painter inside of me. I took out my kids paints, watched some tutorials and VOILA! here I am, painting everything in sight. Thank you.
Go girl!
This was an eye opener. I loved the CMY colours and I love that you can make red. Who could say no to more colour options?
I made a colour wheel two years ago when I first started watercolour BUT now I'm going to do another one using C,M & CY. What an eye-opener, Emma!
Thank you very much for this Shocking (!) Tutorial.
Mel in Devon, UK. 👍🍰
I love the cyan color wheel! Those are such fun colors!
Thank you EmJ! 💖
Cyan and magenta are my favorite. I had no idea we could make red.
I actully really love your videos since 2016
Emma I am blown away. Incredible! I never expected the colours you created on the CMY wheel.😊
Beautifully done to show the colors. CMY yielded some intense, vibrant colors. Love both. Thank you
Pthalo Blue (phthalocyanine blue is the full name) is a Cyan equivalent. Also sold as Winsor blue. So Emma does have Cyan in her palette 😀
I actually have Phthalo turquoise.. I believe it’s different
@@EmmaLefebvre Winsor blue is Pthalo Blue I think you’ll find 🙏
@@DianeAntoneStudio oh is it? I know there are two Winsor blues (a red shade and a green shade). I have the green shade. Does that make a difference?
@@EmmaLefebvre I think for the purpose of what you are testing out, I would go for the green version if possible, because it would be less likely to have a brownish tint when mixed. But according to the Winsor & Newton website, there isn’t a great deal to choose between them.
I was an fiber arts student in college when I first learned about the CMY color wheel with fiber reactive dyes, and won't confess how many years ago that was. It totally blew my mind! Last year, I made color wheels with my preschool grand children using the Crayola water colors, and they absolutely loved it. It is a fun exercise to do when you want to just play with paints
Wow
I’m blown away. Always thought you could not mix red or blue
Thank you for showing us how and the difference in the two colour wheels
Makes a lot more sense to me now
I think it’s helpful to understand both for mixing colors.
Great tutorial. I’m familiar with both color formats but not CMY in a color wheel format. Just because CMY & (black) is used to print things like magazines doesn’t mean it can’t be broken down for painting. Beautiful colors. Thanks for sharing 😊
Very interesting, I never saw it in a color wheel before, impressive! Years ago in school, pigment colors are the absence of light, the cyan & magenta colors are the addition of light…..
I love it... I am slowly building my water color tube collection... Using Winsor Newton paint. This video came at the perfect time... Love all your tutorials 😊🖌️🖌️🖌️
A great video! I think what throws a lot of people off about CMY(K) is that the cyan in printer's ink (the most pricy substance on Earth!) is not what we typically call cyan. It is blue. The actual pigment used in your printer and by professional printers is literally phthalo blue (copper phthalocyanine).
Mind blown .. red?!! Really?! Fun. Thank you for doing this! ❤️
I love the colors in the second wheel, thank you for a great video.
Oh my goodness Emma, I love the CMY colors. They're gorgeous! Thanks for teaching this old dog some new tricks!
This was a great tutorial. I’ve had a lot of confusion about this very thing and you have made t very clear. We don’t have to stick to certain shades of red, yellow an blue. We can create many versions of colour wheels. How cool! Thanks Emma!
Great tutorial! It's very helpful to SEE yo make the color wheels. Both are so helpful and encourages us to use more color in our painting.
Thank you Emma for a great tutorial x I shall be making both the colour wheels for reference Thank you for sharing with us xx
When talking about paint (and not coloured lights😉), the definition of a primary color, is "a color that can't be mixed" and these colors are cyan, magenta and a cool yellow. No others. It can be explained by physics and biology of the human eye🤓. It as been aproximated for a very long time by yellow, red and a warmer blue, because pigments close to cyan or magenta were simply not available, and the closest were shades of red and blue. Now thanks to modern synthetic pigments🧪⚗ (PB15, PR122 or PV19), we can be more accurate. Fire engine red and royal blue both can be mixed, so they are NOT "primary". BUT it is possible to use them as "base" colors for a painting, it's just that some colors will be impossible to mix, such as bright purples, purplish pinks, lagoon turquoise or "acid" greens. Artist's were able to create masterpieces with this "base triad", with more moody colors, so there is nothing "wrong" to use it. Just use the right words.😋
I like them both! I will use all those colors. Great demonstration! Thank you! 😊👍
Thanks for that awesome demonstration. I had no idea you could create such vibrant colors that way.
I knew about this from accidentally creating a kickbutt red with a yellow and magenta. After that, I did some research and found three colors that are my closest approximation to magenta, cyan, and yellow for my travel palette. The purple that the magenta and cyan can mix is gorgeous! Love love love it! But, yeah, I know some artists who get really bent out of shape when I tell them about this.
Great video. I am not biased towards either. I find the expression of color is achieved by both wheels. The CMY purple is stunning. Thank you fir sharing this concept.
Old Holland also has a cyan watercolor. On Jerry's Artarama for one.
That's so amazing! Love that we have even more color options, too!
I just ordered your new book and the color mixing workbook you recommend. I'm so excited !
They both look great to me.
Last year I came across a similar video after I became frustrated with trying to mix a vibrant purple and always ending up with something like Shadow violet on the traditional color wheel. After watching several videos on color theory and mixing, there was one with the CYM color wheel and boom, there was the violet I was looking for. Thank you for explaining and sharing this with us!
That was fun and I love colormixing and learned something new.
Love the colors and option of colors!!!!
beautiful... I really love the 2nd color wheel.
Love the cmy colours! What a great tutorial. Thank you.
I like the CMY.. not so drab, thanks for the comparison!!!
Love both but partial to cyan.
The CMY wheel is beautiful, thank you.
Love the cmy color wheel!! It’s so fun to experiment with all the different “primary” colors. My colors are now much more pleasing to me.
I ordered your brushes before they came out. Due to an upheaval in my life I only recently began to use them. Amazing! I’ve never used this nice of a brush! They hold so. Much. Water! Now I need to up my paint and paper quality!
Thanks for your lessons!!
This was amazing. So helpful to me as a complete beginner. Thank you! 😊
Thank you so much for reminding me of this. I used the CYM colors back when I did a lot of color printing in my darkroom using color filters. Over the years I forgot all about this. Thanks again.
I love your choice of cyan. I always thought the cobalt teals/turquoises were very cyan.
Loved this! Die hard CMY here, but I think RBY is good for creating more muted colours, which I find is more useful in landscape paintings and shadows.
Thank you for demonstrating this color option. I’m planning to watch it again when I have some more time. The CYM wheel is beautiful. Your demonstration is very helpful and I hope I can duplicate the CYM combinations with the paints I have available. I use Windsor and Newton, so I’ll have to use what is in the box for now and shop later.
Wow Emma! This is so cool! Thanks for showing us so many more options of color mixing!
A split primary is what I find most useful - a warm blue and cool red make beautiful purples. The CMY color wheel feels like a crayola paint set to me - very vibrant and fun, but no real depth.
Yes! I was thinking this the whole time. It doesn’t help to use orangish red and greenish blue and expect to have a vibrant purple. It will get muddy. The idea of the video was great but it was a little biased.
MaimeriBlu makes a Cyan watercolor. There are gouache, acrylic and oil cyans, but for some reason not many watercolor. There are several liquid cyan watercolors. You could probably buy the pigment and make your own. I frequently see references to CMYK, where K stands for black (the B not being used to avoid confusion with blue). Not sure why black is added.
In printing 1) it's hard to achieve vibrant black by mixing printing inks 2) the majority of what is printed is black text and black ink cheaper than colored ones so it's reasonable to have black as separate color.
Actually if typography going to print something of really good quality (like a book with high quality art reproductions) they would use machine where to cmyk added more colors, because there is still colors which can't be achieved by cmyk
Thanks! That explains it.
Lukas Aquarelle makes cyan too. But only a big tube n quite expensive! I'm Pondering it.....
wow... cool... I never understood the CMY color wheel... since my art training was well before home printers. Thank you so much
Love it! Time to play!
Oh boy… I owned a print shop for 7 years.. try telling a “graphic designer” that uses Print Shop software .. which uses RGB that all of your printers are CMYK.. and that’s the reason their colors print so “dull and off”… best just to fix it myself and then print.. (thank goodness for Adobe programs) it’s quite a concept that is really hard for some people to understand.. this is great. 😁👍🏻
🤯🤯🤯🤯definitely an eye opener! Thanks for another fab video and reminding us how important it is to play around ☺️
You're an excellent teacher, Emma. I have learned quite a bit from you. The CYM wheel does seem to produce brighter colors. I may experiment with it now. I had always used the RYB system simply to avoid confusion, but there may be a real advantage to using CYM at least some of the time.
I have been using CYM as well as a split primary palette which also makes lots of sense to me
"Be nice to each other" hehehe... Yes mummy. You're so sweet. Oh if everyone thought like that.
I'm obsessed with the CMY pallete. *-*
Mind blown. So cool!!
This has been very eye opening! Thanks for sharing!
Ooooh! Inspiration!! Thank you ❤️
🤯 I believed I couldn’t make red for so many years wow😮 thanks
Love these. Thank you
Amazing! Thank you!
What??? In 58 years I DID NOT KNOW THIS!!! Just wow.
Probably someone already mentioned this.... consider the inks used by inkjet printers (CMY + black); not RGB. I believe color photography also uses CMY dyes and filters.
Actually cameras use rgb. In general you use rgb in everything related to light (eye, camera, computer screen, projector) and you use cmy for everything which is mixed (paint, layers of film)
It's related to subtractive and additive color models.
Rgb is additive - the more of color you add the closer you to white, 255,255,255 is white where you add as much color as possible.
Cmy is substractive - the more color you add the closer you to black. White is a clear paper without paint and the more you add the darker you go.
@@my_name_is_mia very informative - thanks
This was very interesting, and fun! Thanks Emma.
Yeah! I accidentally made red once with these colors and was like... Wow! You CAN make red! I understand that technically, that isn't how we define it, but it does work. Cool.
I am agog that you can make red and blue with a cmy color palette. You just blew my mind 🤯 Thank you! 🎉🎉🎉
Gorgeous! So interesting. Love your videos Emma. I always learn something new!💖
Thanks Emma. Great video I learned a lot.
Why does one have to be right and one wrong. It's fun to see what one can come up with color wise. Why stress
Love this -- thank you!
How can blu be either cold or warm? Both red and yellow are warm so adding a warm to cool doesn’t make a cool blue.
This is really interesting, thanks for sharing ❤
Having a graphic design degree I feel like I should have known this 😂 but the idea never crossed my mind until now. Thanks!
Try phthalate blue for the cyan
It makes sense because printer ink uses those three colors to make all other colors. Cyan, magenta and yellow.😅
Omg who knew. Great video. 👍👍
I like the CMY the best by far! I guess I am extremely confused about color wheels. I understand the principle of them but depending on the three colors you use, the amount of water, and the ratio of pigments every single color wheel can be different. Correct?
so exciting !!
Awesome video, thx
What can you use if you do not have a magenta?
Thanks very interesting 💕🇨🇦
Amazing thanks 😂
Fun video! I love colors and the color wheel. 😊 You are pronouncing the word tertiary wrong though. If you google it you can listen to both the UK and the US pronunciation. Just thought you’d want to know! 😊
Both are right.
Blown away
TH-cam must be reading my mind because I want to dye a jacket that is khaki green black and this video pops up I know that it’s not about clothes but I was thinking purple would turn khaki green black what do you think I will contact RIT and ask them but I was just wondering if you would now thank you
Whqt, WOW! Thanks
#emmajane Have you ever done a painting using only the second CMY wheel!?
Thank you so much! 🎉You mee Lady are awesome!♥️👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Wow❤
It’s almost like reverse engineering!
Mind blown
💜💜💜
I like cmy more.
❤❤❤
great