Perfect Watercolor Greens (10 simple tips!)
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- Perfect Watercolor Greens (10 simple tips)In this videos I give you 10 tips that will hugely improve your use and range of greens for landscape and botanical paintings.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Introduction
1:36 Materials used
2:07 Start with yellow first (usually)
7:15 Why ultramarine makes dull greens
11:32 Why keep red away from your greens
12:38 To neutralise your greens pink is the color you need
14:48 About Phthalo and Viridian greens - very bright!
18:45 How to mix very dark greens from staining blues
20:22 Other colors to mix green from
23:35 Introducing a wider range of greens
25:25 How to mix your greens wet on wet for more texture
28:37 Three types of color charts for greens
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Doing color mixing for all the colors & mixing on the paper to create more interest and texture. Very helpful!
Each tip was valuable and I especially needed the tip about mixing the green on paper. Thank you!!
Thanks Michele.
The best tip for me, which could be told to me each time I paint is to use very little blue into yellow at a time. Have you tried cadmium yellow and Payne’s gray? You get a very deep shadow green, or a realistic green for nature. I have pages of charts mixing greens in my sketchbook. I have even used mars black to make a granulating green, something like Jadeite from Daniel Smith. Thank you for all your tips, I do follow you.❤️
Here in New Mexico you’d be amazed at our teal and aqua desert vegetation! We have grey shrubs, we have truly violet and orange trees!❤️🔥👍🏻
I love desert plants and cacti!
Michele does her very best to make it as easy as possible to follow her tutorials...... and it really shows!
Rowland Hilder, the late watercolour landscape painter, related a tale about how John Constable achieved the natural greens in his famous paintings. Apparently Constable used a mixture of lamp black and lemon yellow to portray the trees, hedgerows and fields in his wonderful works. This caused Hilder to refer to the mix as "Constable Green" which, in my view, is an apt description of the gorgeous hues provided by this combination. Consequently, I use lamp black instead of any blue hue when reproducing the greens of nature.
Yes you can get some very natural greens from black, they will always be very muted.
You always manage to make your subject interesting. Before clicking on the video I was thinking: "What can she tell me about mixing greens?", but you managed to surprise me.
Love that!
I love your mixing videos, especially your cost awareness. I could and have spent a fortune!
WOW ! This tutorial is one that I really needed. It was never explained to me before the differences of mixing before painting on paper versus mixing after putting paint on paper and the different effects, in such a clear manner. I mean innately, I understood it, but having it shown to me in such a thorough way has been fantastic.
I’m definitely saving this tutorial for later review. Because there is so much information about color mixing and the different paints’ inherent qualities, I will need to review this tutorial multiple times.
Did I mention that green is my most favorite color……..now, I can say favorite colorS.
So glad you liked it Evelyne :-)
I suddenly am having trouble with greens and knew I could come here to figure it out. Best tip-- make color charts. THANKS MICHELLE.
You are so welcome!
Very comprehensive guide to making greens. You’ve really given me the basics I needed to understand this in a way that I’ll remember! Thank you.
No problem!
One of the more nuanced 'how to get greens with watercolour' for beginners - Thanks Michele. There were *many* tips of use here - though the 'rules' you set out at the beginning (order of mixing yellow vs. blues - and types of blues) were most helpful for me.
Glad it helped Andrew!
Thank you for helping me with greens. I learn so much from you. You are great teacher!!!!
So many good points in this video. I believe that green is the hardest color to get right in a painting. Like you said many landscapes use too similar greens. Not enough difference in value on the kind of greens. Nature is filled with so many.
Absolutely!
I struggle with my greens also so this was very helpful information! Thanks Michele! Love the pink tip!
Soooo helpful. I've struggled with greens at times and knowing about the ultramarine was something I didn't know. Thanks so much Michele!
Glad it was helpful!
WOW! No favourite. All were eye-opening ! Thank you so much.
Glad you liked it!
Great, great, great instruction! Thanks for another wonderful video!
Your advice on making dark greens was particularly helpful. Would you consider doing a similar video on mixing purples?
Great idea! I will try :-)
Love all the tips since I'm a beginner. Thank you.
Happy to help!
Yup another very good and helpful video Michele. Thx very much. 🥰
Glad it was helpful!
You’re really a great teacher
I appreciate that!
So informative as always. Thank you.
Your palette suggestions are brilliant but when I consider all the color I have I’d end up with an encyclopedia of color charts! Your idea of graduating every color is totally appealing to me but the hours it would take. I think it’s a good thunderstorm or snowed in project❤️🔥🥰😍
I totally agree!
Thank you for this tutorial. So much useful information. Really appreciated.
Glad it was helpful!
Really enjoyed as usual.
As are all your videos, so enlightening and thorough. I much enjoy how you teach!! On to my fourth MW video of the morning!! Thank you!! I am on your FB page and gain so much there!!!
Thank you!
I really like learning about using a pinkish red to dull down green. I wasn’t aware of that. It takes so much experimentation to get the right colors to mix for the affect you want. Knowing the theory really helps
Amazing video!
This was very helpful to me. Thank you!
I am going to make green charts over the weekend😍!
Perfect!
very useful. thank you very much.
So much helpful information here Michelle. Thank you:)
Love this,as usual. Awning back you asked for our suggestions on what we would like tutorials on and this color info detail was just what I asked for. And you are excellent at explaining it
This is great, thank you!
No Problem
I love your genius, I've saved this .
Wow, thanks
Great info, thanks!
No problem!
Wonderful and practical application of colour theory.
Thank you :-)
Great info. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Lovely. Thank you for a great tutorial.
Thank you! 😊
Thank you so much very helpful
Glad it helped
Wonderful, as always 👍
Thank you!
validation and clarification. Thank You so much
You're most welcome
It's so weird how your technique videos pop up in my recommendations just when I need them. I'm taking a watercolor foundations class, and the painting I'm working on now is a parakeet with lots of lime green, a color I don't have yet. I tried mixing it using the blues and yellows I have, but started with blue and never could get the right color. After watching this, I mixed it right up with no trouble. Thank you!
Fantastic, I love painting birds!
I have never experimented of mixing colours on the paper to produce a different colour Fabulous thank you
You’re welcome 😊
Yes! Another great video. I've started a whole little book of color mixing! Thank you for the chart information at the end. Very helpful!
Wonderful!
Thanks Michelle, I love your videos, I always learn so much from you.
I'm so glad!
how fun, i just re watched your vid on mixing greens from last year yesterday.
Hope you enjoyed it!
I really like this video please keep going. Thank you.
Thank you, I will
Michele, thank you again for this excellent and informative video
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was most interesting and has inspired me to create a color chart/booklet! Thank you!
You are most welcome!
This is such a great video and is just what I needed! I finally have a professional set of watercolours (12 half pan D.S.) and there is only one green (sap green). I wasn't sure if I needed to buy other greens or blues. Thanks to your mixing suggestions, I'm going to try different combinations of what I have and swatch them out. Two tips were most helpful - one was to consider using colours other than blue and yellow (hadn't thought of Payne's grey, which I have), and the other was how you can get many shades of green just from mixing two colours. Thanks so much!!
Loved the video. It was all useful. When I do plein air, I carry a very limited Daniel Smith palette with only two blues, Neutral tint, and seven other colors. Learning what type of green French Ultramarine makes will be useful. Thank you
A very interesting and informative video, lots of really good tips. Thanks very much x
Glad it was helpful!
Really enjoyed this - you've put things in a slightly different perspective & given great reasons for what your tips. I liked the colour mixing chart of different yellows & greens as my colour chart is a bit less orderly! And also mixing greens on the paper, of course that is what stops a painting looking flat! i shall be doing that from now on :)
Awesome, thank you!
I need to grab a pencil and notepad to write down all this info - it’s all new to me that the greens depend not only which yellows and blues we are using, but the order you use them as well! Great video!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you!! Greens that look natural were a bit difficult to find or mix.
You’re welcome 😊
Good idea for tutorials! A suggestion for future tutorials, color theory. Explain each of the primary and secondary colors one video at a time. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Maybe even variations of black, brown, and white too. With each, explain its place on the wheel, hue, saturation, and what happens as you add adjacent colors on the wheel and complementary colors, making grays, browns, and blacks. Etc. Maybe show the difference in mediums as you mix: Acrylic/oils/pencil, vs. see-through watercolors,. How about light? How white light is all colors, while in paint pigment it's the opposite. I love color! You do a great job and this was a good treatment on green.
So I watched your video a few times and did your green mixes alto I had different yellows I had light hans, and Indian yellow etc....but I had blues and warm gray it was kinda exciting to see the different range of green I could get, do you think you might do another couple of primary color video mixes......I do have your color posters but I do enjoy watching the mixed and it gives me confidence to watch your videos to try to do mixes in the same primary color wheel as you....mikelle New York mom gaining better confidence...🎨👩🎨
I recall, many years ago, when I visited England, I was struck by how blue your greenery is compared to ours. Your grass. Your trees. Your shrubbery.
You mentioned previously how your earth is also less red than here in our “exotic” part of the world. 🙂
I wonder if there is something about the light at your latitude that cools off your colours or if we just have a lot more iron in everything here.
I think it's just different minerals :-)
Amazing how many different greens you can make by mixing. Good to know.
It really is!
I am new to painting with watercolor as I have always struggled using them. I decided about 3 months ago that I was going to put away my acrylics - paint only with watercolor and hopefully get better at using them. I've been painting everyday and I can see some improvement. I am also new to your channel and so far I find your videos to be very educational. This video is one of the best I've seen regarding mixing greens. I always mix my own greens as I don't like the greens available straight from the tube. Your explanation about using other colors that have yellow or blue in them instead of just using your yellows/blues only has me very excited. I am going to go make some green color charts as you suggested. Thank you so much for sharing all of your expert knowledge!
You are welcome Nancy, thanks for watching!
This is a great guide for greens. In it you comment several times about how strong various colors are. Do you have a video or guide that addresses color strength?
Not yet! It's about staining colours. In the greens and blues these would be phthalos, prussian, indigo. It's a great idea for a video though...
I never met a green I didn't like :) but yes getting to know them helps with application to a composition. I wonder, for these swatches, what paper do you use ? Thankyou for these useful tips and pigment info.
I just use the paper that's cut off the side of my sheets when I stretch my paper, saunders waterford of Fabriano artistico. Or if it's a larger sheet it may be bockingford or SAA practice paper that I keep just for teaching.
Would you ever do this video for gouache? I know the same principles apply but it seems slightly harder to mix gouache colors vs. watercolor but that could just be me. Thanks for the very informative video!
I will certainly think about it! Yes color principles are the same but I know what you mean.
I didn't realise how many different shades of green are possible!
So many!
😀
Wow, I love the mixing chart for the different greens. I have already done the one where you dilute the colors, but it never occurred to me to just do one of all types of green. I think this will be a fun upcoming project! Thanks for posting this video!
You are welcome!
If you have a Daiso Japanese store near you, these are only $1.50. I have several of them
I'm not sure we have those stores in the UK, at least not in my area.
:)
Our eyes are very sensitive in the green range, aren’t they.
I'm so sorry as I know your a vegetarian but for your fyi somehow a company put a beef shop commercial from hersery looks like it's from usa on your channel that was really poorly done on that company and insensitive to you...mean people and companies are so insensitive they are just the worst......I'm sorry for you and I apologize for some of my fellow countrymen that have literally lost their honor and thoughtfulness....some days it's really hard to be a american due to these type of humans.. enjoyed this video lesson very much as I have some of these wc colors and now I'm using your color charts to help mix my colors better...I'm really excited to do a color chart of greens....🤦♀️.mikelle ny mom👩🎨🎨
Ah don't worry, I suspect it's some kind of computer algorithm that decides what adverts to place - bizarre choice though!
Thanks. The camera is upside down. Very disorienting for the viewer
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