@Marva Stroud - Here's a plug for my school: I have a BFA in Interior Design from the New York School of Interior Design. For Color 2, I had the absolute greatest luck to have designer Sashi Cann as my instructor. Maybe that made all the difference, but I feel like I had a great grounding in color theory. To get a deep feeling for a color, I do not look AT a color, but I look INTO a color with concentration and unfocused eyes. I can then "see" the components that went into creating that color. EXAMPLE: "I see some red and and a lot of gray in that green." Therefore it would be a warm, shaded green to my eyes.
What a relief! The takeaway here is that whether a color is cool or warm can only be determined by its relationship to another color. When taking a video class, you don’t have to use the teacher’s exact color. Watch the video twice. See how their reds or greens etc. compare to the other reds & greens he or she uses; start with a red or green you have, name it the cool one or the warm one and go from there. FREEDOM!!! Dear, dear Oto, you’ve saved us from spending hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars in order to get our teachers’ EXACT color. You’re such a blessing.
Well done Oto! This will be a great resource for the community. To me, red orange is the warmest color since there is no hint of a blue at all whereas a red can lean to be cool, but like you said, it's all about perception!
I agree, that is totally the safest way to choose a warmest red, since the line where a red crosses into cool red is so variable amongst different people. Thanks for watching Denise :D
I had the same thought. To me true vermillion or cadmium red lt (PR108 or PO20) feel like the warmest colors, and phthalo blue GS likely the coolest (like the color of light as transmitted through an iceberg).
Getting my brain to remember that cyan is the cooler blue was (and still is) a conscious exercise, but I love color theory, it's fascinating. Thank you for this lovely video!
I would've never event realised that I had my blues the wrong way round until you pointed it out a few months ago. It's really taken me until now to really get my head around it. Thank you so much for pointing it out to me :D
Well I think that the coldest Color on the wheel is Cyan-blue and the hottest is Orange. This is how I presume: Warm on Red side: Pink-Rose, Vermilion Hot: Orange Warm on Yellow side: Amber, Yellow Neutral: Lime Cool on Green side: Green, Aquamarine Cold: Cyan Cool on Blue side: Blue, Violet Neutral: Magenta-Purple. Fits the bill with CYM wheel. Cyan-Orange pair most temperature sensitive Lime-Purple pair least temperature sensitive. Pink-Green pair is Christmas and the most beautiful and my favourite. Square is the best Color scheme I guess.
Temperature is completely debatable because it is way to relative. This is why temperature used for bias is highly argumentative. For example-which “cyan”? RGB of light? Subtractive “cyan”? Actual spectrum “cyan” which is BG not B. Does one compare actual spectrum temperature in electro light energy as R=hottest and V the coolest making “cyan” “warm” compared to B? What about value and chroma? Would it not be best to just split the wheel in half and call Y the hottest and V the coldest and white the warmest and black the coolest? This way you can maintain a casual and more correct “temperature” system while still maintaining to use it as Bias.
@@TheSdzfrwhat is the theoretical direct complement of cyan? Is not R the actual DC of Cyan? Would not R then be the hottest and BG the coolest since cyan is BG in the spectrum and RGB theory? But then you have to deal with intrinsic color value…light to dark thus warm to cool…this splits the wheel again but this time between yellow and violet. Perhaps in terms of temperature and bias it would be best to slit the wheel in a + pattern sorta like Dr. Kano actually has and we stop arguing about which is the warmest and which is the coolest. It’s all relative. White and black is the same…they take on roles as warms and cools at the same time like ALL color does and is totally dependent on how it is perceived in a painting yes? Spectrally measured our standard whites are actually yellows in oil and our standard blacks are BV’s. Does that make Y again the warmest and BV the coolest now?
thank you for putting the yellow at the top and the greens off to the right. So many "educators" don't know how why a good color wheel puts the colors in that order.
Thank you for explaining this entire topic in detail. I've always been too embarrassed to ask anyone for the answer so you've helped me immensely. Love your teaching style and calm, clear manner. Thank you so much for helping everyone with your knowledge. Xxx
The approach to determing temperature by which has more red in it is absolutely wonderful, thank you. I hadn't thought of it quite that way before - and it seems so obvious now, which is just says to me that your approach is incredibly clear and well-explained. It will be extremely helpful in my continued struggle to determine temperature with blues especially.
One of the best and most concise explanations of this I’ve ever come across, thank you! And thank you for the examples regarding individual color comparisons! The thing I love about color is how it changes dependent upon what it’s beside and you did a great job of showing that!
this best video i found on youtube when it comes to explaining colortheory. it sometimes horrifies me thinking some big art youtubers have tons of subscribers and views on their color theory videos and then they made a big mistake by minute 2 (seen that happen way too often) and there are thousands of people who watched that video now making the same mistake if hope a lot more people will find your video and learn from someone who actually knows what they are doing!
Thank you so much. I also went to art school and collected many art books on color therapy but never quite got it. You made it so simple and understandable. Much appreciated.
I struggled with the blue too coz people said ultramarine blue is "warm" and i thought to myself "colour closer to (warm)yellow should be warmer isnt it? Then why a blue with green tint is considered cooler?" .. now putting red as warmest makes more sense. And i appreciate the palette reminder that not everyone has same set of warm & cool hues.
My wife and i are sitting on the couch debating color temps and this video was amazing. My mind was blown and i hope i can improve my painting because of this.
Thank you X 1,000,000!!!! For the past 2 years, I have been following some awesome TH-cam watercolor artists who have been involved with their medium for eons. Though I love them all, not one of them have presented color theory in an easy to understand version as you have. I am thoroughly enjoying your videos and am getting ready to view ep. 2 when I'm done here. Again, many thanks for making this not only easy to understand but truly comprehensive for us all. 💚💛💜
Many thanks for making me unterstand which is the warmest colour and which is the coolest colour in the colour wheel. This is the ever helful thing I have been looking for. Its very simple but today is my premier day ...Thankyou for highlighting it on a simple version...
This is an excellent explanation of why we are all so confused. 🤣You give a very good demonstration of how we can overcome this color indecision and move on to mixing a bit more confidently.
Hi Dr. Kano. This series of color theory video's is the best I've found on youtube so far, and I've watched dozens. Because of it, I've become a supporter of your work on Patreon, and can't wait to see what other amazing things you have to share. Thanks so much.
Wow wa. Thx. . . . . . two months later: I needed to review this video again to get it ingrained in my head. It's so good. The failing in TH-cam is that I am not able to give you another thumbs up. 👍
This is fantastic, thank you for showing it visually like this. I'd like to propose an alternative - as a painter of the natural world, red as the warmest color has always been problematic for me as I'm normally dealing with how warm a scene is in proximity to sunlight (yellow/orange) vs cool - shadow (violet). So to me, proximity to yellow/sunlight will always be warmer while something in shadow is closer to violet and thus cyan is the warmer blue. :) This really helps as the color wheel always points to yellow at the top and violet at the bottom.
You have done great job articulating these concepts. It truly is a comparative analysis based on what YOU have on your palette. I consider myself a color junkyard love these discussions!
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This is one of the best color theory videos I have ever watched. Now I need a video explaining how to create muted and vibrant colors using the coolness or warmth of the colors in the color wheel.
Wow. This makes so much more sense now! I've been so confused by all the "rules" that just never clicked - this is why! Wonderful job, you! Thank you!!!
Ahhhhh! I finally understand about the ultramarine and phthalo blue. I think what was very helpful was how you pointed out that the turquoise is related to warmer temperature locations for us culturally and the more violet blues are typically found in the cooler parts of the world. I think that I will be able to look at colors with new eyes thanks to you. Thank you for your very detailed description of the color wheel. I have subscribed to you and will be going through all of your videos to learn more. Thank you for sharing your gifts of teaching and color with us.
Wow your explanation on the colour wheel and the temperature. I am an absolute watercolour beginner and I have been confused about these red, yellow, blue, purple, green tones in the colours. But you have simplified for me. Thank you so much, the starting of a new unknown media is intimidating and I have made many muddy colours because my palette contains bluish red, orangy red, and so on.... I'm looking forward to reworking my palette with my new found knowledge on colour mixing. Thank you so much for taking your time to explain, not many other artists do that. I understand your time is precious and busy but it helps tremendously a newbie that hasn't got a clue. Amazing channel.
For myself, it became easier to think of it as leaning toward something rather than temperature. Temperature was too relative (and I see a violet as coolest, a red as warmest, which doesn't really divide the wheel in half nicely). Red leaning toward orange vs red leaning toward purple was just more straightforward for me!
Omggggg this is great. Thank you for the cyan/blue demonstration! It really helped me understand how the blue I thought was coolest, wasn’t. I can already see how this will make a difference in my paintings. You’re a great teacher!
thank you so much for that video, your whole series of color theory is so gorgeous, I have learned so much and understand now so much more about color mixing ♥
That’s a good general aerial perspective rule of thumb but not always true. You should also add that in general colors are less chromatic as they recede and more chromatic as they advance-even though this is not always true either.
What if we bring all these colours to the same value and then reconsider their temperature? Perhaps confusion because a deep sea (dark value) is colder experientially than a shallow tropical beach (light value). I've always seen cyan as cooler, but I believe the Pyrrole orange to be warmest and cobalt blue coolest. And to add complication, visual complementaries are not positionally equivalent to pigment (mixed for greys) complementaries.
I love your videos as I'm still a beginner..I just went to your artwork site and loved your paintings... I love painting in abstract but have never seen anyone doing abstract in watercolors... I thought I was "weird" doing watercolor abstracts...I find abstract comforting to paint as I'm visually impaired..thanks for sharing your knowledge...
I have simplified warm and cool as if it is orangey it is warm if it's purplish it is warm anything else is cool. If I am unsure put the item next to a cool color and right away I can see the difference. Using this simple rule I usually have it correct.
Omg, thank you so much! I just about threw my pocket watercolor box against the wall earlier trying to separate warm and cool colors. Now I’m just going to compare them to each other and organize them that way rather than if each is arbitrarily warm or cool. I’m getting back into watercolors after a 20 year break from art so I feel like I’m having to start from scratch as makeup has completely skewed my perception of what is warm and cool. 😅
Extremely helpful. I have about 24 colors on my pallet and being a beginner in watercolor I thought the more the merrier. Not so. I found myself confused. So I'm in the process of creating a 12 color palette. I haven't decided on the exact colors yet because I want to include for example Burnt Sienna and Raw Sienna. However I'm going to watch all your videos on color theory first. Once again the Universe had proved me the information just as I was seeking it out. Thanks for sharing. Eddie
This video is so useful. I´ve always struggled with which colour is cool or warm, ultramarine or phthalo. My eyes tell me ultramarine is cool but colour theory says otherwise. This mix up has made me make mud so may times when trying to mix clear bright colours. When I finally got more feeling for colour mixing it made more sense, but explaining this for others always leaves me stumped. So now I can just make people watch this video :) Thank you for yet another very good and informational video. You have no idea how many videos of your I reference on regular basis when making art!
Actually, your mind and color theory still says ultramarine is cooler than Phthalo blue. It all depends on how “temperature” is related by someone to color. Listen to the video again…
In theory and practice…one needs to drop traditional miss understood Newtonian theory which produced “traditional” RYB. One needs to keep up with Newtonian color physics as well as human color perception. As far as all that goes…I personally think it is best to leave it to mankind’s natural relationships to temp: hemisphere, light and shadow , season, day and night, ice and fire, wet and dry and more modern knowledge. Measured electro magnetic spectrums reveal UV is cooler than IR, which means as light transitions between the two in the “visible spectrum” Violet is coolest and Red warmest with Magenta as transition between hot and cold and Green as transition middle temp. But that doesn’t solve the intrinsic value of color and light values common to all mankind in the world: light is warm…shadow cool. Thus you have the most common factor of light Saturation and color Chromaticity. Therefore, Y is warmest and Violet coolest. Then there is the issue of daylight temperature and black body radiation where blue is HOT and orange is Cold! Is that standard common knowledge and experience throughout the world? No. What MOST people are trying to do is use “temperature” (which is entirely relative and different to each individual) as a way to describe color “bias” (which direction a color leans since no color is “purely” monochromatic except in “pure” abstract concept theory) and this is the problem. Temperature is therefore a “pure” psychological phenomenon whereas Bias is a spectral measurement and/or a psychological sensory to each person just like taste, smell, touch, and sound. Our biggest fundamental color wheel relationship should be just that-fundamental in relationship to light and shadow which holds the effects of light to a neutral single source temperature value as we fundamentally explore color perception as it moves between light and shadow and intrinsic color value. This is why a good starting color wheel should hold Y at top and V at the bottom, R on left and B on right and W, NG, and Blk center. Every Hue family still has a “temperature”/“bias” relationship. Leave the psychological perceptions of other relationships for the advanced theory.
You can discuss the effects of temperature vs light energy intermediately. High temperature light energy produces a bluer bias whereas a low temperature light produces a yellow orange bias. Also, we keep in mind that we don’t live in space…we live on earth. A cloud covered day produces a more neutral diffused light and a sunny day produces a diffused “cyan” bBG effect and no two skies are the same as they change in relationship to hemisphere and season and time of day. Then there is reflected bounce light from nearby sources and other multiple light sources to be considered. How do we show the different effects of opacity and transparency colors and fluorescent colors in one wheel? Or light and. Subtractive materials mixing? The list goes on. Tell me how anyone can put that into one color wheel model? If you’re Divine and can see all dimensions simultaneously yes. Good luck with that. I have not met anyone who can or has. Trying to put to much information beyond fundamentals in one single color model and compounding terminology as totally synonymous to something else is the causation of all the confusions among artists. With the exception of Dr. Kano (who brilliantly did her best to get you all to understand all this “temperature and stuff”) Bruce MaCavey, and Dr. Briggs (two actual color theorists), this problem is wide spread among “professors” artists who do not hold doctorates in color theory, but instead promote false theorems based on improper theory and this goes in both directions of Traditional RYB and Modern CYM users and many who use RGB. It’s shameful really.
For me, there is a third category, which is "neutral temperature", as well as there are colors that are neutral in terms of hue. Actually, i see that red, red orange, orange and yellow orange are definitely warm, blues and turquoises are definitely cold, and then greens yellow greens and violets aren't cool or warm and they will appear cool or warm depending on the other colors surrounding them. The problem, IMO, begins with a wrong paradigm of thinking that colors are either cool or warm.
Thank you for this video. I don't always pay attention to if a color is warm/cool, which leads me to using colors that are not that great together. I should make it a habit to test out different color combinations before painting, that way I will know what colors work best together.
Huge thank you! I finally started to understand color theory because of your videos! I believe it will help me improve my watercolor and it makes me happy 🌼✨
Thank you, Oto! I wish this video had been available years ago when I was trying to learn all this because you explained so concise in a few minutes what took me quite several other videos and some time then to understand!
Thank you Oto! "It's hard to tell if a color is warm or coll if you have it on its own" -> that's exactly what I think and sometimes struggle with. And that was also the difficulty I had when I was trying to pick "my colors" for a limited palette. As a beginner I wanted to start limited but I did not yet have experience in mixing nor did I know the colors from the brand I was choosing from. I could tell if a color was warm or cool compared to an other but I could not tell if it was warm or cool on its own or if it was a good mixing color... In the end I just picked a few and now I'm experimenting with those... I don't know if I'm going to be sticking with those or change some yet...
May I give a slight addition : yellow on top of the colorwheel = yellow is the warmest color -= RYB color scheme (make dark when put together) red on top of the colorwheel = red is warmest color = RGB color scheme (make white when put together)
I would think that instead of making everything so subjective for each person I think that there should be a general overview of whichever color you think is the warmest, the complement of it is the coolest. It just gets too confusing if you make it up to somebody to choose and I'd much rather go off the basis of Orange is the warmest color and blue is the coolest color
Hello mrs. Kano. Recently I started to follow your channel, and I apreciate all the information you provide about the subjects you discuss on your videos. I find this one particularly insightful, because in general color temperature can lead into subjectivity, and I see your considerations are technically based. Your explanations are crystal clear and delightful to hear. Thank you very much!! P.d. Love your voice and your accent!!
I was in the middle of watching a video on cold colors, when I stopped and asked myself how there is any temperature difference in what he sees; I couldn't tell any difference. So I've looked up how to tell the difference (or rather, why do I need those differences) now I'm here and am SO GLAD I am. This really is just perception. For example, I usually agree that Red is the hottest, because of fire. And the opposite color reminds me of glaciers, it's the coldest. But I'm also a [somewhat] space-nerd and would rather pick Yellow as the hottest, because of our yellow sun. The red dwarfs are cool stars in comparison. Blue could also be the hottest, because of blue stars. This means colors need reference-frames and comparisons to other colors, they can't work alone. Cool! Thanks for the video.
Dr Kano, Can you please demonstrate couple of colors how to make warm & cool !! Lets say I picked blue , Green and Red Can you tell me how can I make each color cooler & warmer..
Color theory is so, so fascinating. Our perception of color is affected by so much, from our language and culture to our physical and mental health (I was so intrigued when one of my pharmacology lecturers mentioned that there are indications that people with depressions actually might have impaired color perception). I know I always draw the line between pink and purple at a different spot compared to most people around me - I have no color blindness issues (I've checked 😂), but I'll look at a color and consider it CLEARLY much too blue to still be a pink, it's SO OBVIOUSLY purple, and other people think I'm crazy 🤷
Yay! I finally “get it!!!” I have a few store bought color charts, but never quite “got it?” After watching ur video, I understand this! Thank you so much! Extremely well done!!!👍🏼❤️🧡💛💚💙💜😊
Where exactly is the border between Cool and Warm, I think in the middle of the Yellow 💛 end the middle of the Purple 💜, but I am not sure. What do you think about?
Wonderfully done! The only thing I'd like to say is that it took me until ten minutes in to realize you have CMY as a primary triad, and it was at this point I remembered that there are three primaries so why am I concentrating so hard on what's opposite on the wheel, haha!
As an long term teacher of several subjects who is now retired and taken up his first love of painting and has used his skills to teach him self by putting together a colelction of Art College course content topics by sieving through and cherry picking the relevant many TH-cam Art tutorials on here - I wish you Dr Oto Kano that with out doubt this and your other videos on Colour Theory are the best I have come across. Even better that Stephen Quillers Colour Wheel tutorials which I have purchased which are also very good but in terms of 'understanding' and getting that feeling I always strove for in my students that lovely "Oh I get it now" YOU managed to achieve in explaining Warm and Cool colours (ie temperature is RELATIVE to the what ever colour you are comparing it with) so please don't feel you have to apologize. I intend now to back off from Stephen's tutorials especially (which being in business I can understand) as he does tend to use his Colour Wheel theory to promote his own barnd of paints as oppose refer to ones most people use and can afford which you do. I look forward to studying in depth your next 9 videos :-)
I realy like this concept, but I personaly would put warm pick as orange, and cool pick as blue, and then do the same))) for me, red and green are kind of neutral colors, they both can be warm and cold, depends of what would you add to them, blue or orange. That all is just my own point of view, which could be different from others, and that's ok as you've said)))
Thank you for the video (and doing a longer series on the topic, by the way). I remember having an argument with a friend about my blue-ish shirt. She said it was warm blue and I persisted that blue isn't a warm colour >.
I’m so mad I got a whole degree in art with out knowing what this 20 minute video taught me. Thank you so much for an honest to-the-point explanation.
So glad it made sense for you Marva!
I totally agree, my UC never taught me the basics... money down the drain, this video fills the gap.
@Marva Stroud - Here's a plug for my school: I have a BFA in Interior Design from the New York School of Interior Design. For Color 2, I had the absolute greatest luck to have designer Sashi Cann as my instructor. Maybe that made all the difference, but I feel like I had a great grounding in color theory.
To get a deep feeling for a color, I do not look AT a color, but I look INTO a color with concentration and unfocused eyes. I can then "see" the components that went into creating that color. EXAMPLE: "I see some red and and a lot of gray in that green." Therefore it would be a warm, shaded green to my eyes.
Exactly!
What schools did yall go to?!?! This is lit day one material, yalls schools have failed you!!
What a relief! The takeaway here is that whether a color is cool or warm can only be determined by its relationship to another color. When taking a video class, you don’t have to use the teacher’s exact color. Watch the video twice. See how their reds or greens etc. compare to the other reds & greens he or she uses; start with a red or green you have, name it the cool one or the warm one and go from there. FREEDOM!!! Dear, dear Oto, you’ve saved us from spending hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars in order to get our teachers’ EXACT color. You’re such a blessing.
Well done Oto! This will be a great resource for the community. To me, red orange is the warmest color since there is no hint of a blue at all whereas a red can lean to be cool, but like you said, it's all about perception!
I agree, that is totally the safest way to choose a warmest red, since the line where a red crosses into cool red is so variable amongst different people. Thanks for watching Denise :D
Yes for me red orange is the warmest possible color too.
Yeah and warm colors are reds oranges and yellows and cool colors are greens blues and violets
I had the same thought. To me true vermillion or cadmium red lt (PR108 or PO20) feel like the warmest colors, and phthalo blue GS likely the coolest (like the color of light as transmitted through an iceberg).
Yep…All relative
Getting my brain to remember that cyan is the cooler blue was (and still is) a conscious exercise, but I love color theory, it's fascinating. Thank you for this lovely video!
I would've never event realised that I had my blues the wrong way round until you pointed it out a few months ago. It's really taken me until now to really get my head around it. Thank you so much for pointing it out to me :D
Well I think that the coldest Color on the wheel is Cyan-blue and the hottest is Orange.
This is how I presume:
Warm on Red side: Pink-Rose, Vermilion
Hot: Orange
Warm on Yellow side: Amber, Yellow
Neutral: Lime
Cool on Green side: Green, Aquamarine
Cold: Cyan
Cool on Blue side: Blue, Violet
Neutral: Magenta-Purple.
Fits the bill with CYM wheel.
Cyan-Orange pair most temperature sensitive Lime-Purple pair least temperature sensitive.
Pink-Green pair is Christmas and the most beautiful and my favourite.
Square is the best Color scheme I guess.
Temperature is completely debatable because it is way to relative. This is why temperature used for bias is highly argumentative. For example-which “cyan”? RGB of light? Subtractive “cyan”? Actual spectrum “cyan” which is BG not B. Does one compare actual spectrum temperature in electro light energy as R=hottest and V the coolest making “cyan” “warm” compared to B? What about value and chroma? Would it not be best to just split the wheel in half and call Y the hottest and V the coldest and white the warmest and black the coolest? This way you can maintain a casual and more correct “temperature” system while still maintaining to use it as Bias.
@@TheSdzfrwhat is the theoretical direct complement of cyan? Is not R the actual DC of Cyan? Would not R then be the hottest and BG the coolest since cyan is BG in the spectrum and RGB theory? But then you have to deal with intrinsic color value…light to dark thus warm to cool…this splits the wheel again but this time between yellow and violet. Perhaps in terms of temperature and bias it would be best to slit the wheel in a + pattern sorta like Dr. Kano actually has and we stop arguing about which is the warmest and which is the coolest. It’s all relative. White and black is the same…they take on roles as warms and cools at the same time like ALL color does and is totally dependent on how it is perceived in a painting yes? Spectrally measured our standard whites are actually yellows in oil and our standard blacks are BV’s. Does that make Y again the warmest and BV the coolest now?
@@TheSdzfryour comparing “temperature” in terms of daylight and black body radiation to color. See? All relative…
OMG!! I’m 62 yrs old & have been trying to understand color theory my whole life. I just GOT IT!!! Thank You Thank You Thank You!!!!!
62 is crazy, but nice
I see your prefix of Dr. Are you a professor? You're very intelligent. I think I watch more of your watercolor videos than any others.
thank you for putting the yellow at the top and the greens off to the right. So many "educators" don't know how why a good color wheel puts the colors in that order.
Thank you for explaining this entire topic in detail. I've always been too embarrassed to ask anyone for the answer so you've helped me immensely. Love your teaching style and calm, clear manner. Thank you so much for helping everyone with your knowledge. Xxx
The approach to determing temperature by which has more red in it is absolutely wonderful, thank you. I hadn't thought of it quite that way before - and it seems so obvious now, which is just says to me that your approach is incredibly clear and well-explained. It will be extremely helpful in my continued struggle to determine temperature with blues especially.
Awww Boss Goose, so happy to hear that thinking it in terms of amount of red helps :D
One of the best and most concise explanations of this I’ve ever come across, thank you! And thank you for the examples regarding individual color comparisons! The thing I love about color is how it changes dependent upon what it’s beside and you did a great job of showing that!
Aw you are so kind Jill, thank you.
this best video i found on youtube when it comes to explaining colortheory.
it sometimes horrifies me thinking some big art youtubers have tons of subscribers and views on their color theory videos and then they made a big mistake by minute 2 (seen that happen way too often) and there are thousands of people who watched that video now making the same mistake
if hope a lot more people will find your video and learn from someone who actually knows what they are doing!
Thank you so much. I also went to art school and collected many art books on color therapy but never quite got it. You made it so simple and understandable. Much appreciated.
I struggled with the blue too coz people said ultramarine blue is "warm" and i thought to myself "colour closer to (warm)yellow should be warmer isnt it? Then why a blue with green tint is considered cooler?" .. now putting red as warmest makes more sense. And i appreciate the palette reminder that not everyone has same set of warm & cool hues.
My wife and i are sitting on the couch debating color temps and this video was amazing. My mind was blown and i hope i can improve my painting because of this.
Thank you X 1,000,000!!!! For the past 2 years, I have been following some awesome TH-cam watercolor artists who have been involved with their medium for eons. Though I love them all, not one of them have presented color theory in an easy to understand version as you have. I am thoroughly enjoying your videos and am getting ready to view ep. 2 when I'm done here. Again, many thanks for making this not only easy to understand but truly comprehensive for us all. 💚💛💜
Many thanks for making me unterstand which is the warmest colour and which is the coolest colour in the colour wheel. This is the ever helful thing I have been looking for. Its very simple but today is my premier day ...Thankyou for highlighting it on a simple version...
Brilliant explanation. Thank you. So concise..
Oh! Thank you for making this so easy to understand!
This is an excellent explanation of why we are all so confused. 🤣You give a very good demonstration of how we can overcome this color indecision and move on to mixing a bit more confidently.
I’m rewatching this series for the umpteenth time. It is SUCH a fantastic explanation of color theory. Thanks again 🌺
You are brilliant! So well explained. Wish I would have seen this earlier.
Thank you so much. Now I understand why I was so confused! I will continue to paint what appeals to my eye.😊
Hi Dr. Kano. This series of color theory video's is the best I've found on youtube so far, and I've watched dozens. Because of it, I've become a supporter of your work on Patreon, and can't wait to see what other amazing things you have to share. Thanks so much.
You've clarified much for me regarding color temperature!
Thank you!
Wow wa. Thx. . . . . . two months later: I needed to review this video again to get it ingrained in my head. It's so good. The failing in TH-cam is that I am not able to give you another thumbs up. 👍
This is fantastic, thank you for showing it visually like this. I'd like to propose an alternative - as a painter of the natural world, red as the warmest color has always been problematic for me as I'm normally dealing with how warm a scene is in proximity to sunlight (yellow/orange) vs cool - shadow (violet). So to me, proximity to yellow/sunlight will always be warmer while something in shadow is closer to violet and thus cyan is the warmer blue. :) This really helps as the color wheel always points to yellow at the top and violet at the bottom.
You have done great job articulating these concepts. It truly is a comparative analysis based on what YOU have on your palette. I consider myself a color junkyard love these discussions!
Aw thank you for your kind words Gary.
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This is one of the best color theory videos I have ever watched. Now I need a video explaining how to create muted and vibrant colors using the coolness or warmth of the colors in the color wheel.
Wow. This makes so much more sense now! I've been so confused by all the "rules" that just never clicked - this is why! Wonderful job, you! Thank you!!!
I'm so glad this video helped :D
I’ve been through so many You Tube videos and NEVER got this information. Thank you!
What a brilliant explanation of warm and cool colors! Dr. Kano, you are a gifted teacher. Thank you!
Thank you, this video surprisingly explained color temps very well for me
Ahhhhh! I finally understand about the ultramarine and phthalo blue. I think what was very helpful was how you pointed out that the turquoise is related to warmer temperature locations for us culturally and the more violet blues are typically found in the cooler parts of the world. I think that I will be able to look at colors with new eyes thanks to you. Thank you for your very detailed description of the color wheel. I have subscribed to you and will be going through all of your videos to learn more. Thank you for sharing your gifts of teaching and color with us.
Wow your explanation on the colour wheel and the temperature. I am an absolute watercolour beginner and I have been confused about these red, yellow, blue, purple, green tones in the colours. But you have simplified for me. Thank you so much, the starting of a new unknown media is intimidating and I have made many muddy colours because my palette contains bluish red, orangy red, and so on.... I'm looking forward to reworking my palette with my new found knowledge on colour mixing. Thank you so much for taking your time to explain, not many other artists do that. I understand your time is precious and busy but it helps tremendously a newbie that hasn't got a clue. Amazing channel.
For myself, it became easier to think of it as leaning toward something rather than temperature. Temperature was too relative (and I see a violet as coolest, a red as warmest, which doesn't really divide the wheel in half nicely). Red leaning toward orange vs red leaning toward purple was just more straightforward for me!
That's also a great way to look at it, thank you for sharing it :D
Omggggg this is great. Thank you for the cyan/blue demonstration! It really helped me understand how the blue I thought was coolest, wasn’t. I can already see how this will make a difference in my paintings. You’re a great teacher!
So glad this video helped you understand it Josie. It's the one that confuses people the most by far (including myself!)
The clearest and most objective version of warm/cool color I found so fa. Fantastic!
a big BRAVO FROM Greece! teaching is not easy but you are doing it so damned good!!! thank you!
This Is the best explanation of warm and cool colors I have ever found! I’m so excited about this series.
Thank you😀I really am enjoying your teaching on color theory! You are very thorough.You don't rush & I so appreciate that!
thank you so much for that video, your whole series of color theory is so gorgeous, I have learned so much and understand now so much more about color mixing ♥
Thank you - I finally understand about colour temperature!
Awwww this makes me so happy! Happy painting Patricia.
Great explanation about color. I’m watching all in series and learning a great deal. Thank you!
Thank you so much for posting this series!! It was exceptionally helpful in learning the basics of design.
What I find helpful is remembering that cool colors recede and warm colors advance.
That’s a good general aerial perspective rule of thumb but not always true. You should also add that in general colors are less chromatic as they recede and more chromatic as they advance-even though this is not always true either.
Wonderfully explained… thank you!
Thank you, Oto! I agree with you that red is the warmest color and think green is the coolest. This explanation of perception made things very clear.
What if we bring all these colours to the same value and then reconsider their temperature? Perhaps confusion because a deep sea (dark value) is colder experientially than a shallow tropical beach (light value). I've always seen cyan as cooler, but I believe the Pyrrole orange to be warmest and cobalt blue coolest. And to add complication, visual complementaries are not positionally equivalent to pigment (mixed for greys) complementaries.
Thank you, you have explained this so much more better then any other youtuber here
I love your videos as I'm still a beginner..I just went to your artwork site and loved your paintings... I love painting in abstract but have never seen anyone doing abstract in watercolors... I thought I was "weird" doing watercolor abstracts...I find abstract comforting to paint as I'm visually impaired..thanks for sharing your knowledge...
You totally can do abstracts with any medium you want Kathee! :D I too find abstracts to be my favourite way to paint.
Thank you for helping me understand better the colors!
I have simplified warm and cool as if it is orangey it is warm if it's purplish it is warm anything else is cool. If I am unsure put the item next to a cool color and right away I can see the difference. Using this simple rule I usually have it correct.
Thank you so much, now this whole thing make sense
Literally looking this stuff up all day!!!
Excellent video on understanding warm and cool colours. Many thanks!
You are a wonderful teacher.
Thank you for your very clear guide to warm and cool colours.very good.
So glad it was easy to understand :)
Omg, thank you so much! I just about threw my pocket watercolor box against the wall earlier trying to separate warm and cool colors. Now I’m just going to compare them to each other and organize them that way rather than if each is arbitrarily warm or cool. I’m getting back into watercolors after a 20 year break from art so I feel like I’m having to start from scratch as makeup has completely skewed my perception of what is warm and cool. 😅
Thank you so much for your warm/cool lesson. I would have spent waisted time trying figure it out.
Nice set of videos - nice to have this much info presented all in one place. Thanks!
Oh my lord thankyou so much. I tried googling the answer and was losing my mind. This made things alot clearer for me. Thankyou
Extremely helpful. I have about 24 colors on my pallet and being a beginner in watercolor I thought the more the merrier. Not so. I found myself confused. So I'm in the process of creating a 12 color palette. I haven't decided on the exact colors yet because I want to include for example Burnt Sienna and Raw Sienna. However I'm going to watch all your videos on color theory first. Once again the Universe had proved me the information just as I was seeking it out. Thanks for sharing. Eddie
So good! Now I finally understand!
This video is so useful. I´ve always struggled with which colour is cool or warm, ultramarine or phthalo. My eyes tell me ultramarine is cool but colour theory says otherwise. This mix up has made me make mud so may times when trying to mix clear bright colours. When I finally got more feeling for colour mixing it made more sense, but explaining this for others always leaves me stumped. So now I can just make people watch this video :) Thank you for yet another very good and informational video. You have no idea how many videos of your I reference on regular basis when making art!
Actually, your mind and color theory still says ultramarine is cooler than Phthalo blue. It all depends on how “temperature” is related by someone to color. Listen to the video again…
In theory and practice…one needs to drop traditional miss understood Newtonian theory which produced “traditional” RYB. One needs to keep up with Newtonian color physics as well as human color perception. As far as all that goes…I personally think it is best to leave it to mankind’s natural relationships to temp: hemisphere, light and shadow , season, day and night, ice and fire, wet and dry and more modern knowledge. Measured electro magnetic spectrums reveal UV is cooler than IR, which means as light transitions between the two in the “visible spectrum” Violet is coolest and Red warmest with Magenta as transition between hot and cold and Green as transition middle temp. But that doesn’t solve the intrinsic value of color and light values common to all mankind in the world: light is warm…shadow cool. Thus you have the most common factor of light Saturation and color Chromaticity. Therefore, Y is warmest and Violet coolest. Then there is the issue of daylight temperature and black body radiation where blue is HOT and orange is Cold! Is that standard common knowledge and experience throughout the world? No. What MOST people are trying to do is use “temperature” (which is entirely relative and different to each individual) as a way to describe color “bias” (which direction a color leans since no color is “purely” monochromatic except in “pure” abstract concept theory) and this is the problem. Temperature is therefore a “pure” psychological phenomenon whereas Bias is a spectral measurement and/or a psychological sensory to each person just like taste, smell, touch, and sound. Our biggest fundamental color wheel relationship should be just that-fundamental in relationship to light and shadow which holds the effects of light to a neutral single source temperature value as we fundamentally explore color perception as it moves between light and shadow and intrinsic color value. This is why a good starting color wheel should hold Y at top and V at the bottom, R on left and B on right and W, NG, and Blk center. Every Hue family still has a “temperature”/“bias” relationship. Leave the psychological perceptions of other relationships for the advanced theory.
You can discuss the effects of temperature vs light energy intermediately. High temperature light energy produces a bluer bias whereas a low temperature light produces a yellow orange bias. Also, we keep in mind that we don’t live in space…we live on earth. A cloud covered day produces a more neutral diffused light and a sunny day produces a diffused “cyan” bBG effect and no two skies are the same as they change in relationship to hemisphere and season and time of day. Then there is reflected bounce light from nearby sources and other multiple light sources to be considered. How do we show the different effects of opacity and transparency colors and fluorescent colors in one wheel? Or light and. Subtractive materials mixing? The list goes on. Tell me how anyone can put that into one color wheel model? If you’re Divine and can see all dimensions simultaneously yes. Good luck with that. I have not met anyone who can or has. Trying to put to much information beyond fundamentals in one single color model and compounding terminology as totally synonymous to something else is the causation of all the confusions among artists. With the exception of Dr. Kano (who brilliantly did her best to get you all to understand all this “temperature and stuff”) Bruce MaCavey, and Dr. Briggs (two actual color theorists), this problem is wide spread among “professors” artists who do not hold doctorates in color theory, but instead promote false theorems based on improper theory and this goes in both directions of Traditional RYB and Modern CYM users and many who use RGB. It’s shameful really.
Excellent…Very informative, just what I needed. THANK YOU🙂!
This is so helpful! Thank you!
For me, there is a third category, which is "neutral temperature", as well as there are colors that are neutral in terms of hue. Actually, i see that red, red orange, orange and yellow orange are definitely warm, blues and turquoises are definitely cold, and then greens yellow greens and violets aren't cool or warm and they will appear cool or warm depending on the other colors surrounding them. The problem, IMO, begins with a wrong paradigm of thinking that colors are either cool or warm.
Thank you for this video. I don't always pay attention to if a color is warm/cool, which leads me to using colors that are not that great together. I should make it a habit to test out different color combinations before painting, that way I will know what colors work best together.
Ailuro, you might find the next video in the series useful for that :)
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Btw I got your paints today, I am super exited to paint with them :D
Thank you, Oto! SO helpful. I’m looking forward to this series!!
Huge thank you! I finally
started to understand color theory because of your videos! I believe it will help me improve my watercolor and it makes me happy 🌼✨
Thank you, Oto! I wish this video had been available years ago when I was trying to learn all this because you explained so concise in a few minutes what took me quite several other videos and some time then to understand!
Wonderful. Thanks!
Thank you Oto! "It's hard to tell if a color is warm or coll if you have it on its own" -> that's exactly what I think and sometimes struggle with. And that was also the difficulty I had when I was trying to pick "my colors" for a limited palette. As a beginner I wanted to start limited but I did not yet have experience in mixing nor did I know the colors from the brand I was choosing from. I could tell if a color was warm or cool compared to an other but I could not tell if it was warm or cool on its own or if it was a good mixing color... In the end I just picked a few and now I'm experimenting with those... I don't know if I'm going to be sticking with those or change some yet...
Thanks ! I think thanks to you I finally learned the basics, I felt vert lost in this topic in the past !^^
May I give a slight addition :
yellow on top of the colorwheel = yellow is the warmest color -= RYB color scheme (make dark when put together)
red on top of the colorwheel = red is warmest color = RGB color scheme (make white when put together)
I would think that instead of making everything so subjective for each person I think that there should be a general overview of whichever color you think is the warmest, the complement of it is the coolest. It just gets too confusing if you make it up to somebody to choose and I'd much rather go off the basis of Orange is the warmest color and blue is the coolest color
What an amázing video with such clear examples, fínally got it, thx só much
A very very big thank you. It's so easy now. You explanations are very helpful.
Hello mrs. Kano.
Recently I started to follow your channel, and I apreciate all the information you provide about the subjects you discuss on your videos. I find this one particularly insightful, because in general color temperature can lead into subjectivity, and I see your considerations are technically based. Your explanations are crystal clear and delightful to hear. Thank you very much!!
P.d. Love your voice and your accent!!
Oh thank you so much for this video. I’ve been so confused. Lol. Excellent video. 🥰
At last I got it! Thank you very much. Blessings
This is so useful! I just got into color theory, I am gonna follow along your series
Thank you! This makes so much sense.
So glad it made sense Danielle :D
As always you have given me another way to talk about color theory in simple terms thank you!
So glad it helps Mikey!
I was in the middle of watching a video on cold colors, when I stopped and asked myself how there is any temperature difference in what he sees; I couldn't tell any difference. So I've looked up how to tell the difference (or rather, why do I need those differences) now I'm here and am SO GLAD I am. This really is just perception. For example, I usually agree that Red is the hottest, because of fire. And the opposite color reminds me of glaciers, it's the coldest. But I'm also a [somewhat] space-nerd and would rather pick Yellow as the hottest, because of our yellow sun. The red dwarfs are cool stars in comparison. Blue could also be the hottest, because of blue stars. This means colors need reference-frames and comparisons to other colors, they can't work alone.
Cool! Thanks for the video.
this is a really great refresher, best video on color theory, thanks a lot!
Dr Kano, Can you please demonstrate couple of colors how to make warm & cool !! Lets say I picked blue , Green and Red Can you tell me how can I make each color cooler & warmer..
Color theory is so, so fascinating. Our perception of color is affected by so much, from our language and culture to our physical and mental health (I was so intrigued when one of my pharmacology lecturers mentioned that there are indications that people with depressions actually might have impaired color perception). I know I always draw the line between pink and purple at a different spot compared to most people around me - I have no color blindness issues (I've checked 😂), but I'll look at a color and consider it CLEARLY much too blue to still be a pink, it's SO OBVIOUSLY purple, and other people think I'm crazy 🤷
This was so wonderful, thank you!
Yay! I finally “get it!!!” I have a few store bought color charts, but never quite “got it?” After watching ur video, I understand this! Thank you so much! Extremely well done!!!👍🏼❤️🧡💛💚💙💜😊
Great discussion on the topic. Thanks!
Where exactly is the border between Cool and Warm, I think in the middle of the Yellow 💛 end the middle of the Purple 💜, but I am not sure. What do you think about?
Wonderfully done! The only thing I'd like to say is that it took me until ten minutes in to realize you have CMY as a primary triad, and it was at this point I remembered that there are three primaries so why am I concentrating so hard on what's opposite on the wheel, haha!
As an long term teacher of several subjects who is now retired and taken up his first love of painting and has used his skills to teach him self by putting together a colelction of Art College course content topics by sieving through and cherry picking the relevant many TH-cam Art tutorials on here - I wish you Dr Oto Kano that with out doubt this and your other videos on Colour Theory are the best I have come across. Even better that Stephen Quillers Colour Wheel tutorials which I have purchased which are also very good but in terms of 'understanding' and getting that feeling I always strove for in my students that lovely "Oh I get it now" YOU managed to achieve in explaining Warm and Cool colours (ie temperature is RELATIVE to the what ever colour you are comparing it with) so please don't feel you have to apologize. I intend now to back off from Stephen's tutorials especially (which being in business I can understand) as he does tend to use his Colour Wheel theory to promote his own barnd of paints as oppose refer to ones most people use and can afford which you do. I look forward to studying in depth your next 9 videos :-)
I realy like this concept, but I personaly would put warm pick as orange, and cool pick as blue, and then do the same))) for me, red and green are kind of neutral colors, they both can be warm and cold, depends of what would you add to them, blue or orange. That all is just my own point of view, which could be different from others, and that's ok as you've said)))
Thank you for the video (and doing a longer series on the topic, by the way). I remember having an argument with a friend about my blue-ish shirt. She said it was warm blue and I persisted that blue isn't a warm colour >.
Wow! My mind is blown! @Dr. Oto Kano
Your explanation of this is so clear and easy to understand! Thank you so much for this video!💜💜💜
Thanks a lot😊
This is so very helpful 😍 thank you for making this and sharing with us!!!
So glad you liked it Sasha :D Thank you for watching!
Pretty cool stuff👍