Mark is the best. Knows his stuff. I did his 6 day workshop a couple years ago and it was awesome. Highly recommend! Also, his Geneva paint line is the GOAT.
@@jeffcrossley4757How do you like them so far? I got some Winsor newton artisan from a clearance sale but they keep lumping and stuck when I try to mix the colors with brushes. His paints look so buttery I'm tempted too lol
this is extremely helpful, especially for someone like me who loves color but doesn't have a strong eye for it. thanks. a teacher of mine several years ago taught us this but I'd sort of forgotten.
I have drawn, charcoal...etc I was always scared of color and painting probably cause I was scared but I recently started painting and learning my color wheel
My problem is that when I finally get it mixed right, then I find out that I don't have enough for the area I wanted to paint and start all over with uncertain results...
I’m so glad I found this channel. Color is my worst and you’re making it very possible for me. I’ve got friends in Austin maybe someday a class… I use acrylic and I am seeing just how I can take what you’re saying to how I can use it. Wow this feels good. I’d been pretty frustrated
No one is better at explaining color mixing that you. Your videos have helped me a lot throughout the years. Thank you! You need to put a “thanks” tip button on your videos.
Love that hat. I live in Marietta Oklahoma. A ways away from you but I sure would like to be able to drive there and study with you whenever I could. You are the best instructor online. Easy to listen to thank you so much for sharing all that you do.
Dear Lord, I finally understand why I know so little about mixing colors and why I`ve always avoided doing it. Thank you so much for your excellent explanation. At school, we`ve had so many years of art lessons, but we`ve learned almost nothing about mixing colors. I would have gladly exchanged at least half of those lessons for lessons about color mixing. How they could ignore the most important basics is beyond me. They were teaching us a foreign language without introducing us to its ABC.
your method changed my life. stumbled onto your videos years ago. this simplified method puts you in control of your colors as well as the reason why they work or don’t work. also keeps one from hiding behind not having “the right paint” to do realism. it forces you to think your way thru the process which eventually sharpens one’s eye.
Newbie older aspiring artist here……I’m was totally mesmerised by your video. I love how you repeat yourself, as a lot of online tutorials blabber on and I miss loads…..you’re mesmerising…… I’m going to try this tomorrow! I will put a glass chopping board or clear plastic wrap ( no laminate) over a picture or travel brochure and see what I can do……so excited! Oh and I’ve no oils yet as I’m new to art so will try in acrylics…….. Thank you.
Excellent teaching methods for us simpletons - Ihave been attending art classes for 5 years and still don't know how to mix /find colours. I love the laminated picture idea! THANK YOU SO MUCH
I’ll be purchasing some of your Geneva paints in the future when I use up the large order of Windsor Newton paints I bought before I learned about yours. I really appreciate your videos - they’re excellent. I’ve studied at college under some very talented painters but they weren’t as fully generous as you with their knowledge. 🙏
Just came back to tell you that this has been a complete game changer not just for my painting in oil, but for acrylic and watercolor, too. Excellent, down-to-earth explanation.
Thank you Mark my fiance purchased your paints for me and I followed your videos and I am just amazed that I was able to achieve this realism Thank you so much you are an amazing teacher and artist 🎨
I truly can’t thank you enough for your knowledge! You are a true Master and I feel blessed to have come across your TH-cam channel! Thank you infinitely! ♥️
New follower here - I think this is the absolute, best instruction on mixing color, I've ever watched. My college instructor wasn't even close. I learned so much! Thank you!!
Hi Mark. I recently found your videos. Like others have commented here, this is the best explanation of color mixing I have found. Color mixing is something I’ve struggled with and find it to be something that stops me from improving. I can’t wait to apply what I’ve here today. Thank you so much.
Yeah I have heard people talk about warm it up or cool it down. I much rather keep it simple and just talk about color. Intensity or chroma is also interesting if you are composing something. Great video I definitely have learned more on this one about how to reach a color goal than any of the others I have been watching. I really appreciate you taking the time to do and share this content.
This is a great reference for color mixing… I’ve learned so much about color thru my years of tattooing and making oil paintings and this right here is one of the best explanations I’ve ever seen!
I teach all my students this method and make sure I always give you credit. This is such a great demonstration and I appreciate finding you. It has really enhanced my art journey and I can’t thank you enough!
Fantastic! quite literally the best colour demonstration and tutorial I've seen and explained in such a way that really helps you understand what you are learning. I only wish I'd had you as my art teacher when i was younger. Thank goodness for TH-cam and people like you who are now helping so many to learn.
Not sure how I have never heard of complimentary opposites until now, but your color wheel has made an immense difference in my ability to mix colors. IT is so much easier than the way I used to mix by eye.
just discovering Mark's channel and it's awesome. So much great information and there's never any hard sell. The colour mixing videos Mark posts are absolute gold.
So glad I found this teaching!! I have always struggled with color choice and mixing, but I know if I get more understanding through your understanding I will have confidence. Thank you for showing us!
You are a fabulous teacher indeed. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I have always loved and have been good at painting in my early childhood years but that just came naturally with no real idea of what I was doing. Now I am retired and I want to once again get into painting and develop my skills. As I watch this video I see and learn so much that I knew nothing about. I value and admire your skills.
I'm so grateful to Mark for generously sharing his expertise. His mastery of oils is rivaled by his superlative ability to communicate the arcane knowledge of a skilled painter.
I have been an artist all my life but never took to painting with brush. I found it too frustrating mainly why wont the colors just mix. Finally thanks to you tube not my art teachers but finally thanks to this video i now grasp why warm or cool colors matter during application. Thank you im eternally grateful an excited for this new journey
What an excellent teacher you are! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. I brought my oil colours today and feeling very excited ! (An absolute beginner here) wish me luck with my mix!
I have come to the point where I couldn't apreciate this channel more. There are so many artists sharing their knowledge by trimming down important and succinct information and cutting corners of important milestones, making it impossible for beginners and intermediate artists to even begin to grasp the concept of painting. This is such a precious resource, I can't thank you enough for making this available 👏
Thank you so much for sharing your expertise(for free) and for making seemingly very complex things simple for me(us)! Really appreciate you so much for doing all this!!💪🏻✌🏻 I really can't "paint" well yet, but I'm hopeful; THANKS TO YOU MARK!😇🙏🏻✌🏻
This was great. Thank you so much Mark. One question... I was wondering toward the very end of the video you discuss creating the color group for vibrant orange or blue objects and how not to contaminate your target vibrant color with the antagonist component of black... this is necessary because you mix black from burnt umber and blue... so in the second step you reccommend going with pure blue or pure "dark orange" depending which way you need to go. Is there no case here for using an unmixed black pignment, instead of mixing from burnt umber and blue? Couldn't one just start with a warm or cool black depending on whether the color group would be heading toward going orange or blue?
I’ve painted digitally for years and years and colour mixing is what always scared me away from traditional painting…going to try soon with this as a guide. Thank you!
Getting back into model trains, need a way to save money by mixing my own paints to match prototype colours. A nice theory was needed and this is the first video that explains it for me. I visit a craft show today but did not know which colours I needed, I already had white.
I always enjoyed your other video, so seeing new examples is great. Also, since I bought this exact paints from your store, it will make it very easy to follow once I try it myself!
French people is so sad because unfortunately you don't sell here your geneva oil painting !! But I do love your videos and I'm going to practice the mix of colours. Thank you for everything !!!
Are you leaning to Winsor&Newton for those intense colors? W&N seems to use scarlet and not have a cad red light…equally sap green is a mix of pigments…so varies all over brand to brand..pthalo blue for blue greens..or PG7 pthalo green?
So much informations, all very interesting and lost of rules to follow. Soon i will begin to apply this technique and the fun will begin. Thank you so much.
Thank you for the excellent instruction on mixing. I’m just starting to paint, and now feel confident that I can start mixing. This was all great, but your instruction on mixing for value first and then finalize the color match was especially helpful to me.
Came across your videos today and was wondering if I can apply this strategy to acrylic paints? I appreciate the break down you did in regards to the colors and what the process is if you have to much of one color or the opposite.
Mark is the best. Knows his stuff. I did his 6 day workshop a couple years ago and it was awesome. Highly recommend! Also, his Geneva paint line is the GOAT.
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Where can i find his paints
Finally ordered his paint and stain I’m so excited!!!!
@@jeffcrossley4757How do you like them so far? I got some Winsor newton artisan from a clearance sale but they keep lumping and stuck when I try to mix the colors with brushes. His paints look so buttery I'm tempted too lol
@@theArtOFjon You can see them when he gets up, normally they're worn just below the shirt
Mark is the only TH-cam artist who gave away the "secret" of matching colours.
All other youtubers only give us hints.
Love his channel, I’ve been watching for so long
Approaches it like an engineer. Absolutely brilliant! Getting a complex task across with ease is the sign of a great teacher. Thanks Mark
this is extremely helpful, especially for someone like me who loves color but doesn't have a strong eye for it. thanks. a teacher of mine several years ago taught us this but I'd sort of forgotten.
actually, I lied. you gave much more info here than my teacher did in a 6-week course.
I have drawn, charcoal...etc
I was always scared of color and painting probably cause I was scared but I recently started painting and learning my color wheel
My problem is that when I finally get it mixed right, then I find out that I don't have enough for the area I wanted to paint and start all over with uncertain results...
I’m so glad I found this channel. Color is my worst and you’re making it very possible for me. I’ve got friends in Austin maybe someday a class… I use acrylic and I am seeing just how I can take what you’re saying to how I can use it. Wow this feels good. I’d been pretty frustrated
I was thinking the same but I guess paint is added when shades are needed.
Maybe add a thick medium to make more of the colour?
Honestly 😅
I have this issue too, so I never mix less than a gallon of a particular color.
For the first time I have been having success and confidence with my paintings due to this technique. Thank you.
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Awesome :)
No one is better at explaining color mixing that you. Your videos have helped me a lot throughout the years. Thank you! You need to put a “thanks” tip button on your videos.
Love that hat. I live in Marietta Oklahoma. A ways away from you but I sure would like to be able to drive there and study with you whenever I could. You are the best instructor online. Easy to listen to thank you so much for sharing all that you do.
Agreed. Always difficult for me but excellent technique
You are a real mentor for painters. No bs
This video was more educational in the little time he spoke then classes I've taken my whole life. THANK YOU. Why am I just finding you🤦♀️🤦♀️
Dear Lord, I finally understand why I know so little about mixing colors and why I`ve always avoided doing it.
Thank you so much for your excellent explanation.
At school, we`ve had so many years of art lessons, but we`ve learned almost nothing about mixing colors.
I would have gladly exchanged at least half of those lessons for lessons about color mixing.
How they could ignore the most important basics is beyond me.
They were teaching us a foreign language without introducing us to its ABC.
your method changed my life. stumbled onto your videos years ago. this simplified method puts you in control of your colors as well as the reason why they work or don’t work. also keeps one from hiding behind not having “the right paint” to do realism. it forces you to think your way thru the process which eventually sharpens one’s eye.
Newbie older aspiring artist here……I’m was totally mesmerised by your video. I love how you repeat yourself, as a lot of online tutorials blabber on and I miss loads…..you’re mesmerising……
I’m going to try this tomorrow! I will put a glass chopping board or clear plastic wrap ( no laminate) over a picture or travel brochure and see what I can do……so excited! Oh and I’ve no oils yet as I’m new to art so will try in acrylics……..
Thank you.
Best instruction videos about oil painting ever. Thanks for being so generous with the rest of us
Your explanation of the color wheel and mixing colors is the best I've seen. Love the hat too!
I WANT TO THANK U 10000000000 TIMES!! IT ACTUALLY WORKED!! IT WILL WORK FOR ALL!!
This really makes a lot of sense. I used to muddle along experimenting but Mark has simplified it. Thank you.
This is great. I’ve been painting miniatures for years and still learning about color, and this is so helpful. Thank you!
Excellent teaching methods for us simpletons - Ihave been attending art classes for 5 years and still don't know how to mix /find colours. I love the laminated picture idea! THANK YOU SO MUCH
Mark, that was the best explanation of color mixing I have ever seen. Just watching that video gives me more confidence. Thank you :)
How yu clean oil brush and keep safe no water used
I’ll be purchasing some of your Geneva paints in the future when I use up the large order of Windsor Newton paints I bought before I learned about yours. I really appreciate your videos - they’re excellent. I’ve studied at college under some very talented painters but they weren’t as fully generous as you with their knowledge. 🙏
Just came back to tell you that this has been a complete game changer not just for my painting in oil, but for acrylic and watercolor, too. Excellent, down-to-earth explanation.
I am someone who adores painting but have never really been able to take classes. Thank you for all you do from the bottom of my heart 💜
All the secrets of color mixing. DONE! Simple. Direct. Methodical.
Thank you Mark!
This is some really quality instruction, as are all of Mark’s videos.
I've watched a few of your videos and I now find myself watching more of your videos and watching each several times. Thank you for this content
Thank you Mark my fiance purchased your paints for me and I followed your videos and I am just amazed that I was able to achieve this realism
Thank you so much you are an amazing teacher and artist 🎨
I truly can’t thank you enough for your knowledge! You are a true Master and I feel blessed to have come across your TH-cam channel! Thank you infinitely! ♥️
This was the most helpful color mixing video ever. Thank you 😊
New follower here - I think this is the absolute, best instruction on mixing color, I've ever watched. My college instructor wasn't even close. I learned so much! Thank you!!
Hi Mark. I recently found your videos. Like others have commented here, this is the best explanation of color mixing I have found. Color mixing is something I’ve struggled with and find it to be something that stops me from improving. I can’t wait to apply what I’ve here today. Thank you so much.
This seems like a foolproof method. Very good.
Thank you Mark, for all the art and all the teachings.
All the best. God bless.
I've started using oils to paint models. Your videos have been really helpful for learning. I really appreciate how much knowledge you have.
Yeah I have heard people talk about warm it up or cool it down. I much rather keep it simple and just talk about color. Intensity or chroma is also interesting if you are composing something. Great video I definitely have learned more on this one about how to reach a color goal than any of the others I have been watching. I really appreciate you taking the time to do and share this content.
I've been listening to Mark for years. He really knows it all! He's helped me a few times too!
This is a great reference for color mixing… I’ve learned so much about color thru my years of tattooing and making oil paintings and this right here is one of the best explanations I’ve ever seen!
I teach all my students this method and make sure I always give you credit. This is such a great demonstration and I appreciate finding you. It has really enhanced my art journey and I can’t thank you enough!
This is an amazing method for finding the right combination of colors for whatever color you’re trying to make. I’m so glad I found this video!
Your paints look so glossy, fluid and look amazing to work with. I will definitely be purchasing.
Thank you for revisiting this! It's a terrific subject.
Fantastic! quite literally the best colour demonstration and tutorial I've seen and explained in such a way that really helps you understand what you are learning. I only wish I'd had you as my art teacher when i was younger. Thank goodness for TH-cam and people like you who are now helping so many to learn.
Absolutely brilliant. Your videos got me started in oil painting a year ago and I am so glad because of it
Not sure how I have never heard of complimentary opposites until now, but your color wheel has made an immense difference in my ability to mix colors. IT is so much easier than the way I used to mix by eye.
Incredible demo and advice about the laminated photo. Such a good practice.
Mark, your videos have really changed my life as a painter...I was discouraged for so long after art school... a new beginning ❤
just discovering Mark's channel and it's awesome. So much great information and there's never any hard sell. The colour mixing videos Mark posts are absolute gold.
Cleaning your brush in that orange paint was brilliant. I’m happy you shared that. I hate having tons of brushes for every different color.
So glad I found this teaching!! I have always struggled with color choice and mixing, but I know if I get more understanding through your understanding I will have confidence. Thank you for showing us!
You are a fabulous teacher indeed. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I have always loved and have been good at painting in my early childhood years but that just came naturally with no real idea of what I was doing. Now I am retired and I want to once again get into painting and develop my skills. As I watch this video I see and learn so much that I knew nothing about. I value and admire your skills.
I'm so grateful to Mark for generously sharing his expertise. His mastery of oils is rivaled by his superlative ability to communicate the arcane knowledge of a skilled painter.
Best instruction videos about oil painting ever. Thanks for being so generous with the rest of us
This is the most helpful color theory/mixing video I've ever seen!
The best explanation on color mixing! Thank you!
That was a generous, excellent explanation and demonstration. And I love that first portrait you flashed. Excellent work.
You are a great teacher! None of my painting instructors taught us these important basics. Thank you.
I have been an artist all my life but never took to painting with brush. I found it too frustrating mainly why wont the colors just mix. Finally thanks to you tube not my art teachers but finally thanks to this video i now grasp why warm or cool colors matter during application. Thank you im eternally grateful an excited for this new journey
Wow, very helpful! Love this concept and workflow. Thank you so much sir.
What an excellent teacher you are! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. I brought my oil colours today and feeling very excited ! (An absolute beginner here) wish me luck with my mix!
I have come to the point where I couldn't apreciate this channel more. There are so many artists sharing their knowledge by trimming down important and succinct information and cutting corners of important milestones, making it impossible for beginners and intermediate artists to even begin to grasp the concept of painting. This is such a precious resource, I can't thank you enough for making this available 👏
These are such informative videos. Been painting for 25 years and still learning!
Thank you so much for sharing your expertise(for free) and for making seemingly very complex things simple for me(us)! Really appreciate you so much for doing all this!!💪🏻✌🏻 I really can't "paint" well yet, but I'm hopeful; THANKS TO YOU MARK!😇🙏🏻✌🏻
Awesome advice! A whole new perspective for me to mixing color. Thanks so much.😊
Wow, best explanation I’ve ever watched on TH-cam!!
So simple and well -structured guidelines, train the mindset, not just a technique. Love it! Thank you so much
Wonderful teacher
This was great. Thank you so much Mark. One question... I was wondering toward the very end of the video you discuss creating the color group for vibrant orange or blue objects and how not to contaminate your target vibrant color with the antagonist component of black... this is necessary because you mix black from burnt umber and blue... so in the second step you reccommend going with pure blue or pure "dark orange" depending which way you need to go. Is there no case here for using an unmixed black pignment, instead of mixing from burnt umber and blue? Couldn't one just start with a warm or cool black depending on whether the color group would be heading toward going orange or blue?
I've watched a lot of Mark's videos and this has to be one of the very best!
Excellent demonstration! So difficult to get the right value and colour!
Thank u very much... Im a begginer in painting.. and by this video u have answered to my question about mixing color... Hope u anderstand me😅
I like your videos before even watching it. Because I know it will be relaxing,beautiful and make sense. One of the best TH-cam channels ever ❤
I would also add phthalo blue to the list of essential colors.
This method and explanation is easily the best video I have ever seen on this subject. Thanks Mark.
I’ve painted digitally for years and years and colour mixing is what always scared me away from traditional painting…going to try soon with this as a guide. Thank you!
thank you! I have learned more from this 26 minutes than from any instruction I have received from anywhere!
Thank you so much for making colors match so easy! Because of your help I turn to you when I have a question. You are fantastic! God Bless
You’re so good at explaining the mixing of colors. Thank you
Thank you for doing this..🙏
Mark this is fantastic guidance which I will definately take into the studio.
Most amazing explanation! If I want from so far away, in Germany, I'd definitely book your course!
Getting back into model trains, need a way to save money by mixing my own paints to match prototype colours. A nice theory was needed and this is the first video that explains it for me. I visit a craft show today but did not know which colours I needed, I already had white.
I always enjoyed your other video, so seeing new examples is great.
Also, since I bought this exact paints from your store, it will make it very easy to follow once I try it myself!
Hi dear and the best techer in the world👍 Thank you for sharing with us this important information🙏🙏🙏 you are the best sir🎨
Very very helpful lesson thank you so much for sharing this wisdom
this was the best explanation I have ever heard ❤ thank you so much
Thank you! As a wannabe painter I get a great deal of knowledge from your videos
French people is so sad because unfortunately you don't sell here your geneva oil painting !!
But I do love your videos and I'm going to practice the mix of colours.
Thank you for everything !!!
Thanks for NEW video Mark, I always appreciate it and you 🙏💕
Glad to see your videos again!
This was super helpfull!! thank you, I blocked and couldn't begin my painting because I didn't know how to make that very first color
This was a great tutorial. Super easy to understand.
Are you leaning to Winsor&Newton for those intense colors? W&N seems to use scarlet and not have a cad red light…equally sap green is a mix of pigments…so varies all over brand to brand..pthalo blue for blue greens..or PG7 pthalo green?
So much informations, all very interesting and lost of rules to follow. Soon i will begin to apply this technique and the fun will begin. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for your explanation! It’s very helpful!!
Thank you for the excellent instruction on mixing. I’m just starting to paint, and now feel confident that I can start mixing. This was all great, but your instruction on mixing for value first and then finalize the color match was especially helpful to me.
I wish you good luck and success in your life and continuity in this very useful publication. You have my great appreciation and respect
Complex topic, but explained very easy. I am learning oil painting and it is very helpful 👍
I like this workflow approach. I'll definitely try it next time. Thank you
I never write in Capital letters, But,,,,,,,,ThAT WAS AN AWSOME EXPLANATION OF COLOUR. "Now I understand" Thank you.
Came across your videos today and was wondering if I can apply this strategy to acrylic paints? I appreciate the break down you did in regards to the colors and what the process is if you have to much of one color or the opposite.
Thank you for an informative video! Does the same principle apply for acrylics?
very useful lesson...brilliant demo and lucid explanation...Must wATCH FOR ALL BEGINNERS