I’ve been struggling mixing colors. My brain is old and have some short term memory loss after chemo so as soon as I would watch videos about mixing I’d forget as soon as the video was over. Until I found you!!! I’m getting it. Your method of explaining is so good. Something you do just made it click in, maybe it’s the antics to make you breath and relax without having to say it. Just a tremendous big thank you 🙏🏻
I feel your pain!@KatBrand420 I made a ton of color chips.Kind of like the color chips you get at the paint store. I was able to practice mixing while creating a reference for the future. I put the brush brush down for years and am picking up right where I left off because of this.
Damn dude…this video was so freakin helpful! I’ve watched a handful of videos trying to understand color theory better. And this was for sure the best one I’ve seen where I understood it enough to apply it to my work. Hell yeah, man. Thank you for your content!
This has been the most helpful color tutorial I have seen! Thank you so much! And I love your comedic side…very informative and entertaining! God bless!
This is so refreshing. So many art teachers fear monger mixing with white and black in fear of “muddy colors”. It’s like they forgot about the color theory class they taught days prior.
Whats a muddy color and why would black and white cause that? Most art teachers dont want you to use black so you can learn to make black from other colors. There is no pure black in nature, especially shadows, so they want you to learn to mix your own black.
@@Angie_flores Yes, I do that myself as well with students: for a good understanding of color mixing/color theory it's essential to learn how primaries and complementaries etc. work. There are a lot of great art teachers that will explain that in the correct manner. Problem is however, there are also a lot of art teachers simply say: you must never use black. And that makes absolutely no sense at all.
I think they heard a lot that "don't use black" and they forgot what that meant. That black is a color in itself. So if mixed with yellow, you get a darker shade of green, not a dark shade of yellow. So it was never about don't use black but rather know how and when to use it.
I just pared my palette down to 5 colours. Red, yellow, blue, burnt umbar and white. Then I went to town mixing colours and values just to see how they all interact. Then I swapped out for different primaries to see variations. Your video does a very good job of demonstrating a lot of what I got to by tinkering and I think that just playing with the colours and variations without having an actual painting in process is a very important exercise.
I think you're absolutely right, so glad you mention that! When we want to learn to play an instrument, we find it normal that we practice things 'out of context', in painting I almost never see people do that and it's very beneficial to do that and also fun.👍👍
Wow, this is just what I was looking for! A lot of my acrylic paintings seem to have a "shrill" quality to them probably because I try to compensate for my red-green colour blindness. But that most colours we see are naturally quite muted is a revelation to me - as beginners we tend to paint what we think a subject should look like instead of painting what is in front of us. Now that alone is a valuable lesson in itself! As usual, great teaching and very encouraging!
I completely agree. And it's one of the things I personally like most about painting: it literally opens your eyes. Learning to paint from life has little to do with learning to do tricks with brushes and paint, it's more about learning to observe. 👍
This was fantastically helpful, thank you! I'm colour blind and have always struggled to understand how colour moves from one to the other. This is a great system that even I can use, thanks again!
Wonderfully useful tutorial, and so well explained and presented. A painting is already finished once you've chosen the right colour , hue and chroma etc. I subscribed on the basis of this video alone. Looking forward to your other videos. Thanks so much, Too. Greetings from Scotland, my friend 👍
Glad I could help a bit, and your comment just made me think that it would be good to make a separate video on that topic (how to identify colors when they're not that obvious). Have fun painting!👍
I loved watching this. It has really helped explain the basics and make colour mixing techniques simple and achievable for amateurs. Thank you for sharing your passion!
Thank you, so much. The video was so enjoyable, from start to finish, that it did not feel at all like a lesson. But, boy did I learn! You make it seem so easy. I am now subscribed to your website, and I'm looking forward to learning how to work with acrylics. With regard to your "adversary," the roll of paper towels, the only thing I can say is: I hope you folks have better medical insurance than we do here in the U.S. (ha, ha). Thank you for your wonderful and playful sense of humor.
I'm glad it was helpful! Luckily the medical insurance here is great. If I'm not wrapped in kitchen paper, then I'm wrapped in plaster.😅😅 Enjoy painting!
Hi, thank you very much for your explanations, you are an excellent teacher. your tips will help me greatly to improve the appearance of my tables. at times, certain parts of my paintings displease me, the colors seem childish. Now I know why, I've looked at old paintings and the sections that I don't like are all bright saturated colors. I will finally be able to improve them because thanks to you, I understood my shortcomings. Thank you, a subscriber from Montreal.
I haven’t painted in a long time, but I’ve done a lot of digital art and your frame of reference for color was very informative and I really appreciate your video.
That was fantastic! I have watched so many color mixing videos but they just show mixing colors instead of mixing colors to MATCH a certain color. Thank you!!! I also like how you use acrylic paints which is what I use.
This is great! I've been getting back into painting and I don't remember too much from my art teacher back from 10+ years ago. This was a great refresher
I’ve been desaturating my colors (with mainly the complement) for decades now but I still love saturated colors and include them in very small amounts on the canvas.
That's great, that's exactly what it's all about! 👍You use the more saturated colors consciously and you are able to balance the saturated and desaturated colors to make the painting interesting. 🎨👍
I more prefer highly vibrant, saturated colors over muted colors. But with that said, I want to understand how muting colors in visual arts work, and how to accompany those colors with my more vibrant ones. This video helps with that, thanks!
You're welcome! And I think we all prefer more vibrant colors, but it's just as you say: when you know how to desaturate on purpose, you can actually make other colors pop off even more. Enjoy painting!👍
First time I've watched you and found your instructions to be very good...especially for this somewhat beginner. I've subscribed and look forward to learning more!!
Excellent video! I'm new to acrylics, having come from watercolors, so some of this is familiar but so much is new and you did a great job helping me to understand. Thank you!
That's great! Don't worry about applying it. That will come naturally as you go along. Rome wasn't built in a day, we learn step by step. I learn everyday as well and that's one of the things that makes painting so much fun.👍🎨
True. We may sometimes want to paint how we imagine and perceive, vivid colors, or, more real then real life :). And, in reality, the colors often are very vivid, it's the lighting that makes them look duller. It can be seen when taking pictures with polarisation filter, which can take away some of the "bad" lighting. Anyway, great lesson, than you.
Yes of course, the local colors of objects can be very colorful, but due to light/shadow/atmosphere they're presented in all kinds of variations and that's what we deal with when painting from life. 👍
Thank you for the tips! The old school, New York school retro colors are not very toned down, I notice. De Kooning, Krasner, those types are in your face bright. But otherwise, these are great helps for color mixing, which is hard for us new painters.
It's always a matter of what you want to achieve. Artists are always free to do whatever they like (luckily😂), so exaggerating things on purpose/making certain color choices is great and fun. I made this video for people who are trying to paint realistically and a common problem is that people use way too saturated colors. As soon as that's understood, there's also the choice to purpously nót mute colors, then it is a choice. Enjoy painting!👍👍🎨
Well, personally I like to think of them as primaries, even though we deal with pigments and they don't always react and behave as theoretically expected. But if you understand the principle of primary cyan, magenta and yellow color mixing gets way easier. And when you understand that system you don't even necessarily have to use these exact colors, but you'll understand what's happening when you're mixing. For instance: an orange biased red + a green biased blue can never produce a vivid purple, because in theory you're then mixing three primaries (green biased blue = theoretically cyan + yellow and orange biased red is theoretically magenta + yellow) and when mixing three primaries you get less saturated results. Enjoy painting! 🎨👍
In general you can print your photo and then color check with the photo. Cut a small hole in a piece of cardboard, put it on top of the photo with the hole on the color that you want to match and then mix, compare, adjust, compare etc. The hole in the cardboards isolates the color and that makes it easier to judge it. Hope it helps! And if you meant how to color pick, then I have this video for you: th-cam.com/video/8fGpmlQrLhQ/w-d-xo.html 👍
I have a photo of my son when he was very little, he was having the same issue with the paper towels, you brought back so many funny memories with your video. My question is, I do watercolors not acrylics, so what do I do when you use white? If I use a gouache with my watercolors I lose all the translucency, which is what I love about the watercolors. If I add more water, it becomes more transparent but is the same hue. I can use black I can mix or layer colors I can use them straight from the tube or diluted but white is the white of the paper .....
That's the big difference between watercolor and paints like acrylics and oils. With watercolor your white is the white of the paper indeed and most of the times people gradually build the colors from light to dark and when something needs to be very light, you just reserve these spots (sometimes done with masking techniques as well). For me it's ages ago since I last used watercolor, so I don't remember it too well. maybe you can find videos of others that can show you the process. 👍🎨
Interesting. This is what I’ve always shared with people about color, in painting and with doing storyboards and comps. It’s quite rare to see any full saturation color unless it’s a accent to something. Comic book coloring has become a mess with over saturated color. It’s ironic that most pros in this field can’t see it. Basically I watched 30 seconds of your video and had to comment. LOL
😂Yes indeed and you get more compositional power when you see and get it, because it also means that you can instantly make things pop out a bit if that's what you would like and of course the other way round make colors duller if you want them recede a bit. 👍
I used Photoshop, but in every drawing software or photo editing program there's an eydrop-tool.Then I've made some rectangular shapes of the picked colors. Normally I just check with the mixed color on the backside of my palette knife, hold it in front of the photo or subject, but I must say the eydropper tool is very fun to play with, you can learn a lot about colors just checking at various spots in a photograph. 👍
In art school we were not allowed to use black to mute our colors. We were taught to mix the primary colors with the color opposite in the color wheel. Black is used very sparingly and in most cases Never used. 6:16
Yes, that was the same at my art school. And it's fine because that way you can learn that black isn't necessary. It also provides for a better understanding of color mixing when you mute colors by using three primaires. But at the same time I dislike rigid rules, using black can be fine as well but most beginners tend to overdo it. Another example is the use of an eraser, that was also forbidden at my art school. And that's fine as well for a while, but in the end erasers have their use as well. 👍🎨
*Thank you* for showing how to mix saturated colors. Interestingly, two complementary colors make for a desaturated color but three primaries make for a grey. A secondary color is made of two primaries. Easy to remember and use as 1-2-3. New to your channel. Will look for any videos on how black & white tones relate to hue, i.e. Goethe's Colour Theory. Noticed magenta is named instead of red, as in Red, Yellow, Blue. Associate magenta with CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) printing optical colors mixing. Any reason or, it a European convention ?
You're welcome! The reason I like to explain and work with CMYK in mind (you're right there) is because when I mix magenta with yellow I can make red. In general in Europe we are taught from young age that in painting yellow, red and blue are primaries. But they always showed a fire engine red and a purple kind of blue. I always struggled with color mixing, until I learned from other artists that that system doesn't make practical sense. For example, I couldn't make bright greens with the blue and yellow that I was supposed to use. Turned out the blue wasn't neutral enough. And in the end it doesn't matter that much, because for instance now I use ultramarine blue + yellow on purpose to get a desaturated green. But the point is, now I know what I'm doing, because the purple kind of blue + yellow is in fact a combination of yellow, magenta and cyan. So, first step is: think like a printer, that really helps, and then the second step: do you now have to buy magenta and cyan (or phtalo blue, because cyan is phtalo blue with white)? Not necessarily, that depends on how often you need a very vivid green or purple.
@@toon-nagtegaal *"Think like a printer"* , pragmatic advice. Watched the video a second time, probably more to get familiar moving between CMYK (pigment), RGB (optical) and RYB (what was taught) and, what the pigments can do. Appreciate your reply, thanks. Will watch your other videos Like the line "if you get a color closer to the tonal value it gets easier to see what is lacking". Good if you're familiar with drawing and want to start using colors. Reverse engineering ? :) Also, like the edge colors when two colors are next to each other, i.e. yellow-green next to yellow will empathize the green since the yellow in yellow-green is joined to the yellow highlighting the edge green.
Yes, that's true, the role of tonal values is very important. So much so, that a lot of painters used (and still use) to start with a grisaille (layer in grayscale) to focus on the values first and add color in next layers. And indeed, with drawing you also develop this skill as well!
I have been, said that I'm colour blind. That I can't see colours behind colours. But I must say you have put it in such a way that I can see it. I'd like to ask do you know what colours can make purssian blue, is it more like phalo blue or ultramarine blue? I will like to see more of your TH-cam in colour mixing. Thanks
Phthalo is definetly closer to Prussian than ultramarine, but depending on the brand Prussian blue can sometimes slightly lean more towards green. Prussian blue is even darker than phtalo, so you could add a slight touch of black or brown to the phthalo. It's always a bit hard to tell, because in the end it's always the question of what subject you're painting, with specific lighting conditions etc. 👍 And as for the color-blindness remark, I don't know that of course, but even if it's true, it doesn't matter, painting is fun anyway. And if the remark is more meant as in: you're not litarally color blind, but you maybe find it hard to judge colors, than that's no problem either. You can improve on that everyday step by step. So please don't be discouraged and just continue.👍 To be complete, here is the link to the color mixing playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLeIqGpmPcp53gLufPzGEzVCCAQTm0y_qs.html
This paper towel is quite a fighter, glad you survived because you have so much to teach my dear friend!
🤣🤣thanks!👍
I’ve been struggling mixing colors. My brain is old and have some short term memory loss after chemo so as soon as I would watch videos about mixing I’d forget as soon as the video was over. Until I found you!!! I’m getting it. Your method of explaining is so good. Something you do just made it click in, maybe it’s the antics to make you breath and relax without having to say it. Just a tremendous big thank you 🙏🏻
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My pleasure, that’s so great to hear!👍👍👍🎨
Also I have Parkinson’s so I need all the help I can get lol
@@KatBrand420 then I hope you can get a lot of joy out of painting, wishing you all the best❤
I feel your pain!@KatBrand420 I made a ton of color chips.Kind of like the color chips you get at the paint store.
I was able to practice mixing while creating a reference for the future.
I put the brush brush down for years and am picking up right where I left off because of this.
Damn dude…this video was so freakin helpful! I’ve watched a handful of videos trying to understand color theory better. And this was for sure the best one I’ve seen where I understood it enough to apply it to my work.
Hell yeah, man. Thank you for your content!
Great that I could help a bit, enjoy painting!🎨👍
BEST color theory in practice I have ever seen!
Thanks, enjoy painting!
This has been the most helpful color tutorial I have seen! Thank you so much! And I love your comedic side…very informative and entertaining! God bless!
Glad to hear it was helpful, enjoy painting!👍
This is so refreshing. So many art teachers fear monger mixing with white and black in fear of “muddy colors”. It’s like they forgot about the color theory class they taught days prior.
Yes, that's what I also noticed, I've had a lot of teachers that prohibited the use of black😅🎨
Whats a muddy color and why would black and white cause that? Most art teachers dont want you to use black so you can learn to make black from other colors. There is no pure black in nature, especially shadows, so they want you to learn to mix your own black.
@@Angie_flores Yes, I do that myself as well with students: for a good understanding of color mixing/color theory it's essential to learn how primaries and complementaries etc. work. There are a lot of great art teachers that will explain that in the correct manner. Problem is however, there are also a lot of art teachers simply say: you must never use black. And that makes absolutely no sense at all.
I think they heard a lot that "don't use black" and they forgot what that meant. That black is a color in itself. So if mixed with yellow, you get a darker shade of green, not a dark shade of yellow. So it was never about don't use black but rather know how and when to use it.
@@TheMediaMachine Spot on! Also, not all black pigments are the same, there are black pigments with cooler or warmer undertones etc.👍
I just pared my palette down to 5 colours. Red, yellow, blue, burnt umbar and white. Then I went to town mixing colours and values just to see how they all interact. Then I swapped out for different primaries to see variations. Your video does a very good job of demonstrating a lot of what I got to by tinkering and I think that just playing with the colours and variations without having an actual painting in process is a very important exercise.
I think you're absolutely right, so glad you mention that! When we want to learn to play an instrument, we find it normal that we practice things 'out of context', in painting I almost never see people do that and it's very beneficial to do that and also fun.👍👍
Absolutely incredible video. It's 3:33AM and I am on the edge of my seat learning about colour theory. Thanks!
😅😅😅Glad you liked it!👍
Wow, this is just what I was looking for! A lot of my acrylic paintings seem to have a "shrill" quality to them probably because I try to compensate for my red-green colour blindness. But that most colours we see are naturally quite muted is a revelation to me - as beginners we tend to paint what we think a subject should look like instead of painting what is in front of us. Now that alone is a valuable lesson in itself! As usual, great teaching and very encouraging!
I completely agree. And it's one of the things I personally like most about painting: it literally opens your eyes. Learning to paint from life has little to do with learning to do tricks with brushes and paint, it's more about learning to observe. 👍
The struggle with the paper towels is real, I feel you 😂 Very good video, thanks for sharing!
😂😂Glad I'm not the only one with that struggle!👍
Fantastic video but also smart and funny with the paper towel, I laughed for minutes! 😂
That's great, laughing is healthy!👍
This was fantastically helpful, thank you! I'm colour blind and have always struggled to understand how colour moves from one to the other. This is a great system that even I can use, thanks again!
You're welcome!👍👍👍
This was the most helpful videos I’ve seen in a very long time. Thank you so much!!’n
You're welcome and enjoy painting!👍
Great video Toon!
Dank u wel voor de tijd dat u in deze video heeft gestoken. Ik heb behoorlijk wat geleerd. Het is prettig om naar uw duidelijk uitleg te luisteren.
Graag gedaan, veel plezier met schilderen!👍🎨👍
Wonderfully useful tutorial, and so well explained and presented. A painting is already finished once you've chosen the right colour , hue and chroma etc. I subscribed on the basis of this video alone. Looking forward to your other videos. Thanks so much, Too. Greetings from Scotland, my friend 👍
You're most welcome and enjoy painting!
Wow!! It only took two minutes to answer so many of my questions. The teaching method, video and commentary are EXCELLENT! Thank you for sharing!
My pleasure, great that it was helpful!👍👍👍
I started painting 6 years ago and I've seen a million painting videos, but this ranks as one of the best I've seen on this subject!
I'm glad it was helpful, enjoy painting!👍👍
I suck with identifying muted colors in general. So this video is very insightful. I also find it hard to place a name on muted colors at times.
Glad I could help a bit, and your comment just made me think that it would be good to make a separate video on that topic (how to identify colors when they're not that obvious). Have fun painting!👍
@@toon-nagtegaal sounds like a wonderful idea! One that I rarely see too
I loved watching this. It has really helped explain the basics and make colour mixing techniques simple and achievable for amateurs. Thank you for sharing your passion!
You're welcome!
This is a fantastic video! I’ve never heard color theory explained so clearly. I’m looking forward to watching more of your videos.
I'm glad it was helpful, enjoy painting!🎨👍
Thank you, i love muted colors 😍
Clearly and simply explained. Thank you.
You’re welcome!👏
This was a masterclass!
Great video, very good instruction. Also loved the little bit of comedy
Thanks, enjoy painting!👍👍
Thank you, so much. The video was so enjoyable, from start to finish, that it did not feel at all like a lesson. But, boy did I learn! You make it seem so easy. I am now subscribed to your website, and I'm looking forward to learning how to work with acrylics. With regard to your "adversary," the roll of paper towels, the only thing I can say is: I hope you folks have better medical insurance than we do here in the U.S. (ha, ha). Thank you for your wonderful and playful sense of humor.
I'm glad it was helpful! Luckily the medical insurance here is great. If I'm not wrapped in kitchen paper, then I'm wrapped in plaster.😅😅 Enjoy painting!
Loved the paper towel roll! Humor is good.! Thanks so much for making mixing colors more understandable.
You're welcome, enjoy painting!👍
Wonderfull teacher very patient and sensitive. Very good lesson from you to become master of color . Thanks
That's great, you're welcome!
This is really helpful, I am struggling to tone down my colours, perfect instruction.
That’s great, enjoy painting!👏👍
Hi, thank you very much for your explanations, you are an excellent teacher. your tips will help me greatly to improve the appearance of my tables. at times, certain parts of my paintings displease me, the colors seem childish. Now I know why, I've looked at old paintings and the sections that I don't like are all bright saturated colors. I will finally be able to improve them because thanks to you, I understood my shortcomings. Thank you, a subscriber from Montreal.
I'm glad it was helpful, welcome to the channel and enjoy painting!👍👍
I haven’t painted in a long time, but I’ve done a lot of digital art and your frame of reference for color was very informative and I really appreciate your video.
That's great! 👍🎨
That was fantastic! I have watched so many color mixing videos but they just show mixing colors instead of mixing colors to MATCH a certain color. Thank you!!! I also like how you use acrylic paints which is what I use.
You're welcome and enjoy painting!👍
Very helpful video on color saturation. 🙌🏻♥️
I’m amazed…this is a keeper!!! ❤
I'm glad it was helpful!
Great video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge, and for throwing in some fun 😄
You're welcome and enjoy painting!👍
Excellent lesson/description, will be watching more from you.
Thanks and enjoy painting!👍🎨
This is great! I've been getting back into painting and I don't remember too much from my art teacher back from 10+ years ago. This was a great refresher
That's great! Nice that you started painting again, enjoy it!👍
Thank you. Happy to have found this channel. All the best.
You're welcome!👍
Fantastic.You've explained things that have perplexed me ,for years.Thankyou.
That's great to hear, enjoy painting!👍🎨
Excellent tutorial!!
I enjoyed the comedic relief in between all the informative goodies.
Thanks, that's exactly why I do these weird things 😂👍
I’ve been desaturating my colors (with mainly the complement) for decades now but I still love saturated colors and include them in very small amounts on the canvas.
That's great, that's exactly what it's all about! 👍You use the more saturated colors consciously and you are able to balance the saturated and desaturated colors to make the painting interesting. 🎨👍
Great video. I didn’t understand how to desaturate a color correctly until I watched this video. Thank you so much
My pleasure, I’m glad it was helpful!👍🎨
Great video i learn much from you with this , love the way you teach please keep doing these videoa you are an exellent teacher .
Thanks! I will go on, but sometimes (like now) I don't have the time, so I'm a little bit inconsistent with the upload scheme 👍
This is extremely well explained, thanks!
You're welcome!
I loved watching you mix these matching colors so perfectly.
Thanks👍 it's just a matter of practicing combined with some basic knowledge of color theory. If I can do it, you can do it as well!👍👍
That was really helpful. My instinct told me to add blue to desaturate it, but I was worried about messing up the color.
Great surprise with the paper towel comedy, thank you :D
😂a bit of realitysoap of my daily struggles here and there!
wow this is sooo good thank you.
Glad it was helpful!👍
I more prefer highly vibrant, saturated colors over muted colors. But with that said, I want to understand how muting colors in visual arts work, and how to accompany those colors with my more vibrant ones. This video helps with that, thanks!
You're welcome! And I think we all prefer more vibrant colors, but it's just as you say: when you know how to desaturate on purpose, you can actually make other colors pop off even more. Enjoy painting!👍
Much appreciate your extremely helpful teaching and sharing! It's just marvellous! And BTW, you are cute!
You're welcome, enjoy painting!👍🎨
First time I've watched you and found your instructions to be very good...especially for this somewhat beginner. I've subscribed and look forward to learning more!!
Welcome to the channel and enjoy painting!👍
I really enjoyed your video so helpful watching you get the colours right 😊
I'm glad it was helpful!🎨👍
Excellent video! I'm new to acrylics, having come from watercolors, so some of this is familiar but so much is new and you did a great job helping me to understand. Thank you!
That's great, glad it was helpful and I hope you enjoy acrylics! 👍👍
THIS SOMETHING I WAS LOOKING FOR !!! I AM BLESSED TO CLICK ON THIS VIDEO !!
That's great, glad it was helpful!👍🎨
You're so much fun to watch+ I ve been more and more interested in color. Though I find it hard as to how to apply all that knowledge.
That's great! Don't worry about applying it. That will come naturally as you go along. Rome wasn't built in a day, we learn step by step. I learn everyday as well and that's one of the things that makes painting so much fun.👍🎨
Perfect video about what I was looking for. Thank you so much.
My pleasure, glad it was helpful!👍
Such a beautiful and helpful video. Thank you!
My pleasure, have fun painting!👍
Wow, this video was perfect! It helped me so much! Thank you 👏🏼
That's great, you're welcome!👍
True. We may sometimes want to paint how we imagine and perceive, vivid colors, or, more real then real life :). And, in reality, the colors often are very vivid, it's the lighting that makes them look duller. It can be seen when taking pictures with polarisation filter, which can take away some of the "bad" lighting.
Anyway, great lesson, than you.
Yes of course, the local colors of objects can be very colorful, but due to light/shadow/atmosphere they're presented in all kinds of variations and that's what we deal with when painting from life. 👍
Great video ! I've learnt so much. Thank you 🌹
You're welcome, have fun painting!
Wonderful tutorial...! Liked n subscribed❤🖌️🎨
Glad it was helpful!👍
Thank you for the tips! The old school, New York school retro colors are not very toned down, I notice. De Kooning, Krasner, those types are in your face bright. But otherwise, these are great helps for color mixing, which is hard for us new painters.
It's always a matter of what you want to achieve. Artists are always free to do whatever they like (luckily😂), so exaggerating things on purpose/making certain color choices is great and fun. I made this video for people who are trying to paint realistically and a common problem is that people use way too saturated colors. As soon as that's understood, there's also the choice to purpously nót mute colors, then it is a choice. Enjoy painting!👍👍🎨
very good demonstration of color mixing, thanks a lor
You're welcome!👍
Super helpful thanks
You’re welcome!👍
Such a helpful video, thank you!!
That's great, have fun painting!👍
New to this channel and the break effect when you tossed the pallet knife caught me so off guard hah. Great great great content! New sub here
I did that to test if you were still awake!😂Welcome to the channel, have fun painting!👍
Thank you so much ! Very helpful !
Très intéressante vidéo , très bien expliqué , rien a dire , c est parfait !
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Merci
Merci et amusez-vous bien à peindre!👍
very helpful ... many thanks...
You're welcome!
As a bigenner, I appreciate this very much, thank youuu
You're welcome, have fun painting!
Love the demonstration. I just get a bit confused by the inteoduction of cyan and magenta as primary colors. Have tl reasearch more on that :)
Well, personally I like to think of them as primaries, even though we deal with pigments and they don't always react and behave as theoretically expected. But if you understand the principle of primary cyan, magenta and yellow color mixing gets way easier. And when you understand that system you don't even necessarily have to use these exact colors, but you'll understand what's happening when you're mixing. For instance: an orange biased red + a green biased blue can never produce a vivid purple, because in theory you're then mixing three primaries (green biased blue = theoretically cyan + yellow and orange biased red is theoretically magenta + yellow) and when mixing three primaries you get less saturated results. Enjoy painting! 🎨👍
super helpful and clear thanks!
You're welcome!🎨
Excellent Video!!! Thank You!!!
Thanks and you're welcome!👍
Wow this is so helpful
That's great, enjoy painting!👍
Very nice video. Thank you
You're welcome!👍👍
It was perfect 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Any tips/approaches for producing the colour sheets used in this video?
In general you can print your photo and then color check with the photo. Cut a small hole in a piece of cardboard, put it on top of the photo with the hole on the color that you want to match and then mix, compare, adjust, compare etc. The hole in the cardboards isolates the color and that makes it easier to judge it. Hope it helps! And if you meant how to color pick, then I have this video for you: th-cam.com/video/8fGpmlQrLhQ/w-d-xo.html 👍
That s fantastic!
Very useful thanks❤
You're welcome!
wise and funny, thanks, I've understood!
that's great, have fun painting!
very helpful! Thank you so much!
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Thank you so much!❤
You're welcome!🎨👍
this video rocks! thanks!
Thank you!👍🎨
I have a photo of my son when he was very little, he was having the same issue with the paper towels, you brought back so many funny memories with your video.
My question is, I do watercolors not acrylics, so what do I do when you use white? If I use a gouache with my watercolors I lose all the translucency, which is what I love about the watercolors.
If I add more water, it becomes more transparent but is the same hue. I can use black I can mix or layer colors I can use them straight from the tube or diluted but white is the white of the paper .....
That's the big difference between watercolor and paints like acrylics and oils. With watercolor your white is the white of the paper indeed and most of the times people gradually build the colors from light to dark and when something needs to be very light, you just reserve these spots (sometimes done with masking techniques as well). For me it's ages ago since I last used watercolor, so I don't remember it too well. maybe you can find videos of others that can show you the process. 👍🎨
THANK YOU!
This was really help - thank you very much!
That's great, you're welcome!👍
Brilliant. Thank you. X
My pleasure!👍
Interesting. This is what I’ve always shared with people about color, in painting and with doing storyboards and comps. It’s quite rare to see any full saturation color unless it’s a accent to something. Comic book coloring has become a mess with over saturated color. It’s ironic that most pros in this field can’t see it. Basically I watched 30 seconds of your video and had to comment. LOL
😂Yes indeed and you get more compositional power when you see and get it, because it also means that you can instantly make things pop out a bit if that's what you would like and of course the other way round make colors duller if you want them recede a bit. 👍
Por dios, la comedia slapstick....💀 Gracias por compartir! Muy instructivo.
You're welcome!👍🎨
Wow now I have to rethink my entire style lol
Please don't!🤣🤣🤣🎨👍
Thank you for this tutorial. I was wondering how you get the color swatches for your painting?
I used Photoshop, but in every drawing software or photo editing program there's an eydrop-tool.Then I've made some rectangular shapes of the picked colors. Normally I just check with the mixed color on the backside of my palette knife, hold it in front of the photo or subject, but I must say the eydropper tool is very fun to play with, you can learn a lot about colors just checking at various spots in a photograph. 👍
In art school we were not allowed to use black to mute our colors. We were taught to mix the primary colors with the color opposite in the color wheel. Black is used very sparingly and in most cases Never used. 6:16
Yes, that was the same at my art school. And it's fine because that way you can learn that black isn't necessary. It also provides for a better understanding of color mixing when you mute colors by using three primaires. But at the same time I dislike rigid rules, using black can be fine as well but most beginners tend to overdo it. Another example is the use of an eraser, that was also forbidden at my art school. And that's fine as well for a while, but in the end erasers have their use as well. 👍🎨
I like how you are able to make jokes on yourself
I have to, otherwise I take myself too seriously!😂👍
Thank you this was so useful
You're welcome!
*Thank you* for showing how to mix saturated colors.
Interestingly, two complementary colors make for a desaturated color but three primaries make for a grey. A secondary color is made of two primaries. Easy to remember and use as 1-2-3.
New to your channel. Will look for any videos on how black & white tones relate to hue, i.e. Goethe's Colour Theory.
Noticed magenta is named instead of red, as in Red, Yellow, Blue. Associate magenta with CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) printing optical colors mixing. Any reason or, it a European convention ?
You're welcome! The reason I like to explain and work with CMYK in mind (you're right there) is because when I mix magenta with yellow I can make red. In general in Europe we are taught from young age that in painting yellow, red and blue are primaries. But they always showed a fire engine red and a purple kind of blue. I always struggled with color mixing, until I learned from other artists that that system doesn't make practical sense. For example, I couldn't make bright greens with the blue and yellow that I was supposed to use. Turned out the blue wasn't neutral enough. And in the end it doesn't matter that much, because for instance now I use ultramarine blue + yellow on purpose to get a desaturated green. But the point is, now I know what I'm doing, because the purple kind of blue + yellow is in fact a combination of yellow, magenta and cyan. So, first step is: think like a printer, that really helps, and then the second step: do you now have to buy magenta and cyan (or phtalo blue, because cyan is phtalo blue with white)? Not necessarily, that depends on how often you need a very vivid green or purple.
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*"Think like a printer"* , pragmatic advice.
Watched the video a second time, probably more to get familiar moving between CMYK (pigment), RGB (optical) and RYB (what was taught) and, what the pigments can do.
Appreciate your reply, thanks.
Will watch your other videos
Like the line "if you get a color closer to the tonal value it gets easier to see what is lacking". Good if you're familiar with drawing and want to start using colors. Reverse engineering ? :)
Also, like the edge colors when two colors are next to each other, i.e. yellow-green next to yellow will empathize the green since the yellow in yellow-green is joined to the yellow highlighting the edge green.
Yes, that's true, the role of tonal values is very important. So much so, that a lot of painters used (and still use) to start with a grisaille (layer in grayscale) to focus on the values first and add color in next layers. And indeed, with drawing you also develop this skill as well!
I have been, said that I'm colour blind. That I can't see colours behind colours. But I must say you have put it in such a way that I can see it. I'd like to ask do you know what colours can make purssian blue, is it more like phalo blue or ultramarine blue?
I will like to see more of your TH-cam in colour mixing. Thanks
Phthalo is definetly closer to Prussian than ultramarine, but depending on the brand Prussian blue can sometimes slightly lean more towards green. Prussian blue is even darker than phtalo, so you could add a slight touch of black or brown to the phthalo. It's always a bit hard to tell, because in the end it's always the question of what subject you're painting, with specific lighting conditions etc. 👍 And as for the color-blindness remark, I don't know that of course, but even if it's true, it doesn't matter, painting is fun anyway. And if the remark is more meant as in: you're not litarally color blind, but you maybe find it hard to judge colors, than that's no problem either. You can improve on that everyday step by step. So please don't be discouraged and just continue.👍 To be complete, here is the link to the color mixing playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLeIqGpmPcp53gLufPzGEzVCCAQTm0y_qs.html
Thank you 👍👍👍
You're welcome!🎨
i've never understood how to mix colors like this . thank you so much . can you make a video about sunset shades or ocean ?
Good idea, I've put it on my list! May take a while before I can shoot the video, but I won't forget!👍👍
10/10 video
Great.
Very helpful..thank you
Glad it was helpful, you’re welcome!👍