Soooo glad I found your page!!! You are THE BEST teacher of these topics of all of youtube. The information is so helpful and you explain everything so well. I had watched soooo many videos on color thoery and still not understand. watched your video and bam! Thank you sooo much for sharing your invaluable knowledge!!!
Dianne, you are an absolute wizard. You're the first person to have ever explained this in such a way that it makes sense WHY the colors behave the way they do when mixing the same or different temperatures. With your explanation, the way a mixture will behave can be solidly predicted as long as you know the temperatures of the colors that will be mixed. Thank you so much for an incredible job of breaking this down into its essence.
Just when I think I understand the warm and cool colors you put a new slant on it. It really helps understand the mixing by doing it myself. Finding the right primaries to work with is a challenge but these types of video's help a lot. Thank you for taking the time to explain them.
As always a clear lesson with things I didn't know or didn't think about. I learned a lot. I am off to get that color spectrum wheel. Thank you Diane for sharing your knowledge and talent!
This is a very interesting presentation. Once I was deeply thinking which color is the warmest - red or yellow. For me, based on keen nature observation, yellow has always seemed to be warmer than red. That could be explained that yellow - in daylight setting -comes directly from the sun. Also when one compares the average yellow with the average red, yellow wins in warmth, at least for me.
Hi Dianne, I’ve just heard about armatures. Could you give a quick tip about the purpose, benefits and how to use an armature when developing a painting. Thank you. Mary
The word "armature" is used to refer to the compositional structure of a painting, a part of the planning process. I will put your request on our schedule. Look for it sometime in June.
I'm confused - looks like the Ultramarine and phthalo blue swatches are in the wrong order. Perhaps the Ultramarine would be better situated on the red side, the pthalo on the yellow side to maintain the scheme.
@@17gal Indeed, the spoken description is indeed correct however the demonstration layout is not logical, the painted Ultramarine swatch should sit on the red side, the Thalo should sit on the yellow side - they are painted out in the wrong position. The problem may be due to the spectrum colour wheel colour layout not being the same layout as the 12 colour wheel layout, the colour layout is inverted. The Reds and yellows are laid out according to the 12 colour wheel, the blues follows the spectrum wheel. th-cam.com/video/pRKhlkAdkeU/w-d-xo.html
@Isle of Mull FPV, your criticism is valid and I appreciate your pointing it out. In self-defense, I inadvertently placed Ultramarine on the wrong side while doing the demo. It was a thoughtless error, even though my verbal explanation explained how the colors lean.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction Thing is, you teach people to be critical and ask the tricky questions - so no defence required. I would only wish to repeat how much I enjoy and appreciate your talks. Thanks.
My method of working with color is based on the traditional Newton color wheel. A wheel, after all, is just a tool. Over my 50+ years of painting and teaching, I have studied in depth other major color wheels and still find the 12 hue Newton wheel easiest to use and most flexible to work with.
Thank you so much for this tip. I understand that the application of this knowledge is when we want to paint an object in a shade under sunshine. That is I need to paint almost every blue object in a shade under sunshine with ultramarine and not phtalo blue. Am I right?
Indeed a controversial topic - the cool/warm blue - as was discussed in another Quick Tip which number I can't remember. I also use W&N Manganese Blue which I found it to be quite balanced between the two...but I might be wrong. Thank you for tackling this important, albeit confusing to many, topic.
And I suspect it will remain controversial. A lot of artists make a determination without studying the history of how our terms evolved. I often wonder if therein lies the root of the problem--if indeed it is a problem.
It’s official…our good scientist friends at NASA actually measured the spectrum color temperatures. Violet is the coolest and Red is the warmest. This leaves only RV as Imaginary transitional or you could say Green is the transitional Divider in the Spectrum. Black Body Radiation Color Correlation is different. But as Diane says…every color has a “warm” and “cool” version of it and proves the general guideline: the closer two primitives are to each other in color space-the better chromatic resultant mix.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction But if we are trying to set simple “standards” for color communication with each other (as in everyone)….I guess “temperature” as an indication of “color directional leaning tendency” should go out the window because it’s related differently to everyone and no good to use for that.
Alan, it's not the amount of the pigment, but the tinting strength. Just as some spices are, by nature, stronger than others, some pigments have more tinting potency than others.
Alan, that's always been my perception. With the advent of color TV and printer inks, the physics that make them work has caused a big argument in the visual arts community about whether Ultramarine is warmer or cooler. Since the concept of temperature in color derives from our sensual perception of heat as related to fire and the sun, and since the hottest part of a flame is white to yellow, then red as it gets cooler, my training taught yellow as the warmest color, therefore Cerulean (leaning towards yellow) is perceived as warmer than Ultramarine (leaning towards red). But take note that there are those who will argue otherwise.
Soooo glad I found your page!!! You are THE BEST teacher of these topics of all of youtube. The information is so helpful and you explain everything so well. I had watched soooo many videos on color thoery and still not understand. watched your video and bam! Thank you sooo much for sharing your invaluable knowledge!!!
My pleasure. Welcome aboard.
Dianne, you are an absolute wizard. You're the first person to have ever explained this in such a way that it makes sense WHY the colors behave the way they do when mixing the same or different temperatures. With your explanation, the way a mixture will behave can be solidly predicted as long as you know the temperatures of the colors that will be mixed. Thank you so much for an incredible job of breaking this down into its essence.
Great. I am always delighted to learn that my teaching has given clarity.
This Clarifies SO much! Thank you for making these videos! I prefer watching these over any other painting videos on TH-cam. Extremely enriching.
Thanks. It's a pleasure to do these.
Just when I think I understand the warm and cool colors you put a new slant on it. It really helps understand the mixing by doing it myself. Finding the right primaries to work with is a challenge but these types of video's help a lot. Thank you for taking the time to explain them.
Barbara, you hit the nail on the head that doing it yourself is the way to learn it. Thanks for that.
I love your videos. I feel like I am sitting in your classroom. Thank you for sharing with us.
Thanks for "sitting in my classroom."
I finally get it . Thank you Diane. I’ve been given many explanation of this but you are the first one that clarified the idea for me. 😊
Wonderful!
I don't even paint but still subbed b/c you have such a great way of explaining colors, something that will be useful as I'm editing photos.
Even though the media and techniques are different, the visual principles are universal. Welcome aboard.
As always a clear lesson with things I didn't know or didn't think about. I learned a lot. I am off to get that color spectrum wheel. Thank you Diane for sharing your knowledge and talent!
It's always a pleasure to share.
This is a very interesting presentation. Once I was deeply thinking which color is the warmest - red or yellow. For me, based on keen nature observation, yellow has always seemed to be warmer than red. That could be explained that yellow - in daylight setting -comes directly from the sun. Also when one compares the average yellow with the average red, yellow wins in warmth, at least for me.
Thanks for adding that. Also notice that as the sun sets (gets cooler for us earthlings) it gets more orange.
A great lesson again! Thanks, Dianne!
Thanks.
Love your quick tips I would, like to know what you use to clean your brushes in between your colors and brush strokes . Thanks Nettie
We have a Quick Tip coming out soon about this. I use Turpenoid which is an odorless mineral spirits.
That was amazing and eye opening
Great. We like eye opening.
One definitely needs to try it to understand it like you said, Dianne. :)
It's just another one of those painting tools.
The blues...now I understand my own confusion over which ones are “warmer” Thank you!
My pleasure.
I love all your videos!!
Thanks.
Really helpful for a beginner UI/UX developer, though I know I will be working with Green instead of Yellow. Thank you
You're very welcome!
Hi Dianne, I’ve just heard about armatures. Could you give a quick tip about the purpose, benefits and how to use an armature when developing a painting. Thank you. Mary
The word "armature" is used to refer to the compositional structure of a painting, a part of the planning process. I will put your request on our schedule. Look for it sometime in June.
I'm confused - looks like the Ultramarine and phthalo blue swatches are in the wrong order. Perhaps the Ultramarine would be better situated on the red side, the pthalo on the yellow side to maintain the scheme.
That is what she just said. Ultramarine has red in it. Thalo leans toward yellow.
@@17gal Indeed, the spoken description is indeed correct however the demonstration layout is not logical, the painted Ultramarine swatch should sit on the red side, the Thalo should sit on the yellow side - they are painted out in the wrong position. The problem may be due to the spectrum colour wheel colour layout not being the same layout as the 12 colour wheel layout, the colour layout is inverted. The Reds and yellows are laid out according to the 12 colour wheel, the blues follows the spectrum wheel. th-cam.com/video/pRKhlkAdkeU/w-d-xo.html
@Isle of Mull FPV, your criticism is valid and I appreciate your pointing it out. In self-defense, I inadvertently placed Ultramarine on the wrong side while doing the demo. It was a thoughtless error, even though my verbal explanation explained how the colors lean.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction Thing is, you teach people to be critical and ask the tricky questions - so no defence required. I would only wish to repeat how much I enjoy and appreciate your talks. Thanks.
Very helpful, do you have any video or take on CMY colorwheel? I take it you haven't traditionally used it?
My method of working with color is based on the traditional Newton color wheel. A wheel, after all, is just a tool. Over my 50+ years of painting and teaching, I have studied in depth other major color wheels and still find the 12 hue Newton wheel easiest to use and most flexible to work with.
Thank you so much for this tip. I understand that the application of this knowledge is when we want to paint an object in a shade under sunshine. That is I need to paint almost every blue object in a shade under sunshine with ultramarine and not phtalo blue. Am I right?
Not necessarily. In shade, images do get cooler, but they also lose saturation, so either could be used in direct light, depending upon hue needed.
Thank you! This helps a ton. I will try this experiment! Do you have a quick tip video already on how to tell if a paint is transparent or not?
That explanation is a part of Quick Tip 178 - th-cam.com/video/ZRg7sz-amk4/w-d-xo.html
Indeed a controversial topic - the cool/warm blue - as was discussed in another Quick Tip which number I can't remember. I also use W&N Manganese Blue which I found it to be quite balanced between the two...but I might be wrong. Thank you for tackling this important, albeit confusing to many, topic.
And I suspect it will remain controversial. A lot of artists make a determination without studying the history of how our terms evolved. I often wonder if therein lies the root of the problem--if indeed it is a problem.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction I guess people like to create and/or enphasize problems.
Thank you for this👌🏻
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It’s official…our good scientist friends at NASA actually measured the spectrum color temperatures. Violet is the coolest and Red is the warmest. This leaves only RV as Imaginary transitional or you could say Green is the transitional Divider in the Spectrum. Black Body Radiation Color Correlation is different. But as Diane says…every color has a “warm” and “cool” version of it and proves the general guideline: the closer two primitives are to each other in color space-the better chromatic resultant mix.
True, but how the eye perceives the relationships of all colors is different from how the spectrum analysis reads them.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction But if we are trying to set simple “standards” for color communication with each other (as in everyone)….I guess “temperature” as an indication of “color directional leaning tendency” should go out the window because it’s related differently to everyone and no good to use for that.
Hi Dianne , why are phthalo paints much stronger than other paints ? is there more pigment in them ?.
Alan, it's not the amount of the pigment, but the tinting strength. Just as some spices are, by nature, stronger than others, some pigments have more tinting potency than others.
@@IntheStudioArtInstruction Thanks Dianne .
Thank you very much I appreciate that great question or comment.
My pleasure.
Thank you for your clear tip, much appreciated.
ive always thought that ultramarine was the coolest blue and cerulean blue the warmest .
Alan, that's always been my perception. With the advent of color TV and printer inks, the physics that make them work has caused a big argument in the visual arts community about whether Ultramarine is warmer or cooler.
Since the concept of temperature in color derives from our sensual perception of heat as related to fire and the sun, and since the hottest part of a flame is white to yellow, then red as it gets cooler, my training taught yellow as the warmest color, therefore Cerulean (leaning towards yellow) is perceived as warmer than Ultramarine (leaning towards red). But take note that there are those who will argue otherwise.
Love all your videos. Just wish the focus of the camera would be
more on the painting. Thank you
Thanks for watching.
I will call this video lesson a "Coo[" one. Thank you.
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