I was today years old, when I learned you can make the primary colors by combining the cool and the warm. 😮 I had no idea that if, for example, you combined your warm yellow and your cool yellow, you got primary yellow. Mind blown!! Same for blues and reds. Thank you for this!!
I really hadn’t wanted to learn about colour theory - it just seemed so confusing. And I have no illusions about being an artist, I just wanted to play around with watercolours. But I was getting so frustrated as couldn’t even mix the colours I saw in my mind. Luckily I stumbled across this tutorial and it was like a eureka moment. I knew about hot and cold colours but had no idea there were hot and cold versions of the primary colours and how they interact when mixed. Thanks for sharing!
Excellent! A gorgeous and informative video. I send your Watercolor for Beginners playlist to anyone who asks me questions, and they always love it. Even if you aren't a beginner, it has tips that a lot of people didn't know. I just saw someone in a FB group say she'd been painting for years and never understood how to mix a purple until now! Thank you so much for what you do and how you do it! Looking forward to your classes! ♥
Hi Jackie, what a wonderful video. I learned so much. And with all these small mixing steps I'll be a pro in no time (not really, but I learn every day) 🤣🤣.
Oh my goodness!! Just found you and love the way you teach. Now I’m binging on your other videos and loving them. You have made complex issues so simple, thank you.
Good advice. I have this Stephen Quiller color wheel palette and believe it is the ultimate for studio use. Splurge on yourself. You will never regret it.
Your videos are always so informative and very clear to understand and follow along instructions. I love how concise in explanation and absolutely appreciate your short but informative high quality videos. Thank you for what you do and I will be looking out for your classes
wow! this was enlightening! i kept hearing put ‘warm’ here and ‘cool’ there use there…..i never new what a difference the colors actually are! you are so good at helping us understand watercolor 🎉
@@hansendesigns I am very much a beginner of watercolor painting and do a lot of exercises and playing around trying to find my way through this art. I hope to be able and paint floral subjects, trees and landscapes.
@@marijkeschellenbach2680 hi! Thanks for responding! Let me know if you get anything interesting (it doesn’t have to be anything great lol) or if you have an instagram. Really any chat about watercolor is good lol. Best to you! 🌸
My DS Essentials set is on its way to me....yay me😊. I can't wait to get started on this tutorial. I have so many WC colours, and always end up with MUD.... ugh!! I am so looking forward to understanding colours better, and seeing the endless colour options. Thank you Jackie. Oh, I so enjoy your Chanel, as your voice is so soothing
@@JackieHernandezWatercolorMy DS Essentials kit arrived, and I have done my color wheels. WOW! I really learned so much about mixing by doing them. I have also done my first "Sarah Burns" chart, using DS Hansa Yellow Light, but now I'm stuck 😢. Do I now repeat the process using say, New Gamboge as the main colour? My head is telling me I've already done this, but just in reverse on my first chart???? I'm lost😂.
Very informative!! I believe I can figure out most of the initials you use on the last sets of color charts but not all. Would you mind listing the initials and what they stand for? Thanks!!
Jackie, square color chart with the lemon yellow, new gamboge,cadmium red deep, permanent rose, French marine blue, and cerulean. I ran them across the top squares and down the left side of the squares and then mixed them across the board had more of the colors from the top row. What I found is that there’s too many colors when they’re mixed that look the same. Could you maybe tell me what I’m doing wrong and if there’s a way to send you a picture of my chart? Thank you.
I've made them before but I don't actually recommend making the square charts. They do show the complete variety of mixes you can make with the same two colors. I recommend trying the method I show in this video.
I'm a beginner, and am loving mixing colors. Something I'm noticing though is the color I'm getting once the paint is dry is very different than the color I mixed in my pallet. I get that the colors dry different, even when not mixing, but how do I wrap my brain around what I'm mixing and what's going to come out dry on my paper? Hope do I get better results?
The best thing you can do is keep a scrap piece of paper to do swatches on when you’re mixing. Use a hair dryer or heat gun to dry the little swatch so you can see how it will look, then adjust the mix as needed. It takes some patience in the beginning, but after a while you want need to swatch as often. You’ll learn how much the colors tend to shift when they dry.
Hi Jackie! I did your color swatching charts with the split primary colors. Looks and feels so much better than the other grid kind (confusing). Question: Why in the world is French Ultramarine considered WARM? Is it because it leans towards Violet? Also the pigment code is PB. I’m so confused. Seems like it should say PR or PV I’m still trying to understand pigment codes:/ Thx!
I’m so glad the charts were helpful. French Ultramarine is considered warm because it leans toward red. Cool blues, like Phthalo blue, lean toward green. The pigment code PB stands for “Pigment Blue” and the number is the specific pigment. Hope that helps!
Cool yellows lean more toward the green side of the color wheel. Warm yellows lean more toward orange. It’s all relative. Paint a swatch of each of your yellows and compare them side by side. When you compare them it’s easier to see which ones are more orange and which ones are more green. Hope that helps!
I'm glad I wasn't the only person watching this video not understanding which colors are warm and which are cool. 🤔 Perhaps that would be a video all by itself for those of us who are in the very beginning stages of watercolor. (Or perhaps you have done that already in another video.)
They will not, because a color would be considered warm or cool relative to another color. You can compare color swatches or compare to the colors I shared in this video. There are many other artists that share color comparison videos too. Also, the descriptions on Daniel Smiths website will often say if a color is warm or cool, so reading those is helpful.
This is the first person I have seen do this on TH-cam.it’s 9 years ago but very good. I think he may need the credit for this method. th-cam.com/video/py1cjGcroyE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Zr2JPCVvAF3Ugrm7
I was today years old, when I learned you can make the primary colors by combining the cool and the warm. 😮 I had no idea that if, for example, you combined your warm yellow and your cool yellow, you got primary yellow. Mind blown!! Same for blues and reds. Thank you for this!!
Me too
Agreed! Well said!
I really hadn’t wanted to learn about colour theory - it just seemed so confusing. And I have no illusions about being an artist, I just wanted to play around with watercolours. But I was getting so frustrated as couldn’t even mix the colours I saw in my mind. Luckily I stumbled across this tutorial and it was like a eureka moment. I knew about hot and cold colours but had no idea there were hot and cold versions of the primary colours and how they interact when mixed. Thanks for sharing!
I’m so glad you didn’t give up and you found this video. I hope it helps.
Excellent! A gorgeous and informative video. I send your Watercolor for Beginners playlist to anyone who asks me questions, and they always love it. Even if you aren't a beginner, it has tips that a lot of people didn't know. I just saw someone in a FB group say she'd been painting for years and never understood how to mix a purple until now! Thank you so much for what you do and how you do it! Looking forward to your classes! ♥
You’re amazing! Thank you so much for sharing my videos. I appreciate the support.
you are amazing! you ought to be awarded as the most generous watercolor guru 🏆
Thank you 😊
Thankyou so much. Finally a colour mixing video that i could fully understand. Printing out the templates soon
Hi Jackie, what a wonderful video. I learned so much. And with all these small mixing steps I'll be a pro in no time (not really, but I learn every day) 🤣🤣.
Thank you! I think you’ll be surprised how quickly the color mixing will become intuitive.
Oh my goodness!! Just found you and love the way you teach. Now I’m binging on your other videos and loving them. You have made complex issues so simple, thank you.
Yay! I’m glad you’re enjoying the videos.
Good advice. I have this Stephen Quiller color wheel palette and believe it is the ultimate for studio use. Splurge on yourself. You will never regret it.
Love it, so pedagogical and useful! 🤩🙏 thank you
So glad you found it useful. Hope you have fun color mixing!
Fantastic explanation, I will be making those wheels. Thank you VERY much, Jackie!
You’re VERY welcome!
I can't wait to make all the color wheels and charting!
Your advice and tips are SO clear and helpful!
I'm so glad!
Your videos are always so informative and very clear to understand and follow along instructions. I love how concise in explanation and absolutely appreciate your short but informative high quality videos. Thank you for what you do and I will be looking out for your classes
Thank you so much. I appreciate the feedback. It takes a lot of time to make a concise video and I’m glad you enjoy them!
This was absolutely incredible and is exactly what I need as a new artist. Thank you!
I’m glad it was helpful. Have fun mixing!
So useful!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I am excited about getting started on the templates you are generously sharing 😊❤
Have fun!
NICELY PRESENTED, very understandable.
I do think it would've been convenient for you to call out the full color names of your abbreviations on the color mixing swatches.
wow! this was enlightening! i kept hearing put ‘warm’ here and ‘cool’ there use there…..i never new what a difference the colors actually are! you are so good at helping us understand watercolor 🎉
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you, thank you for this great tutorial. This old 84 year old brain needs all the help it can get.
You're very welcome!
Wow 84 is really interesting.. What are you making? What kinds of images and colors?
@@hansendesigns I am very much a beginner of watercolor painting and do a lot of exercises and playing around trying to find my way through this art. I hope to be able and paint floral subjects, trees and landscapes.
@@marijkeschellenbach2680 hi! Thanks for responding! Let me know if you get anything interesting (it doesn’t have to be anything great lol) or if you have an instagram. Really any chat about watercolor is good lol. Best to you! 🌸
Thanks muchly for sharing! ❤️💜🩷❤️💛🧡💙💚💛
Your welcome 😊
This is a fantastic tutorial. Thanks for sharing you knowledge of colo mixing. Its a huge deal. 🎉
Glad it was helpful!
My DS Essentials set is on its way to me....yay me😊. I can't wait to get started on this tutorial. I have so many WC colours, and always end up with MUD.... ugh!! I am so looking forward to understanding colours better, and seeing the endless colour options. Thank you Jackie.
Oh, I so enjoy your Chanel, as your voice is so soothing
I’m so excited for you. Have fun making these color charts and playing with your new colors. Thank you for your support!!
@@JackieHernandezWatercolorMy DS Essentials kit arrived, and I have done my color wheels. WOW! I really learned so much about mixing by doing them.
I have also done my first "Sarah Burns" chart, using DS Hansa Yellow Light, but now I'm stuck 😢. Do I now repeat the process using say, New Gamboge as the main colour? My head is telling me I've already done this, but just in reverse on my first chart???? I'm lost😂.
Your videos are so helpful. Thank you for sharing them.
Excellent!! Thank you!
Thanks thats really helpful ❤
I’m glad it was helpful.
What a great learning experience. Thanks for sharing ❤
Thanks for watching!
Very informative!! I believe I can figure out most of the initials you use on the last sets of color charts but not all. Would you mind listing the initials and what they stand for? Thanks!!
W=warm C=cool Red Yellow Blue
THANK YOU ! ❤🧡💛💚💙💜🖤
Jackie, square color chart with the lemon yellow, new gamboge,cadmium red deep, permanent rose, French marine blue, and cerulean. I ran them across the top squares and down the left side of the squares and then mixed them across the board had more of the colors from the top row. What I found is that there’s too many colors when they’re mixed that look the same. Could you maybe tell me what I’m doing wrong and if there’s a way to send you a picture of my chart? Thank you.
I've made them before but I don't actually recommend making the square charts. They do show the complete variety of mixes you can make with the same two colors. I recommend trying the method I show in this video.
I'm a beginner, and am loving mixing colors. Something I'm noticing though is the color I'm getting once the paint is dry is very different than the color I mixed in my pallet. I get that the colors dry different, even when not mixing, but how do I wrap my brain around what I'm mixing and what's going to come out dry on my paper? Hope do I get better results?
The best thing you can do is keep a scrap piece of paper to do swatches on when you’re mixing. Use a hair dryer or heat gun to dry the little swatch so you can see how it will look, then adjust the mix as needed. It takes some patience in the beginning, but after a while you want need to swatch as often. You’ll learn how much the colors tend to shift when they dry.
Hi Jackie!
I did your color swatching charts with the split primary colors. Looks and feels so much better than the other grid kind (confusing).
Question:
Why in the world is French Ultramarine considered WARM? Is it because it leans towards Violet? Also the pigment code is PB. I’m so confused. Seems like it should say PR or PV
I’m still trying to understand pigment codes:/ Thx!
I’m so glad the charts were helpful. French Ultramarine is considered warm because it leans toward red. Cool blues, like Phthalo blue, lean toward green. The pigment code PB stands for “Pigment Blue” and the number is the specific pigment. Hope that helps!
@@JackieHernandezWatercolor Yes, thank you!
Love your explanations but I have a question: how do you know a yellow for example is cool or warm?
Cool yellows lean more toward the green side of the color wheel. Warm yellows lean more toward orange. It’s all relative. Paint a swatch of each of your yellows and compare them side by side. When you compare them it’s easier to see which ones are more orange and which ones are more green. Hope that helps!
I'm glad I wasn't the only person watching this video not understanding which colors are warm and which are cool. 🤔 Perhaps that would be a video all by itself for those of us who are in the very beginning stages of watercolor. (Or perhaps you have done that already in another video.)
when buying paints will they indicate if they are warm or cool? how do i know?
They will not, because a color would be considered warm or cool relative to another color. You can compare color swatches or compare to the colors I shared in this video. There are many other artists that share color comparison videos too. Also, the descriptions on Daniel Smiths website will often say if a color is warm or cool, so reading those is helpful.
Thank you. I just purchased Winston and newton professional paints
This is the first person I have seen do this on TH-cam.it’s 9 years ago but very good. I think he may need the credit for this method.
th-cam.com/video/py1cjGcroyE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Zr2JPCVvAF3Ugrm7
Thanks for sharing. His charting process looks interesting. Another good way to do it.
More about colours and less about charts next time