The first 500 people to use my link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare skl.sh/louisedemasi11241 Ready to organise your watercolour palette for more efficient colour mixing? In today’s video, I’ll share several layouts to help keep your colours clean and mixes harmonious. 🎨 If you want more tips on watercolour painting, check out my classes and blog linked in the description. #WatercolourTips #OrganisedPalette #WatercolourTutorial
Ohhh 😂your bloopers reel section at the ends of your videos are just perfect & priceless. Always brings me joy & a chuckle 😊! Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful video content on how to setup your own color palettes. I have always bought ready made sets for painting but for my 60th birthday in October my husband bought me a new 33 wells Meeden ceramic palette that I will be setting up with my first set of professional quality watercolor paints. I am going to be using a split primary setup in a similar color wheel setup too. Thanks for sharing your thoughts & knowledge on this topic. Hope you have & enjoy a wonderful weekend! 🥰
As a self taught watercolor artist, I went through several renditions of setting up a palette without any real knowledge of palette organization. This video makes it so clear and simple, especially giving options for different setups. Last year, I hired a local watercolor teacher for private lessons but didn’t learn any of the methods your videos cover. I subscribed after watching one video and will definitely consider your other subscription services because I am learning so much from you. Thank you for such wonderful lessons. 😊
Love this video. I've just purchased a large round ceramic pallet and have been trying to decide how best to set it up. Now I have some firm ideas based on your timely video! Thankyou so much.
This is helpful. Im sitting here with the knowledge that I indeed needed a larger pallet than what ive been working with (dozens it seems of little pallets scattered). 32 wells and a lid with a large mixing area in center. As i sat looking at it, I suddenly felt very overwhelmed with "whats the best layout" 😮. Your video has helped and I'm so grateful a friend introduced me to your online presence ❤❤❤❤
😂🤣🤪 Bloopers!!! They always make my day! Thanks Louise 😊 I have a beautiful big ceramic palette that is sitting in a drawer. I have a bunch of smaller ones and small little ceramic dishes that I prefer. Before each painting i pull from the tubes in my paint drawers. I choose my colors by referring to a large chart that I made long ago that shows the color in a strip going from full strength to light. Each one is labeled with transparancy vs opacity and i can tell by the swatch how granulating it is. I then use fresh paint and try mixing the colors I've chosen to see if i need to change choices. I have a notebook where i save the colors and mixes for each painting for reference. That part is a little sloppy but i just ordered a nice arches 6x10 spiral bound watercolor journal that will be nicer and more otganized. I know it sounds obsessive and wasteful to use fresh paint each time and document like this but it works for me.😊 Thanks again Louise for your excellent teaching. You have given me the courage and confidence to begin painting again. Hey BTW love the paintings you did for new grandbaby. When is baby due?
I usually do neutrals and earth tones together and then I add yellow followed by all the other colors in rainbow order. I have also an earthy palette with primaries and I have the primaries in between all the other colors. That’s what I would do when grouping them in small groups makes a bit more sense to me than following my usual set up.
Thank you for this video! Being new to this medium, I purchased a palette but have never used it. My biggest fear is that once I squeeze out the paint I won't remember what colors they are. I also tend to go from one medium to another for long periods of time so I squeeze out only the colors I'm going to use for one painting on a white ceramic platter. I love your instructional videos on how to paint, but these informational videos are really helpful! Love the bloopers. You had me laughing out loud. Bless you for sharing.
Hi Louise, do you have a link for the rectangle palette please. I found the round one but I think my brain liked the rectangular one. Thank you, Cheers, Angela.
Never realized my palette set up until this video. I do a limited colour wheel arrangement, however, my opaques are between and near colours I personally like them combined. I know exactly where they are. I also have my granulating colours like this.
@LouiseDeMasi resifted...the paints will get back to the original texture when they get reactivated with water. Thank you! Sorry my terrible english. :)
hi, louise! i was hoping if you could share the exact colors that you include on your color wheel set up? i am thinking that this is the way i want to go, but need some help in deciding what colors should go where. thank you!
You might google "color temperatures," which will bring up many articles on colors and their attributes. You might also google "Color theory," which will also bring up different articles regarding different colors and how they interplay with each other. Once you have read a few articles, you will be able to better understand warm and cool colors in every color range.
Think about how light splits into the colour spectrum (old physics lessons of sending light through a prism) it has the following range: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. If you imaging this on a wheel with red at the top and green at the bottom then a warm red would be more orange like a Windsor red, a colder red more like a violet like Alizarin Crimson. Also, if you imagine a warm light shining on a colour it “warms it up” or conversely, less light will make the colour colder. This has implications for shadows. A warm light shining on a red apple will make the top of it a warm orange, the sides a cooler red and the bottom the coolest red, the shadow being the coolest. You can change the temperature by adding the colour either side of the initial colour on the colour wheel. Once you begin to investigate the effects of light on colour you will open up a whole new world of seeing the world and your paintings very differently.
I still cant fully decide on the way to set up my big ceramic squared color wheel palette like you have yours in. Because of this, its still empty until i make up my mind. The struggle is real 😂❤
The first 500 people to use my link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare skl.sh/louisedemasi11241
Ready to organise your watercolour palette for more efficient colour mixing? In today’s video, I’ll share several layouts to help keep your colours clean and mixes harmonious. 🎨 If you want more tips on watercolour painting, check out my classes and blog linked in the description. #WatercolourTips #OrganisedPalette #WatercolourTutorial
Ohhh 😂your bloopers reel section at the ends of your videos are just perfect & priceless. Always brings me joy & a chuckle 😊! Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful video content on how to setup your own color palettes. I have always bought ready made sets for painting but for my 60th birthday in October my husband bought me a new 33 wells Meeden ceramic palette that I will be setting up with my first set of professional quality watercolor paints. I am going to be using a split primary setup in a similar color wheel setup too. Thanks for sharing your thoughts & knowledge on this topic. Hope you have & enjoy a wonderful weekend! 🥰
As a self taught watercolor artist, I went through several renditions of setting up a palette without any real knowledge of palette organization. This video makes it so clear and simple, especially giving options for different setups. Last year, I hired a local watercolor teacher for private lessons but didn’t learn any of the methods your videos cover. I subscribed after watching one video and will definitely consider your other subscription services because I am learning so much from you. Thank you for such wonderful lessons. 😊
I'm so glad this video was helpful for you! I hope you continue to enjoy learning and growing as an artist.
Thank you Louise for another educational and very entertaining video! Keep those bloopers coming!
I just love the bloopers at the end 😂❤
Thanks for very useful information!🌺
Love this video. I've just purchased a large round ceramic pallet and have been trying to decide how best to set it up. Now I have some firm ideas based on your timely video! Thankyou so much.
This is helpful. Im sitting here with the knowledge that I indeed needed a larger pallet than what ive been working with (dozens it seems of little pallets scattered). 32 wells and a lid with a large mixing area in center. As i sat looking at it, I suddenly felt very overwhelmed with "whats the best layout" 😮. Your video has helped and I'm so grateful a friend introduced me to your online presence ❤❤❤❤
You are so welcome!
I have debated the palette layout so a long time, so thank you for your explanation and options.
😂🤣🤪 Bloopers!!! They always make my day! Thanks Louise 😊 I have a beautiful big ceramic palette that is sitting in a drawer. I have a bunch of smaller ones and small little ceramic dishes that I prefer. Before each painting i pull from the tubes in my paint drawers. I choose my colors by referring to a large chart that I made long ago that shows the color in a strip going from full strength to light. Each one is labeled with transparancy vs opacity and i can tell by the swatch how granulating it is. I then use fresh paint and try mixing the colors I've chosen to see if i need to change choices. I have a notebook where i save the colors and mixes for each painting for reference. That part is a little sloppy but i just ordered a nice arches 6x10 spiral bound watercolor journal that will be nicer and more otganized. I know it sounds obsessive and wasteful to use fresh paint each time and document like this but it works for me.😊
Thanks again Louise for your excellent teaching. You have given me the courage and confidence to begin painting again. Hey BTW love the paintings you did for new grandbaby. When is baby due?
I usually do neutrals and earth tones together and then I add yellow followed by all the other colors in rainbow order.
I have also an earthy palette with primaries and I have the primaries in between all the other colors. That’s what I would do when grouping them in small groups makes a bit more sense to me than following my usual set up.
Great Job Louise, bloopers and all !
I have a journal for each palette so I don’t forget . Great tips, Louise. Thanks🥰
Thank you for this video! Being new to this medium, I purchased a palette but have never used it. My biggest fear is that once I squeeze out the paint I won't remember what colors they are. I also tend to go from one medium to another for long periods of time so I squeeze out only the colors I'm going to use for one painting on a white ceramic platter. I love your instructional videos on how to paint, but these informational videos are really helpful! Love the bloopers. You had me laughing out loud. Bless you for sharing.
Thanks for sharing your process! I love the bloopers too!
Great tips Louise! Thank you!
Hi Louise, this video was very interesting and so helpful! Thank you so much. Helene
Thanks Helene, I'm glad it was helpful!
I like the idea of fresh paint on dried paint. I've always used water on paint but this sounds better 💖
Hi Louise, do you have a link for the rectangle palette please. I found the round one but I think my brain liked the rectangular one. Thank you, Cheers, Angela.
Regardless of which palette I use, I always arrange them according to the colour wheel. This way I do not have to think about it.
Never realized my palette set up until this video. I do a limited colour wheel arrangement, however, my opaques are between and near colours I personally like them combined. I know exactly where they are. I also have my granulating colours like this.
It’s so great when you know exactly where everything is on your palette!
beautiful ♥
Hi teacher! How to store an used pallete if it has no lid to protect the place paints? Thank you!
Good question! You cover it with cling wrap but the paints will soften when you wet them again.
@LouiseDeMasi resifted...the paints will get back to the original texture when they get reactivated with water. Thank you! Sorry my terrible english. :)
hi, louise! i was hoping if you could share the exact colors that you include on your color wheel set up? i am thinking that this is the way i want to go, but need some help in deciding what colors should go where. thank you!
Here is link to my supplies page where I show the colours I use and a link to some blog posts I wrote about my palette. www.louisedemasi.com/paints
Thank you, Louise!
I have no idea how to tell a warm color from a cool color. For example, what’s the difference between a warm red and a cool red?
A warm red has more yellow in it, while a cool yellow has more blue in it. You can find more info on this topic in books or online under color theory.
You might google "color temperatures," which will bring up many articles on colors and their attributes. You might also google "Color theory," which will also bring up different articles regarding different colors and how they interplay with each other. Once you have read a few articles, you will be able to better understand warm and cool colors in every color range.
Thanks for the info and fun!!!,!,!!,!,!!!!
This video might help Dottie: th-cam.com/video/e8QcDucJs7g/w-d-xo.html
Think about how light splits into the colour spectrum (old physics lessons of sending light through a prism) it has the following range: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. If you imaging this on a wheel with red at the top and green at the bottom then a warm red would be more orange like a Windsor red, a colder red more like a violet like Alizarin Crimson.
Also, if you imagine a warm light shining on a colour it “warms it up” or conversely, less light will make the colour colder. This has implications for shadows. A warm light shining on a red apple will make the top of it a warm orange, the sides a cooler red and the bottom the coolest red, the shadow being the coolest. You can change the temperature by adding the colour either side of the initial colour on the colour wheel.
Once you begin to investigate the effects of light on colour you will open up a whole new world of seeing the world and your paintings very differently.
I still cant fully decide on the way to set up my big ceramic squared color wheel palette like you have yours in. Because of this, its still empty until i make up my mind. The struggle is real 😂❤
I feel ya, it’s a tough choice! 🥰
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