Watercolor - Mixing Neutrals
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- čas přidán 21. 02. 2018
- Neutrals can be very useful for painting shadows, grey skies and a host of other uses. In this video I share how to mix a number of useful neutrals. Shopping through the links below helps support my channel. Thanks for browsing.
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Colors used from left to right: .
Row 1: Daniel Smith's bloodstone genuine, Winsor & Newton raw umber + bloodstone genuine.
Row 2: Payne's grey, Payne's grey + burnt sienna, raw umber + French ultramarine + light red.
Row 3: French ultramarine + burnt sienna, burnt umber + indigo,
Row 4: Winsor blue + light red, Payne's grey +burnt umber + yellow ochre, French ultramarine + light red (Winsor & Newton paints).
Row 5: Watered down Winsor & Newton indigo + burnt sienna, lighter version of same (all winsor & newton paints).
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Thank you for this. I adore neutrals. I also just found Roman Szmal and he has a ton of neutrals - so many neutrals - in his palette. I'm in love.
Thanks for the lesson!💗
Thank you Jean for creating this.
Great information on these pigments, thankyou so much!
yes!! exciting to mix these & see what comes up!
Really helpful and very beautiful, thank you. I'll give it a try.
Wonderful demonstration, thank you. I am inspired to go into the studio and make a sheer of neutral swatches now.
Excellent easy to understand information. Beautiful paintings Jean, I will be practicing some of your ideas today.
Great video and has inspired me to make my own chart, thanks for sharing x
Thank you so much Jean, I’ve just spent the past hour experimenting and mixing neutrals ! 💞💫
Thank you
Tony...West Hills, California USA
Thanks for this great video!
Wow 🎉 Beautiful and thanks for learning, I´m a beginner and I found your information very useful and hope I learn. Best regards Have a nice day
Stunning neutral paintings - many wonderful mixtures. Thanks. Caz.
Thanks Caz. Much appreciated.
Thank you. Very helpful and enjoyable
Great video! Neutrals are amazing and is just what is around us for more part. Plus is true that when using mostly neutrals, then every spot of purer color stands out and look amazing, even when we are not even talking about putting some saturated pure pigment, just a pure earth tone looks like if is highly saturated. Thank you.
Thank you that is so useful
VERY inspiring and will try and practice and practice. THANKS AGAIN
Practice is the key word.
Totally useful. I love your minimalist landscapes.
Thanks so much Kids And Moms. Glad you found this useful.
Thank you. This was very helpful.
Glad you found it helpful Patti.
I think you’re my favourite 😁
Thanks for this video! I love neutrals and mixing them. They just don’t end up in my sketches or paintings though. Now I will definitely try! Thanks again. Love to watch you paint.
Thank you Bojoura. Give it a try. It's always good to go outside your comfort zone.
Very helpful - thanks.
Very nice! I love the bloodstone geniune also. And lately I have gone back to trying the raw umber by Daniel Smith cause it doesn't muddy up like the Winsor and Newton. Thank you!
I must try DS raw umber. Thanks for the tip Jennie.
Thanks
Good one! Tnx
Thank you Jean! I love doing little charts like these without the pressure of creating a finished piece. It's fun to challenge myself to say, "Do I want a blue grey? Purple? Green?" etc and try to achieve it in a mix.
It's a very good exercise in getting to know your paints and how they mix.
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Nice
Realy helpfull!!👍 May I ask what is that brush you are using in the section where you show how to mix colors? Have not seen that one befor.
Thanks Ulf. The brush is a Silver Black Velvet 1" brush. I do have links below the videos to materials. The link for the brush is amzn.to/2xIlA3b
Very helpful, beautiful images thanks for posting. Would you be able to describe how you make a dark sky (like the one in your reflected moonlight video)? Whenever I try it comes out muddy. Thank you!
Hi Chris. The secret to not getting mud is to use transparent colors. Try Phthalo blue and mix with other transparent colors on the opposite side of the color wheel. By itself it is not dark enough for a really dark sky. For the painting you mentioned I did layers of French ultramarine mixed with burnt sienna. Layering is another way to darken a sky. Hope this helps.
Jean Lurssen Thanks for the advice!
Jean Lurssen , do you put in each layer ( on a sky painted with several layers) after the previous layer has dried ? Thank you for this so informative video.
Hi Jean, who would've thought greys could be so exciting??! I feel like spending a few days just mixing greys with all my colours! May I ask what brand of Payne's grey you are using? Because mine does not look like that: yours is considerably on the blue side and mine is firmly grey.
I use windsor & newton Payne's Grey. I don't like the Daniel Smith version which is very dull. About the only Daniel Smith color I don't like.
Also, I wonder if you think its worth buying both Lunar black as well as Bloodstone Genuine? Are they very similar to each other and can be used interchangeably? The LB seems to granulate a lot more than the BG. Maybe one day you could do a comparison of the two, as well as other DS colours? Since they are so pricey I dont want to buy colours that are too similar to each other.
While these color are both dark, they behave very differently. Bloodstone genuine granulates in the regular way while lunar black has a very interesting way it behaves. It's like beehive patterns on the paper as you put it down. I don't use it very often because it can be very busy. I would rather go with the bloodstone genuine which has a slighlty purple hue.
I didn't catch all the names of the colors you used. I know about Fr Ultramarine, Indigo, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, Yellow Ochre, and Raw Siena. There was also a red and a black. Could you (or someone) let me know what those colors are?
Hi Veronica. The colors are listed below the video from left to right. There was no black but the red is winsor and newton light red.
Jean Lurssen thank you so much for responding. And thanks for the great information.
These charts are helpful, but to newcomers, I'd like to see in YOUR information, the names of the paints you've used (and the manufacturers would be helpful) because having to re-watch the video many times is a bit frustrating. I see them mixed, but am concentrating on what you're saying about the result...need to know how to get the results you're demonstrating...just a request. Thanks.
Good point Brenda. I have listed the colors from left to right below the video. Just click on the link for "more". Hope this helps.
Hi Jean. Have subscribed to both of your courses online and they are wonderful. You make it seem so easy!
Am also following your u tube videos but when you say click on the link for ‘more’ in your ‘neutrals’ video I am unable to find it.
Wonder if you can set me right. Thank you.
Arlene