How to Mix Watercolors (THIS colour is essential)
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- In this video I tell you about the one unusual color that I look for to help my students with their watercolor mixes. Featuring colors by Daniel Smith, Talens Rembrandt, Winsor and Newton, SAA and St Petersburg White Nights. Even beginner artists can follow along!
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US Opera Pink, Daniel Smith 15ml amzn.to/36R11lt
US Quinacridone Rose Talens Rembrandt 20ml amzn.to/2O8BlIT
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US Winsor and Newton Alizarin Crimson 37ml amzn.to/36P6Wrq
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UK Permanent Madder Lake Talens Rembrandt 20ml amzn.to/2CtDJo8
UK Winsor and Newton Alizarin Crimson 37ml amzn.to/2K59asW
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How many of these colors do you own, and will you be trying any of these mixes?
I have the blue pink and will surely try this! Thank you for sharing
I have probably 50ish colors. Yes I will be trying these mixes! I’m always exploring
I have some pinks and was always thinking whether the diluted Alizarin Crimson is the same as the Rose colors. I have Winsor & Newton Cotman Alizarin Crimson Hue (PR206), Permanent Rose (PV19) and I've bought Rose Madder Hue (PR206) only to see whether there is a difference. They all look different to me, despite the same pigment. So I would not say I could get Alizarin Crimson if I just use more of the Rose Madder.
I own all of the colors that you showed here, not all by the same brands though.
And everything put together, I own 97 colors (yes, I counted just to answer the question) and many of them in several versions/by different brands. Yes, I know this is a bit excessive (even though looking at some people's wc collections, they would probably laugh at how small mine is), but I really enjoy trying out different colors and pigments, and I don't smoke or drink, so I can spend my money on paints instead. 😸 🎨
Helpful things to know, especially as a new learner. I own a very good selection of paint but none like you mixed. Definitely a video to take notes on.
This is one of the most understandable explanations on basic color mixing with pink I've seen so far. Thank you.
You are very welcome!
The abstract you mentioned that was painted with Opera Pink hasn't faded maybe because it is hung away from sunlight?
Please don't risk your lovely work fading by painting with fugitive colours. Alizarin crimson has a bad reputation for fading, too.
Love your videos Michele!
Clear, concise with a smattering of humour. 😁😁
My Alizarin is permanent, as for Opera pink it has a bad reputation only partially deserved. The pink does not fade, only the iridescent part of the pigment. I have found it looks good after years hanging in the light.
Every time I look at my "viridian hue" (phthalo green, blue shade) I hear Michele saying 👽 "landscapes like some kind of space alien nightmare," and I remember it's unnatural but can be neutralized with a blue-based pink. Hearing your voice in my head, the mark of an effective teacher! Thank you, Michele.
Haha!
I'm also on the zombie completion scale. This video gets me really excited to mix more of my own colours rather than relying on a pre-mixed colour. Thanks for making this so easy to understand!
Excellent video. I have only been painting with watercolour since September 2021 and it is now almost July 22. I have taught computer art for about 20 years. Using pigment colours is a very different animal. The transition has been a journey that won’t stop anytime soon. Your videos, Michelle, have been so helpful. I didn’t have enough experience to take it all in the first time so I am rewatching them and now am understanding more. I will probably watch a third time as well. Cheers🇨🇦
Oh Michele, I laughed so hard at "space alien nightmare"!! Yes! I love Quin Rose! Thank you for this excellent video - I took copious notes and learned so much! I am at the stage of what I would term "advanced beginner" in watercolor painting, and I love to mix colors but don't really know what I'm doing. Just trial and error (heavy on the error,) so this helped me very much! Thanks, also, for the laughs; your sense of humor is much like mine! Have a blessed day! Donna
Ah thank you Donna, so glad you liked it 🌺 Advanced beginner! I like it 😁 I shall have a blessed sleep actually as it's gone midnight here but enjoy the rest of your day! ☺️
Very well explained and helpful. I have all of these colors And we'll definitely be experimenting with those mixes that are new to me.I have no formal fine art training, and started learning watercolor 3 1⁄2 years ago using an online video course. We started with 6 colors, A warm and cool of the 3 primaries.I then took a class on craftsy On luminous watercolors And added another 4 colors. Somewhere in that 1 year time., I got hooked and I now have a pallet collection Of 43 paints Plus Another 2 or 3 in the box that I will most likely not use but had to try. I have been doing mostly florals but I am moving into landscapes, so have a whole new Exploration experience Ahead of me. Just for reference sake, I am 70 years old, live in a small rural town on the west coast of the United States, and have little or no access to art education except online.Your Videos are some of the best I have seen.I appreciate you doing them on CZcams because I am also on a very limited budget, So online courses Are rarely an option. Keep up the good work!
Thank you Deb, so pleased you are enjoying the videos, I will be making lots more. I am also doing online courses now but appreciate that not everyone has that option. I will be putting lots more free videos up too! Take care, Michele
I absolutely love Viridian Green. Just use it wisely and sparingly in watercolor. In oil paints, it's essential for getting proper skies.
I'm sold on the pink as I've a fondness for crockery. Your painting of plant pots in saucers is absolutely inspiring Michell. I'm so tired of landscapes and skies, my sketching abilities can come to the front with this style.
Side note: I love your nails in this one! I bet you rarely get complimented, but it's always neat to see how they look in your different videos! 🎨
Thanks, I get compliments, and insults depending on the viewer (!)
I am just beginning my journey into watercors and you have changed my life
You are a gifted artist and a brilliant teacher. Thank you for all ypu gift us with! Xoxo from Alaska
What an excellent tip
Hello Danielle, thanks so much for your support!
i have been a watercolor artist for the past 45 years and have been doing it the hard way! Now I have the best instruction I have ever had
and am anxious to see how it all works for me!
You have made painting so much more fun!
No teacher I have ever had explained mixing the watercolors like you have. They teach as if I was a child just learning. I am 85. I must get busy!
😊
Ah, thanks, no one likes being talked down to, honestly!
I am sorry, Michele if you misunderstood me. I love your style of teaching and enjoy your videos very much. There just aren't any teachers that I know of around me that have approached the subject. I am not talking them down. Dellouise
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I'm 76 and fighting that feeling that I don't have time to get good at this! I've been painting for about 10 years but not as seriously as I am now!
Michele, your skin is a lovely shade of ivory that looks like creamy velvet and it is so smooth and unblemished like porcelain. With your hair colour you look just perfect, not something from a grave, although I do love your little self deprecating jokes. Keep up the wonderful videos, I love them. Started painting with watercolours again, during lockdown , (always loved them but never mastered them, especially mixing them) after years of photography, oils, graphite, charcoal, coloured pencils and finally some pastel work . I have really enjoyed them and have done landscapes, portraits, flowers, old architecture and so on in 2021, photo processing for a while again, now its winter, back to painting again. Thanks, you are an inspiration.
That's very kind, film lights are flattering! We are just heading into summer here :-)
Thank you Michele, this is very helpful. Your videos are always so interesting and informative.
I started learning watercolors with quinacridone rose on my palette and I’ve never looked back. Thank you for this very clear explanation.
You are so welcome!
I especially LOVE this color mixing video. I look forward to practicing more with your understandable information. Thank you!
You are so clearly helpful. Thank you.
Michelle, thank you for these videos. I’m fairly new to watercolour and watching your videos (discovered them a couple days ago) I’ve learnt a lot. I’ve enjoyed the mixing colours and looking forward to implementing them. Thanks again. Cheers!
Thank you so much Michele for all your advice and information. I am just in the process of buying my watercolour supplies and this a great help. 😀👌🏻
Thank you so much! Now I will try mixing a few! You are so generous to share your knowledge!
You are so welcome!
So helpful, thank you!
This video was very interesting and USEFUL!
Thank you.
WOW! This is so helpful! I never would have tried these mixtures on my own. Thank you!
Thanks for watching Cathy so glad you found it useful ☺️
Your Colour mixing advice is excellent! Thank you very much!!!💓
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you for this tutorial! It’s really straight forward and easy to understand. You’ve inspired me to use water color again!
Thank you again Michele. I have learned so much by watching your videos.
I'm so glad!
This is such invaluable information for someone trying to decide what colors for a limited pallet or travel set. Thank you!!!
Excellent. I have been painting for years but this has really made me think better about colour mixing. Thank you
Hi Michele thanks for going into the finer side of colour mixing and having subscribed i always hit the like button and you do have a lovely complexion 😊
This is very good, beginners, and experienced artists.
This is really helpful because I struggled with skin tones and light cream tones. Thank you so much!
Your colour tutorials are amazing,,, so much to learn
Thank you so much 😀
You are an excellent teacher. Thanks 🙏❤️
Wow, thank you!
I love you video's. Please keep them coming, I've watched so many other video's, but I've learned more in watching 3 of yours than in all the hours I've spent on the other one's. Thank you so so much.
Ps your art is awesome! Oh and pps I love your nails as well.
Lots of love from the Netherlands.
Keep safe everyone!
Thanks so much for watching Tanja ☺️ My nails are currently bare, as we are all forced to socially distance 😔 Stay well xx
Fascinating. I need to watch this video again and take notes. I learned such a lot! Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for all you do to teach us color facts ! I am a visual learner and your videos are wonderful visual explanations of the color relationships and reactions, which makes everything alot less complicated and it also helps me to remember those relationships and reactions. Michele you are a GREAT teacher AND you are a cat person, which makes you extra special. Thanks for sharing. ~: )
Wow, thank you! Cats Rule :-)
I have returned to painting watercolor after a 50 year pause. Your videos are so very helpful. Thank you very much and keep teaching.
Thank you so much 😀
I'm in awe at your videos on mixing colours. Never could I have thought to obtain a skin tone colour from a blue. I own the MozArt 40 colours palette, and I'm in love with it.
I thought this was very interesting. I do plan to try some of these mixes. Thank you.
That's great Kathy, thanks for watching!
I don't have either of the bluish pinks you recommended, but now I realize why I have purple lake in my kit! I thought alizarin crimson was a cool pink (well, certainly cooler than cadmium red), but you've educated on how to get some more natural tones out of my favourite primaries. Thank you!
I bought opera pink a few months ago and I love it.
Love your style of teaching. Thank you so much
It's my pleasure
Yes I have got quite a bit of those colors. Quinacrine Pink is my favorite too.
I'm always watching these at 3 am and am too brain dead to even know what to say, except thank you! This probably sounds completely stupid I didn't realize this is how colors are mixed, I have just been taking the closest tube to my target color and trying to "push" it closer to my target. I mean, most YT channels will just pick two colors and stir, and call that done. But you go through the thought process out loud and then get even more particular about creating the right shade. SO helpful!! 💝💖
Thanks! I am always watching YT in the early hours too. Need to sleep. Maybe just one more...
Love this! Thanks so much!
So glad!
Very helpful. I’ve only just found you to help with my watercolour painting and already feel I know more.
Fantastic!
That was so brilliant. Thank you I learnt a lot.
Glad it was helpful!
Color mixing is so interesting! You have brought out many important facts that we should be aware of! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for your excellent class. It's great to learn something new.
Glad you enjoyed it!
These are fantastic tips!
Glad you like them!
Thank you Michele!.... this video was so helpful. I will aim to have those colours in my palette.... am just a beginner but great to know these things from start🤗
Information is everything in learning! Good luck with your paintings :-)
His was extremely helpful in understanding the intricacies in how to identify and mix warm grays to cool grays, then an introduction to cool off whites, thank you!
This was the information I needed. Such a surprise, can’t wait to play with pink. Thank you so much for all your patience with us.💋
So pleased you found it helpful Pat 😊
So pleased you found it helpful Pat 😊
You do a wonderful job teaching color mixing. This video explains it so well. I was needing one that detailed the mixing of greys for rocks etc. Thanks so much!
Glad it was helpful!
I love your color mixing videos...I am learning so much. I am definitely going to use more of my blue based pink...it is so versatile. Thank you for sharing your expertise ✨
You are welcome Shari!
Watching you mix colors and explain how they work is fascinating. I'm beginning to see things differently.
Thank you so much!
This was such a great tutorial, thank you 😊
You are so welcome!
I am loving these color mixing videos. I work with polymer clay and have been mixing colors by the seat of my pants thus far. But I am wanting to get out of my color comfort zone and also to be able to predict what a color mix will be. So this information has me looking at my colors in a new way. Thanks so much: I'm subscribing.
I have quin rose from Daniel Smith, and I haven't used it at all yet. But now I understand it much better! Thank you very much for your great instruction.
This video is brilliant and so helpful thanks for all the great advice.
Glad you enjoyed it Pauline!
Brilliant and educational..you are a life saver 😊❤..I've got permanent rose n opera pink..and opera rose..
This was very helpful
Excellent.
I am learning so much from your videos! I find mixing colours hard. You explain this very well. Thank you
Happy to help!
I had to laugh when you were talking about viridian green! I live in Australia, and this colour (toned down) is brilliant for matching eucalyptus foliage :)
I'm finding your videos to be extremely helpful with regard to colour mixing and building a palette.
Thanks so much 🙂
In Danish we do call it light red. Love your channel
I am learning so much from your videos! Thank you so much for sharing! I saw this video a couple of weeks ago, and just got a tube of Windsor and Newton professional opera rose in the mail. I came back to watch your video again and mixed along with you. The colors that I’m getting...., 🎨😍🎨 OMGsh! This color is exactly what’s been missing from my palette! With the coronavirus quarantine, this is going to be a wonderful way to play and pass the time! 😃 Thank you again for all your effort and for sharing your beautiful talent. I hope you are staying happy and healthy 🌈
Thanks for watching and so pleased it helped you. I adore opera rose, I have the daniel smith one :-)
This was so interesting. I would never have thought of using viridian green with yellow and pink to get those beautiful neutrals. Thank you for making it so simple and straightforward.
You are very welcome Nadea!
Michele These lessons on colour are incredibly helpful! I have a lot of colours in watercolour paints but have struggled with the mixing and especially getting good skin tones. Thank you so much for sharing this information. I sure wish you lived in Canada so I could take lessons from you directly!
It's so hot here at the moment I wish I lived in Canada too. But really I am a terrible wuss about the cold. So glad you found the video useful!
Interesting, helpful and useful. I learned a lot. Thank you.👍🤗
Glad it was helpful!
I searched for your channel this morning, for just such a teaching. I'm choosing one more hue to add to a unique color mixing palette.
Welcome!
I appreciated this video very much, thank you for the mixing tips!
My pleasure!
I’m sorry can you clarify. Is alizarin crimson a primary red?
Michele you are so funny! Very informative use of pink for mixing. Looking forward to more of your videos 🤩
Thanks so much! 😊 New video in about... half an hour!
Thank you for your informative videos. I love them.
Glad you like them, you are welcome!
So interesting and helpful. Thanks!
You're very welcome!
Thanks!
Very informative, just like always! Lots of thanks!
My pleasure!
I understand better now, but I remember having a coniptic fit trying to mix purple last month or so (using the wrong red). This was interesting (pink is my favorite color) and quite informative. Thank you, Michele!
Very useful video! I have the quinacradone pink and use it very often, but the DS pink is so bright and fresh, maybe next on my list...
It's an amazing colour, it literally glows!
Very helpful information! Btw your nails look very pretty here they make me feel tingly😆
Thank you!! 😊
Love you videos! I have yet to try painting with WC, just watching and learning so much from you. I am an oil painter primarily and have been terrified of WC.
You can do it!
Excellent- thank you once more
My pleasure!
Really learned a lot, as always, from this video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Best video color mixing.thank you
Glad you like it! Thank you!
I’ve done a little bit of watercolor, and some has actually turned out quite well. I’ve been painting mostly with acrylics, but I keep wanting to try watercolors again. I recently found your channel, so I’ve subscribed, and I’m really enjoying watching your demos and listening to your advice. I know something about many of the topics you cover, but you have definitely clarified things. Along with that your demos are excellent!
Thanks Anne and thanks for subscribing 🙂
This was so helpful! Thank you.
I'm so glad!
I’m brand new to watercolor. Your videos are always interesting and informative. Thank you.
Glad you like them!
Very helpful video yet again. Thx again. 🥰
You’re welcome 😊
I’m a beginner at watercolours. Your videos have been so helpful at teaching me things I should know in a systematic and organised way. Thank you.
You are so welcome!
Whenever I watch one of your videos, I learn something useful. Thank you so much for sharing the benefit of your experience with all of us! -Oh, I have all those colors, but not any phthalo green.. The color gives me indigestion. Never ever thought of mixing quin rose with it to calm it down, since I don't have it(!)
Thanks, yes it's a tricky colour!
Ok Ive found the answer to the question I posed here, so no need to answer. Ive signed up for the drawing. goody!!!
getting on with it now. thank you Michele.
Thank you. I always learn something new with your videos I am also a fan of pink.
Pink forever!
So very helpful! Thank you!
So glad!
I live in an area where I am very limited in what I can get, and even shipping can be difficult. On a recent trip I stocked up on pinks, but was a little lost when it came to using them. I also have struggled to get neutral colors- this has been super helpful. Thank you!
That is awesome!
I've loved Alirizen Crimson from the beginning of my are journey. I also love Perm. Rose, it's my go-to for making greys. Haven't tried Opera Pink or Opera Rose, they certainly have a sort of neon type colour, will give it a try. It takes ages of practice, but finding your favourite browns & greys is brilliant, you find yourself automatically going for your favourite colours to mix. Thank you for the great tutorial, love watching your videos. 🤗💐🎨💝
Thanks for watching Jacqueline
Very good for me - I have difficulty getting the lite cream shades - can’t wait to mix this! Thank you 🙏
You are so welcome!
You are a wealth of information Michele,thanks so much.claire
No problem at all ☺️
Fab, I've always wanted to buy opera pink for my palette to add spark, now this is giving me the tipping point to do it! Thanks so much. Good to know my Quin Rose will suffice in the mean time.
You are welcome!
This was a great tutorial
Thank you!