How To Start Watercolor Painting (10 Starter Colors!)
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- How To Start Watercolor Painting - useful colors for beginners. These 10 colors will enable the mixing of many more! Watch this next: • How to Mix Watercolors...
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The essentials set contains: Hansa Yellow, Dairylide Yellow, Phthalo Blue (green shade), French Ultramarine, Permanent Rose, Pyrrole Red, Yellow Ochre, Raw Umber, Burnt Sienna, Payne's Grey
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0:00 Introduction and about Primary Colors
4:43 Hansa Yellow
5:29 Diarylide Yellow
7:18 Phthalo Blue (Green Shade)
8:19 French Ultramarine
10:38 Permanent Rose
11:58 Pyrrole Red
12:48 Yellow Ochre
14:22 Raw Umber15:18 Burnt Sienna
16:32 Payne's Grey
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I think you have recommended a good starter kit Michele. I hope my comments don't confuse your viewers.
White paper reflects all colours. when we apply red wave length coloured paint, what happens is the surface absorbs green and blue-violet, so we see only red. As only red is reflected green and blue/violet are subtracted. Therefore paint mixing is called subtractive mixing. The more colours we mix, the more colours are absorbed until we get muddy darks, greyed colours and finally black.
The more that the hue is neutralised the more the colour becomes chromatically impure.
Chromatically pure colours include Red, Magenta, Orange, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue and Blue Violet the colours of the rainbow. These colours are pure hues, primary and secondary colours. Hue is the quality of colour that allows us to distinguish between colours of the rainbow. They are single unmixed hues or a mixture of just two primaries.
Chromatically impure colours are tertiary colours, a mixture of all three primary colours. They include earth colours ochres, siennas, umbers, madders, greys, blacks and olive greens and army greens. Although they can be mixed they are often included as convenience colours to save time and make mixing easier.
Next step is to arrange the pure hues on a colour mixing wheel to avoid making mud all of the time. I create a six point star of David. Using a compass draw a circle. Keeping the compass at the same radius, place the compass point at top dead centre and scribe a light arch to make marks on the circumference of the circle. Repeat this procedure from each mark on the circumference. One ends up wth six points on the circle. Paint a circle of colour over each point in the following order: Hansa Yellow top dead centre, next and to the right, place Pyrrole Red (I personally use Winsor red) Next point down on right Permanent Rose, (an impure replacement for unavailable pure Magenta), bottom place French Ultramarine Blue (Ultramarine Blue is a good substitute) directly opposite yellow, lower left side phthalocyanine blue Green Shade an impure cyan) then I mix green because Phthalo Blue mixed with Hansa Yellow to make good pure greens. I need them in Thailand but they are rarely needed in Australia. I like having Olive Green, Schmincke Hookers Green and Winsor Green in my paint box.
I recommend mixing the intermediate colours between each of these main mixing colours:
Hansa Yellow + Pyrrole Red ➡️ Yellow Orange/ Orange/ Vermillion Hues
Pyrrole Red + Permanent Rose ➡️ Carmine Red
Permanent Rose + French Ultramarine Blue➡️ Violet (Dioxazine violet hue and/or Quinacridone Violet hue)
French Ultramarine + Phtahlo Blue
I use Ultramarine Blue and Cobalt Blue as blues between French Ultramarine and Phthalo Blue as Pthalo Blue is copper based and contains some green. I use Winsor Blue Red Shade and Winsor Blue Green Shade as a personal preference here but I use Phthalo Blues in other brands.
Phthalocyanine Blue Green Shade + Hansa Yellow ➡️ dark green, green and yellow green.
I like to also have Manganese Blue to mix with Hansa Yellow for even brighter greens, but it is not an alternative for Phthalo. Blue
Then one understands to keep the colours pure do not mix Cyan, magenta and yellow together or Red, Yellow and Blue together. No more than two primaries for pure hues.
The colour wheel can be used to approximately identify opposite colours, to enable one deliberately mix tertiary colours, that is, three Primaries in varying quantities and combinations.
Add a small amount of French Ultramarine Blue to Yellow, then some more Blue to see the change. Do the same to Yellow Orange. Add a small amount of Phthalo Blue Green Shade to Orange Red then to red and to Permanent Rose. Add Permanent Rose to Greens.
This way colours similar to Yellow Ochre, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Olive Green can be discovered.
An alternative is to gradually add black to make shades of each pure hue, add greys to make pastel colours, or white to make tints. That is a good mixing exercise but understand most artists prefer to avoid white in watercolours and black in general as allowing the eye to mix different pigments in such fine close translucent arrangement on the surface of the paper makes brighter richer colours in the painting.
I like to have a few Darks Paynes Grey, Dioxazine Violet, Indigo Blue, and Vandyke Brown W&N.
My preference for Winsor & Newton comes from starting my Diploma in 1959. W&N was the only good brand we had at that time where I lived. I now use several different brands, they all have their strengths and weaknesses.
Michele gives great advice for all artists not just beginners. We're never too old to gain new knowledge, and younger artists like Michele are living proof of just how MUCH you can learn!
I am not young but thank you!
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber You are young compared to me I do assure you. I did my first watercolours over 60 years ago, but still learn by taking advantage of your great teaching style and technical knowledge. Many thanks and keep up the good work Michele!
Thank you so much, Michele, for discussing the terms "warm blues" and "cool blues". Even with a strong art background (from years ago) I have been struggling to see any blues, except maybe turquoise, as a warm blue!
The terms "red or green-leaning" blues are easier for me to see, understand, & identify.
I love all colors and art mediums, so thank you for restoring my visual reality and peace with the paint/pigment world and so much more!! Best wishes from Southern California ❤️ 🪻💙💐🌞🎨🖼💚
Thanks Susan so glad it helped!
Thank you for the clear explanation of the reasoning behind your choices. I'm a fairly beginner watercolors with the added twist of being blind. Like 80% of blind people I have some sight, is just not reliable or always trustworthy. I look forward to watching more of your videos. I found you on the Uptrex website. Another YT watercolor artist I watch I'd having a trip to France. I was intrigued with the server and s started looking at other trips. You're was interesting so I came to YT to see some of your work. I'm very glad I did!
Thanks Heidi, it's fantastic that you are still able to enjoy painting, I have taught lots of students with visual issues :-)
Thanks a lot, you've showed me some colors I didn't even think of!
You’re welcome 😊
I wish I saw this a few years ago when I started out. I've gone nuts and have waaaay too many paints. Ugh. Thanks...I learned a lot about mixing!!
Not all colours can be mixed, it's fine to have lots, it's also a good idea to learn to mix so you have the best of both worlds!
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber thank you. I'll feel less guilty!! Have a great day
This was very helpful! I'm a kid, so I don't have a lot of money but have been wanting to get a quality watercolor set. This has definitely been a useful resource when researching.
I'll have to make more use of the Permanent Rose I have after watching this--thanks, all very helpful. I'm not quite certain about Payne's Grey in the usual watercolor sets, however. I remember scoping through what Amazon had in the way of beginners sets and never could find Payne's Grey. You might remember asking you about this color some months ago. I've a big tube of it now, and it's been invaluable so far!
“This channel is cat approved” lol lol my three cats and dog will be happy about that 😂 love your channel! You don’t faff about and I find you original - I am loving learning about colour theory here :) xxx
These six single pigment primaries and secondaries have been a staple in my palette for decades: PY150 Nickel Azo Yellow, PO71 Transparent Pyrrol Orange, PR122 Quinacridone Magenta, PB15:3 Phthalocyanine Blue, PV23 Dioxazine Purple and PG7 Phthalocyanine Green. PV23 and PG7 are fantastic in mixes!!
Strange. What on earth do you paint that you'd intentionally keep phthalo, purple and staining colors on your palette? I can understand the pr122, pg7 and py150 but the rest?
My husband is a offset printer who worked on 5 colour and 10 colour presses ,yes cymk can mix any colour. As to pantone colours they are just ready made convenience cymk colours he had to mix pantone colours himself to colour match pantone colours and although they are custom colours they still only convenience colours able to be mixed and use cymk at the base level. Within the printing world it may not have the same characteristics such as granulation of a single pigment but it can be colour matched exactly. They use a spectrometer to achieve this which measures the specific gravity which indicates the density of the colours within a sample so the exact weights to be added can be precise. It becomes an exact copy of the original colour, just like synthetic drugs for example have the exact same structure as the original organic chemicals so too are they exact mimics of the original single pigment colours. Single pigment are useful for other qualities specific to each, especially regarding the way it behaves that makes them special. I still have a variety of each primary on my palette for the sake of ease of mixing as we don't have the same equipment to measure exactly as printers do. And I also have some special single pigments mainly for their unique characteristics such as granulation. There are many reasons why people don't just use cymk, but mixing technically isn't the reason it's just easier.
such extremely useful information, and I am glad I’m watching it now because I was just about to splurge and buy some tube watercolors
thanak you Michelle, this is brilliant. Ive finally bought myself some windsor and newton paints and they have a lot of the colours you are suggesting...plus black and white. so Ill take them out and replace them with what you are suggesting. Ill be doing the patreon thing as soon as Im up and running. I love your interactions, you are my favorite teacher xx
Thanks so much Kylie, that's brilliant :-)
Hi Michelle I have the colours you suggested and thank you sincerely for your suggested selection I will set these colours my travel palette kindest regards Steve
You are very welcome!
I own 7 of these colours! I have experience mixing acrylic paints so I've been thinking about things like warm yellows vs cool yellows. As I start with watercolour I find the mixing part so fun and relaxing. It's a trickier medium to work with IMO but also fun and challenging. thank you for offering substitute colour suggestions. That's a real money saver for those of us just starting to collect supplies. I would rather have good brushes than 4 yellows that behave very similarly.
Great tips for a travel palette many thanks
How did you know I didn’t know where to start? Thank you a million times over!
You are very welcome!
Essential viewing for anyone using watercolour paints! For my part, I am like using Payne's gray. I think it is much underestimated.
I’m so glad I found you. I’ve been dabbling with watercolors and the pencils. I love watching your classes, I’m going to have a 3 lumbar fusion in 2 weeks and am so happy I found this class. I’ve got my recovery area all set up and ready for rehab with watercolor, L o L, I’ll be separated from the rest of the household so I’m happy to have you with me. Thank you for everything!
Bless you, I do hope you recover quickly X
Your so sweet. I’m sure you’ll be teaching me a lot. I’ll be a captive audience so to speak. L o L
@@txna58 Hope you're recovering well, and having a fun time painting! Praying for you!
You are a great teacher! As a teacher myself (history, not art but I do love me some art history!), I appreciate your clear, concise explanations.
Wow, thank you!
I have recently started watercolour painting and I'm thinking of making my first custom palette. This video is a god send as I have been confused about what colours to put in the palette, thank you, this video has helped me so much.
Glad it was helpful!
Wish I’d seen this video before I bought my paints. I learned a lot for my next trip to the art store!
Very helpful.
Thank you Michele
Any time!
Thank you! As a Newbie to Watercolors I find your tutorials most helpful.
Glad you like them!
Thank you so much! I have been trying to find a starter set with both “warm” and “cool” primary colors. I already have a palette Winsor & Newton and wanted to try to just add to the few “starter” appropriate colors that I had. I greatly appreciate your help with finding the names of colors that I can find in that line of paint. I know many artists use one brand of paint while others use colors from many different brands. If there are pros and cons to these methods please consider making a video f this topic. May 2023 be creative and joyous for you and those for whom you care.
It's nice to start with one brand, but if you find there are colours you don't feel satisfied with or unusual colours you want to try there's nothing wrong with adding others in. A colour like Payne's Grey will be different from each manufacturer so you may want to shop around.
Good information, can't wait to start painting!
Have fun!
I just love that your supplies are vegan xxx
Thank you.
I must look at your website, I have become a colour and colour nerd now since lockdown. Now i talk to people about colours and colour mixing, and the other day I discussed colour mixing with a gardener at the farmers market. Hello, my name is Beaulieu, I am a colour mixing addict from London.
I am originally from London, I see colour everywhere now!
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber I am getting there. I am thinking when I see a colour outside , what Mix is that? I will walk into lamp posts one day or into a pond. I was in Jermyn Street the other day and I was admiring the autumn colours of mens clothes in the shop windows and the beautiful red and gold lettering of the shop signs and seeing how they all work well together. I look into the windows and see clothes with green tonal values.... and think, oh, they did a good job there. Then I see a nice red and I wonder how to mix it.
The best split pallet on CZcams. Thanks!
Thank you!
I have studied this video like crazy. It's been extremely helpful for helping me to reorganize my pallets so it's easy to get clean mixes. Now whenever I branch into a new brand of paints, I know exactly what colors to buy to get started
Super helpful thank you!!!
I'm refreshing my memory of your color advice to make a nice starter palette for my niece. I love convenience colors and have TONS of tube paints...don't want to overwhelm her as she starts her watercolor journey! Thank you so much for such an informative video :D
Really useful thanks 😊
In my watercolors, I could only afford about 6-7 colors at the time. So I got 7 colors. The warm and cool version of primary colors and a neutral tint as black. I found I can mix earth tones and some more earthy colors when mixing in a mixed brown or certain primaries but in my gouache, I was able to buy the earth tones and I differently find them helpful and making painting easier and quicker.
Very good explanation, Thank you
I have got most of these colors in my custom palette. I am really glad that I did this well. Thanks for keeping me inspired.
I always learn so much from your videos, and especially enjoy your color mixing lessons and the very helpful information you provide. Also, love the delicate and beautiful chain necklaces you're wearing! You always look so pretty. 😻😊👏
Thank you Michelle. This is very helpful. I need paint and don't want to get to many colors so this demo was really great.
I'm so glad!
Learning a lot from this video! I'm getting into watercolor and the options can get overwhelming. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful, Kara!
Thank you, very clear and useful
Glad it was helpful!
thanks, I found this so helpful!!!
You're welcome!
Just what i needed. Thank you
I'm starting with watercolour.
This video is so useful.
Thank you!
Can't wait to learn more from your channel ❤😊
Awesome! Thank you!
Thank you
Welcome!
So much good information! Thank you!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I loved this demo! Loads of information and how to wisely spend your $$s. Thank you Michelle.
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent! Thanks!
Thank You!
No problem
It seems I might need to get a little more creative with my color mixing, with all the colors my set is lacking ... Gotta check my travel set some time, too.
Interesting thanks
Amazing video. Thank you. I’ve been looking for a video like this.
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent recommendations! From here forward I will be using these recommendations for new pallets!
Brilliant info. Thank you, Michelle.
You really make it easy to understand the difference between cool and warms. I finally got it Thanks
Glad it helped!
Very helpful!
This is very helpful. Thank you.
Thnak you this was a fabulous video. I am often getting friends started on watercolours and I pull out my hair trying to decide what might be best for them to start. I have my own favourites of course, like quinacridone gold that I could not live without,but your choices for the neutrals was opening my eyes. I am going to play with raw umber today and give Payne’s grey another chance. Wow that aubergine! Many thanks.
You are welcome Alison!
It's so helpful to get me oriented!
You are brilliant in describing paints and mixing. I have so many paints and I am setting up a new smaller pallet and am only putting in the " beginner " colors because of your demo. I have been experimenting mixing different pigment and am awed by what I have discovered. Besides useful, it is fun. Thank you so very much.
Loved this lesson. I am trying to use a more limited pallet and this was perfect.
Incredibly helpful thanks. Both my beginner sets are lacking a bunch of things. :(
Happy to help!
Thankyou I loved this tutorial.
So glad!
Thank you, just love your videos. Especially with tea and cake!
So glad!
Thank you, this has been so useful. I started with the 12x half pan Cotman Sketcher’s Pocket Box. There are stacks of videos which tell me what colours I ‘should’ be using but it’s really good to have your explanations of WHY.
Glad it was helpful!
Such a useful and beyond helpful amount of information, and broken down enough to clearly understand. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge...what a help!
No problem Stephanie ☺️
This video was great! I learned a lot! I hope I stick with this! It's fun.
I agree! These are the best picks for the most colour mixes, great stuff! I have all of these and many more I’m an expert I was just curious about your picks and reasoning. I really agree about the blue as well I don’t think there is a warm they are all cool I’ve been calling it violet or green leaning myself lately. Spot on about everything really! Love the video!
Glad you like them!
Thank you .... really helpful and looking forward to making the colour swatches and labelling them!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you very much Michele This was very helpful.
You are very welcome!
I have ordered the Essential kit and am particularly anxious to try it for some nice autumn landscapes. Thanks for coming out with these paint sets. I have the floral set and have used it for so many other paintings in addition to flowers. The colors are so clean and bright. I am a big fan already!
Fantastic Lynn, so glad you like the colours, I know you will love these too!
thank you so much! a beautiful helpful video👏
So glad!
Nice selection of colours. My fav is perm rose of course.
Mine too!
Thank you for the video. I often overlook the earth colours but burnt sienna is gorgeous and the combinations are so pretty. I need to try to use those more often as they have a depth to them which I love.
I think it's because they look so dull in the palette, they only come alive with water!
Excellent info, just what I needed to get started setting up my plein air watercolor palette. Thank you!
You are so welcome!
Hi Michele, thanks for this video! I have a new respect for pinks which I had previously overlooked when making up a palette. Still learning and practicing my mixing! Thanks again!
You are so welcome!
I I love your videos. They all are so super helpful. Thank you for making them .
You are so welcome!
Very very helpful Michelle. I shall try this
Glad it was helpful!
You're such a good instructor. I love this video. Thanks for the info.
I appreciate that!
Your information is very helpful and easy to follow along. I have subscribed to your channel
Thanks so much!
Your videos are very helpful.
Glad to hear that!
This was so helpful and clear especially about why and in what context a primary is or isn't . . .
Thank you!
Great video, excellent pigments and I am ready to purchase a Christmas present for myself:)!
And in the meantime I am rewatching your video with a pen and paper writing down all the mixing tips! Thanks!
Happy Christmas to you then, so glad you liked the video!
This truly helped! I've been having a hard time mixing colors
Glad I could help!
very helpful
Glad to hear that
I have attempted to “paint” many times in the past but could not understand why my colors felt off. In frustration I would just not continue…thank you for explaining this principle in a very easy to understand way..i feel as though the fog has lifted, many thanks and many thumbs up! I cannot wait to edit and rearrange my paint box and give it another go.
Brilliant, you are welcome Lorie!
Thanks very much for this. Very informative for a newbie to water color like me :)
So glad!
Thank you for your clear and valuable content. I appreciate you as a teacher for your explanations of how and why things work or don't. While I have a background in art, I've been away from it for quite some time and you are helping inspire me to return to an art practice. I have played around with watercolors now and again over the years without much instruction. Your videos are filling in lots of gaps. In this is video you helped me identify 1 of the problems with my current palettes - I was missing a rose color! Soon to be remedied! Thank you for generously sharing your content for free. I am planning on taking 1 of your paid courses soon as result of your teaching skill and generosity.
Thanks so much Sheri, I am sure you will enjoy a course :-)
Thanks greatly for your video Michele, as I'm very much still a beginner so watercolour mixing is something I struggled with. Greatly appreciated stay safe
Glad it was helpful!
Very useful! Thanks Michelle.
You are welcome! Don't worry about the name, I have friends of 20 years still spell it wrong! :-)
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber 😹😹 You are so kind. I don't comment very often but I follow all your explanations, thank you for your great work.
Thank you ! I have been enjoying watching many of your videos. It is helping me move forward as I am a beginner watercolor artist. You explain things so well in a way that I can completely understand and I am very grateful. It is helping me deal with quarantine.
Happy to help! Quarantine is hard for all of us, I live alone, it's tough. Hopefully things improve soon :-)
I’m always looking for yellow alternates, I really like your warm yellow choice.
Oh thank you!
Thank you for sharing these tips - SO helpful! I'm definitely going to get a Payne's Gray and swap out my Alizarin Crimson for one of the rose colors ASAP!
Glad it was helpful!
Very helpful video. Thank you for your terrific explanation of you chose these colors and what colors you can mix using them.
Thanks for watching!
This was extremely helpful! I wish I had seen this before purchasing some of the colors I have!
All colours come in useful eventually!
I loved your video. I am a beginner and have difficulty in mixing colours These tips really make a difference! Thank you for sharing.
Glad it was helpful!
Very useful and well explained. I have been painting for a while but it still has been useful to have this so well organized for me. I think I will make myself a palette that has all these color plus some of my favorites like green gold, cobalt turquoise light, phtalo green etc.
Glad it was helpful! It makes a good travel palette too. I love Green Gold, I have the Daniel Smith one.
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber I prefer the more golden Winsor and Newton one. DS has the same pigment PY 129 under a different name. I like it on its own it mixed with phtalo green blue shade for a beautiful sap green.
What a fantastic video! Thank you so much! I have a lot of different colors in different mediums and have been really itching to get into water color using gouache or a few other mediums and this is extremely helpful!
Thanks April 😊
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber you're welcome!
I enjoy the washable easily removed colors...then your sedimentary colors, the the permanent...easier corrections...early on...