Colour Theory and Mixing Colours. Part 1.
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- čas přidán 26. 01. 2019
- In these videos, I hope to make colour theory easy to understand. Part 1: How do we mix 'clean' versus 'muddy' colours.
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This is the most useful video for me learning color theory. My goodness I wish I found you 100 videos ago
cool and warm primary colors are also nice to demo. thanks
This is by far the best explanation I have seen of warm and cool colours. Thank you. Really appreciate you sharing your time and knowledge.
Thank you, Gena. I am so happy if my video could be useful!
Yes. Perfect!
Just the BEST video of all teaching understanding colours! I got it after watching so well and my work has drastically improved ❤thank you!
Dear Jenny, I hope I may call you that I am 65 retired and this is the first time someone explained to me the color wheel and I get it , Thank you so much I am starting with watercolor now I have the time and I think You will become my favourite teacher I just subscribed and hope to learn a lot from you.
Thank you O ja and thanks for taking me to Chianghai (Tack so myket)
Of course, you may, I am so happy that my video could be of use to you! That is the best compliment I could get for my humble teachings here on youtube. Välkommen till min Kanal!
Thank you for this lesson! I so appreciate watching you mix them on your dish. Your demonstration is clear and quite useful!
I am happy if my video could be of use! Thank you so much for watching, Rita!
This is the clearest, most easy to understand explanation that I have found so far! I will be using this video as a reference for making my own mixing charts. Thank you!
I am so happy to hear that, Thank you so much for watching, Gwen!
That is the best explanation of colour theory and mixing that I have EVER encountered. Thank you for this!
I'm so happy you enjoyed it. Thank you, Jude!
This video was so helpful and very appreciated!! I do mostly nature watercolors and I use "muddy" colors all the time. I don't know why but I love all muted tones. Thanks so much for such an explanatory video. Just subscribed .❤
This makes me so happy to hear, Thank you Debbie! I love muted colours too, and use them all the time!
This is exactly what I needed to view to understand a bit more of color mixing! Thanks a lot for sharing such a great explanation.
I am so happy my video could be useful! Thank you for watching, Lis!
This is just an excellent video on colour theory and mixing! Thank you for sharing.🇨🇦
Thank you, Anne, I'm so happy you enjoyed it!
Thank you. This is an excellent lesson to be watched over and over.
I am so happy to hear that you enjoyed it!
So interesting
I'm glad you think so!
I love your way to explain the colour mixing theory, it’s useful and informative. Thanks for your sharing !💕
I am so happy to hear that, thank you, Rachel!
Marvellous course. Thanks Jenny !
You're welcome, thank you!
Hi Jenny, as a budging artist in this medium , I keep accessing this video as a guide, it’s so helpful!! So once again thank you !!
I am so happy if my video can be useful! Happy New Year, Vivek!
@@JennyMoedKorpelaArt yes it’s very helpful! Thank you and wish you a very happy new year too Jenny .. love and regards from India !!
Wonderful video! Thank you very much! I painted in watercolor for many years, but stopped about 10 years ago. I'm now retired, so I have more time to paint. I am watching videos to refresh my memory. I am very fond of all of the Quinacridone colors...they are so vibrant.(I have many of them from Daniel Smith Paints). I also like to use the bright pink, Opera(Holbein)...for mixing bright purples and oranges. Da Vinci paints are also good because they are high quality and come in large tubes. Thanks, again, for your videos. I just subscribed to your channel.
Hi Valerie, and welcome! I am so happy if my video could be of use! The Quinacridone colours are some of my favourite colours too, they are just so rich and luminous! Good luck with your painting, I am sure you will really enjoy it now when you have time to do it again! There are a lot of great watercolour channels here on youtube to be inspired by, some of my favourites that I can highly recommend are: The mind of watercolor, Louise De Masi, Denise Soden, creationsceecee, Jane-Beata, Natasha Newton to name just a few.
Superb. An excellent lesson to keep and practice. Thank you!
I am so happy you liked it!
Excellent and thorough explanation! The best I have ever heard!
Thank you, and thank you so much for watching, Mary!
Thank you so much, this was very easy to understand and fun to follow. Really appreciate you sharing your knowlege. Im very happy that I stumbled here !
Thank you Andree-Ann, welcome!
Thank you so much for your explanations and demonstrations... I'll be coming back to this often, and I really must do this with my palate.
I am happy you enjoyed my video. Thank you so much for watching, Jane!
Love this! Thank you. Great explanation. Lovely colour swatches.
Thank you, I'm so happy you enjoyed it!
Bra video med bra information! Tack Jenny!! :) Ha en bra vecka!! Kram!
Tack Mona, jag försöker mitt bästa... 😊 Ha en underbar vecka du också! Kram!
Gosh this was EXTREMELY helpful and super beautiful to watch (and peaceful to hear). I'd wish I've seen it yesterday before buying my watercolor set tho 😂 Anyway, the godets come with each color pigments (I hope) so I'll know what to buy in the future to complete the warm/cool primaries!
Anyway, if I got "pure" RGB, can I make the warm and cold of each one? Maybe not lemon yellow. If I'm not wrong, my box includes cadmium yellow, cadmium red and ftalo blue. Anyway, tomorrow when they arrives, I'll do my colour chart to see what I get!
Than you for this helpful video. I'll watch the second part right now!
Thank you, and I am so happy to hear that my video could be of help. If the RGB colours you get are close to 'pure', then they will be very middle ground, as in between cool and warm. Mixing colours from those should be very easy, and as you guessed, you can make them cooler and warmer by mixing in some of their neighbour colour on the colour wheel, except lemon yellow. If you wanted to cool a yellow by adding blue to it, you will just create a pale green... Anyway, once you get your colours and start mixing with them you should be able to tell where on the colour wheel they fit. Cadmium yellow can be both cool and warm depending on which you got, a cadmium lemon or cadmium light is usually cool yellows, while cadmium medium and cadmium deep are warm. Cadmium red is usually always a warmer red, no matter if it is the light or deep version, but if it is the deep cadmium you can still get a quite nice purple with it. Phtalo blue can be anything. If it is phtalo blue red shade it is a warm red. Not as warm as ultramarine, but still a warm blue. If it is phtalo blue green shade, then it is a beautiful cool blue that you get excellent greens with. If it only says phtalo blue, then it is usually on the cooler side on the colour wheel. Happy mixing!
Thank you so much! It was very very helpful for me ❤❤❤❤❤
While mixing colors I never thought that I am mixing two warms or two cools or mixing warm and cools. We know concept of warm and cool but never thought in those terms. Thanks for explaining why we sometimes don't get the colors we desire to get. Or when we get them we never knew the reason behind it. Thanks a lot.
I'm so happy if my video could be of help!
Hello from France ! Many thanks for this clear video. This is so usefull. I will try these colour charts this afternoon. And watch the next video too😉
Hi Nathalie, thank you. I am glad this video was useful!
Fantastic stuff really clear and in depth!
Thank you, I'm happy you think so!
The best explanation so far! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for watching!
Thank you for your excellent video on color theory. The explanation of the basics was clearly presented. I have been looking for a series on color theory that is from the beginning to the end.
Thank you so much for your comment, I am so happy to hear that my video could be of use!
Thank you as learned more about mixing colors I do have & explain and show the results helps in mixing colors & are times want muddy but only where you want it!
I'm so happy that my video could be useful. Colour mixing is fascinating, and I am learning more all the time myself!
A well explained tutorial! Very helpful, thank you!!
Thank you, I am so happy you liked it!
yes, now I know how to mix a crisp green🎉tks
It's easy when you know how, isn't it... 😄 Thank you so much for watching!
Very well explained and helpful
Thank you!
Thank you so much for watching!
I'm actually going to draw the same circle ⭕ wheel of colours, this explanation of how the colours mix is brilliant x
I'm so happy you liked it, thank you Lucy!
I like the way, you explain yourself very clearly and thank you
That makes me so happy to hear, thank you!
Thank you for a great synopsis. I still struggle with remembering that the red in a warm blue and the red in a warm yellow will combine for 'mud', without defaulting to thinking, "well they are both warm, so they should mix clean".
I'm glad if it could be of help. Colours and pigments are fascinating, but as you said, not always 'straightforward ' when it comes to mixing.
I haven't watched the video yet, but keep in mind that blue and yellow are supposed to make green. However since you're mixing the warm versions of their hues & the red in them is the complimentary color to green, then they'll cancel each other out & make mud, so it's best to avoid mixing colors that include all 3 primaries. Keep a maximum of 2 primaries in mixes for clean colors, or include only a minimal amount of a 3rd primary if you're trying to make toned/muted colors. However for muddy/earthy colors, you're free to combine 3 primaries more flexibly. It all depends on your goals.
@@YourMajesty143 That is exactly what I am explaining in the video.
thank u for this series only watched part 1 so far i actually am understanding the mixing more i love convenience colors but today i feel like i want to mix colors starting with my daniel smith true colors in essential set
I am so happy if my video could be of use to you! Thank you so much for watching and commenting, Deborah!
How can I thank you for this beautiful informative video💕
Your comment and being here watching my videos is thank enough! I'm so happy you enjoy them!
Thank you, really clear & helped me understand so much better😀
That makes me very happy to hear!
Thank you so much!
Excellent. Thank you
Thank you for watching!
Thank you so much, as a beginner it's really helped me a lot❤🤗
I am so happy to hear that!
Very well done... greetings from Kenya 🙃
Thank you, Jeanne.
excellent .help me lot..thank you 🙏
I’m happy to hear that!
Thank you so much Ma’am for this wonderful topic..
I am so happy you enjoyed it!
@@JennyMoedKorpelaArt well I should thank you.. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
lots of love from India 🙏
Thank you!
Thank you such a helpful video
I'm happy you liked it!
beautiful
Thank you!
Thank you very much for this essential lesson! My question is: when I buy a primary colour, how can I know if it falls on the cool side or the warm side? Will the manufacturer tell me if, e.g. the blue has a touch of red or rather a touch of yellow? If so, where to find this information?
Hi, and thank you so much for watching, I am glad it could be of help! The manufacturers should be able to tell you where on the colour wheel their colours belong, and if they are a reddish or a greenish-blue. If colours are made out of more than one pigment, it always says on the tube of paint, and you can check those pigments up online. However, many primary colours are made out of a single pigment, so there is no other pigment added to them to make them either more reddish, bluish or more yellowish. It is just the property of the pigment itself. For example, Ultramarine blue is a warm blue and is made out of pigment PB29. Prussian blue is a cold blue and is made out of pigment PB27. We 'know' they are warm respective cold with how they mix with the other primaries. Ultramarine is warm because it makes beautiful purples when mixed with red, but gives you a 'dirty' green when mixed with yellows. Prussian blue is a cold blue because it gives you crisp 'clean' greens when mixed with yellows but a 'dirty' purple when mixed with red. Sometimes it can help to look at the colour swatches, and compare the blue you have chosen with reds and purples and then with greens and yellows. If If a blue matches well with a purple colour it is most probably a warm blue, and if it matches well with a green colour then it is most probably a cold blue. But there is no exact science that will tell you if a certain colour is warm or cold, and depending on who you ask you can get a different answer. I am sorry I can not give you an easier answer. I learned most of it through experimenting and mixing a lot of colours, so today I can tell you if a primary is cool or warm just by looking at it, because I know where it belongs on teh colour wheel and how it will mix. You should be able to find the information on each pigment online with a little research. One site that can give you a start is Gamblin: gamblincolors.com/color-temperature-list/
I hope this could help?
@@JennyMoedKorpelaArt That was an incredibly helpful reply! Thank you!
@@notknot08 You are most welcome!
I really like how you mention that warm and cool blues don't necessarily relate to how they look but where they are on the chart. That's always confused me. But I still don't understand why blue with yellow is cool and blue with red is warm if yellow and red are both warm colors and blue is equally between them.
Hi Bee! I know it is confusing, it took a lot of research on my part to understand it as well. In this case, it is the terminology itself of warm and cool that makes things confusing. Red and yellow are indeed colours that are both considered warm, but red is the 'hottest'. That has to do with how the colours travel through light and distance. When looking at a distance, or when you go diving, you will 'lose' the red colour first, then the yellow until everything looks bluish. That is why we want to use warm colours in the foreground and then bluer colours in the background. Especially when painting landscapes, because that is what our brain knows to be 'real' or 'true' because we see it all the time in real life. I would say that the confusion lies in that yellow is considered warm, when in actuality it is quite a neutral colour when you place it on the light spectrum. You probably agree with me that an orangy yellow is definitely 'warmer' than a pale greenish lemony yellow? Like I described above, when looking at a distance you will first lose the colour red, then yellow until everything looks bluish. So think of the colours in this way: red is warm, blue is cool, and then it is the yellow that is somewhere in between. So a yellowish-red is a warm red, because yellow is 'warmer' than blue. A bluish-red is a cool red because blue is 'cooler' than yellow. A warm blue is a blue that leans towards red on the colour wheel, and a cool blue is a blue that leans towards yellow on the colour wheel because red is warmer than yellow. And then lastly a warm yellow is a yellow towards the red on the colour wheel and a cool yellow is a yellow towards the blue on the colour wheel because blue is cooler than red. This became a very long answer (sorry for that), but I hope I could clarify the problematic 'warm' and 'cool' terminology within colours with this example.
@@JennyMoedKorpelaArt Thank you for your thoughtful and detailed reply. Thinking of it the way you explained actually helps a lot.
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Can you do a video on how to make your colour wheel?
That's a great idea! I will put it on my video 'to do - list' for when I start making videos again. Thank you, Meredith!
Mind blown! So, one question, (first question) , if you mix a warm and cool blue, and then use that blue to mix with the rest of the primaries, wouldn't they be altered and be "muddy" ?
Good question! If you mix a warm and a cool blue you are in essence creating a neutral blue that is neither cool nor warm. Depends a little of what pigments blues you mix of course. But when you have a neutral blue you can use that to mix with the other primary colours, and you will get good colour mixing results. Blending your own ‘neutral’ blue, or red or yellow, means that you eliminate the problem of getting muddy colours. You won’t be able to get super clean or vibrant colour mixes either , but you also won’t get muddy colours. Does that explanation make any sense at all?
@@JennyMoedKorpelaArt yes! fascinating. Have you written any books?
@@heartchitect1960 No I have not. There seems to be a demand for colour mixing books though, so maybe I have to try and put one together. It’s a subject I am passionate about, so I have to give it some serious consideration.
@@JennyMoedKorpelaArt oh please do!
How do you identify the cool or warm colors? Just by pigments?
The colours I use regularly I know what they are by their name, so I guess by pigment yes. I usually can tell just by looking at a colour if it is cool or warm. If I am unsure then I will do some colour-mixing swatches where I try the colour out and find it out that way. Then you have those colours that are close to being 'neutral', which means that they seem to be neither cool nor warm in their mixing properties, as they are somewhere in between.
The easiest way to find out what your colours are are is by mixing the colours. Start with a colour that you know is either cool or warm. So if you want to determine which of your red colours are cool or warm, start mixing all of them with just ultramarine blue, which is a warm blue. A warm blue has reddish undertones when it comes to mixing, so that means that it will give you 'clean' pure purples with cool reds, as they have a blue undertone. If you get a brownish-dirty purple, then you know that the red you used is a warm red, as a warm red has yellow undertones. I hope that helps?
Thanks I will start there.
I don’t get how there can be a warm or cold blue. If you mix red or yellow,both of which are warm colors, how does either make it a cold blue?
The terms 'warm' and 'cold' when it comes to colours are very misleading, because there are two ways we use those terms. None of which actually relate to temperature as in hot or cold, except for maybe how they got their name. Red and yellow are called or considered warm colours because they are associated with the sun and fire. But they also do not travel very well over long distances, so red and yellow colours close to you appear 'warmer' because they are close, while they lose their colour over a long distance. Blue on the other hand are often associated with water and sky and therefore 'cold' and blue travels very well and that is why distant hills and mountains appear bluish.
The term warm and cool when it comes to colour mixing is something completely different, and just a way to describe the properties of different colours, how they mix and where they belong on the colour wheel. A better term would probably be to use 'greenish-blue' instead of cool blue, and 'redish-blue' instead of warm blue. A blue is considered 'warm' when it sits towards the red on the colour wheel, aka has some red pigment in it. A blue is considered 'cool' when it sits towards the yellow on the colour wheel. There are almost no 'pure' pigments out there, no reds or yellows or blues that do not to some extent contain any of the other pigments in them. Every blue colour leans either towards red or yellow on the colour spectrum. Every red colour leans towards either yellow or blue on the colour spectrum, and every yellow leans towards either red or blue on the colour spectrum. That is why it is so important to know where the colours you use sit on the colour wheel so that you can mix clean colours. Like I said, the terms 'warm' and 'cool' are very misleading, just look at them as a way to try and explain the difference between different blues. Whoever came up with the idea of using 'warm' and 'cool' as a way to describe the different properties of colours did not think it through properly... 😁
Yellow is warm, red is neutral. A blue that leans yellow is warmer than a blue that leans violet.
You CAN get blue and red by mixing colors tho when ypu use magenta, cyan and yellow
Yes you can, but thats because you are using a red to mix red, and a blue to mix blue. Magenta is based on a red pigment and is a cool red, so by adding a little yellow you can get it warmer. Cyan is made of a blue pigment, but it’s on the ’cooler’ side, so by adding a little magenta to it, it will give you what appear to be a ’normal’ blue. When I explain that you can not mix colours to get red, blue or yellow , I’m talking about the pigment colour itself, because every other colour is based on the 3 pigments red/blue/yellow.
@@JennyMoedKorpelaArt rightt yeah makes sense, but why dont you teach about magenta and cyan at all because using those you get way prettier shades of especially purple and green and without using magenta you dont have pink at all
@@mirl8353 I do not teach to use CMY in painting because I do not use it myself. CMY, Cyan, Magenta, and yellow, are the versions of the primary colours that were developed to be used in printing. A printer does not mix colours, but prints in layers, so every colour is printed separately on top of each other. With this technique, the colours CMY works beautifully. Pigments work differently when being physically mixed together with paint.
Magenta is a cool red (a red on the bluer side of the red light spectrum) and I use it a lot. It is indeed a great colour for mixing purples and pinks. But so is Alizar Crimson, Carmine, Rose madder and my personal favourite of the moment: Quinacridone Rose. So when I teach the colour wheel that you need a cool red, magenta can be it. I just don't specify it to be magenta, because there are so many other great cool red colours out there that do the same things.
Cyan is problematic. There are very few brands out there that actually make a colour named cyan in paint. The closest pigment you can get what I have seen is Cobalt teal or cobalt turquoise. Then you can always mix your own cyan. If you mix a cool blue ( greenish-blue like Prussian, intense blue, cobalt-green etc.) with some yellow and white, you get very close to Cyan. To get a clean crisp green using Cyan, you need to use the same technique as a printer, and paint thin layers on top of each other with the white of the paper shining through. Best suited for watercolours and acrylics. When you paint with oil colours, you have to add white paint to achieve a Cyan colour, and that means that you have white paint in all the greens you mix, and this can result in pastel looking greens.
I teach to use a cool and warm version of all the primary colours because it works when painting in traditional media such as watercolour, acrylic and oils. With these, you can mix any colour you like, and you can mix either the cleanest and pure colours, or you can mix more 'muddy' colours, all depending on what you need for your painting. There are some colour combinations that you can not get without a warm blue like ultramarine blue, and sometimes you need a warm red like cadmium red to get for example a more old-fashioned salmon looking pink that you can not achieve with magenta.
I'm sorry for my longwinded answer, but it is a subject that I am passionate about! 😁
@@JennyMoedKorpelaArt thank you for the answer! You really put some time to it and now i understand this
@@mirl8353 The funny thing with colours is that if you ask another artist you will probably get a completely different answer to this topic! You are not the first to inquire about the CMY colours when it comes to colour mixing, so I think I will research it a little more and put it down for a topic for a future video when I have time to start filming again.
You can mix to get red. you mix magenta and yellow.
Yes you can mix magenta and yellow to get what looks like a ‘normal’ red, because magenta in itself on the colour wheel is a cool red and already contains red pigment. If we had no red pigment at all, we would not have the colour magenta. We cannot mix a ‘pure’ red, a red that contains no traces of the other primaries blue and yellow.
@@JennyMoedKorpelaArt You said you cannot mix to get the three primaries but you can. All you need is a split primary system or CMY.
@@natford8271 But to be able to have a split primary system to mix ‘back’ to get your primary colours, you need your primary colours red, blue and yellow to begin with to get your split primary colour chart or colours. Even the cmy are based on the primary colours. C for cyan, mainly a blue pigment, M for magenta, mainly a red pigment and Y for yellow.
@@natford8271 I have re-read your comments, and now I think I know where the confusion lies. When I say in my video that you can not mix to get your primary colours, I am talking about the pigment itself, what makes red red and blue blue. If we use our existing colours or pigments that we do have, we can mix a red out of magenta and yellow, and we can mix the primaries out of a split primary palette. We can mix a red out of those because the red colour, or the pigment red is already there. We are not actually mixing a red colour out of something else, like blue and yellow. What we are doing is tweaking an already existing red pigment from being purple-ish to being more 'christmas' red by adding a warm yellow. What I am talking about in my video is the primary colour itself. The 'original colour' of red, or the pigment red, or yellow or blue. If the pigment/colour red did not exist in this world, then we could never mix a red colour using only yellow and blue. Then we would also never be able to have orange and purple colours (or magenta), as they need the colour red to exist at all. The same goes for the other primary colours. If the colour/pigment blue did not exist, we could never mix greens or purples. And no amount of mixing yellow and red could ever give us a blue. And lastly Yellow. If the colour yellow did not exist, we could never mix green or orange colours, and we certainly could not mix a yellow out of blue and red. Red, blue and yellow is called primary colours because they are the original colours, colours that can not be mixed out of anything else not already containing the pigment they consist of. But because we do have blue, yellow and red pigments ( or if you really want to get into it, light that reflects differently on different surfaces in a way that we SEE different colours. If you have ever dived, you know that the colour red disappears if you go deeper than 5 meters. Not because the coral or fish itself isn't red anymore, but because the human eye can not see the colour red beyond the depth of 5 meters due to certain aspects of the sunlight being filtered out at that depth) sorry, I'm sidetracking here, as I was saying: because we do have the three primaries, we can mix all the other colours that exist like green, purple and orange. I hope I clarified now what I meant in my video when I said that you can not mix a primary colour?
@@JennyMoedKorpelaArt thank you. My confusion was based on your words, that red blue and yellow are primaries because you cannot mix them. Hence my reply. Apologies for my pedantry but I am an aspie and so the meanings of words are important to me.