I used to think I hated this color! Watercolor Painting Process
Vložit
- čas přidán 23. 02. 2022
- Buy this painting: www.arleebean.com/originals/w...
Support me on Patreon: / arleebean
My shop: www.arleebean.com
Become a Member for exclusive badges, videos, and more! / @arleebean
MATERIALS*
Roman Szmal Watercolors: bit.ly/3hiwy6g
Winsor and Newton Hot Press: amzn.to/3HmHVol
Silver Black Velvet Brushes: amzn.to/3C1HCi5
Daler Rowney Graduate Sketchbook: bit.ly/3t9mjHj
*I am an Amazon and Jackson's Art Affiliate, and purchasing ANY items using these links will help support this channel at no additional cost to you! ♥ Thank you.
Gouache Portrait class on Skillshare: skl.sh/30QdHFm
This link will also give you one free month of Premium membership, if you're new!
Let's connect!
Instagram: / arleebean
My Amazon Wishlist: a.co/3Xwu82X
(See the things I'm interested in currently. You might enjoy them for yourself, or it's a good way to gift something to me if you've ever wanted to do that. Please don't feel obligated to do that, however. ♥)
MUSIC
[www.epidemicsound.com] - Zábava
Pthalo blues and greens are my favorites, so I am happy that you have rediscovered this beautiful shade!
I love them too 💖💖
This is my favorite color. It’s a color that resonates so deeply with me but I have the hardest time using it in my paintings. As you said you really need to know your way around values to use it. Probably because it’s so uncommonly found in nature and makes it look unreal. Kinda fantasy or ethereal. That’s probably why the elf theme works so well! 😍 Love the painting.
I went through a ride with PG7. I thought it was too bright garish, and it took me a long time to realize how beautiful it is in mixed. Ocean Blue is a particularly gorgeous color, and I also love PG16 as an alternative to PB15 :)
Phthalos are so intense but they can be fun! I like how you used it here. Surprisingly Phthalo green mixed with other pure pigments can make some GORGEOUS greys, browns, and earthy yet colourful tones
I love this painting, especially its somewhat undefined features and the bloody mouth! It seems like he has quite a story and many thoughts and feelings running through his head.
My phtalo blue is definitely lime green (I only got one from a 24 pans pre-made set) but I still haven't found any love or use for it.
I also had a tendency to let pointy ears sneak into my paintings but beyond my love for fantasy, it sometimes felt like I was using like a crutch or an excuse/justification for what I drew. I would draw a character in a romantic type of composition, laid back, gaze going nowhere. Then, bam! Pointy ears, now it's not so boring because it's an elf, and also lying in an artsy position is just what they do. Now that I have more confidence in myself I don't do it as much and when I do, it's really because I feel like it.
Try using a Payne's grey with the lime green, and maybe make the green quite light? I think it might make for an interesting painting
i’ve had the opposite situation! i used to love pthalo blue, but have discovered that i prefer the mixes i get using ultramarine and other blues!
I've found phthalo blue to be a great way to make a deep, none granulating black when you mix it with Pbr25.
Yay new Arlee vid!
Finally sitting down to watch this, and I have to admit I actually went "WAIT WHAAAAAT" when you said Pthalo Blue! It's such a fave of mine when I paint!
I love phthalo blue. I don't use it that much probably because so many artists talk about how it shouldn't be used, lol. My favorite way to use it is to mix it with good amounts of something like payne's grey or granulating black like lunar black. It gives such a moody/smoky look that is somehow both colorful and dark at the same time. I usually only use it this way in monochromatic or highly limited color palettes. Moody/surreal forested scenes work well painted this way and phthalo green can be used in the same way alongside to add a little color variance.
I think I've definitely gone through phases of hating to use this colour in my paintings and then exclusively using it😂I love your painting btw😍It so magical✨
I love the way you captured the light! Wow!
its funny because pthalo blue has always been one of my absolute favorite colors to have in a palette (along with quin magenta, quin gold, and green gold), so find it really interesting to know its one you had to learn to love
For me it is absolutely Phthalo Green. I used to struggle with how unnatural it looked... But now it is a staple in my landscape paintings. I like it for mixing so much more than Hooker's and Sap.
At first it was all I used. Then I started using ultramarine blue and I felt like wow! I'm really missing out. At one point I just used to think Pthalo blue was just too strong. But to get certain colours you really need it. It's a colour I still have to learn more about.
I definitely relate to the phtalo blue “fear”. My phtalo blue is from QOR, and it's just so darn pigmented and moves around so much, and stains the paper like crazy. It's a beautiful colour, but it just needs to be handled with care. I have been incorporating it more recently, starting to overcome that fear as of recent.
Pthalo blue has always scared me because it's so so strong! It feels so saturated that it almost hurts my eyes. Lol! But I have tended to use it from the pan, with only a little watering down. Thanks for showing the capabilities of it. Then I realized you were using Ocean blue from Roman Szmal and that's one of my favorites to play with! Lol.
I had this with Pthalo Green and only learned how I needed it as a mixing colour to make black with depth.
Phthalos scare me too, but I adore ocean blue! I mixed it with Sennelier's caput mortuum in a painting once (to paint Tamino!) and it just created the most gorgeous moody purple grey that I layered into his hair 😍
It's the staining properties that intimidate me.
Pthalo blue is definitely one I avoid because it always seems so neon to me but I should try it more! I really avoid violets and purples all together and often don't have them on my pallette. Pre mixed purples just seem too saturated and many of them aren't light-fast.
Yeah, I never reach for Phthalo blue. As a matter of fact it wasn’t until recently that it was even on my palette. I had Ultramarine, Prussian, and Turquoise but no Phthalo. It’s on my palette now, both green shade and red shade. I use the red shade more often than the green shade except for mixing greens. It’s still not my favorite but I’m learning. High key colors scare me, lol.
This inspired me so much!😊 I have been very scared of pthalo blue too 😅 but now I want to play with it more too!
On a day such as this I cherish an Arleebean video so much. 😁
I was just telling my hubby how I dislike phthalo blue, but you've inspired me to try again.
I feel this way about pthalo blue in oils
I felt the same way towards ultramarine i disliked how intense the color was . I love prussian blue, but have found that by adding ultramarine to my palette and learning it i get a much greater variety of mixes!
I LOVE the watercolors by Roman Szmal
such a amazing painting ❤️🥰 and seeing the beauty of pthalo blue
Just beautiful!!! This really cheered me up. I don’t like using black and still don’t but have seen it used so effectively in some paintings esp in skies and stormy paintings I’d like to give it a go
I find that it's very staining but makes great color for my bird paintings. I still prefer my ultramarine blue and the mixes I can make with it
We are reading the same book!! I love the drawing and the color and elves!! Thanks for sharing ❤️❤️❤️
Pthalo was one of my favourites immediately , it's one of my favourite shades of my favourite colour and it's so nice and vibrant. For me it was the more opaque-ish earthy colours that I had difficulty with. Anything from a yellow ochre to venetian red etc. I loved the way they look on their own but I just couldn't work them into my paintings well because of how different they handle.
Another great video, beautiful painting. I love Phthalo Blues for their transparency and intensity, preferring the red shade over ultramarine blue.
Really amazing artwork dear friend.❤❤❤ Good job👍🏻
I felt the same way you did for pthalo blue and still have. It not that I don’t like the color but I dont have a use for it. I like using pthalo green through .
Beautiful painting! Thank you for the video :D
I can actually relate to not being a big fan of phthalo blue haha. I think in terms of hue it's a little bit too green to fall into the kind of more violet blues that I like such as indanthrene and ultramarine, but also not green enough to match my favorite cobalt teal when diluted. I do have it from the Daniel Smith essentials set though, and I love some of the more yellow greens it can make with their new gamboge. Plus, phthalo blue and potter's pink is also a gorgeous combination.
Phthalo blue has pretty much always been a staple for me since I enjoy cool blue lighting. I used to use Prussian blue a lot more but since having lightfastness issues with it have removed it from my palette and I use phthalo blue to mix a similar colour. Phthalo green was the one it took me a lot longer to work out how to use since it is such an unnatural green but I've since learnt to love neutralised versions of it.
I used to really struggle with pthalo blue as well, I found it almost too blue. Trying to mix it with other colours never really seemed to work, because the blue was so strong.
But more recently I have been enjoying the colour for itself, and for the intense colour mixes you get. I think it helps that I’m not trying to paint landscapes with it!
Amazing painting as always! I loved the elf appearance.
I still struggle with this blue, so staining, and difficult to work with, yet it's absolutely beautiful, I'm drawn to it, and so I do practice utilizing it. Maybe someday it will cooperate.
I'm not a real artist but I love the color! Just the right shade imo 🥰
This is really amazing ❤️
I struggled with pthalo blue when I first started because its such a strong color but I love it
It's never been my favorite pigment because I like to do a lot of lifting and scrubbing to get texture. I always found it too staining, but both the red and green shades play well with many other pigments. It can be hard to resist. I prefer it as Manganese Blue hue by M Graham. Any phthalo blue mixed with burnt sienna makes insanely beautiful turquoise shades for sea paintings. Love your mastery of values in this lyrical painting.
I actually thoughts it was cerulean blue, I guess I don't know colors all that well lol. I absolutely love blues and moody colors like indigo
Stunning.
It’s my favourite blue!! So saturated, I can’t believe you didn’t use it hahaha ♥️
very cool. I also have this color from schmincke. i love it for mixing ^_^
I know the feeling of putting elf ears on every drawing of a person, the urge is SO strong
Congratulation on your discovery of Thalo Blue.
I remember when first starting with paints being frustrated by not getting the grassy green I envisioned when mixing yellow and ultramarine blue. It didn't matter how much blue or yellow or even black or white, I still would get that strong and ugly green. I learn to to hate ultramarine blue. Then years later, I started watercolors with Grumbacher Finest Watercolors (not the Academy)and then (maybe by accident) I discovered thalo blue. I mixed it with yellow and whalah my vision was reality. A beautiful grassy green. I then discovered it also makes gorgeous purples and violets.
I feel like phtalo blue green shade if the closest to a true primary blue (cyan ) you can find in watercolor ! That's why it makes the most vibrant greens and purples/ violet !
@@Lexouchan When I first discovered Thalo Blue I thought it was a pure blue. Is there such thing as a pure blue, pure red, or a pure yellow?
@@LafayetteLeSaint first of all
Blue red yellow are not the true primaries :
The true primary triad is cyan magenta and yellow (that's why they are used in printers)
In watercolor because we work with pigment and not dye it's a little bit difficult to find "pure primary". My personal combo is Phtalo blue green shade, quinacridone magenta and a middle yellow (I use quinophtalone yellow but there are a lot of good neutral yellows)
Buts it's still not perfect. That's why a lot of people have a double triad (like a lemon yellow and and Indian yellow, a pink and a red and a ultramarine and a phtalo )
I have always loved Phtalo blue ! Because of its vibrancy, transparency and layerability ! I feel like phtalos are often looked down because of how ""unnatural "" they look. But I think they are essential because you can make dull/ earthy colours with a vibrant colour palettes , but you can't make clear /clean / vibrant colours with a earth tones palette
I’m just annoyed at pthelo blue for staining my palette cuz one time i let it sit there for several days cuz i forgot how staining it was (bc i legit never use it usually)
everybody starts with Phthalo Blue GS but because it has a habit of yelling at all of your other colors people fall off it for a bit. But most painters I've noticed, even though they have/had soooo much to say about Phthalo Blue, use some kind of Phthalo in their palette anyway.
I really dislike pthalos in general, I tend to lean wards warmer greens and blues in general, I have started using pthalos in my oils rather in my watercolors. I love using Pthalo Blue red shade however its in my Mgraham pallet
I'm still not a big fan oh pthalo blue, I think it has a tendency to bully other colours on the pallet and due to it's staining properties, limits the amount of techniques I can do with it. I also find ultramarine to be a bit dull in my opinion (although i do like schmincke's ultra fine ultramarine). I tend to use cobalt turquoise and Prussian blue instead.
I've never owned a pthalo blue. It looks lovely though! I feel like I may need to master my current colors a bit more first. Values are really hard. Any suggestions for learning that?
Make colour swatches of all your colours one by one from thick consistency to very watery and do monochromatic studies. It helps a ton. Don’t be afraid to add very dark thick mixture, instead of many middle values and use the grayscale on your phone camera to check how are you doing once you start introducing different colours and to imagine them in monochrome. I think that this will help you to get better faster with values.
Good luck
@@raliceart Thanks! Using the grayscale on my phone camera is something I definitely want to try! Monochromatic paintings feel scary, but I'll give that a go too!
I guess if you only use 1 or 2 colors it helps in getting better at values, just like graphite or charcoal but with color! You can use black and do a grayscale study, it's always helpful no matter your skill
I still can’t stand it. I opted for pb16 instead and I also use ultramarine, indigo (single pigment from Shinhan, I think) and indathrone blue, of course. I tried pb15 and all it’s hues, tried replacing it with prussian blue (which I adore) too. But I just find it too difficult to work with: it’s too staining and too punchy, I couldn’t find an opposite for it to neutralise it completely. Meh.
Never apologize for elves
paint more elves, this one looks very ethereal
for now i hate ultramarine blue, let's see if it gets its redemption arc in the future