How To Colour Match With A Limited Palette! (It's easier than you think!)

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  • @peterbutler7113
    @peterbutler7113 Před 3 lety +51

    Pete (from the south of England) It would never have occurred to me to use one colour from my palette as a starting point! 79 years old and still learning! Thank you so much Emma.

  • @jmoss55ish
    @jmoss55ish Před rokem

    This has got to be my favorite video from you! The way you break it down and how you communicate it in teaching is superb!

  • @juliedossett4120
    @juliedossett4120 Před 3 lety +18

    Great tutorial! This color strategy was so helpful. One of my problems is that when I finally mix just the right color, I invariably don't mix enough of it, and then I can't quite replicate it.

  • @susanbeckett9347
    @susanbeckett9347 Před 3 lety +13

    I’m learning that patience is required to get a great match. Thanks for demonstrating that even seasoned artists take the time to get it right.

  • @jadetobin
    @jadetobin Před 3 lety +1

    Normally when people say 'work on color theory' my eyes roll and my head hurts, sort of as if they told me to work on algebra or something....BUT, I had just watched your video on 3 things to improve you painting, and this color mixing one popped up and I thought I'd try it...and it was awesome :) it was less talking and more doing and using the flower petals and leaves to match, it somehow made it even easier to start to grasp without melting my brain ;) it was great! Thanks a ton!!

  • @ilahjarvis
    @ilahjarvis Před 2 lety

    Excellent tutorial. A terminology note from a fellow art teacher: colors opposite on the color wheel are known as "complementary" colors. They do contrast, but that is a descriptive rather than the technical term.

  • @gabrielbruce1977
    @gabrielbruce1977 Před 2 lety

    I came back to this upon receiving a 16-well mont marte as a gift, and it really helped me trim down my usual selection. I DID add a few colours so I could mix some tones I regularly use but that's just a me thing.

  • @elizabethnicholson6691
    @elizabethnicholson6691 Před 3 lety +13

    Thank you, Emma. Your "eucalyptus green" has been invaluable. And, on a completely different matter, your hair is lovely! 🌻🙂

  • @eileenburnus1692
    @eileenburnus1692 Před 3 lety +16

    Certainly learnt something!! Thank you. I had an “aha” moment watching this video and colour mixing suddenly made sense.

  • @tanaperotin
    @tanaperotin Před 3 lety +6

    This is one of the best mixing tutorials I’ve seen. Super clear explanations that are going to help me so much! Thx Emma!!

  • @peterbutler7113
    @peterbutler7113 Před 3 lety +1

    Pete Butler. Wonderful! I’ve never understood the fundamentals of colour mixing as explained like this.This will save everyone a lot of time,.

  • @victorcasanueva3542
    @victorcasanueva3542 Před 2 lety +1

    Excellent tutorial,from a great artist

  • @denalemmons7966
    @denalemmons7966 Před 3 lety

    Great lesson. Finally a great color explanation.

  • @eeqlzmctwo
    @eeqlzmctwo Před 2 lety

    The sorcery!!! I love exercises like this!!

  • @veronicalanzafame9256
    @veronicalanzafame9256 Před 3 lety

    Hi from Sicily!!! Me and my nephews love this video, and the one of the color wheel!it's kind of magic!thank you for all your videos! very interesting!we're learning a lot!

  • @barbaradinsdale9386
    @barbaradinsdale9386 Před 3 lety

    LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this tutorial.
    I learnt so much, and you make it easy to understand.

  • @kscaligrafia
    @kscaligrafia Před 3 lety

    Thanks . ... now I need to receive a floral bouquet.

  • @maryellenimdieke1850
    @maryellenimdieke1850 Před 2 lety

    Hi Emma, I have recently discovered your tutorials and am so happy with all of them. I have been looking at color mixing instructions and videos for years without being able to grasp it. Your mixing tutorials are it! I am finally having success. Thank you so very much.

  • @rosemaryhoward
    @rosemaryhoward Před 3 lety

    You explained this better than anyone I have ever listened to. Thank you! Explains it soooo well!

  • @lori900
    @lori900 Před 3 lety +1

    I taught art for a couple of years a while ago. I LOVE art. Yet you still helped a lot when it came to watercolors that I am new to. THANKS EMMA!!!!! Fabulous!

  • @barbarastephens2890
    @barbarastephens2890 Před 3 lety

    What a wonderful lesson!!! So practical and doable.

  • @user-ow5fm2cu6f
    @user-ow5fm2cu6f Před 3 lety

    This color matching video is so helpful. I always wonder how to mix colors to paint the objects. Thanks this is great. Tomoko

  • @ligiab224
    @ligiab224 Před 3 lety

    I think this is the best tutorial on color mixing/matching I've ever watched. Thank you so much!

  • @cecilehoare3053
    @cecilehoare3053 Před 3 lety

    For all the colour theory in school I have learned 1000x more from your videos! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

  • @CherylGormanAuthor
    @CherylGormanAuthor Před 3 lety

    Great demo about color matching!

  • @kathiestirling3799
    @kathiestirling3799 Před 3 lety

    You are an awesome teacher.

  • @watercolourartincapetown2919

    Stunning bouquet!!! What a fun exercise 💐

  • @christophermartin7973
    @christophermartin7973 Před 3 lety

    Super interesting and it makes it seem much easier for a beginner to make colours!

  • @rakelyribeiro8277
    @rakelyribeiro8277 Před 3 lety

    I am just obsessed! Thank you so much for sharing you acknowledgment, seriously thank you

  • @chrislora8895
    @chrislora8895 Před 3 lety

    Thank you! This is an excellent lesson for those new to colors/mixing/matching. I realized a while ago that red and blue don’t always make the purple I want (cool red? Warm red?) and it can be frustrating for beginners. Having a color chart at hand helps to back up a bit, understand where a color “came from” and to figure out the right colors needed for your project. Your videos are not only helpful, but clear and easy to follow and always inspiring. Again, thanks!

  • @mskhartwatercolourwithmisu8598

    Thank you for sharing. You explained so simply and easily.

  • @terririley186
    @terririley186 Před 2 lety

    Wonderful, very informative video. You are a heck of a teacher!!! Thank you so much!!

  • @dianeinman9264
    @dianeinman9264 Před 3 lety

    Emma🌷
    Thank you so much for your explicit instructions on knowing the color wheel. You are a excellent teacher and instructor. I appreciate you and your knowledge and your simple explanation.
    I also must mention how I love your new introduction to your tutorials. It is classy and suits you just fine.
    You were asking about ideas for future tutorials. Well, do you paint churches or cottages with a garden of flowers? Or a basket of flowers, a entrance way of pots of flowers. Or showing how to paint more flowers realistically.
    You have a blessed day❣️as you have blessed me watching you paint.

  • @kevinvanderborght1934
    @kevinvanderborght1934 Před 3 lety

    Really loving this series. 😊

  • @kaelle78
    @kaelle78 Před 3 lety +1

    Wow! I need this as an ongoing series!! So practical and educational. Great job, Emma!!

  • @LipsitaArt
    @LipsitaArt Před 3 lety

    Your tips are always helpful. Thanks Emma

  • @goelnarendragoel1057
    @goelnarendragoel1057 Před 3 lety

    that was amazingly easy and profound

  • @craftybernie
    @craftybernie Před 2 lety

    Thank you for these colour mixing videos. Have found them extremely helpful 🤗

  • @gorschtown
    @gorschtown Před 2 lety

    TFS EJL!! Loving your colour theory tutorials! You're rad.

  • @catherinegill2488
    @catherinegill2488 Před 3 lety +1

    Brilliant Emma! Such a simple way to demonstrate using flowers and you unpicked the complexity so well. Thank you.

  • @debbieroyds463
    @debbieroyds463 Před 3 lety +2

    That was super helpful and I may have had a lightbulb moment about color theory!

  • @LizWilsonArt
    @LizWilsonArt Před 2 lety

    Thus was so helpful Em, thanks from a new to watercolour Ausie. Great to know how to mix some eucalypt colours when you live here !

  • @carolburkett7018
    @carolburkett7018 Před 3 lety +1

    Excellent help

  • @danielleb.7055
    @danielleb.7055 Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you so much for this video. Im pretty sure we all know what primary colors make secondary colors but once it goes past that it gets a bit more complicated, at least for me anyway. This made it so much easier for me and actually able to see the undertones and where to go from there. Thank for your videos and time you put into them its greatly appreciated! Have a wonderful day!

  • @stellabirze9159
    @stellabirze9159 Před 3 lety +1

    I’m so thankful you shared this. Whatever colours I used to mix, everything became a mud :)

  • @ladyhecate9450
    @ladyhecate9450 Před 3 lety

    This was great and you helped me so much in how the color wheel works. Thank you so much. Fantastic. By the by....you look great!

  • @sharonsands708
    @sharonsands708 Před 3 lety +12

    Well, I cant wait to try my hand at this. This was such a important and helpful video. Thank you so much Emma, I appreciate this very much, have learned alot and cant wait to try it out.

  • @juliekbrooks
    @juliekbrooks Před 3 lety

    Great video for color matching. Thanks!

  • @priscillareads
    @priscillareads Před 2 lety

    I needed this in my life

  • @Coasterdude02149
    @Coasterdude02149 Před rokem

    I love this! Fantastic colour theory lessons. This makes me want to geek out and go grab my Johannes Ittean colour theory book from when I was in art school. Perfect Emma!

  • @screpas
    @screpas Před 3 lety

    Perfectly understand! Thanks Again Emma !

  • @wendyizod923
    @wendyizod923 Před 3 lety +1

    Love these colour mixing videos, they have given me a lot clearer idea of mixing the colours you need.

  • @katnilsson
    @katnilsson Před 3 lety

    I have been watching a lot of color mixing videos and even if I initially always think I’ve got it, something happened along the way that made me ‘drop the ball’ 🤪. After the videos I’ve been even more confused than before I did watch them. I think it’s because the videos are jam packed with information which is good if you aren’t starting from zero 🥴.
    This video is AMAZING, easy enough for a beginner to have somewhere to start and still some information about the basic color mixing theory! You, miss Emma, did this really good 🥰. Thanks! Can’t wait to start implementing this into practical flower color studies in my watercolor sketchbook! 😀

  • @amymaury7471
    @amymaury7471 Před 3 lety

    sorry I missed your live. awesome tutorial! Thank you! Hope you have a great day

  • @ann-marielofberg1159
    @ann-marielofberg1159 Před 3 lety +1

    Finally I got it, good and easy to understand.

  • @carolineobrien53
    @carolineobrien53 Před 3 lety +3

    This was fab thank you so much, one I will revisit for sure and looking forward to trying these exercises out : )

  • @sabxosays1320
    @sabxosays1320 Před 3 lety

    Emma, you are an excellent teacher! I swear i learn so much from your videos EVERY time! Thanks for sharing your tips! Amazing!🙌🏼❤️

  • @susanbarney5897
    @susanbarney5897 Před 3 lety +1

    Emma, this is so interesting! Thank you! I definitely “learned something!” 🙌🏼

  • @lindsayjayne2169
    @lindsayjayne2169 Před 3 lety

    I've been trying to mix that eucalyptus color, thankYOU!!💖

  • @nonspecificnonsense6780

    this was very helpful. also those flowers are beautiful!

  • @leannepattullo7187
    @leannepattullo7187 Před 3 lety +1

    This was absolutely awesome - what a great explanation on mixing colours - thank you Emma

  • @cornflakegirl1977LJ
    @cornflakegirl1977LJ Před 3 lety

    This video is so useful. I knew about adding water to make a lighter colour value but didn't know about using the contrasting colour to create different tones. Thanks so much for sharing. Excited to try colour matching with my watercolours.

  • @lainareeves3755
    @lainareeves3755 Před 3 lety

    This was great Emma!!! Thanks so much. I'm going to do what you did so that I learn! 💕

  • @Timslilsister
    @Timslilsister Před 3 lety

    This was REALLY helpful!

  • @salliealston175
    @salliealston175 Před 3 lety

    How beautiful !

  • @christinetiffin
    @christinetiffin Před 3 lety

    What an excellent exercise! I learned so much.

  • @rachelchan2215
    @rachelchan2215 Před 2 lety

    Love your sharing! Easy to follow and understand!💕

  • @soniaaparecida4556
    @soniaaparecida4556 Před 3 lety

    Very very very good explanations! Thanks a lot!

  • @donnarouse8722
    @donnarouse8722 Před 3 lety

    I love this! What a great way to relax, get some color therapy and learn more about mixing colors. Thanks so much!

  • @dicknireneklapoetke8183
    @dicknireneklapoetke8183 Před 4 měsíci

    I enjoyed this! Total beginner.

  • @marieanderson6311
    @marieanderson6311 Před 3 lety

    Thank you! I have to watch this again. I do not want to forget anything!

  • @dinaraeva
    @dinaraeva Před 3 lety

    Thank You Emma!! I love all your videos! ❤️

  • @francynericard1373
    @francynericard1373 Před 3 lety

    WoW! Exactly what I need. 😊

  • @flyinghaggertys9362
    @flyinghaggertys9362 Před 3 lety

    Love this video so much! I would watch you color match every day if I could! Your voice and the simple palette you use, and the way you focus on the painting rather than the expensive tools is soooo fresh !

  • @jenscloset
    @jenscloset Před 3 lety

    I needed this, thank you! You're a great teacher!

  • @youtubelibrary_10
    @youtubelibrary_10 Před 3 lety

    Excellent video Emma. You just saved my paints. I was about to throw out my artists water color paint because I didn't know how to mix the paint. These tips helped me lot. Thank you so much. :)

  • @strodestudios
    @strodestudios Před 3 lety +1

    Dear Emma, I recently started to watch your videos but I'm loving your content! Wish you a lovely day 💞

  • @DimpyKansal
    @DimpyKansal Před 3 lety

    This was very helpful. Thank you for sharing your colour matching process.

  • @cherylbrewer5844
    @cherylbrewer5844 Před 3 lety

    This was brilliant Emma & so helpful. Thank you so much 😊

  • @thetwelve5922
    @thetwelve5922 Před 3 lety

    Woah!! perfect timing! I wanted to mix color for doing a cloth painting!!

  • @vi8160
    @vi8160 Před 3 lety

    Emma, thank you so much for this video. It’s helping me so much with learning to color mix and how to go about it. This is great for me to keep coming back to for reference in the future. Hope you’ll be creating more of this. 💕

  • @amazon_support
    @amazon_support Před 3 lety

    This is so helpful! I've been getting stuck with colour mixing and this has been great.

  • @lindachiasson5626
    @lindachiasson5626 Před 3 lety

    This is a keeper. Thanks!

  • @elisabruxvoort2190
    @elisabruxvoort2190 Před 3 lety

    This was awesome! Thanks, Emma! More color mixing videos like this would be so wonderful. :)

  • @lilianbc
    @lilianbc Před 3 lety

    I really loved these tips! Thank you! Please, do more videos like this! 🙏

  • @marymorgan2221
    @marymorgan2221 Před 3 lety

    You are a star, thank you.

  • @vandaborders3452
    @vandaborders3452 Před 3 lety +1

    Oh my gosh...this really helped!! Thank you!🥰🎨

  • @Flolapirate
    @Flolapirate Před 3 lety

    Thank you for this amazing lesson !!

  • @melsgalleria
    @melsgalleria Před 3 lety

    This was actually very helpful. Thank you so much, this will definitely help me in the future. 💖

  • @elenalovegrove1373
    @elenalovegrove1373 Před 3 lety

    Loved this lesson. Please do more of this type of video. Thanks Emma.

  • @maud2rolland348
    @maud2rolland348 Před 2 lety

    Fascinating and exciting …one more time you made my day thank you

  • @veronicawhite398
    @veronicawhite398 Před 3 lety

    That was brilliant! Cleared up a lot of issues for me. Thankyou!

  • @simondrexler3272
    @simondrexler3272 Před 3 lety

    This was such a helpful video! Thank you!

  • @LisaYoungmpp
    @LisaYoungmpp Před 3 lety

    This was very helpful, Emma! Thank you for sharing!

  • @sharonelliott1075
    @sharonelliott1075 Před 3 lety

    Absolutely fantastic video. Thank you.

  • @kathyteague829
    @kathyteague829 Před 3 lety

    You are amazing! Thank you for teaching this!

  • @Linda-td5si
    @Linda-td5si Před 3 lety

    Thank you! I always find tutorials on color theory and mixing, fascinating!💚🌿🎨

  • @taranicholson282
    @taranicholson282 Před 3 lety

    So helpful. Thanks for the lesson.

  • @janicemcgrath4786
    @janicemcgrath4786 Před 3 lety

    Excellent tutorial. So helpful! Thank you!

  • @Horsewoman-pt2ku
    @Horsewoman-pt2ku Před 3 lety

    Great video. Doing more on the warm cool color mixing results would be great. Tfs