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Thanks for your great suggestions!👍👍

I think that's because you're an experienced water colour painter. With watercolours you usually gradually build from light to dark. Acrylic painters often instantly try to mix the color and value that's needed. And let's say that for instance we start on a white canvas and we have to paint light blonde hair. If we mix the light color and put it on the white canvas, it will look rather dark. And if you're an experienced painter, you know that although it looks dark at that moment, when you add the surrounding colours it will start to work (just as you mentioned). But most of the times people don't continue blocking the rest and start adjusting that value and make it lighter, because it looks sort of 'wrong'. In general a kind of middle grey background helps. The light colors immidiately look light, while the dark colors also look dark. So all in all, it looks like you've already got enough experience not to be fooled by the lack of surrounding values and in that case just experiment and see what you like most! That's what I do as well. Usually I prefer working on a grey canvas, but coincidentally last few weeks I wanted to start on white canvases, because the white of the canvas instead of grey has another effect on the outcome depending on what you want. Have fun painting with acrylics!👍

Thank you! I'm a big fan of the Amsterdam Standard series by Royal Talens. It's student grade paint, but the quality of the pigments is very good and the consistency of the paint is right straight out of the tube. 👍Enjoy painting!

@@toon-nagtegaal Thank you so much!

Hi Diana! Maybe my website helps: www.toon-nagtegaal.com/ At the moment I don't teach in 'real life', because I've got too many projects running.👍

Yes it does, but pouring medium is more fluid and often more glossy and more expensive than regular medium. But you can certainly use it for the same purpose.👍

You're welcome! And I think we all prefer more vibrant colors, but it's just as you say: when you know how to desaturate on purpose, you can actually make other colors pop off even more. Enjoy painting!👍

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You're welcome! In this case it was Photoshop, but almost every painting/drawing software has an eye dropper tool. I've made a video on that: ua-cam.com/video/8fGpmlQrLhQ/v-deo.htmlsi=TDuwgdg_MdKfsGiW

That's great, laughing is healthy!👍

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I understand your frustration, but the comparison with cooking doesn’t really hold up. In cooking, you need specific ingredients to create a dish. You can’t mix broccoli from other ingredients. Painting works differently. With a limited palette of, say, five colors, you can mix any color you need. A well-chosen limited palette isn’t restrictive-it’s liberating. You always have what you need without being overwhelmed by too many choices or overly complex color mixing. Isn't it great that when you understand the principles, you can mix yellow, red and blue to mix for example yellow ochre or burnt sienna? It's all a balancing act. And of course, maybe it's more practical later on to buy these colors for a faster workflow, but then you understand where they lie on the color spectrum. That said, please feel free to go your own way. Nobody says you must use only five colors. The idea of a limited palette is just one approach to help artists, especially beginners, understand the fundamentals of color mixing and relationships. Once you’ve mastered those, you can use as many colors as you like-it’s entirely up to you!

You too!

I'm so sorry, I've never heard of that reaction before! Luckily for you, this is the last video in the series 🤣. Each of us has our own curious quirks. For example, I personally love using charcoal, but I can’t stand the sound of it. Even after four years of art school, where I had to use it all the time, I never got used to it-it still gives me goosebumps! Maybe your reaction comes from finding tonal values a bit too clinical or maybe it's as simple as that you’re not a fan of working in black and white. Or perhaps it’s about overthinking versus doing. When you grab some black and white paint and just start experimenting, the analytical part of your brain often quiets down. That’s when you might actually begin to enjoy it. I’m curious: does this reaction only happen when you're watching and thinking about tonal values? Or do you feel the same way when you’re actually painting? Enjoy the process, and remember: not everything has to be your favorite part of art. 👍👍

@@toon-nagtegaal Thank you for your reply. I painted about six hours today and pondered the tonal quirk during breaks. You are a fantastic teacher and very talented artist so I know if you dedicated a "series" to tonal values, it is fundamentally necessary and I want to continue advancing in my studies.( I am definitely improving). I think you nailed it about the black and white colors themselves. I crave bold ,vibrant, heavily pigmented colors and would be described as a gregarious personality. Your lesson on negative space and sketching catapulted my efforts. Thanks so much for your thoughts because tonal values are the only hiccup I've encountered. It does help to know it's ok.(I will still revisit the series and just take smaller bites. Have a good night my friend.

@@acheartist that's great, enjoy!👍👍

When you subscribe UA-cam doesn’t automatically send notifications. This setting is off by default. To turn it on, click the bell icon. You'll see three options: 'None,' 'Personalized,' and 'All.' For my channel, I recommend selecting 'All,' as I almost exclusively post videos.👍

With paint!

Another great demo! You make it look so easy, thank you!

@@jolandago9892 you're welcome!👍

You're welcome, enjoy painting!🎨👍

You're welcome!🎨👍

That's great, enjoy painting!👍

That's great, that's exactly what it's all about! 👍You use the more saturated colors consciously and you are able to balance the saturated and desaturated colors to make the painting interesting. 🎨👍

Well, personally I like to think of them as primaries, even though we deal with pigments and they don't always react and behave as theoretically expected. But if you understand the principle of primary cyan, magenta and yellow color mixing gets way easier. And when you understand that system you don't even necessarily have to use these exact colors, but you'll understand what's happening when you're mixing. For instance: an orange biased red + a green biased blue can never produce a vivid purple, because in theory you're then mixing three primaries (green biased blue = theoretically cyan + yellow and orange biased red is theoretically magenta + yellow) and when mixing three primaries you get less saturated results. Enjoy painting! 🎨👍

Ah that's a pity! Concentrating on painting + explaining in other language + filming at the same time sometimes is hard. In this case I think that I was caught up in the process of painting too much sometimes and then I forget that I have to stand at the side, instead of in front of the canvas (what I usually do of course when I'm not filming). I do my best, but I'm human and make mistakes sometimes I'm afraid 😅. Thanks for your feedback! 👍

It was not malicious comment. It was to improve your work. Love. 😍

@@re-natka I know, thanks!👍

You're welcome and enjoy painting!👍🎨🎨

You can use just black and white paint! Titanium white is a useful white and for black there are many options. In this video I used lamp black. I've written a blog on the differences in black paints: www.toon-nagtegaal.com/blogs/2119031_differences-in-black-acrylic-paints

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Thank you, I'm glad it was helpful!👍

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Hahhaha nou ik zou soms best wat meer luiheid kunnen gebruiken denk ik weleens inderdaad😅maarrr... dit weekend heb ik helemaal niks en ga ik echt een keer lui doen. Fijn weekend Maud!👍👍

You're welcome and enjoy painting!👍👍

That's a great idea as well, also it would be interesting to see the results of this project, maybe they're great pieces of art themselves! 👍👍

My understanding is that the coffee filter would collect the larger pigment particles, but it would allow the acrylic polymer (plasticizer) to pass through and that is bad for the environment. Golden sells a flocculant kit and they also provide the recipe online. There are a couple of good youtube videos of the process, too. Basically, the acrylic polymer gets bound up in the flocculated particles and these are big enough to be captured by a coffee filter.

Yes I do have tips! This is 100% the most frequently asked question, so I've made a blog about this topic: www.toon-nagtegaal.com/blogs/2119012_increase-drying-time-of-acrylics I hope it's helpful!👍👍

@@toon-nagtegaalIt is from you, Toon, that I learned to put out more paint on my palette and to not let it get spread out too thinly after mixing. Thanks! (I live in a hot and arid climate and am slightly jealous of your longer working times.)

@@jondoh587 I can imagine that's quite a challenge when painting with acrylics! 👍👍

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Yes, but with a caveat: in theory you can mix all colors with these primaries and when mixed together you would get black. However: pigments (the color particles in the paints) are not as perfect as the theory. Every pigment has it's own characteristics. So there are cases that you get closer to the result you want by buying a specific pigment. For instance, you can mix great looking reds with yellow and magenta, but due to the characteristics of these two pigments it will be a rather transparant mixture. If you need an opaque red, it's easier to use a red color that contains an opaque pigment. But all in all, the main takeaway is: if you understand the principles of primary yellow, magenta and cyan, then you can understand how all color mixing works. Then you understand that with ultramarine blue + yellow you can never get a high chroma green, because ultramarine has a bias towards purple thus containing (theoretically) magenta, so when mixed with yellow you mix 3 primairies which results in a desaturated color. So, it's very beneficial to at least understand these fundamentals. Sorry, lot of text, but that's because when I finally learned this I finally was able to mix every color I wanted, so I really hope to help others with this as well. 😂 Here's a video on the primaries: ua-cam.com/video/SSCAhRFwsa8/v-deo.html

@ Thank you so much for your fulsome reply! You are such a generous teacher 😊

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That's great, thank you!👍

Yes, absolutely!👏👍

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