How To Use Color Theory
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
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Learn how to choose and mix the perfect paint colors for your scene! Mural Joe explains the differences between the mixing light we see, and the mixing paint colors on the wall. Understand RGB, CMYK, and when to use them both. More at www.muraljoe.com - Навчання та стиль
There is no reason this guy shouldn't have his own live art show on tv. Joe you're simply amazing an I love that you wanna teach people to get better. If the world took this attitude on about passing knowledge down, we would be so better off. Keep up the great work.
This one is good because of the specifics. Most color theory videos don't give you the good stuff.
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Actually the difference between paint and light is that paint is reflected light, and light is projected. When light hits the paint, the paint absorbs every frequency of light except the color you see, which is reflected back at you. The color on your monitor or tv, on the other hand, isn't made by this absorbtion/reflection process. It's just pure color. Before the invention of television, most of the light you would see would be reflected light, or indirect color. Your eyes don't really know the difference. As artists, we are only concerned with the mixing of paint, because there is no mixing in Photoshop. I have noticed, though, that when Windows is in night light mode, and the blues are either subdued or eliminated entirely, there is an illusion that makes black text appear slightly bluish. I don't believe this is from desensitization, I believe that our eyes seek out a full spectrum, and when a color is absent, the eyes will strain to find it. The result is that the neutral text amidst the orangeish white looks blue, even though there is in fact no blue on the screen.
Something similar is happening with the grey among all that blue. Even though there is orange, its presence only enhances the effect, because even though light has no compliment system, the closest thing lies in the fact that red and blue are at opposite ends of the spectrum. So the grey among all that blue appears reddish, which translates to orange because the orange sky suggests that's what it must be. Otherwise the illusion would look more pinkish.
The top experiment is interesting. Yellow isn't a complement to blue even with light, but the resulting grey suggests the two colors are, in fact, acting like an unevenly mixed complementary pair. You even suggest something like this is true; that yellow light mixed with blue is tantamount to mixing all three primary colors of light. By spinning the top, you proved this is the case. The eyes see the two frequencies of light mixing and making grey. It doesn't make green because you're not mixing paint. You're mixing reflected light, which to the eye is indistinguishable from direct light.
Whether I'm right or wrong about all this, I'm glad I watched. Anyone interested in seeing how color opposites work and which color inverts to which opposite could learn a lot from it. And from using an art program to invert colors, since on the monitor they invert using the light spectrum, not the artistic color wheel system.
Sir, Can u plz explain the reflection of orange on blue water part?
Just incase anyone was confused @ 6:18 Joe describes C-M-Y-K but doesn't mention the meaning of K... ( I will fill you in) K is for "key" or Black.
Bless you. Thank you Brooke.
Mix equal parts of smy and you got k.
Mix equal parts of rgb and you got k.
K plus k equal to the black.
Black and White are just shades of grey.
K is for Krap in today's language skills. Or to say Krap and UA-cam doesn't label it hate speech.
About your comment about your shaking. Seriously be careful about your exposure to the chemicals you allow from the paint on your hands. I know it’s inconvenient but wear gloves. We want you healthy. Thank you for sharing with us all. You are amazing and genuine.God bless!
You're an amazing teacher Joe, I just started painting and this is very useful information.
you explain everything so clearly. thanks for making these videos!
You are an amazing teacher, I finally understand everything about painting, you are absolutely brilliant and it's a great pleasure listening to your courses, please keep going, thank you so much.
I watch this video when I have artist block. You are the man. Some of us need a scientific explanation to reset. Much love bro.
what an interesting, educational, talented artist you are Joe...I am saving your sites and going back over and over to learn better. Thanks again.
Thanks so much! I’ve been painting as a hobby for 15 years and I just loved how you explained how this all worked, I really appreciate it, you really helped me a lot! 😊😁✨
I can't believe how helpful you've been I love your videos so much! Just recently became a patreon! Keep up the amazing work! Im going to buy your all video bundle when I got the extra cash and Im ready for it!
Joe, thank you for this lesson..I have used your technique of making sand or dirt many times..and the variation I get from it, is just amazing!
This is the explanation I’ve been looking for a long time. I have no words to thank you. My mind is at peace now.
Thank you. Gleaned many new things to consider. I will probably have to watch several times to get it all. The end notes about painting dirt is perfect timing. In process of painting dirt and was wondering how to do it. You make it all look so easy.
I'm gonna have to watch this a few more times till I understand
Right!
yeah
MuralJoe, You are such a great artist and I have really enjoyed your videos, especially the seascapes.
I feel like I'm in a classroom. I love your videos and I'm so glad I found your channel! Cheers!
I'm halfway through and I'm like oh thanks for going over the various systems of things. RBG = digital stuff to be displayed on the net, RBY = color scheme you use when you paint in traditional media, and CMYK = color system used for print.
Brilliant! So glad I found your channel! As for the shakes, I have had them all my life and can build a house of cards taller than myself and the finest perfect line in painting, but I shake the whole way up till the needed point...that focus becomes zero point at that moment and it becomes perfect :). My mother had me tested for all sorts of things and I am in great health.
you're such a humble and gentle talented person. i like your personality
I have followed you for quite a while and wanted to expand upon the point you're making about listening to and learning from a variety of sources. As you say, some people choose to only listen to a limited number of sources ("best experts"), but a lot of times experts make assumptions about the knowledge of their audiences, or they have been exposed to certain concepts for so long they forget to mention or omit many important facts. You make great videos. Thanks!
This is a truly exceptional video on color theory. I learned more than any other video on it I've seen. Thank you
Your Color Theory lecture was eye-opening for me. I'm back at the "drawing table" to put into practice today's lesson. You make learning fun but, most of all, it feels like I'm successful.
I watched your videos. I really appreciate your knowledge of art. I like your style.
Joe, sure love listening to your explanations!! You rock, thanks for explaining all this. I like to understand things like this and I appreciate you taking your time to explain it. Made my day. I think I enjoy listening to you explain things equally as much as the painting talent. Wish you lived in Ventura CA so I could watch you do a mural here!!
Joe you are an amazing teacber! Im thankful to finally be able to understand someone explain things thoroughly. Ive checked out other peoples videos and tutorials but theyre too wrapped up in their appearance and speaking skills to actually get any point across. Its frustrating because it matters to me what i can take away from it. Im not interested in their abilities as much as what i can use after their lesson. You are engaging but above that you are there to help me understand the process that you are doing and thats what i want. Thank you.😊
Thanks 4 this, muraljoe. Very helpful. I like how you started this by explaining the light sensors/vibrations/frequencies.. breaking it down helps me understand those "why did that happen" "how did i do that" type of questions i get while painting. This answered some, so thanks fellow artist! I'm subscribed. ☆
This is what I love about you Joe. You understand the scientific aspects of painting and I assume physics as well as the aesthetic.
You are so right - if we really want to expand the ways we learn its a very good idea to be very open to learning from many sources - Thank you for your inspiring sharing
Mural Joe you are an inspiration to me! Your paintings are so amazing!!!
I loved this video. And all your videos. Youre doing something awesome here. I hope you keep it up.
Thanks so much for taking the time to make videos... you are helping people!
I just got introduced to this channel, sub'd & appreciate the time, effort and quality you put into teaching your art. Thanx loads...
Excellent!!!!! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! I'm a fan
Love him very much. Watching this video is the highlight of my day for I learned sth that I always wanted to know.Thx~
I love that I was told about your videos. I am learning so much.
this explains your logo!! the force is strong with you, young artisan!
I'm trying to learn a lot more about art than I have been since I began drawing & painting. This not only helps me a lot but honestly made me really wanna do more stuff, thank you so much!!!
Hey alright! That's very encouraging to hear. Thanks!
Damn Joe - You are a genius. I finally understand the difference between computer/light color spectrum and Paint RYG. Thank you!!
You are genuine. Thankyou. 💝🍀💐 I have just subscribed, so glad you are here to share. 💖✨💖✨💖✨💖✨🌈
You have just made sense of something which has driven me mad for years! Now I get the distinction between the various primaries! Yay! I'm ready for that gold star now 🌟
Man my teachers just vaguely touched on color theory basics until i found myself in painting 2 and frustrated in not underatanding paint versus light. I want so bad to teach myself, I just needed the logic behind it.. Thank you so much
Hi Joe, like Dennis below, I'm colour blind and have struggled with getting my palette right. I've bought colour wheels and view catchers in the past to little or no avail. However, for the very first time, your video has helped me to make sense of colour, from both the way the eye perceives and also the way paints interact with each other. I may not get it right but I feel empowered by your video so huge thanks. Your tutorials are a true inspiration.
Alright Colin! Thanks for letting me know. That's encouraging.
Just such an incredibly articulate and eloquent man. Your work is so inspiring... You impart information and advice so clearly, and in a way that I can immediately absorb and retain it. Your talent is astounding . Thank you for all of these amazing vids .. You're awesome ...!!! :0)
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Rainbow is a beautifull way of talking about light vibration - and color has an intens vibrational effect on the way you experience self and World - i like very much your way of explaining colors from light experience and bring it toward the use of paint
love your videos. thank you for sharing.😊
Thank you for this video joe, I have been searching a lot on this topic because I want to paint and mixing color's has not been making any sense, and the little bit of info about mixing the grey into the water to make the orange makes a lot of sense now :) you are not really putting the orange in the water, but the grey picks up the orange because it's neutral, very subtle very ingenious. Thanks for you for your pool of knowledge.
You got it Michael! Thanks for the comment.
Really helpful video... Very informative.. Thanka for sharing 😍😍😍
Thank you for your knowledge, sharing is caring. I'm a beginner but painting is such a gift to bring life to a still painting is pure joy. I love when my friends and family say im doing well. I look your technique. I think I relate. The demo that you explain in light and the primary color it hasn't clicked yet. Please, please don't stop teaching I so appreciate your knowledge. Knowledge is power. 💪💦 love ocean paintings. How did you learn how thw ocean breaks and crashes. Such insight and imagination. Ty Elda
Awesome! Thank you so much for the lessons!
Brilliant video Joe, thank you.
Thanks, Joe. I really appreciate this.
Best colour theory video ! Hands down !
That was a great lesson, thank you🙂
Thanks a lot! You are very smart! You take time to explain Very Well, Excelent! God Bless You.
I just love this channel.
thank you!!! learned a lot you are amazing much love
First off, greetings from down the mountain in the valley of the sun. Thank you for explaining the things you are telling us. I taught myself how to paint three years ago by watching you tube. You are the best I have seen at explaining what we see in the world, and I have watched a lot of videos. You have a gift for teaching, and your art is not to shabby as well. I just wanted to say thank you for what you do. I do have a couple of questions. My son watched this color video with me and you mentioned how we see white. We were wondering about black, from a light perspective, not paint. Second I purchased your learning videos, and I watched all the water related ones, but I was wondering if you could help me on something? How would I paint flowing water? Not a waterfall, but like its flowing over an edge and down a hill, but not falling. The water is a big part of the project I am trying. I would appreciate any advice, and I understand if this is something you just can't tell me over text. Anyways, thanks again. I really enjoy watching your videos.
Mike
thanks for discussing the cymk color system. I wish it was taught more.
I’m only halfway through the video and I’ve already learned more about the science of color than I have in the past 4 years (during which I’ve intensely researched and studied to teach myself about art)
lol!!..the q.a is very nice.. i really wanna learn. i think i will learn a lot from you.. ill just keep watching. you keep it up.. color mixing never tried. n not patient with drawing.. but i would reallylove to just have to know art skills..
His point about learning from everyone not just experts is key. I think the shaking by the way, are called intention tremors. I have them too.
Hello, my name is Leen and i am from Holland.I would like to thank you (again) for a inspiring and amazing tutorial Joe. Inspiring, cause i can now do my colors better, amazing because you are a great artist who share his knowledge. I still have one question about the colors left; how does it work for under waterscenery when some colors fade or are no longer visible at all? Will it all became shades of blue and black then?Hope you now the answer for that aswell. Thank you for all your effort.
knowledge is a true gift....
Thank you for sharing yours.
Peace Amanda Perth WA
Hey Joe. I enjoy watching your lessons. How does the LRV (light reflective value) play in when buying your primary color paints? What value should I stay close to?
OMG this is amazing!!! Thank you!!
excellent , thankyou very much mural joe !
Thank you, this was so informative. It red, yellow, and blue form the base of paints, how come your logo is red, green, and blue paint strokes? Just curious!
Awesome video! TFS!
At last !! I understand..... I used to dress windows and used Sale boards in fluorescent red, when I looked away I saw green, now I know why !!! Thanks Joe..
haha. i paint large fluro signs a lot in my job and the same thing happens when i use chartreuse....i turn away and see red
So glad I found this channel
I have just subscribed to your channel and find it very informative, could you tell me what make of paints you use please and the size of containers? Jack
this was awesome! what kind of paint do you use on your canvases? those are nice buckets
hey Joe Killer work .. are you using acrylics? Where do you get those tubes of paint? and the pigments?
Very well explained sir 🧐
Hi Joe, thanks for the video, just to clarify, towards the end of the video, the sky looks kind of orangey yellow, as orange and blue are complimentary wouldnt that give grey anyway? if it was a pure yellow on a blue sea what would the reflection be ?
Good video, and i'll be starting my channel soon, but on different things such as drawing and soccer.
Your explanations are great! They really helpl. Thanks a lot.
This helped so much :)
Thank you Muraljoe!
How do you work out what colours to use in a painting, and I dont mean the typical hues, I mean the varied colours, please do a colour theory video on this please!
wouldnt you say that its mainly value, then colour intensity and temperature ,which you can do with chroma , you could suggest how much colour you want before you add the colour ?
Since this is color of light. Do you recommend painting using rgb slider in photoshop?
Joe, I have a question. This might be a stupid question, but, do you have to be good at drawing to be good at painting. Because what I've seen, it seems more like in drawing you have to make more conscious decisions on everything but with painting it seems like you more have to know the right techniques to create certain illusions. I may have just answered my own question, but do you think that is a correct statement?
Marcus Tullius Cicero I think it just depends on the person. I personally find painting easier than drawing.
Highly relatable, I should include. I specialized in drawing believing that the sooner I master it, the sooner I can begin solid painting. I met another fellow artist who strictly paints and I do have to say painters have their own type of evaluation. My collegue is always stressing to me that she isnt a drawer but a painter. She has a huge color vocabulary and smooth tecnique. I am more analytical and have to say I steeply underestimated painting and color theory.
It kinda depends on the person, I know a lot of artists who are just strictly one or the other. But personally I find that having skill in drawing helps my artwork become better because it forces me to study what I am actually looking at and not just the colors
In my point of view painting is an innovation of drawing since you can make different realistic textures just by changing brushes unlike drawing where you literally have to draw the texture
I´d wish to know what kind of paint are you using for these examples. Is it enamel?
Joe I like your vids. This one is a bit more of a science class heavy based in projected light as opposed to reflected light. @Korn Hole said below. When an artist is educating themselves in color theory because they want to paint. They need more of what the primary's are and secondaries and complements, and triads, and so forth. In art school painters need to learn the color wheel, and what works well, and what makes a color scheme, and how to make people move emotionally without writing words. That is what color theory in the art world is. This vid is not color theory, but science facts. Good facts. But a little pointless for art students. Unless they are digital artist wanting to "print" their work and wonder why it looks different on screen than the print. Your an awesome muralist btw.
Thanks Joe!!
what colors do you use? have like buckets of it :D is it acrylics?
it makesenseto me now. thanks joe. 😊
As far as learning how to create art from unlikely people, I once stopped a college English professor in mid lecture, back when there were still black boards, because, in between talking points his eraser marks made the best beetle. I now know how to draw beetles because I saw an image where one shouldn't have been and I stopped a class when I shouldn't have...no regrets. The majority of my artistic talents have come, not from lecture, but observation and an open mind.
OMG- Thanks so much for reading my comment! I have had a rough week and that just made me sooooo freakin' happy!! You are such a nice person!! I can die happy now, but I think I'll just be in a good frame of mind now and paint all day! I was wondering, you live in Arizona but paint the ocean, do you just look on line for pictures or do you just come up with it from memory? I could take pictures of beaches in Ventura and Santa Barbara and send them to you if that would help you. Would love to do it for you. Let me know.
what type of paint do you use?
Can you do a video on color bias in paint?
I've learned so much from you joe! I took some art lessons from a man named Jerry yarnell, but no one could explain painting as well as you can! Love all your paintings and murals, I am trying to get into mural-ing. Have watched probably every one of your videos. Do you have any tips for a fellow artist? How do you get your paint to move so well on a wall, mine just seeps right into the pores on the wall, and I get a broken pattern. Email me if you can ***** much appreciated!
Thank you 🙋
Hi Joe, I am a relatively new sub and you gave me something which I had never had. I have just watched this video and the color spectrum confuses me somewhat awful. Some teachers tell me to darken my sea at the back, but you tell me to lighten it, this gets very confusing, as I am painting a large seascape kind of picture with a mountain and pink trees coming over the top to frame the mountain (you probably know the scene). My sky is darker at the top and lighter at the bottom, but my water is now the opposite way, with green in front. I am very confused. I am not a young man and just starting out.
I'm also a new (old) beginner. By following different artists, I learned among other things that the same result can often be achieved using different methods and approaches. So eventually, we gain enough experience (hopefully) and adapt our own way to do things inspired by the pioneers.
So if our eyes had a cone that was more sensitive to yellow rather than green (like primary colors) would the sky appear more purple, rather than light blue? Sort of off subject, but I'm trying to grasp this theory by viewing a different approach.
thank u for explaining :)
so does he use a light color wheel or a paint color wheel??
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I always think of RGB as a light source and CMYK as a light absorber. White light has all the frequencies and for instance cyan paint absorbs all parts of the white light that are not cyan, and reflects the cyan. Black absorbs all frequencies and white absorbs none. Also a reason why black objects gets hotter then white objects.
Your explanation adds a lot about how to get vibrant colors. Mixing will never be as effective as paint of the wanted color. It shows really well when you order paint in a DIY shop where they take white paint and mix in colored pigments. A better way would be to use transparent paint as a base giving the pigments more effect.