How to Mix Clean Colours without looking MUDDY! (adding a 3rd colour)
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I notice that a lot of content creators for watercolor rarely show when they wet/clean their brush during process and when they don’t…and as a beginner, I find this is a crucial step that I feel I don’t understand and it affects my results…either my paint pots get contaminated from the previous used color or I wind up with a brush too saturated with water and get overly wet results. How one uses water is obviously critical and I feel it is rarely talked about. Wet on wet and wet on dry is certainly discussed, but not how often a brush goes into water and when you blot etc. I find, for example, when following a tutorial that whereas the instructor gets these clean lines or more opacity to their stroke, I get a very watery line or weak color…sometimes the fault might lie in not enough drying time in between, but often it seems like too much water on a brush or maybe the brush is too big….it looks to me in this video that you might touch a yellow right after a blue without rinsing…don’t your paints get contaminated ..? Hope my dilemma is clear. I love your videos and your work and would love your input. Many thanks!
I see your point. Here is a tip (Leslie mentions this often too) Keep two water containers handy. You always wash your brush in one (this water ends up dirty. Once the brush is clean, you pick up clean water from the other water cup, which usually remains clean. It is always advisable to dry the tip of your brush to get excess water off before dipping it into your mix, otherwise it will keep diluting every time you clean your brush. Hope this makes sense and helps you with brush and water control. I value that this video is on real time, as sometimes it is hard to estimate how mixes are made.
Yes, this is true. I’m sure others (like me) edit out empty space to keep the videos shorter. I do talk about my cleaning of the brush quite a bit on my Patreon videos and also in the painting livestream replays here on UA-cam. I always keep two large pickle jars, one for cleaning, one for rinsing, and sometimes a smaller jar just for wetting the brush. Check out my “watercolour tips” playlist for beginners tips. Hope that helps! 😊
This should help!
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Another beginner here ... so many variables and I think it is worth selecting an artist and joining their Patreon ... highest tier you can afford and get some one on one. UA-cam presenters just cannot dive as deep because of time constraints in videos. That said, I am at the point of not quite committing ... recently retired and budget concerns ... BUT, I will!!
I so agree. I think one reason is that the rinsing and blotting are often done off camera.
Thank you. This was very helpful. It took me three years of painting before I dared to mix a color. Silly, right? Color mixing seemed like this abracadabra stuff that I would never be able to accomplish. Little by little I have dared to mix. Many times it’s been with awful results, but the fear is gone. I wish I’d seen this when I first started painting! Thanks again, Leslie.
Colour mixing gets easier with practice. Using a limited palette helps! 😊
So many gems in here!
I particularly appreciated the point about hues made with ultramarine blue being more suitable for foregrounds, while phthalo blue can work better in the background because it’s less distracting. Really valuable tip, thanks!
My pleasure! That is such a handy trick. 😊
those green shades are so pretty ❤
I love mixing greens 🪴🌳
So helpful, thank you! Patient and clear guidance that explains WHY you add more of one pigment or another and/or more or less water. Also, effects of warmer mixes in foreground vs cooler mixes in background was very helpful to me as a beginner.
I’m glad it was helpful. 😊
I love the comments about the individual colors themselves. Did not know these things about Phalo Blue!
Thank you so much.. it is absolutely necessary for me who really struggles while water colouring..❤
You’re so welcome! Best of luck. 😊
Using as few colors as possible with more than one pigment is also a good idea to help reduce mixing mud. New gamboge is a double pigment color in Daniel Smith and in a lot of other brands. Pyan’s Grey and Neutral Tint are both triple pigments but they’re triple in most brands as well so be aware of the colors you choose. A few greens are also double pigments. Change your water often and have a second rinse cup of clean water to really get out the last bit of pigments out. Also if you use the same brushes you say use for other mediums that and make your watercolors muddy as well. Have dedicated brushes for your painting mediums. Now this is just an option and you can and should experiment to get the results you want.
All the color mixing you have done for us is so helpful.😊
Thank you so much Leslie, this was very helpful. I mixed along with you pausing as necessary and it was really fun and very informative.
thanks for the tips leslie
You’re welcome 😊
Very useful! And I already have all of those DS colors 😊
QUESTION. So I feel pretty good at colors , recognizing the difference between warm and cool except for the blues! Can you help direct us how to determine if a blue is warm or cool, other than taking someone’s word for it😊?
Yes, I’ll make a video about that soon! 😊
Leslie, thank you so much for this exercise. I struggle with mixing greens and this exercise is exactly what I need to do.
My pleasure! 😊
Thank you so much for posting. Your timing couldn't have been better. I am brand new (senior) to learning water colour painting. I've done my research on which tools which would work best for my lifestyle. How to apply a single colour to a page to make a colour chart which will stay with the palete. How to mix colours just seems to be the next logical step in my painting journey.💙
Do watch Dr. Oto Kano's videos. She has excellent videos on mixing, different colors, and different brands. She’s an invaluable source!
@@Angie-pl3uw Thank you so much for the thoughtful recommendation to watch, and learn, from Dr. Oto Kano's videos. Have a wonderful day.💞
I’m so glad it was helpful. I have a “Watercolour Tips” playlist that might help. 😊
I love all the colors, thank you
Awesome video! It was so good to see all these mixes! I always go for cool colors because I like it more.. but to see all the warm mixes brings new ideas! Thank you so much for this!
My pleasure! I love the cool colours too. 😊
Severe RA pain this morning but will give this a try later. Thanks Leslie 💛🙏
I’m so sorry, Sharon. I hope you’re feeling better soon. I just downed my ginger and turmeric! 😊
I always love mixing lessons and feel I learn something new every time. In this video, I learned another way to use transparent red oxide 😊. I haven’t used it to shift my greens before, I always use something similar to your other warm/cool reds. I have been doing mixing charts and choosing colours for making new 6-pan and 12-pan travel palettes over the last couple of days and now I want to shift my colours again 😅. This was very helpful… thank you!
Oooh how fun! I love the versatility of Transparent Red Oxide, and it always seems to add a little to greens. 😊
Thankyou for this
very useful video - the calm detailed explanation was really good for me 🙌
Making a color chart, not sure if I would do it correctly. Thanks for the video. Hopefully it gives me incentive to try again.
Hi Leslie, love this video, I recently moved and the natural light and landscape subjects have changed..and I was thinking about needing to do this same project..and heres' your video! Great timing, thankyou. Blessings.
A new home and a new colour palette- how exciting! I hope you have fun swatching and finding the new perfect mixes for your new location. 🤗
I was trying to paint the other day and my paints (from watercolour pans, specifically Daler Rowney) and they were beading up into virtually nothing when I tried putting down even a single colour to use on my plastic palette. The only thing I can think is that my pans weren’t soft enough and maybe I was using too much water on the brush, but I also felt that if I used less I wouldn’t be able to pick any paint up either. Water control has always been my nemesis with painting in any of the water soluble mediums, lol.
Replying to my comment cos I can’t edit 🙄 the pans were Winsor & Newton. I have watercolour sets from both companies and for some dumb reason keep mixing them up if I don’t have them in front of me 😂
Hi Leslie Love your videos! At the beginning I think you meant to say New Gamboge is WARM when you pointed out the colors in your tin palette.
Yes, I should have added a subtitle to correct that! Initially, I wasn’t going to point to each one, but then I did for the rest. 😅
You are great in explaining❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you! 😊
Thanks, good info!
My pleasure! 😊
Thank you for this information!
Hi Leslie, I really enjoyed watching you explore the color combo's you can make with using just three colors in various ratio's. I do have a question about mixing a warm and a cool colors together. Aren't your creating a neutral color? I know that warms come forward and cools recede while neutrals tend to stay put. Can you explain this combination of warm and cools and how they will react in a painting a little bit more for me please?
You are the best❤️✨
Any suggestions on how to train my eye to identify which version of a color is warm and which is cool? I can follow along and understand completely but in the quiet of me and my paint collection, I struggle to identify the cools and warms. It seems like I should be able to train my eye and not have to just memorize the warms and cools. Thank you for your videos - they are my favorite and have elevated my painting!!
I’ll make a video about this soon!
@@LeslieStrozhurrah! It is also hard with the blues.
@@LeslieStrozThank you!
Why is phthalo green cool green? Isn’t it closer to yellow than ultramarine which is closer to violet?
I am a beginner, and would like to invest in Some DS paints. What are the colours I should buy, for a limited pallette? Thank you.