Choosing an Acrylic Pour Color Palette - Acrylic Pour Color Wheel
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- Опубліковано 23 жов 2020
- One of the hardest things I find with this abstract artform is finding a good acrylic pour color palette. Getting a palette that works together and doesn't create muddy colors is not as easy as it seems.
In this video I give 3 tips on how use a color wheel to improve your color selections for an acrylic pour, how to avoid muddy colors, and how to test your colors before you pour.
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You're the first person I have heard say "complimentary colors will cause mud." I have been making these mistakes all the time, & yes wonder why my paintings would come out gross. Your explanation is clear, concise, easy to understand the theory process. Thank you.
Once I started actually mixing my paints in small quantities to test this my mud creation went way down.
Very important and interesting.
Me too! I thought you were suppose to use the colors opposite of each other on the wheel. That’s about all I know about that wheel. I muddy a lot because I am a perfectionist. That was only painting with acrylics and not even doing my first pour yet!
@@Joywith3LastNames 🙂if you ever get into making jewelry that tip will help a lot
Happy crafting🌈🎨🌈😉
I'm 2 yrs in and I cant believe I'm just hearing this too.
WOW! I have been struggling with understanding the colour wheel and combining colours. Your explanation is the first I have understood completely. Indeed, all of your videos are extremely precise and definitive. You should get a an Oscar-type award in recognition. I am truly thankful for your efforts and generosity in making these videos.
Aw you're making me blush. I love to do these video because it makes me focus my thoughts and retain what I am learning also.
I'm all-in for giving him an Oscar-type award for his teaching vids!
I strongly agree!!
I second that! Such a clear, simple and comprehensive explanation! And the suggestion of trying to combine colours is great so when we dive in we already know what not to do and avoid wasting time and money! Thank you,
@LeftBrainedArtist!
My aha moment was the testing the colors before. Great tip!!!!
Did it work? How'd the next one turn out for you?
Mine too
I LOVE that swatching/testing idea with the paints!!!! I've not done a paint pour yet (still working to quiet the "It's gotta be perfect" voice) and already I can see this one tip alone can save lots of heartache!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!
You are very welcome. You just need to jump in. Even if it is cheap paints and paper.
When I started pouring, I used those canvas on what seems to be cardboard panels. They're cheap and great for practice!
Take it from a fellow artist: tell that voice to shut up forever, or you will hamper EVERY project. FORGET PERFECTION and Experiment and Play!!!
Did you know that some American Indigenous artists work in a deliberate "mistake" into their art, because every human work is fallible and only the Divine can create perfection? You might approach it that way.
Doing the same & enjoying these videos as learning things not in any book!
@@BJones-yw4dd That's a great idea! I did a creativity seminar a few months ago and one of the things talked about was along the same lines - giving yourself permission to fail. Not only is it not the end of the world, it's part of the process, and sort of, then, not even a failure to begin with!
I have learned that complimentary colours can be useful. My colour tip - I was trying to make burgundy because it is a favourite colour of mine. I mixed dioxizine purple with a scarlet red but it just became a darker violet no matter how I did the ratios. So, with a little research I found a suggestion to add green. So I was finally successful by mixing 2 parts purple and 1.5 parts red followed by drizzling in phthalo green until I reached my desired colour. Hence a good use of mixing secondary colours.
I've always had a hard time mixing colors (that's why I have 100+ bottles of different color paints) but it is so expensive. I'm trying to limit my colors to less than a dozen and figure out how to create any color I want from those. We'll see how it goes.
The burgundy tip is a great one. I love that color too.
Good to know ... thanks
It's so funny! This morning I was preparing paint for tomorrow. While mixing PM and acrylic paint I suddenly became aware of that my paints had different opacities and number of stars (on the tubes). As I am a newbie in acrylic pouring I couldn't get a grip of what impact those different opacities (and numbers of stars) would have on my pourings. I was so sorry and didn't know where to find that information. And a couple of minutes later there was this notification from UA-cam.. Where you explained just that! What can I say more than Thank's a lot 🙏 Cecilia from Sweden
Excellent. Let us know how they turned out and if varying the amounts based on opacity and tint strength gives you the results you were expecting.
@@LeftBrainedArtist Sure will!
I’m just starting pouring, and part of me just wants to play and part of me wants to go about this analytically. So, I’ve watched this twice and tomorrow I’ll play!
Excellent. That play is always the best part is it not?
This guy is my new guru
Aw shucks. Thanks!
Thank you. This is one of the most informative tutorial!
It was a pleasure to do. I learned researching and people watching the video like you learn so it's a win-win for everyone.
I don’t often comment on videos even though I watch a lot. This video is awesome as it explains even to the most novice painter. I have painted for years and have made a lot of mistakes and ruined a lot of paintings before I figured this out. Thank you so much for taking the time to explain this.
So generous of you. Thanks for wtaching.
Thank you so much for explaining things so clearly
You're very welcome!
You are. A good teacher and a better motivator.
Wow, thank you! Glad I could help my friend.
This might be my favorite video yet. I want to come over and try this.
You should! I am going to do a ring pour with these same products and see if I can't get a full cloud pour effect tonight.
Thank you so much for this tip! I definitely need that color wheel!
It is a nice cheap item to have to reference when picking colors for sure Lyly.
Thank you for your tips!
Any time!
Those first two pictures were really pretty
Thanks Yoli!
This makes sense. This explains why all my paintings are so dark. Thank you.
I am glad it was helpful. Good luck on your future pours Shannon.
Just came across your channel! Many thanks for your clear explanations and your generosity in sharing!
You're very welcome Erica. Glad it was helpful.
Very good video on explaining how colors work! Very well done !
Thank you so much Merv. Have a great Thanksgiving.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us! ♥
You are so welcome Aga. Glad to help my fellow pouring artists.
I concur with Anna. I was under the impression that you wanted the colors to compliment each other. So I did that and ended up with mud!! This is a fantastic video and so very helpful. I love the Dutch pour and Blooms and would love to be able to do the whole spectrum of paint pouring. Thank you so much 😊
Thanks Angie. Getting the right balance of color is definitely one of the more difficult things with pouring. With the blooms it is a little easier because the paint should be thicker to get the right effect. With the Dutch pour the paint is so thin that mud will happen if the wrong colors are chosen.
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge, you make things clearer and they make more sense to me know.Thanks
Excellent. That's all I can ask for and I am glad it was helpful.
thank you so much for explaining this in a way that i understand it... i've seen 1000 color wheels and everyone talking about secondary and tertiary colors and i had no idea what they were and at that point the rest of their videos just go in one ear and out of the other because i'm lost... but you're the first person who didn't do that or make me feel stupid... i appreciate that so now i'm gonna go try it out lol thanks again
I can't tell you know long it took me to even begin to understand the color wheel. My intellectual side though it did but the results from trying to mix and match colors were always sub par. I still feel like this is my weakest ability with pouring. We just learn differently than others. I just kept practicing and writing down what I was learning.
Me too!
Thank you so much for your explanations, you’re making this so much easier to understand! 😆
You are so welcome. I had a hard time starting out and I figured those people that learn like me might need something different than was out there already.
I just found this!! Omg what a money and time saver! Thank you so much. ❤️🎉🥳
Happy to help Amy. Glad you were able to get some value from it. Happy painting.
Your content is so awesome. I have been looking for something like this for about a month now as I am trying very hard to learn the inns and outs of fluid pouring. I’ve watched tons of videos but so far yours has given me the most support for trying something I want to try very much. Thank you so very very much.
I am so glad to hear that. I feel like I learn better by prepping for a video and if someone else gets value out of that is just icing on the cake.
That tip about mixing small amounts of the colors was great! I can't believe I never thought to do a test spot... Thanks
Glad it was helpful Laurie. It's the little things that really add up to us making amazing art. You got this!
LOVE this!! Thank you for sharing this intel! I'm going to watch the other vids you suggested. I always felt like the paintings from the other Fluid Artists knew a big secret that was being kept from me. Now, I feel like I am traveling down the right path to creating more successes. My successes have been flukes -- (as far as I was concerned). Big hugs and huge thanks to you!
Definitely not flukes. Your success is yours alone. Maybe not as repeatable as we want but successes none the less.
You are a master of instruction! It’s the detailed information that makes all the difference. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful Don. Luckily these help me learn too.
I'm speechless to know how to compliment you enough! I have never learned so much from any other artist. Thank you for sharing, addressing the issues no one mentions. Thank you
Wow, thank you Diane. I do appreciate that.
This was so great. Thank u. It was so helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for these tips it will help me so much. I love the tip about mixing the paint beforehand that way I can visually see n know what will turn out or not turn out. So again thanks you have made the most sense to me out of all the other videos I've seen on color theory it just clicked for me.
You are so welcome De. Glad it was helpful.
Thanks! It’s great to see this!
Glad you like it! I hope to have reference to a course with a bit more in depth info soon.
Great tutorial. You explanations are simple to understand( my brain at age 70 is not sure if it's right, left or dormant). I greatly appreciate your teaching. God Bless
My pleasure. I sometimes I feel like my brain is dormant too and I'm only 42.
I"m starting my paint pouring adventure at 74. Ring pours frustrate me because of a slight tremor in my dominant hand
Sooooo useful info!!! You’re just an amazing inspiration and teaches so well! Thanks for ALL your videos!!!!
You are so welcome Catrine. Thanks for watching.
OMG you are amazing. I am also a techie and finally found someone who gets into the detail I want and the organization I appreciate. I think you saved my life or maybe at least my paint pouring endeavor. I was about to give up... always looks so easy but it is definitely not that easy. You are covering the tricky issues and making them understandable for me. Thank you so much! My husband, who is very techie, does not understand how you can be a bit ocd and artistic at the same time and I am sure that it is possible.
It totally is possible to be OCD, messy, and artistic at the same time.
Loved the practical mixing demo. Made it so easy to understand. Thank you for sharing. I love your tip on pre mixing the colors to test the combos
It helps so much for this guy that doesn't inately see colors that look good together.
Didn’t even think of the semi opaque and opaque colors.. that will help a lot!
Excellent. I may be doing another video experiment this week for opaque and transparent colors.
That makes so much sense! I was a hairstylist for 16 years. And when helping correct a color a customer had, we looked to the opposite end of the color wheel. So ash blonde with too much green for example, we'd use an orange based blonde to neutralize the color and vice versa.
Same thing with skin color. Red blotchy skin needs a green based foundation.
I love UA-cam. I spent a year learning wire wrapping and weaving and now I'm learning this. I keep saying, I should pick up plumbing or something. Lol.
Haha, pluming would be a useful skill but you always hope you don't need that one yourself.
❤ great teaching.
Thank you Kimairis!
Learned a lot! Thanks! Am going to watch more color theory, before next pour.
It changed my game for sure. Even from this video till now.
This was very helpful - thank you. I’ve had the mud effect and I’m okay when it’s a thin line, but the whole painting? Ugh. Your video made a lightbulb go off in my head! I’m getting ready to do three 24X30 canvases with a friend for his new living room, and this stuff definitely matters. Thanks again.
Glad it was helpful Allen. That was exactly what happened to me.
You are so amazing & thorough. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful! I try and document any place where I have had issues myself.
OMG, you're so funny. Great video and thank you so much for saving us frustration! I really liked your 'ugly' one the best.
Interesting how that works isn't it? That's the beauty of acrylic pouring I guess Leah. Someone is going to love everything.
Thank you!!! This is the first video I’ve seen that informs me of the most important part of color theory for me as it relates to paint pouring I gave thumbs up and have subscribed to your channel.
You are so welcome Mary. I am glad it was helpful.
Learned so much! Thank you!
So glad to help!
Learned soooooo much. Thanks
You are so welcome!
Thank you soooo much for sharing your knowledge!!!!!!
You are more than welcome. Hope it helped.
I'm glad I watched this
Glad to help!
thank you so much for explaining this!!
My pleasure Sonia.
Thanks so much again for taking the time out . 💜💜💜💜
You are so welcome
Your videos are always so informative. I really appreciate you taking the time to post these for us to learn from.
I need to get my color wheel out from my quilting days
I think you'll be surprised how much of the prep color-wise is the same between the two Mary.
Oh, I’m new and I love this video. This helped me so much. TY, TY, TY.
I am so glad Alicia. Keep pouring!
I'm more of a scientist than artist so this makes so much sense ! Genius 😊
Glad to help Sharon. Good luck on the next one.
This is kinda funny to me. I was just talking to my husband about this. He said look up color theory.. I watched one last night but was still kinda confused. Then I see you made a video and I know you think like me. lol And sure enough you helped me again. Thanks so much! 🤣
I am so glad this helps people. I never know when I put them out but I always assume that if it helped me there must be a few other people that it could help.
@@LeftBrainedArtist I love it, plus I'm a left brainer. Your channel always seems to have what I need. 👍😊
Thanks for helping out. Your tutorials are extremely helpful!!! I’m starting new from scratch and thought any mixture of colors would turn out beautiful pours! I was getting so frustrated and then this video popped up!
I hope it helps Theresa. I'll admit I still need practice with color combinations but I don't think anyone ever stops learning there.
Yep, I've made plenty of mud! I thank you for this tutorial on color theory. You have a great, orderly, easy-to-follow teaching style. Very helpful!
So glad to help Deborah. I've learned from all the mud I've made. I still to occassionaly but much less since I pay attention to my color choices.
Thank you so much for explaining the color wheel so throughly. Keep up the good work.
Thank you! Will do Diane.
You are 100% the reason I was just able to put my own palette together for a BEAUTIFUL piece with ZERO muddiness. I’m so excited. Thank you!!
That is awesome to hear Kylee. Thanks for letting me know.
Wow, what a great help this lesson was❣️
Glad you think so Jensen!
i saw this a few months ago. I already had my color wheel but couldn't figure it out. You helped a lot. I went To Diane Mize and some others to learn more. and watched your recommendations. Spent about 6 hours until I felt comfortable with the color wheel. Thanks so much!
I hope it helps your pours turn out more like you expect Raye. This part of pouring took a long time for this left brained guy to learn.
Now This was a great art lesson, and my fave to watch of yours so far LBA. Thanks so much for all your brilliant tutorials! You manage to make it fun AND easy to learn so much valuable info each time ❤️ 🎨 . Will definitely be saving this edition and returning back to it a good few times, I’m sure. 😅
Much love from UK 🇬🇧
Awesome, thank you Nikki. Glad to help.
Best video ever!!! Thanks so much!!!
You're welcome Chantal.
I'm so excited! You are teaching me so much!
Awesome! Thank you Gail.
I needed this video! Thank you
That warms my heart. Hopefully your next pour is even more awesome!
All your videos are great thanks
So nice of you. Glad they were helpful.
So pleased with these explanations. Very helpful...Ty
So glad to help Debra.
Very good!!! Ojala hagas mas videos de este tema.Saludos from Buenos Aires!
Saludos de Utah. Hago un video cada semana (sabado/domingo). Voy a empezar un video corta durante la semena tambien.
@@LeftBrainedArtist Thanks so much!!
This really helped me understand after months of struggling with this...you have no idea how appreciative I am for your valuable information and you explain so well! THANK YOU so much! I was about ready to give up but now I am going to give it another go. 🤞🤞
I'm so glad! I'd hate to think you gave up before making your amazing and unique art.
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I am relatively new to this medium and have found your videos very helpful! I thought I understood the color wheel until I watched your video. I can recite the color wheel verbatim but for some reason I got it in my head (I think it is the usage of the word “complementary”) the idea that “complementary colors” complement one another and therefore go well together. My art background involved black and white compositions so color, and all its nuances, has been a little tricky for me. I will also utilize your idea of doing a little premixing of colors before pouring. Such a basic idea but one that just hadn’t occurred to me. Also, familiarizing my self with opacities and the like should help considerably. Thanks again for your words of wisdom. Be well!
I know what you mean about a "basic" idea. I've been doing acrylic pouring for a few years and just barely starting to premix and check paint. I guess we all have to learn sometime and now is better than later.
Thank you so much for all this wonderful information!! I did my first one last night before seeing this video. You can guess it came out way darker than I would’ve liked but it’s not too bad for the first one. I’m excited to do another one.
Wonderful! Let me know how it goes Angel.
Hello, will I did my second one and it turned out great. Thank you again!!
Best color theory I’ve seen yet. Thanks again Ricky 💃🏼🕺🏼🐈⬛☕️🍩👀👍
Wow, thanks Ricky. I appreciate that.
What a truly fantastic video. Everything is explained so clearly. Thank you so much :)
Glad it was helpful my friend. Happy pouring!
Great explanation!! Thanks for the video.
You bet Angela. Thanks for watching!
The light bulb over my head just exploded! Awesome instruction on the tints, primaries and compliment colors. Thank you very much for this video, getting a color wheel asap. Great job presenting David.👍👏👏👏👏💯
One tip I am going to give later is if you are mixing your own colors, phthalo blue and magenta work way better. Those are more closely related to the primary printing colors yellow, cyan, and magenta.
Thank you so much for your explanations. I am not an "art" person and I am learning so much from you.
You're an art person now Lynne. Funny how some of us just need a little different perspective to see finally see it in ourselves though.
Totally 💯 was not taking into account tinting strength and opacity etc but was aware of the basics of colour theory but I have now ordered a colour wheel too
Yeah, there are so many nuances to paint that just understanding the main issues makes a huge different.
This is my biggest problem is that it gets muddy. So thank you for your help. I am really learning a lot from you. I am great full. I will definitely will get it soon😉
Happy to help Inna. We all have the same problems fortunately so we can learn from each other.
This helped so much!! Thank you!
You're welcome Barbara. Glad to help.
Really useful video, all of it!!! Thank you
You're very welcome Latia. Glad you enjoyed it.
Your videos are a great help, thank you!
You're very welcome Dave.
You are so informative! Thank you!!!🙋♀️
You are so welcome Carlotta.
You are a Man of Honor. Thank you
TY Helmut. I appreciate that.
Thank you so much, I needed this!
You're so welcome Marsha.
I really like how you explained the levels of colors from primary to secondary etc because you're demonstration showed the variation that you can get depending on the amount of paint that you add and your explanation about the strength of pigment and everything else it all helps me understand how to use my paint better so that I don't get off colors that I don't like I really appreciate all of the experimentation and learning that you share with us
I’m so glad this is helping you. It has taken a long time to really let it sink in this left brain of mine.
Sooooo needed to know this.👍
Glad to hear it Roy.
Thank you for the tips.
My pleasure Vicky. I hope they help you.
This is absolutely fantastic advice, thank you!! An excellent lesson plus advice of educating ourselves on the technicalities of colour. No other put channel I follow has said that.
I haven’t started pouring yet as I haven’t got the space to put wet paintings but I have started buying the supplies that I need. Strangely the other day I pull out the paints that I’ve bought and realised that only one was opaque, the others were either transparent or semi transparent. I had basically decided to sell them on marketplace and start again. Then today I see this come up on my feed!!
Can anyone please help me with advice on whether to push ahead and try pouring with them or would I be better off starting again and buying paints worth the same opacity?
I absolutely LOVE your channel. Imo you are totally hitting the AIM’s of your channel that you’ve stated. What a great tip, to try mixing a little of the paint first instead of mixing up for a whole pour and wasting all that paint because of bad colour selection or differing opacities of paint.
Start pouring ASAP. Just make 1/2 as much of the opaque paint as the transparent paints and start from there. Every painting is going to interact with it's friends slightly different so without experimentation you can't really tell for sure.
@@LeftBrainedArtist thank you, you truly are an inspiration and share an absolute wealth of important information with us so a HUGE thank you!!! 🙏🏻😆
I had forgotten a lot of this. Thank you. Sometimes, the accidents of mismatching turn out stunning,
So true. I try and write them down when I find them.
Him: “nobody wants this!” Me: “wait, I kinda like that. [Or this] Oh, that one is cool. The mud makes the colors pop, like apathy that found emotion. [Or this] Oh wow, I really like the contrast on that neon swipe, dim to vibrant.” Hah! It really goes to show that EVERYONE has “trash” paintings that someone will love.
But yes, understanding colors helps a lot, thank you! 😄
Haha, I get this so much now. I love it, and hate it, all at the same time. Now that I am about to launch my storefront it makes deciding what to sell and not even more difficult.
Keep the comments coming Jessie. Love these.
@@LeftBrainedArtist just put it all out there and see what resonates with your audience. It blows my mind when I make, say, four paintings in an evening and will be ready to trash two, but those are my partner’s two favorites of the night. Or when he shows five to a friend and the one I was going to paint over was the friend’s favorite. Everyone sees something different. I just started a month ago but I’ve decided to not paint over anything any time soon, let it all have at least a 3 month opportunity to be loved by someone else. Maybe then I’ll make it something else.
Anyway, thank you for the regular enlightenment and inspiration! I’m excited for your storefront growth!
Great video!! I’ve been struggling with choosing colors outside my normal comfort zone. I’ve read up on color theory, but like you said, our paints mix more on the canvas. The info you provided is going to be so helpful!!
So glad this was helpful.
This was a really great video. Very helpful and and taught well. Last week I tried to use xmas colors for coasters, and guess what! Almost brown!! I should have known that, thank you.
Been there and done that Ellis. Thanks for the watch and comment.
This is the first video of yours I’ve seen and I am a fan!! You explained it so well and simplified the process to make it easy. I feel like I can do this now without having to troll others description boxes! Thank you for being relatable.
Glad it was helpful Melanie. This is kind of my style if you want to watch some of my other videos.
Melanie... If you liked this 1 ~ his style & approach is very analytical & based on his experimenting, which he kindly shares with all of us. "Hop on board!" I have found no one online who's better at teaching/explaining all this stuff! Plus, he does it in very logical way & a friendly style.😊
Really good video I have been painting for 40 years and this is one of the best explanations I’ve seen
Thanks Joy. It really helps me learn to put my thoughts in a video so I am glad it is helpful to others too.
I hadn't thought of paint opacities. It explains how I could have done better with the painting I did this morning (my 4th one ever !). Thanks for that. And your idea of mixing the paints before in order to try them is really good. I also like your suggestions about how to use poping colours together in a painting by adding a thin layer of a paint of a compatible colour in between, or making them thicker. As in all your videos I have watched, this is very clear, practical and useful. Thanks for your work, and for your generosity in sharing it with us.
Thanks again Stephanie. 4 paintings already. You go!
This channel helped me a lot in my art work.
Thanks so much Prasanna.
Great video. Lots of good info.
Glad you enjoyed it Shirley.
Great video. I haven't started a project yet, just getting supplies together. This was a great instruction video and those test colors are the best idea. I actually liked a couple of the ones you considered"fails".😅. Really like your channel👌
Thank you so much. I figured I'd just bring people along in my learning to paint pour journey.
Oh my gosh! So glad I saw this before I started. I never would have guessed complimentary colors would muddy each other out like that!
I know right? You can use them, just put something in between to keep them from going all brown/grey.
When mixing colors, always start with the lightest color first.
White would be an exclusion to that though. You'd want to start with your main color and then lighten with white slowly to get the desired color.