Hi Louise….love ur work…but have to say a thing about “artificial green”. I’m in India and really, the green you all call artificial is the green of our leaves in this hot country!! We rarely get to see the yellow green you mixed up….sometimes the young leaves may start as similar to the yellowish green but they settle down into the more bluer green….
I am always interested in which colors artists choose and why. I like the minimum list but I'd also be interested in how many more colors you really like having, and the reasons you would add them.
This was a LIGHT BULB MOMENT for me!! You are an excellent teacher. I love all of your videos but this is hands down my favorite. I am going to bookmark it to share with anyone that is thinking about starting to paint ( whether it is in watercolors or acrylic.) I’m sure this took some time to record. But you were able to drill down to the essential bits and did a great job! You and Dom make a special team! Thank you! Well done!!
When I got into watercolour painting I made the mistake of buying way too many colours. They’re so beautiful, it’s very hard not to. But, as you rightly say Louise, it’s so much harder to learn colour mixing skills which are absolutely essential for diving deeper into colour and making informed choices when it comes to professional watercolour practice. Now I’ll stop typing and enjoy your delightful bloopers 🫶🏻
Thank you for including the pigment numbers, which is the only way to know what a colour is as trade names vary. I use Schminke paints (which use traditional names such as quinacridone magenta or phthalo blue rather than the more descriptive but not illuminating names often used by W&N) so when artist's mention colours by the trade name only I always have to go look up the W&N pigment number chart to see what colour they are actually talking about. Every artist eventually develops their own "go to" palette. In addition to a basic warm/cool palette I really rely on burnt sienna, burnt umber, yellow ochre and Prussian blue. I know, Prussian blue is controversial, but those of us who are devotees are passionate about it 🤣.
THANK YOU!! You really explained this SO clearly. This is why I'm on your Patreon, as I find you patient, methodical, and do beautiful paintings!! hugs from Ontario Canada
I choose quinacridone magenta for my cool red 'cause it is one of the primary colors and it creates the brightest purple when mixed with French ultramarine (those two sits close with each other in the color wheel).
I have been painting for 20+ years, though I knew the concept of warm and cool colours, I did not know myself HOW to categorise them. the trick with the colour wheel is easy and powerfull. I am colour blind, i mix my colours with the basic concepts but this will bring it to a whole other level !!! with much gratitude and appreciation, Rachelle
Thanks to you and a couple of female Spanish artists I am losing my fear of painting. You are, by far, the Best art teacher in English.This is not an opinion.It is a fact! I used to be a teacher too. Saludos
This is a brilliantly clear explanation of colour temperature and why it's so important. I've watched a lot of colour mixing tutorials but this is by far the best! Thank you, Louise!
So so helpful!! I have watched you for years, Louise, and remember when we had all those many colors. I am going to try to use this wonderfully instructive video to begin to learn to pair down!
Excellent information and demonstration. I’m going to really work on this. Love the tip … cool colours to the back, warmer colours to the front. First task will now be to create a palette card based on your demonstration. Thank you for this video and passing on your knowledge. I’ve struggled with greens and now understand why. I think Im also going to rearrange the way I store my paints, splitting them into cool/warm bundles. So excited to get started with this!!!!!
Highly recommend the book by Michael Wilcox Blue & Yellow don’t Make Green. Basically taught me to mix any colours you want. Works on the two colour system of cool & warm colours. 🐸
Yes! His book, The Artist's guide to selecting watercolours is also excellent. It goes through all the pigment numbers and explains that not all colours are equally lightfast in different media.
Certainly a wake up call for me. Just ordered all the W&N colours you listed. I'll be a good boy from hereon and look forward to the challenge. Many thanks for this excellent tutorial... Gerald UK
This was SOOOO helpful!! Thank you for explaining it so patiently and taking us through every single combination. You have solved some mysteries for me! ☺️
Tons of useful information here Louise! Thank you for the color theory class. And thank you for eloquently stripping it down to layman's terms so I can understand color theory. Thank you so much!
thank you for this tutorial. My question is what to use when glazing if you're using a 2 cool or 2 warm colors. I think it's difficult when using a cool and a warm to mix then try to glaze
I have been looking for many months that talked about mixing and color temperature! Thank you. No one else has offered such a clear explanation of this.
Thank you so much, Louise, for this tutorial! I still get confused about the mixing of cool and warm colors. I mostly mix and check on scrap paper. I am taking notes from you and will test my paints using your tips. Love your tutorials!
Your video is very helpful! Thank you! I purchased the warm and cool primaries not long ago and am going to begin trying out color mixing to get a better feel for what colors can be created. I have done some color mixing with acrylics in a class I took a couple of years ago, which was very helpful. I am excited to give it a go with watercolors.
This is an excellent video! I was taught color theory in my professional art college courses but color temperature wasn’t a part of it. After years of painting, I figured it’s importance out on my own, but your video about mixing is absolutely priceless! ❤
Dear Louise, I really appreciate your advice. I painted porcelain 30 years ago and am trying to learn Watercolor painting. So your advice is really appreciated. Bless you for your wise advice. Can't afford to purchase things I don't need.😂
Louise, your videos are such a blessing! I rarely have time to paint and your videos have helped me learn by watching and saved me a lot of precious time and paper. Watercolors are so tricky and unforgiving, if it weren't for your guidance I would have seen mastering them as a struggle rather a pleasurable challenge. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and process ❤️
Hi Louise - thank you so much! I am doing traditional Chinese water painting and your videos are helping me a lot to select and mix the colors, specially for the landscape paintings. The colors used are very limited and variation by mixing different color temperatures makes the paintings more vibrant. Also the paper is different as for watercolor paintings, so it is a bit more challenging to make corrections. Thanks a lot, and if you have spare time you should try Chinese water painting, it is really fascinating.
LOL, this is the third time I've watched this video. I've even taken notes. I'm sure I've heard some of this before, but it wasn't the focus like it was here. Super useful information! It never would have occurred to me to take the temperature of the end product into account when I'm mixing.
I love your art, your tutorials and support you on patreon. This cool warm thing? I did not have this perspective when mixing colors. You are so generous in sharing your art. Thank so much!!!! ❤️
❤❤ thank you so much,I have been painting for 1 year without knowing even about colour wheel…thanks Louise for the detailed video for all the beginners 😊
Thank you, Mrs De Masi, for sharing your knowledge and skills in a user-friendly way! I stopped painting long time ago. You inspired and motivated me. So I bought some pro watercolors and papers and I am on my journey... Wish you good health and God bless you!
Another WONDERFUL tutorial, thank you Louise from the bottom of my heart! You are a superbe teacher, I love your work, and every time I watch your videos I learn and grow. Merci mille fois
My learning moment about watercolor paint temperature bias: I was attempting to mix a flesh tone for a painting of an infant. From my reading, I understood that I needed a mix of yellow, red, and brown. To my consternation, with using a warm red, the infant's face looked orange. I couldn't save this mixture, and had to start again, this time using a cool red which gave me the pink I desired. I don't recall the yellow I used. May favorite color is burnt sienna, which I often pair with a blue/green or teal. My least favorite is ultramarine blue, which I only use for mixing. I would add Payne's gray to your list.
Thank you so, so much. I have a basic understanding of this but still struggle to mix colors with any assurance of what I can get. I spend too much time fiddling. I do understand I need to spend more brush miles just mixing and learning my basics. Again thank you. Love this type of video!
Thank you, Louise. This was so helpful. I’m in the middle of painting an Eastern Spinebill and I’m trying to make the feathers look a little more interesting. 🥰🇦🇺
Louise, this tutorial is very interesting and so helpful! Thank you for your generous sharing of these colours. I will make a chart of all the different shades, so I can practice these warm and cool colours. Thank you so much! ❤ Helene
Yes Euerka, been seeking exactly this! Thanks so much. Please do more color mixing. Took a class with another student who had been taught only to use 3 primary colors to mix…he was great at it and it frustrated the current teacher. Loved your embroidery t-shirt…where did you get it?
Hello! I just stumbled upon your channel and this was so very helpful. I have written down all the colors and will experiment. I can't wait to watch more of your videos. 🙂
Love getting a video on Friday. Perfect way to start planning a painting weekend. I guess it will be a color switching weekend for me now that I have all this information to digest. Thanks Louise for another great video
Great educational tutorial Louise. Thanks so much. I am enjoying the teaching sessions on your you tube channel and patreon for the painting tutorials!
Thank you so much! This is incredible and just the push I needed to get motivated again. Color choices always overwhelm me but with the advice in your video I think I can tackle this! ☺️
Louise this was very helpful. I would really like to see more videos like this. Even though I have both books you've recommended, your demonstrations clarify so much better what I've read. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this video. It was incredibly helpful! There are areas of my work that didn't look quite right to me at times. It was like my eye was noticing something, but I couldn't put my finger on what was off. After taking a look at the palette I used on a couple of pictures, I suspect that this has a lot to do with it.
Huge thank you for sharing your 7 choices for a beginners limited palette. I am just getting to go to a more limited color palette from the W&N 45 Studio Cotman Watercolors. Love 💕 your channel!
Hi Louise….love ur work…but have to say a thing about “artificial green”. I’m in India and really, the green you all call artificial is the green of our leaves in this hot country!! We rarely get to see the yellow green you mixed up….sometimes the young leaves may start as similar to the yellowish green but they settle down into the more bluer green….
Oh my gosh not only do I get a laugh from your blooper ending, but I can see the work that goes into the videos. You’re an inspiration - thank you!
I am always interested in which colors artists choose and why. I like the minimum list but I'd also be interested in how many more colors you really like having, and the reasons you would add them.
That explains so much about why ive been failings to get some colors when mixing. Thank you
This was a LIGHT BULB MOMENT for me!! You are an excellent teacher. I love all of your videos but this is hands down my favorite. I am going to bookmark it to share with anyone that is thinking about starting to paint ( whether it is in watercolors or acrylic.) I’m sure this took some time to record. But you were able to drill down to the essential bits and did a great job! You and Dom make a special team! Thank you! Well done!!
Great video thank u for sharing..learnt a lot many thanks
When I got into watercolour painting I made the mistake of buying way too many colours. They’re so beautiful, it’s very hard not to. But, as you rightly say Louise, it’s so much harder to learn colour mixing skills which are absolutely essential for diving deeper into colour and making informed choices when it comes to professional watercolour practice. Now I’ll stop typing and enjoy your delightful bloopers 🫶🏻
Thank you for the best and most clear colour mixing video I have ever seen. Really appreciated.
Thank you for including the pigment numbers, which is the only way to know what a colour is as trade names vary. I use Schminke paints (which use traditional names such as quinacridone magenta or phthalo blue rather than the more descriptive but not illuminating names often used by W&N) so when artist's mention colours by the trade name only I always have to go look up the W&N pigment number chart to see what colour they are actually talking about. Every artist eventually develops their own "go to" palette. In addition to a basic warm/cool palette I really rely on burnt sienna, burnt umber, yellow ochre and Prussian blue. I know, Prussian blue is controversial, but those of us who are devotees are passionate about it 🤣.
My pleasure and thank you!
That was the best explanation of colour I have ever understood. Thank you.
THANK YOU!! You really explained this SO clearly. This is why I'm on your Patreon, as I find you patient, methodical, and do beautiful paintings!! hugs from Ontario Canada
I choose quinacridone magenta for my cool red 'cause it is one of the primary colors and it creates the brightest purple when mixed with French ultramarine (those two sits close with each other in the color wheel).
I have been painting for 20+ years, though I knew the concept of warm and cool colours, I did not know myself HOW to categorise them. the trick with the colour wheel is easy and powerfull. I am colour blind, i mix my colours with the basic concepts but this will bring it to a whole other level !!!
with much gratitude and appreciation,
Rachelle
Thanks to you and a couple of female Spanish artists I am losing my fear of painting. You are, by far, the Best art teacher in English.This is not an opinion.It is a fact! I used to be a teacher too. Saludos
Such valuable information! Thanks Louise! Would you consider a video on how to choose shadow colours? I always struggle with those!
Great idea! Thanks Cathy.
Thank you - you're an excellent teacher, best video I've seen so far 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😊
You’re a great teacher. I appreciate the way you said the name of each color as you used it. I’ve watched this video twice.
This is a brilliantly clear explanation of colour temperature and why it's so important. I've watched a lot of colour mixing tutorials but this is by far the best! Thank you, Louise!
So so helpful!! I have watched you for years, Louise, and remember when we had all those many colors. I am going to try to use this wonderfully instructive video to begin to learn to pair down!
Excellent information and demonstration. I’m going to really work on this. Love the tip … cool colours to the back, warmer colours to the front. First task will now be to create a palette card based on your demonstration. Thank you for this video and passing on your knowledge. I’ve struggled with greens and now understand why. I think Im also going to rearrange the way I store my paints, splitting them into cool/warm bundles. So excited to get started with this!!!!!
Highly recommend the book by Michael Wilcox Blue & Yellow don’t Make Green. Basically taught me to mix any colours you want. Works on the two colour system of cool & warm colours. 🐸
Yes! His book, The Artist's guide to selecting watercolours is also excellent. It goes through all the pigment numbers and explains that not all colours are equally lightfast in different media.
I’m a beginner in watercolor here. Your channel is absolutely amazing!
Certainly a wake up call for me. Just ordered all the W&N colours you listed. I'll be a good boy from hereon and look forward to the challenge. Many thanks for this excellent tutorial...
Gerald UK
Thank you Gerald.
Wow Louise !!!!! I think that is the BEST and most understandable colour video that I've seen.........and I've seen LOTS !!!! THANK YOU.
Wow, thank you Lindy. 💕
So much great information! And I appreciate your accent, detailed explanation, and presentation. So lovely 🥰 Thank you.
This was SOOOO helpful!! Thank you for explaining it so patiently and taking us through every single combination. You have solved some mysteries for me! ☺️
I am a beginner and this is very helpful indeed. Thankyou🙏🏻
Tons of useful information here Louise! Thank you for the color theory class. And thank you for eloquently stripping it down to layman's terms so I can understand color theory. Thank you so much!
My pleasure Dave. Thank you.
I love this video, I have dipped in and out of it a few times, thank you!
非常感謝 最好的教學 我迫不及待的去試著練習一下
thank you for this tutorial. My question is what to use when glazing if you're using a 2 cool or 2 warm colors. I think it's difficult when using a cool and a warm to mix then try to glaze
thank you Louise ❤
Awesome tutorial. I look foward to seeing more of your videos.
Beautiful demo. Thank you. You are a darling.
I’m curious about the yellow and damp explanation please.
This helped me immensely. Thank you.
Brilliant demo and concept.
excellent !! I need to do a chart!!! thank you...
I have been looking for many months that talked about mixing and color temperature! Thank you. No one else has offered such a clear explanation of this.
thanks for this. Great backlight on your video too.
This video was so helpful Louise! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much, Louise, for this tutorial! I still get confused about the mixing of cool and warm colors. I mostly mix and check on scrap paper. I am taking notes from you and will test my paints using your tips. Love your tutorials!
Your video is very helpful! Thank you! I purchased the warm and cool primaries not long ago and am going to begin trying out color mixing to get a better feel for what colors can be created. I have done some color mixing with acrylics in a class I took a couple of years ago, which was very helpful. I am excited to give it a go with watercolors.
Thankyou for sharing your knowledge
This was very helpful. Thank you
Wow. Such useful information.
Thanks 👍
Most welcome 😊. Thanks Carol.
This is an excellent video! I was taught color theory in my professional art college courses but color temperature wasn’t a part of it. After years of painting, I figured it’s importance out on my own, but your video about mixing is absolutely priceless! ❤
Dear Louise,
I really appreciate your advice. I painted porcelain 30 years ago and am trying to learn Watercolor painting. So your advice is really appreciated. Bless you for your wise advice. Can't afford to purchase things I don't need.😂
Excellent info. I shared on Facebook and hopefully will save someone from hoarding paints ,like me. Hazel Soan has a book on the Limited Palette.
Very helpful!
This is the best video about colour mixing. Thank you so much. I love your art and all your video lessons 🌺
Thank you so much!
Brilliant explanation!
Excellent! Thank you!
Thank you so very much! Very helpful.
Thank you for a very informative and interesting video.
I've never heard it explained like this. Thank you Louise.
Louise, your videos are such a blessing! I rarely have time to paint and your videos have helped me learn by watching and saved me a lot of precious time and paper. Watercolors are so tricky and unforgiving, if it weren't for your guidance I would have seen mastering them as a struggle rather a pleasurable challenge. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and process ❤️
❤ Awesome thank you so much😊
Super video! Thanks!
THANK YOU! I never really understood the need for warm and cool colours. I’ve learnt so much from this!
Hi Louise - thank you so much! I am doing traditional Chinese water painting and your videos are helping me a lot to select and mix the colors, specially for the landscape paintings. The colors used are very limited and variation by mixing different color temperatures makes the paintings more vibrant. Also the paper is different as for watercolor paintings, so it is a bit more challenging to make corrections. Thanks a lot, and if you have spare time you should try Chinese water painting, it is really fascinating.
Wow! So much to learn, thank you for this great video.
Thank you so much master
Amazing
❤thank you
LOL, this is the third time I've watched this video. I've even taken notes. I'm sure I've heard some of this before, but it wasn't the focus like it was here. Super useful information! It never would have occurred to me to take the temperature of the end product into account when I'm mixing.
I love your art, your tutorials and support you on patreon. This cool warm thing? I did not have this perspective when mixing colors. You are so generous in sharing your art. Thank so much!!!! ❤️
❤❤ thank you so much,I have been painting for 1 year without knowing even about colour wheel…thanks Louise for the detailed video for all the beginners 😊
Excellent teaching. Love the bloopers too!😂
Thank you so much Louise!!! This is very helpful- you’ve unlocked the mystery!
Thank you! Expected to know most of this info, but ended up learning a lot. Love your work.
that is a big colour wheel! mine is so tiny next to it lol😝
you are such a wonderful teacher! Even if I know already about color temperature I think you cannot hear and try it enough.
great tutorial !
EXCELLENT video Louise! You make this so clear & easy to understand. You are the best!
Thank you, Mrs De Masi, for sharing your knowledge and skills in a user-friendly way! I stopped painting long time ago. You inspired and motivated me. So I bought some pro watercolors and papers and I am on my journey... Wish you good health and God bless you!
Another WONDERFUL tutorial, thank you Louise from the bottom of my heart! You are a superbe teacher, I love your work, and every time I watch your videos I learn and grow. Merci mille fois
My learning moment about watercolor paint temperature bias: I was attempting to mix a flesh tone for a painting of an infant. From my reading, I understood that I needed a mix of yellow, red, and brown. To my consternation, with using a warm red, the infant's face looked orange. I couldn't save this mixture, and had to start again, this time using a cool red which gave me the pink I desired. I don't recall the yellow I used.
May favorite color is burnt sienna, which I often pair with a blue/green or teal. My least favorite is ultramarine blue, which I only use for mixing. I would add Payne's gray to your list.
Gosh Louise you explain everything so well. Thank you.
absolutely love your blooper footage! i found this piece extremely helpful, warm and cool was a mystery to me! thanks
Thank you so, so much. I have a basic understanding of this but still struggle to mix colors with any assurance of what I can get. I spend too much time fiddling. I do understand I need to spend more brush miles just mixing and learning my basics. Again thank you. Love this type of video!
Thank you, Louise. This was so helpful. I’m in the middle of painting an Eastern Spinebill and I’m trying to make the feathers look a little more interesting. 🥰🇦🇺
Louise, this tutorial is very interesting and so helpful! Thank you for your generous sharing of these colours. I will make a chart of all the different shades, so I can practice these warm and cool colours. Thank you so much! ❤ Helene
Очень нужное и полезное видео! Особенно для начинающего. Большое спасибо. Вы лучший учитель для меня.
This video was so interesting! I love playing with color mixing. The choices seem to be limitless! Thank you for this great tutorial!
Yes Euerka, been seeking exactly this! Thanks so much. Please do more color mixing. Took a class with another student who had been taught only to use 3 primary colors to mix…he was great at it and it frustrated the current teacher. Loved your embroidery t-shirt…where did you get it?
Thank you Louise you are a great educator. Not to mention a wonderful artist and human being. Love from the UK
Thank you very much Jan. 🥰
Hello! I just stumbled upon your channel and this was so very helpful. I have written down all the colors and will experiment. I can't wait to watch more of your videos. 🙂
Thank you so much for this useful information! This is a very first time I know more about warm and cold colors. Love you!
Love getting a video on Friday. Perfect way to start planning a painting weekend. I guess it will be a color switching weekend for me now that I have all this information to digest. Thanks Louise for another great video
My pleasure. Thank you Suzanne.
Thank you for this information! Super helpful. Going to go play with color mixing now!
Wonderful explanation! Thank you! And thay dog painting is suuuuper cute!
Great educational tutorial Louise. Thanks so much. I am enjoying the teaching sessions on your you tube channel and patreon for the painting tutorials!
Loved this video! It explains color mixing so well!
Great video. I bought all these colours yesterday. Soon to get mixing. I love your studio.
Thank you so much! This is incredible and just the push I needed to get motivated again. Color choices always overwhelm me but with the advice in your video I think I can tackle this! ☺️
Louise this was very helpful. I would really like to see more videos like this. Even though I have both books you've recommended, your demonstrations clarify so much better what I've read. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this video. It was incredibly helpful! There are areas of my work that didn't look quite right to me at times. It was like my eye was noticing something, but I couldn't put my finger on what was off.
After taking a look at the palette I used on a couple of pictures, I suspect that this has a lot to do with it.
Huge thank you for sharing your 7 choices for a beginners limited palette. I am just getting to go to a more limited color palette from the W&N 45 Studio Cotman Watercolors. Love 💕 your channel!
Thank you Louise
This is just what I needed to fill in a big gap in my understanding.
Love this little chick and the bloopers 😅 bless you!