Complementary colors. Color mixing with acrylics for beginners.

Basic knowledge of complementary colors is very helpful when color mixing. Complementary colors are colors that lie opposite of each other on the color wheel. When you put them next to each other, they pop off your canvas. When you mix them, they neutralize each other.
So, when you know what they do, you can use it to make high or low contrasts, you can choose to mix saturated or desaturated colors etc.
00:00:00 what are complementary colors?
00:00:31 next to each other: highest possible color contrast
00:02:58 mixed: they neutralize each other
00:06:55 how to find the exact complentary color
You can also watch the first color mixing video about primary colors: • Mixing all colors with...
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[@anaterezasouza8461]

Your videos are the best in the subject, i'm watching them all, thank u so much!!

[@toon-nagtegaal]

You're welcome and thanks for your comment!👍

[@vincentgoupil180]

Thanks for the instructions. Helpful

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Thank you for your videos some really great stuff👍👍

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[@robertwebber8672]

your videos are fantastic. you demistify. also the humour is pretty good too. Thanks for this. Best R

[@toon-nagtegaal]

Thanks, I'm glad it's helpful!👍

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[@Allie-ck2lj]

Thank you for this video. You are using Magenta for Primary Red? It doesn't look like magenta on my computer screen.

[@toon-nagtegaal]

My pleasure! If you mean in 1:58 then that's magenta, later on in the video I think I used pyrolle red to dull down cyan. It can look different maybe due to the camera, so don't throw out your screen!😂👍

[@jondoh587]

@@toon-nagtegaal I'm just now learning about mass-tone vs undertone. It's something of a mystery to me how different one paint can look, depending on how thickly it is applied. My primary magenta is a case in point. A cool pink lurks under a pile that seems to look like a warm red. 🤔🧐

[@toon-nagtegaal]

@@jondoh587 I know what you mean, it IS a very weird color!😂😂 And to be clear, I'm absolutely not a scientist in these matters, I just look at what I see happening on my palette, so this is just what I learn from others: normally, we see colors like red, green, and blue because our eyes pick up light and our brains tell us what color it is. Magenta is special because it doesn't really exist as one single color of light. It happens when our brains combine signals from our eyes, like red and blue, to make this special color. So basically, magenta is a color our brains make, even if there isn't any special light that's just magenta. It's kind of like a trick our brains play to complete the color spectrum. In addition (as you observed very well) the pigment is very transparant. So it looks rather different when you apply one, two or three layers. Of course there are more pigments like that (for instance ultramarine blue). In the end, personally the stuff about non spectral colors is too abstract for me, so I just look at my palette and just very practically try things out. Hope it helps! 🎨🎨🎨🎨