I think you have recommended a good starter kit Michele. I hope my comments don't confuse your viewers. White paper reflects all colours. when we apply red wave length coloured paint, what happens is the surface absorbs green and blue-violet, so we see only red. As only red is reflected green and blue/violet are subtracted. Therefore paint mixing is called subtractive mixing. The more colours we mix, the more colours are absorbed until we get muddy darks, greyed colours and finally black. The more that the hue is neutralised the more the colour becomes chromatically impure. Chromatically pure colours include Red, Magenta, Orange, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue and Blue Violet the colours of the rainbow. These colours are pure hues, primary and secondary colours. Hue is the quality of colour that allows us to distinguish between colours of the rainbow. They are single unmixed hues or a mixture of just two primaries. Chromatically impure colours are tertiary colours, a mixture of all three primary colours. They include earth colours ochres, siennas, umbers, madders, greys, blacks and olive greens and army greens. Although they can be mixed they are often included as convenience colours to save time and make mixing easier. Next step is to arrange the pure hues on a colour mixing wheel to avoid making mud all of the time. I create a six point star of David. Using a compass draw a circle. Keeping the compass at the same radius, place the compass point at top dead centre and scribe a light arch to make marks on the circumference of the circle. Repeat this procedure from each mark on the circumference. One ends up wth six points on the circle. Paint a circle of colour over each point in the following order: Hansa Yellow top dead centre, next and to the right, place Pyrrole Red (I personally use Winsor red) Next point down on right Permanent Rose, (an impure replacement for unavailable pure Magenta), bottom place French Ultramarine Blue (Ultramarine Blue is a good substitute) directly opposite yellow, lower left side phthalocyanine blue Green Shade an impure cyan) then I mix green because Phthalo Blue mixed with Hansa Yellow to make good pure greens. I need them in Thailand but they are rarely needed in Australia. I like having Olive Green, Schmincke Hookers Green and Winsor Green in my paint box. I recommend mixing the intermediate colours between each of these main mixing colours: Hansa Yellow + Pyrrole Red ➡️ Yellow Orange/ Orange/ Vermillion Hues Pyrrole Red + Permanent Rose ➡️ Carmine Red Permanent Rose + French Ultramarine Blue➡️ Violet (Dioxazine violet hue and/or Quinacridone Violet hue) French Ultramarine + Phtahlo Blue I use Ultramarine Blue and Cobalt Blue as blues between French Ultramarine and Phthalo Blue as Pthalo Blue is copper based and contains some green. I use Winsor Blue Red Shade and Winsor Blue Green Shade as a personal preference here but I use Phthalo Blues in other brands. Phthalocyanine Blue Green Shade + Hansa Yellow ➡️ dark green, green and yellow green. I like to also have Manganese Blue to mix with Hansa Yellow for even brighter greens, but it is not an alternative for Phthalo. Blue Then one understands to keep the colours pure do not mix Cyan, magenta and yellow together or Red, Yellow and Blue together. No more than two primaries for pure hues. The colour wheel can be used to approximately identify opposite colours, to enable one deliberately mix tertiary colours, that is, three Primaries in varying quantities and combinations. Add a small amount of French Ultramarine Blue to Yellow, then some more Blue to see the change. Do the same to Yellow Orange. Add a small amount of Phthalo Blue Green Shade to Orange Red then to red and to Permanent Rose. Add Permanent Rose to Greens. This way colours similar to Yellow Ochre, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Olive Green can be discovered. An alternative is to gradually add black to make shades of each pure hue, add greys to make pastel colours, or white to make tints. That is a good mixing exercise but understand most artists prefer to avoid white in watercolours and black in general as allowing the eye to mix different pigments in such fine close translucent arrangement on the surface of the paper makes brighter richer colours in the painting. I like to have a few Darks Paynes Grey, Dioxazine Violet, Indigo Blue, and Vandyke Brown W&N. My preference for Winsor & Newton comes from starting my Diploma in 1959. W&N was the only good brand we had at that time where I lived. I now use several different brands, they all have their strengths and weaknesses.
“This channel is cat approved” lol lol my three cats and dog will be happy about that 😂 love your channel! You don’t faff about and I find you original - I am loving learning about colour theory here :) xxx
Thank you so much, Michele, for discussing the terms "warm blues" and "cool blues". Even with a strong art background (from years ago) I have been struggling to see any blues, except maybe turquoise, as a warm blue! The terms "red or green-leaning" blues are easier for me to see, understand, & identify. I love all colors and art mediums, so thank you for restoring my visual reality and peace with the paint/pigment world and so much more!! Best wishes from Southern California ❤️ 🪻💙💐🌞🎨🖼💚
Thank you for the clear explanation of the reasoning behind your choices. I'm a fairly beginner watercolors with the added twist of being blind. Like 80% of blind people I have some sight, is just not reliable or always trustworthy. I look forward to watching more of your videos. I found you on the Uptrex website. Another YT watercolor artist I watch I'd having a trip to France. I was intrigued with the server and s started looking at other trips. You're was interesting so I came to YT to see some of your work. I'm very glad I did!
This was very helpful! I'm a kid, so I don't have a lot of money but have been wanting to get a quality watercolor set. This has definitely been a useful resource when researching.
I'll have to make more use of the Permanent Rose I have after watching this--thanks, all very helpful. I'm not quite certain about Payne's Grey in the usual watercolor sets, however. I remember scoping through what Amazon had in the way of beginners sets and never could find Payne's Grey. You might remember asking you about this color some months ago. I've a big tube of it now, and it's been invaluable so far!
thanak you Michelle, this is brilliant. Ive finally bought myself some windsor and newton paints and they have a lot of the colours you are suggesting...plus black and white. so Ill take them out and replace them with what you are suggesting. Ill be doing the patreon thing as soon as Im up and running. I love your interactions, you are my favorite teacher xx
I’m so glad I found you. I’ve been dabbling with watercolors and the pencils. I love watching your classes, I’m going to have a 3 lumbar fusion in 2 weeks and am so happy I found this class. I’ve got my recovery area all set up and ready for rehab with watercolor, L o L, I’ll be separated from the rest of the household so I’m happy to have you with me. Thank you for everything!
I own 7 of these colours! I have experience mixing acrylic paints so I've been thinking about things like warm yellows vs cool yellows. As I start with watercolour I find the mixing part so fun and relaxing. It's a trickier medium to work with IMO but also fun and challenging. thank you for offering substitute colour suggestions. That's a real money saver for those of us just starting to collect supplies. I would rather have good brushes than 4 yellows that behave very similarly.
I have recently started watercolour painting and I'm thinking of making my first custom palette. This video is a god send as I have been confused about what colours to put in the palette, thank you, this video has helped me so much.
Thank for your video! I can not English so well so I didn't underställd which colors you morgon, because you just say bit didn't show. Thankyou so much for Good videos.
Michele gives great advice for all artists not just beginners. We're never too old to gain new knowledge, and younger artists like Michele are living proof of just how MUCH you can learn!
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber You are young compared to me I do assure you. I did my first watercolours over 60 years ago, but still learn by taking advantage of your great teaching style and technical knowledge. Many thanks and keep up the good work Michele!
Thank you so much! I have been trying to find a starter set with both “warm” and “cool” primary colors. I already have a palette Winsor & Newton and wanted to try to just add to the few “starter” appropriate colors that I had. I greatly appreciate your help with finding the names of colors that I can find in that line of paint. I know many artists use one brand of paint while others use colors from many different brands. If there are pros and cons to these methods please consider making a video f this topic. May 2023 be creative and joyous for you and those for whom you care.
It's nice to start with one brand, but if you find there are colours you don't feel satisfied with or unusual colours you want to try there's nothing wrong with adding others in. A colour like Payne's Grey will be different from each manufacturer so you may want to shop around.
Hi Michelle I have the colours you suggested and thank you sincerely for your suggested selection I will set these colours my travel palette kindest regards Steve
I must look at your website, I have become a colour and colour nerd now since lockdown. Now i talk to people about colours and colour mixing, and the other day I discussed colour mixing with a gardener at the farmers market. Hello, my name is Beaulieu, I am a colour mixing addict from London.
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber I am getting there. I am thinking when I see a colour outside , what Mix is that? I will walk into lamp posts one day or into a pond. I was in Jermyn Street the other day and I was admiring the autumn colours of mens clothes in the shop windows and the beautiful red and gold lettering of the shop signs and seeing how they all work well together. I look into the windows and see clothes with green tonal values.... and think, oh, they did a good job there. Then I see a nice red and I wonder how to mix it.
I agree! These are the best picks for the most colour mixes, great stuff! I have all of these and many more I’m an expert I was just curious about your picks and reasoning. I really agree about the blue as well I don’t think there is a warm they are all cool I’ve been calling it violet or green leaning myself lately. Spot on about everything really! Love the video!
In my watercolors, I could only afford about 6-7 colors at the time. So I got 7 colors. The warm and cool version of primary colors and a neutral tint as black. I found I can mix earth tones and some more earthy colors when mixing in a mixed brown or certain primaries but in my gouache, I was able to buy the earth tones and I differently find them helpful and making painting easier and quicker.
I have studied this video like crazy. It's been extremely helpful for helping me to reorganize my pallets so it's easy to get clean mixes. Now whenever I branch into a new brand of paints, I know exactly what colors to buy to get started
I'm refreshing my memory of your color advice to make a nice starter palette for my niece. I love convenience colors and have TONS of tube paints...don't want to overwhelm her as she starts her watercolor journey! Thank you so much for such an informative video :D
Thnak you this was a fabulous video. I am often getting friends started on watercolours and I pull out my hair trying to decide what might be best for them to start. I have my own favourites of course, like quinacridone gold that I could not live without,but your choices for the neutrals was opening my eyes. I am going to play with raw umber today and give Payne’s grey another chance. Wow that aubergine! Many thanks.
You are brilliant in describing paints and mixing. I have so many paints and I am setting up a new smaller pallet and am only putting in the " beginner " colors because of your demo. I have been experimenting mixing different pigment and am awed by what I have discovered. Besides useful, it is fun. Thank you so very much.
I always learn so much from your videos, and especially enjoy your color mixing lessons and the very helpful information you provide. Also, love the delicate and beautiful chain necklaces you're wearing! You always look so pretty. 😻😊👏
Such a useful and beyond helpful amount of information, and broken down enough to clearly understand. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge...what a help!
It seems I might need to get a little more creative with my color mixing, with all the colors my set is lacking ... Gotta check my travel set some time, too.
Thank you so much for all your good work! You are by far my favourite teacher on UA-cam. Your videos are very valuable for me. I was on and off with watercolour, but meanwhile I have found out that this is the perfect painting medium for me. I love acrylic colours, but not the painting process itself (Gesso here retarder there, drying time at light speed, etc) Watercolour is easy to carry around and does not take up much space / preparation time. However: As a beginner I still struggle with the issue of a limited pallette although I see why it is important. MY "limited" pallette currently consists of 20 colours. 😀 At the moment, it is inconceivable restricting myself to 12 colours or less. Sooo many beautiful colours to choose from: Perylene green, Cobalt turquoise light, Naples yellow, Dioxazine violet.... 😍
I have more than a hundred colours. Once you are experienced in colour mixing you need not stick to a small selection... but I would always choose a limited set for each painting, it will help give it an atmosphere and cohesive look. Best of both worlds!
My husband is a offset printer who worked on 5 colour and 10 colour presses ,yes cymk can mix any colour. As to pantone colours they are just ready made convenience cymk colours he had to mix pantone colours himself to colour match pantone colours and although they are custom colours they still only convenience colours able to be mixed and use cymk at the base level. Within the printing world it may not have the same characteristics such as granulation of a single pigment but it can be colour matched exactly. They use a spectrometer to achieve this which measures the specific gravity which indicates the density of the colours within a sample so the exact weights to be added can be precise. It becomes an exact copy of the original colour, just like synthetic drugs for example have the exact same structure as the original organic chemicals so too are they exact mimics of the original single pigment colours. Single pigment are useful for other qualities specific to each, especially regarding the way it behaves that makes them special. I still have a variety of each primary on my palette for the sake of ease of mixing as we don't have the same equipment to measure exactly as printers do. And I also have some special single pigments mainly for their unique characteristics such as granulation. There are many reasons why people don't just use cymk, but mixing technically isn't the reason it's just easier.
Thank you for the video. I often overlook the earth colours but burnt sienna is gorgeous and the combinations are so pretty. I need to try to use those more often as they have a depth to them which I love.
Thank you, this has been so useful. I started with the 12x half pan Cotman Sketcher’s Pocket Box. There are stacks of videos which tell me what colours I ‘should’ be using but it’s really good to have your explanations of WHY.
Thank you for sharing these tips - SO helpful! I'm definitely going to get a Payne's Gray and swap out my Alizarin Crimson for one of the rose colors ASAP!
Many thanks for your shows, and education hints. I want to paint again, and collects information for watercolor. My supplier sells W&N, and I will buy the primary, and seccondary (6) to a start. The tubes are a bit expensive, but price-worthy in the long run. Many years ago, I crafted small furnitures for kids, and baskets of veneer, and such that I painted by tempera of eggs, linseed-oil, turpentine and water. Sometimes just linseed-oil. I grinded the pigments, and mixed them into good paints. I also painted windows by home made oil paint. It went very good, and it was nice to apply. But not funny to make in large amounts. However. I happen to have a lot of pigments left in a lot of jars. For crafts, I tried to use mostly earth-pigments due to their transparency and beauty. Of ochres, there are gold-, red-, english red-, and caput-mortum. All from yellow to red-purple. Raw sienna, burnt sienna. There are raw umber, burnt umber, earth green, ivory black, and iron oxide black. The sharper pigments was synthetics, but was seldom used. Preussian blue was a disaster. So light, that it invaded all the room. :) Have you ever tried to grind pigments and blend with arabicum and water to make your own watercolors? Some of these real earth pigments are probably rare these days. I might have some for you. I cant use them all. Me swedish,. You english?
I have attempted to “paint” many times in the past but could not understand why my colors felt off. In frustration I would just not continue…thank you for explaining this principle in a very easy to understand way..i feel as though the fog has lifted, many thanks and many thumbs up! I cannot wait to edit and rearrange my paint box and give it another go.
Very useful and well explained. I have been painting for a while but it still has been useful to have this so well organized for me. I think I will make myself a palette that has all these color plus some of my favorites like green gold, cobalt turquoise light, phtalo green etc.
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber I prefer the more golden Winsor and Newton one. DS has the same pigment PY 129 under a different name. I like it on its own it mixed with phtalo green blue shade for a beautiful sap green.
Thank you for your clear and valuable content. I appreciate you as a teacher for your explanations of how and why things work or don't. While I have a background in art, I've been away from it for quite some time and you are helping inspire me to return to an art practice. I have played around with watercolors now and again over the years without much instruction. Your videos are filling in lots of gaps. In this is video you helped me identify 1 of the problems with my current palettes - I was missing a rose color! Soon to be remedied! Thank you for generously sharing your content for free. I am planning on taking 1 of your paid courses soon as result of your teaching skill and generosity.
Thank you ! I have been enjoying watching many of your videos. It is helping me move forward as I am a beginner watercolor artist. You explain things so well in a way that I can completely understand and I am very grateful. It is helping me deal with quarantine.
Thanks greatly for your video Michele, as I'm very much still a beginner so watercolour mixing is something I struggled with. Greatly appreciated stay safe
Hi Michele, thanks for this video! I have a new respect for pinks which I had previously overlooked when making up a palette. Still learning and practicing my mixing! Thanks again!
Thank You! This is so helpful to me. Its been years since I have tried water color. The fear of failure and struggling with understanding color theory has stopped me. I must get to trying once we move to Sandy Springs! I appreciate your time!
I think you have recommended a good starter kit Michele. I hope my comments don't confuse your viewers.
White paper reflects all colours. when we apply red wave length coloured paint, what happens is the surface absorbs green and blue-violet, so we see only red. As only red is reflected green and blue/violet are subtracted. Therefore paint mixing is called subtractive mixing. The more colours we mix, the more colours are absorbed until we get muddy darks, greyed colours and finally black.
The more that the hue is neutralised the more the colour becomes chromatically impure.
Chromatically pure colours include Red, Magenta, Orange, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue and Blue Violet the colours of the rainbow. These colours are pure hues, primary and secondary colours. Hue is the quality of colour that allows us to distinguish between colours of the rainbow. They are single unmixed hues or a mixture of just two primaries.
Chromatically impure colours are tertiary colours, a mixture of all three primary colours. They include earth colours ochres, siennas, umbers, madders, greys, blacks and olive greens and army greens. Although they can be mixed they are often included as convenience colours to save time and make mixing easier.
Next step is to arrange the pure hues on a colour mixing wheel to avoid making mud all of the time. I create a six point star of David. Using a compass draw a circle. Keeping the compass at the same radius, place the compass point at top dead centre and scribe a light arch to make marks on the circumference of the circle. Repeat this procedure from each mark on the circumference. One ends up wth six points on the circle. Paint a circle of colour over each point in the following order: Hansa Yellow top dead centre, next and to the right, place Pyrrole Red (I personally use Winsor red) Next point down on right Permanent Rose, (an impure replacement for unavailable pure Magenta), bottom place French Ultramarine Blue (Ultramarine Blue is a good substitute) directly opposite yellow, lower left side phthalocyanine blue Green Shade an impure cyan) then I mix green because Phthalo Blue mixed with Hansa Yellow to make good pure greens. I need them in Thailand but they are rarely needed in Australia. I like having Olive Green, Schmincke Hookers Green and Winsor Green in my paint box.
I recommend mixing the intermediate colours between each of these main mixing colours:
Hansa Yellow + Pyrrole Red ➡️ Yellow Orange/ Orange/ Vermillion Hues
Pyrrole Red + Permanent Rose ➡️ Carmine Red
Permanent Rose + French Ultramarine Blue➡️ Violet (Dioxazine violet hue and/or Quinacridone Violet hue)
French Ultramarine + Phtahlo Blue
I use Ultramarine Blue and Cobalt Blue as blues between French Ultramarine and Phthalo Blue as Pthalo Blue is copper based and contains some green. I use Winsor Blue Red Shade and Winsor Blue Green Shade as a personal preference here but I use Phthalo Blues in other brands.
Phthalocyanine Blue Green Shade + Hansa Yellow ➡️ dark green, green and yellow green.
I like to also have Manganese Blue to mix with Hansa Yellow for even brighter greens, but it is not an alternative for Phthalo. Blue
Then one understands to keep the colours pure do not mix Cyan, magenta and yellow together or Red, Yellow and Blue together. No more than two primaries for pure hues.
The colour wheel can be used to approximately identify opposite colours, to enable one deliberately mix tertiary colours, that is, three Primaries in varying quantities and combinations.
Add a small amount of French Ultramarine Blue to Yellow, then some more Blue to see the change. Do the same to Yellow Orange. Add a small amount of Phthalo Blue Green Shade to Orange Red then to red and to Permanent Rose. Add Permanent Rose to Greens.
This way colours similar to Yellow Ochre, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Olive Green can be discovered.
An alternative is to gradually add black to make shades of each pure hue, add greys to make pastel colours, or white to make tints. That is a good mixing exercise but understand most artists prefer to avoid white in watercolours and black in general as allowing the eye to mix different pigments in such fine close translucent arrangement on the surface of the paper makes brighter richer colours in the painting.
I like to have a few Darks Paynes Grey, Dioxazine Violet, Indigo Blue, and Vandyke Brown W&N.
My preference for Winsor & Newton comes from starting my Diploma in 1959. W&N was the only good brand we had at that time where I lived. I now use several different brands, they all have their strengths and weaknesses.
“This channel is cat approved” lol lol my three cats and dog will be happy about that 😂 love your channel! You don’t faff about and I find you original - I am loving learning about colour theory here :) xxx
Thank you so much, Michele, for discussing the terms "warm blues" and "cool blues". Even with a strong art background (from years ago) I have been struggling to see any blues, except maybe turquoise, as a warm blue!
The terms "red or green-leaning" blues are easier for me to see, understand, & identify.
I love all colors and art mediums, so thank you for restoring my visual reality and peace with the paint/pigment world and so much more!! Best wishes from Southern California ❤️ 🪻💙💐🌞🎨🖼💚
Thanks Susan so glad it helped!
Most usefull course on watercolor basics concerning color. Thank you! Now I am able to build up my own palette with confidance!
Thank you for the clear explanation of the reasoning behind your choices. I'm a fairly beginner watercolors with the added twist of being blind. Like 80% of blind people I have some sight, is just not reliable or always trustworthy. I look forward to watching more of your videos. I found you on the Uptrex website. Another YT watercolor artist I watch I'd having a trip to France. I was intrigued with the server and s started looking at other trips. You're was interesting so I came to YT to see some of your work. I'm very glad I did!
Thanks Heidi, it's fantastic that you are still able to enjoy painting, I have taught lots of students with visual issues :-)
This was very helpful! I'm a kid, so I don't have a lot of money but have been wanting to get a quality watercolor set. This has definitely been a useful resource when researching.
such extremely useful information, and I am glad I’m watching it now because I was just about to splurge and buy some tube watercolors
Thank you for this video 💜
Your explanations are easy to follow and take notes I appreciate your content immensely!
I'm so glad!
I just love that your supplies are vegan xxx
I'll have to make more use of the Permanent Rose I have after watching this--thanks, all very helpful. I'm not quite certain about Payne's Grey in the usual watercolor sets, however. I remember scoping through what Amazon had in the way of beginners sets and never could find Payne's Grey. You might remember asking you about this color some months ago. I've a big tube of it now, and it's been invaluable so far!
How did you know I didn’t know where to start? Thank you a million times over!
You are very welcome!
thanak you Michelle, this is brilliant. Ive finally bought myself some windsor and newton paints and they have a lot of the colours you are suggesting...plus black and white. so Ill take them out and replace them with what you are suggesting. Ill be doing the patreon thing as soon as Im up and running. I love your interactions, you are my favorite teacher xx
Thanks so much Kylie, that's brilliant :-)
Essential viewing for anyone using watercolour paints! For my part, I am like using Payne's gray. I think it is much underestimated.
I’m so glad I found you. I’ve been dabbling with watercolors and the pencils. I love watching your classes, I’m going to have a 3 lumbar fusion in 2 weeks and am so happy I found this class. I’ve got my recovery area all set up and ready for rehab with watercolor, L o L, I’ll be separated from the rest of the household so I’m happy to have you with me. Thank you for everything!
Bless you, I do hope you recover quickly X
Your so sweet. I’m sure you’ll be teaching me a lot. I’ll be a captive audience so to speak. L o L
@@txna58 Hope you're recovering well, and having a fun time painting! Praying for you!
I own 7 of these colours! I have experience mixing acrylic paints so I've been thinking about things like warm yellows vs cool yellows. As I start with watercolour I find the mixing part so fun and relaxing. It's a trickier medium to work with IMO but also fun and challenging. thank you for offering substitute colour suggestions. That's a real money saver for those of us just starting to collect supplies. I would rather have good brushes than 4 yellows that behave very similarly.
You are a great teacher! As a teacher myself (history, not art but I do love me some art history!), I appreciate your clear, concise explanations.
Wow, thank you!
Wish I’d seen this video before I bought my paints. I learned a lot for my next trip to the art store!
I have recently started watercolour painting and I'm thinking of making my first custom palette. This video is a god send as I have been confused about what colours to put in the palette, thank you, this video has helped me so much.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank for your video! I can not English so well so I didn't underställd which colors you morgon, because you just say bit didn't show.
Thankyou so much for Good videos.
UA-cam has auto translate to help you. You very welcome ☺️
I enjoy the washable easily removed colors...then your sedimentary colors, the the permanent...easier corrections...early on...
Michele gives great advice for all artists not just beginners. We're never too old to gain new knowledge, and younger artists like Michele are living proof of just how MUCH you can learn!
I am not young but thank you!
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber You are young compared to me I do assure you. I did my first watercolours over 60 years ago, but still learn by taking advantage of your great teaching style and technical knowledge. Many thanks and keep up the good work Michele!
I'm starting with watercolour.
This video is so useful.
Thank you!
Can't wait to learn more from your channel ❤😊
Awesome! Thank you!
Excellent recommendations! From here forward I will be using these recommendations for new pallets!
Thank you Michelle. This is very helpful. I need paint and don't want to get to many colors so this demo was really great.
I'm so glad!
Thank you so much! I have been trying to find a starter set with both “warm” and “cool” primary colors. I already have a palette Winsor & Newton and wanted to try to just add to the few “starter” appropriate colors that I had. I greatly appreciate your help with finding the names of colors that I can find in that line of paint. I know many artists use one brand of paint while others use colors from many different brands. If there are pros and cons to these methods please consider making a video f this topic. May 2023 be creative and joyous for you and those for whom you care.
It's nice to start with one brand, but if you find there are colours you don't feel satisfied with or unusual colours you want to try there's nothing wrong with adding others in. A colour like Payne's Grey will be different from each manufacturer so you may want to shop around.
I loved this demo! Loads of information and how to wisely spend your $$s. Thank you Michelle.
Glad it was helpful!
Loved this lesson. I am trying to use a more limited pallet and this was perfect.
The best split pallet on UA-cam. Thanks!
Thank you!
Thank you! As a Newbie to Watercolors I find your tutorials most helpful.
Glad you like them!
Hi Michelle I have the colours you suggested and thank you sincerely for your suggested selection I will set these colours my travel palette kindest regards Steve
You are very welcome!
I must look at your website, I have become a colour and colour nerd now since lockdown. Now i talk to people about colours and colour mixing, and the other day I discussed colour mixing with a gardener at the farmers market. Hello, my name is Beaulieu, I am a colour mixing addict from London.
I am originally from London, I see colour everywhere now!
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber I am getting there. I am thinking when I see a colour outside , what Mix is that? I will walk into lamp posts one day or into a pond. I was in Jermyn Street the other day and I was admiring the autumn colours of mens clothes in the shop windows and the beautiful red and gold lettering of the shop signs and seeing how they all work well together. I look into the windows and see clothes with green tonal values.... and think, oh, they did a good job there. Then I see a nice red and I wonder how to mix it.
I agree! These are the best picks for the most colour mixes, great stuff! I have all of these and many more I’m an expert I was just curious about your picks and reasoning. I really agree about the blue as well I don’t think there is a warm they are all cool I’ve been calling it violet or green leaning myself lately. Spot on about everything really! Love the video!
Glad you like them!
Great tips for a travel palette many thanks
Learning a lot from this video! I'm getting into watercolor and the options can get overwhelming. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful, Kara!
I have got most of these colors in my custom palette. I am really glad that I did this well. Thanks for keeping me inspired.
Thanks a lot, you've showed me some colors I didn't even think of!
You’re welcome 😊
Very helpful.
In my watercolors, I could only afford about 6-7 colors at the time. So I got 7 colors. The warm and cool version of primary colors and a neutral tint as black. I found I can mix earth tones and some more earthy colors when mixing in a mixed brown or certain primaries but in my gouache, I was able to buy the earth tones and I differently find them helpful and making painting easier and quicker.
Thank you very much Michele This was very helpful.
You are very welcome!
Really useful thanks 😊
I wish I saw this a few years ago when I started out. I've gone nuts and have waaaay too many paints. Ugh. Thanks...I learned a lot about mixing!!
Not all colours can be mixed, it's fine to have lots, it's also a good idea to learn to mix so you have the best of both worlds!
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber thank you. I'll feel less guilty!! Have a great day
I have studied this video like crazy. It's been extremely helpful for helping me to reorganize my pallets so it's easy to get clean mixes. Now whenever I branch into a new brand of paints, I know exactly what colors to buy to get started
You really make it easy to understand the difference between cool and warms. I finally got it Thanks
Glad it helped!
I'm refreshing my memory of your color advice to make a nice starter palette for my niece. I love convenience colors and have TONS of tube paints...don't want to overwhelm her as she starts her watercolor journey! Thank you so much for such an informative video :D
This is very helpful. Thank you.
You're such a good instructor. I love this video. Thanks for the info.
I appreciate that!
Good information, can't wait to start painting!
Have fun!
Thanks very much for this. Very informative for a newbie to water color like me :)
So glad!
Excellent! Thanks!
Thnak you this was a fabulous video. I am often getting friends started on watercolours and I pull out my hair trying to decide what might be best for them to start. I have my own favourites of course, like quinacridone gold that I could not live without,but your choices for the neutrals was opening my eyes. I am going to play with raw umber today and give Payne’s grey another chance. Wow that aubergine! Many thanks.
You are welcome Alison!
Thank you Michele
Any time!
You are brilliant in describing paints and mixing. I have so many paints and I am setting up a new smaller pallet and am only putting in the " beginner " colors because of your demo. I have been experimenting mixing different pigment and am awed by what I have discovered. Besides useful, it is fun. Thank you so very much.
I always learn so much from your videos, and especially enjoy your color mixing lessons and the very helpful information you provide. Also, love the delicate and beautiful chain necklaces you're wearing! You always look so pretty. 😻😊👏
Such a useful and beyond helpful amount of information, and broken down enough to clearly understand. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge...what a help!
No problem Stephanie ☺️
Thank you.
It's so helpful to get me oriented!
It seems I might need to get a little more creative with my color mixing, with all the colors my set is lacking ... Gotta check my travel set some time, too.
I loved your video. I am a beginner and have difficulty in mixing colours These tips really make a difference! Thank you for sharing.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for all your good work! You are by far my favourite teacher on UA-cam. Your videos are very valuable for me. I was on and off with watercolour, but meanwhile I have found out that this is the perfect painting medium for me. I love acrylic colours, but not the painting process itself (Gesso here retarder there, drying time at light speed, etc) Watercolour is easy to carry around and does not take up much space / preparation time.
However: As a beginner I still struggle with the issue of a limited pallette although I see why it is important. MY "limited" pallette currently consists of 20 colours. 😀 At the moment, it is inconceivable restricting myself to 12 colours or less. Sooo many beautiful colours to choose from: Perylene green, Cobalt turquoise light, Naples yellow, Dioxazine violet.... 😍
I have more than a hundred colours. Once you are experienced in colour mixing you need not stick to a small selection... but I would always choose a limited set for each painting, it will help give it an atmosphere and cohesive look. Best of both worlds!
My husband is a offset printer who worked on 5 colour and 10 colour presses ,yes cymk can mix any colour. As to pantone colours they are just ready made convenience cymk colours he had to mix pantone colours himself to colour match pantone colours and although they are custom colours they still only convenience colours able to be mixed and use cymk at the base level. Within the printing world it may not have the same characteristics such as granulation of a single pigment but it can be colour matched exactly. They use a spectrometer to achieve this which measures the specific gravity which indicates the density of the colours within a sample so the exact weights to be added can be precise. It becomes an exact copy of the original colour, just like synthetic drugs for example have the exact same structure as the original organic chemicals so too are they exact mimics of the original single pigment colours. Single pigment are useful for other qualities specific to each, especially regarding the way it behaves that makes them special. I still have a variety of each primary on my palette for the sake of ease of mixing as we don't have the same equipment to measure exactly as printers do. And I also have some special single pigments mainly for their unique characteristics such as granulation. There are many reasons why people don't just use cymk, but mixing technically isn't the reason it's just easier.
Very helpful video. Thank you for your terrific explanation of you chose these colors and what colors you can mix using them.
Thanks for watching!
I’m always looking for yellow alternates, I really like your warm yellow choice.
Oh thank you!
Thank you, very clear and useful
Glad it was helpful!
I I love your videos. They all are so super helpful. Thank you for making them .
You are so welcome!
Interesting thanks
Amazing video. Thank you. I’ve been looking for a video like this.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for the video. I often overlook the earth colours but burnt sienna is gorgeous and the combinations are so pretty. I need to try to use those more often as they have a depth to them which I love.
I think it's because they look so dull in the palette, they only come alive with water!
Thank you, this has been so useful. I started with the 12x half pan Cotman Sketcher’s Pocket Box. There are stacks of videos which tell me what colours I ‘should’ be using but it’s really good to have your explanations of WHY.
Glad it was helpful!
Very helpful thank you:)
thanks, I found this so helpful!!!
You're welcome!
Thank you for sharing these tips - SO helpful! I'm definitely going to get a Payne's Gray and swap out my Alizarin Crimson for one of the rose colors ASAP!
Glad it was helpful!
So much good information! Thank you!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank You!
No problem
Many thanks for your shows, and education hints. I want to paint again, and collects information for watercolor. My supplier sells W&N, and I will buy the primary, and seccondary (6) to a start.
The tubes are a bit expensive, but price-worthy in the long run. Many years ago, I crafted small furnitures for kids, and baskets of veneer, and such that I painted by tempera of eggs, linseed-oil, turpentine and water. Sometimes just linseed-oil. I grinded the pigments, and mixed them into good paints. I also painted windows by home made oil paint. It went very good, and it was nice to apply. But not funny to make in large amounts.
However. I happen to have a lot of pigments left in a lot of jars. For crafts, I tried to use mostly earth-pigments due to their transparency and beauty.
Of ochres, there are gold-, red-, english red-, and caput-mortum. All from yellow to red-purple. Raw sienna, burnt sienna. There are raw umber, burnt umber, earth green, ivory black, and iron oxide black. The sharper pigments was synthetics, but was seldom used. Preussian blue was a disaster. So light, that it invaded all the room. :)
Have you ever tried to grind pigments and blend with arabicum and water to make your own watercolors?
Some of these real earth pigments are probably rare these days. I might have some for you. I cant use them all.
Me swedish,. You english?
I have attempted to “paint” many times in the past but could not understand why my colors felt off. In frustration I would just not continue…thank you for explaining this principle in a very easy to understand way..i feel as though the fog has lifted, many thanks and many thumbs up! I cannot wait to edit and rearrange my paint box and give it another go.
Brilliant, you are welcome Lorie!
This video was great! I learned a lot! I hope I stick with this! It's fun.
Nice selection of colours. My fav is perm rose of course.
Mine too!
Thank you .... really helpful and looking forward to making the colour swatches and labelling them!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you
Welcome!
Very good explanation, Thank you
Your information is very helpful and easy to follow along. I have subscribed to your channel
Thanks so much!
Super helpful thank you!!!
Very useful and well explained. I have been painting for a while but it still has been useful to have this so well organized for me. I think I will make myself a palette that has all these color plus some of my favorites like green gold, cobalt turquoise light, phtalo green etc.
Glad it was helpful! It makes a good travel palette too. I love Green Gold, I have the Daniel Smith one.
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber I prefer the more golden Winsor and Newton one. DS has the same pigment PY 129 under a different name. I like it on its own it mixed with phtalo green blue shade for a beautiful sap green.
Just what i needed. Thank you
Incredibly helpful thanks. Both my beginner sets are lacking a bunch of things. :(
Happy to help!
Thank you for your clear and valuable content. I appreciate you as a teacher for your explanations of how and why things work or don't. While I have a background in art, I've been away from it for quite some time and you are helping inspire me to return to an art practice. I have played around with watercolors now and again over the years without much instruction. Your videos are filling in lots of gaps. In this is video you helped me identify 1 of the problems with my current palettes - I was missing a rose color! Soon to be remedied! Thank you for generously sharing your content for free. I am planning on taking 1 of your paid courses soon as result of your teaching skill and generosity.
Thanks so much Sheri, I am sure you will enjoy a course :-)
very helpful
Glad to hear that
Thank you ! I have been enjoying watching many of your videos. It is helping me move forward as I am a beginner watercolor artist. You explain things so well in a way that I can completely understand and I am very grateful. It is helping me deal with quarantine.
Happy to help! Quarantine is hard for all of us, I live alone, it's tough. Hopefully things improve soon :-)
Thanks greatly for your video Michele, as I'm very much still a beginner so watercolour mixing is something I struggled with. Greatly appreciated stay safe
Glad it was helpful!
This truly helped! I've been having a hard time mixing colors
Glad I could help!
Excellent info, just what I needed to get started setting up my plein air watercolor palette. Thank you!
You are so welcome!
Very helpful!
Hi Michele, thanks for this video! I have a new respect for pinks which I had previously overlooked when making up a palette. Still learning and practicing my mixing! Thanks again!
You are so welcome!
Very very helpful Michelle. I shall try this
Glad it was helpful!
This was extremely helpful! I wish I had seen this before purchasing some of the colors I have!
All colours come in useful eventually!
Brilliant info. Thank you, Michelle.
Thank you, just love your videos. Especially with tea and cake!
So glad!
Thank You! This is so helpful to me. Its been years since I have tried water color. The fear of failure and struggling with understanding color theory has stopped me. I must get to trying once we move to Sandy Springs! I appreciate your time!
You can do it!
This was so helpful and clear especially about why and in what context a primary is or isn't . . .
Thank you!
This is one of the best color mixing videos I've seen. Thank you. New subscriber. 😊
Absolutely agree 👍
Yay! Thank you!