May I suggest something.... would you do a video on how to read a reference photo...before starting a painting...that will give a road map for the painting? Like...where is the focal point, what values are dominant ...far to distance objects in the reference...etc
you should check out Ian Roberts' channel too. he's great for breaking down composition and photo references. from one photo, 10 different artists might have each a different compositions because each one decides their own crop and focal point, and even if they have a similar comp, they'll have different ways/colours/value structures to approaching the piece.
This video doesn't touch on it but most art schools teach you to see value first before you see color. The first 2 years of my art school was focused on seeing value of blacks and whites in terms of graphite and charcoal drawings (drawing/drawing theory). Because drawing is not the same as painting you spend another 3-6 months learning to paint black and white before you start to use color. When you do start to use color you don't just jump into 12 colors....you start with one along with a black and a white. We did many monochromatic paintings. Then you move up to complements plus a black and white. You slowly work your way up to 3 (primaries/triadic) colors and gradually using more and more colors by the time you finish art school you have mastered 8-10 different colors along with all the values with black and white. Everybody hates to work and they all want to easy way out. If you learn slowly by taking one color at a time and doing many painting with each plus black and white you will not only learn color theory but also value which is unfortunately lacking in many amateur paintings. It's called practice makes perfect. Start simple and work towards complex. Doing this any other way will take more time and cause more confusion and will slow your growth as an artist.
Thanks for sharing this process. I was thinking what I could do while I struggle to find inspiration, and I do as I haven’t figured out exactly what inspires me. I might as well follow this process at least to learn colours.
Thank you so much for this video! I wish my father, who died 3 years ago, could see this... He loved to paint, but he lacked formal education and his biggest difficultly was mixing colors to get the color he needed. I tried helping him by searching for good educational videos or books, but I never found something as good as your lesson here. At least I will now be better at mixing colors and maybe he will see me from heaven and be glad I'm doing it well...
Wow! I did not know that COLORS help create a bond between a FATHER & his SON. Life is STRANGER than FICTION. Thank Pavelb7206 for sharing his heart-warming story.
You, my friend, are a truly awesome individual. Aside from your knowledge and obvious talents and insight, your generosity in sharing it with us is, in itself, inspiring. I'll be purchasing your tutorial on color theory as soon as I am finished writing this comment and downloading your color wheels.Thank you so much my friend.I hope to watch many more of your online teachings. Peace
I know values. I've drawn with charcoal and graphite and values tell the story and make the shapes. I'm learning about color, and I have never seen a better, more comprehensive explanation than this! Yes Sir, you deserve an award and are a really good teacher. Thank you!🙏🏿
How’s that going for you? Colors I mean. I’m currently in the same predicament and I’ve definitely begun to understand color yet when I try to apply this knowledge my hands don’t want to cooperate. Nope. I feel like crying even if I, too, liked this video.
I purchased your Color Theory Tutorial: "The Art and Practice of Color" and the poster as well. This is such an incredible body of work, Florent! I'm also so happy that you have done this video for everyone to be able to access it. Many thanks and blessings. 💖. 🎨 💖
Oh that is a lot. Hmmmmm did you see Patron $10 a month option? I wonder if it is the same. Or one hour at a time maybe huh... I mean it’s totally worth it but I am honestly poor due to too many animals I can’t give up since $ changed
@@cynthiamarston2208 Florent said he was working on a color theory course, I believe it was last year, so I had been saving up - didn't know the price until he released it. I'm not a portrait painter so his other course wouldn't offer me as much help as this one, which has been a huge sticking point in my work. I live near an accredited college that offers fine art classes, but the cost of their "introductory" course is in the thousands. By comparison, this course is much more cost effective for what I need, which is color. Cynthia you can email Florent directly and ask him about your concerns and best options for what your painting needs are in your art journey. What the sticking points are for you in your work and I'm sure he would assist you in the education options that he offers.
@@shadowstarr7 I joined Patron $10 a month. It’s a start. I do portrait and only portrait. Not gonna live long enough to get good at everything. Yes. Portrait Oil Color. My sticking point is proper and correct prep drawing. Proportion I’m part way thru my commitment to paint 4 hours a day fir 31 days. It’s to create that as a habit! Thank you for your help. There are lots of goodies in the membership and I can use fir now!
You are incredible!!! I wasted my life for one hour in some other dudes video on mixing colours where explaintions were vague and his colours did not look as described ( like his red looked orange, purpal looked brown) and all the mixing just looked muddy overall. Your presentation is amazingly clear on every level, explaination, visual and examples you use. Your articulation is impeccable. Thank you for being such an incredible teacher. You are definitely making a huge difference ❤
Just purchased your course, this is exactly what I've been hunting for, for YEARS. Something about the traditional color wheel never quite clicked for me but every resource I could find (even by some super talented artists I really admire) was teaching everything based on this color wheel. I thought I was just a hopeless case for not understanding. This video alone made so many things click, especially the bit about true complementary colors. I can't wait to dive into the course material. Thanks for making this :D
Thank you so much Maria, indeed I was once in the same situation, color theory can be quite confusing and slip away from actual usefulness. It took me a long time to come up with this ! Glad you like my work 😊Feel free to write if you need anything !
Yes, I have been looking for a color wheel like this for over a year now. I have noticed many adults as well try to correct me because they are professional and I am not: they tell me I have the wrong theory, but I have researched and have learned otherwise. Their experience allows them to make better images than me, but that doesn't always mean they are correct, but generally, they are correct. This is a great video to show the artist in my life. I'm about to be 16 btw,, ^^ just so you know what I mean by adults. I love color, but I lack experience because although I understand it, I haven't made a body to brain connection with color. I have been scared to commit and waste art material, I always have to have double because I fear imperfection and wasting material: I'm afraid I can't get materials being where I come from. Although this is no longer true, it's been holding me back and left me less inspired. But I am still passionate. Edit: So I lack color confidence, illustration confidence in general, and color intuition. Please help! I want to improve ^^
Hello Again, This is an absolutely fundamental struggle for artists... The problem of "memorization" of a limited colour wheel has been the precise reason why I usually tend to only draw or use inks for creating. There is wave after wave of terrible advice out there...artists get frustrated and lost in this struggle. Your very "balanced and thoughtful" approach still allows for subtleties. There is so much more information in your approach. I think likening colours to musical notes was perfect....it gives one a less chaotic path to colour. Thankful for your work, and teaching...your work, I feel will be far reaching over time and use. Very, very thoughtful and thankfully "clear" explanations. As always, I wish you well. Stay safe and thank you again!!!
Thank you for this video! This is the most comprehensive explanation of why having just 3 primary colors doesn't work for painting. When I teach painting I always tell my students to buy at least 6 colors, plus white & black: cadmium red, magenta (quinacridone), yellow, cyan, ultramarine blue, and phthalo green. You can get pretty much any color mixed with those 6, plus white & black.
I’ve always been told that there were 3 primary colors and have never question this before. This is so interesting and game changing to add cyan, magenta and green to my thinking process. Thank you so much !
Merci merci merci merci beaucoup! I'm starting to take my painting hobby seriously and you really made everything so clear with your video in a straight-forward way, I can't thank you enough for sharing your knowledge with us
*EVERYONE IS GETTING THE ITTEN COLOR WHEEL WRONG!* 🎨🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 It's NOT meant to be used for MIXING. The Color Wheel from ITTEN is for COLOR HARMONY. - Cyan Magenta Yellow for MIXING - Red Yellow Blue for HARMONY & Creating Color Schemes! EASY AS THAT!
I love how arts have theory and science behind them. It just makes them that much special to me, and it makes me appreciate even more complex bodies of art
Wonderfully informative video Florent! This video finally explained too me why the traidition color wheel and theory always seemed 'off' too me. What an incredible tool your enhanced version is. Thanks for sharing the PDF. I will be putting it to good use!! Many thanks!
I want to clear a thing the complementary opposite of light is different then dye in the video you said the complementary opposite of green is magenta blue is yellow and red is cya these are complementary opposite of light not dye
"Chroma" is the Greek word for "colour". In the video the term is used in the place of "saturation" and I was slightly perplexed for that matter since in my mind "chroma" should be used instead of "hue". Just mentioning..
Thank you so much for this competent and charming video. I'm dying to get creative with my paints and your color wheel has given me great insight into color theory and how to apply it in practice.
Best color pallet for richness in facial skin tones ? Caucasian. They are the hardest to make “colorful” being a lot off pastey and yellow and pink some blue ugh. I don’t mind making a better skin tone than seen in person! Or in photo. After all I’m trying to make an attractive painting.... without changing the likeness. You know?
I am teaching art history and art appreciation. You explain tons of philosophical and technical aspects very well. I paint, too. Studied all that like you. I dig your style, your work, all your videos are great. All Best for 2021 :-)
This makes me not doubt myself, I failed an assignment in art school because I had to do a complimentary color painting and I did it in blue and yellow, failed because teach said blue comp is orange and that made absolutely no sense to my mind.
Best video on color theory i have ever seen. Not to mention throughout all the different courses I have taken through my entire life up until this momment. Greatly thinking about his course now. Thank you ver my much!!!
How can art classes in college compete with UA-cam? I've taken 2 drawing classes, each costing about $1200, and they were a joke compared to UA-cam. Thank you, Florent, for these amazing videos!
That’s because if you do UA-cam like this you really have to do it because you’re passionate about it but if you’re a college or have a course like that you don’t need any passion because you could just want to collect easy money
8:02 this is exactly what I’ve been looking for. Every time I try to look at videos to learn color theory, value and chroma are out of the picture(especially value). When you’re just going off of hue it’s hard (unless your style is purely bright colors). I’m glad to finally find something that touches on the color wheel’s other two dimensions. Edit: 23:18 is a big help as wel
C'était tellement informatif Florent!! Merci beaucoup pour cette vidéo, c'est la première fois que je trouve une "color wheel" aussi bien expliquée. Pour une fois je sens que ça va m'être utile pour mes peintures. Merci pour ce travail de qualité!
You know...20 years ago I had time to take three full time semesters of art. Community College level. Fees each semester around I don’t know anymore at the very least $200. I may as well just call it rent of $600 for studio space! The amount of info is relentless and great in this series I couldn’t stop watching, taking notes and rewatching. It has a very artistic presentation too. The chart now will be a totally useful reminder of much of the best info so I got it too. And I have dozens of projects to experiment with now....one day at a time. I’m getting more organized! It has a calming effect.
Thank you so much. Listening to you gives me hope, it feels like some schools just butcher the beauty of art, and all knowledge that comes with it. At my school my teachers hide behind: everything is subjective and relative... Probably cause they dont know. And my growth suffers for it, and therefor I, but this helps me. Thank you so much. Very good!
Thank you! This is the best color theory lesson I have ever seen. You made it very simple and understandable. Love your color wheel thank you for making that available.
I learn something super helpful everytime I watch one of your videos. I might actually call myself an artist with your help! Thank you for doing what you do!
Valuable, thank you… And you mixed your colors on a neutral background. That was important but I can’t remember why… I’m too exhausted with a headache.
When You get some time make a video about the Impressionest Color Palette paint names used . I found some palettes used by Monet : (different years) however some colors have been discontinued. Jace from Hiram OH USA 12/14/2021
Ok but we technically perceive FOUR primary colors and four gradients between them. We perceive RGYB and the ranges between them. I challenge you to make a color wheel with these four colors across from each other (R across G, Y across B) and compare which color wheel has the SMOOTHEST and most coherent gradient.
I'm no artist, but from what i have learnt RGB system works perfectly for light based color mixing - you can get absolutely every color from those three primaries. Pigment mixing is another story and uses CMYK wheel to supposedly get any color.
I see there are 2 types, CMYK and RGB, I wonder which one to use for display design (I know that display design uses RGB), but sometimes I still see people apply CMYK for display design. Can you tell me which one to use?
I love your reference and comparisons to music... I am a musician and have played improvised jazz mainly for years, with reference in my mind to color as I play... improvising with sheets of color, lines of color, different colors, different color intensities, on and on... you have helped me as I now will compare and explore this in reverse in my new hobby in oil painting. Thank you!
I tried to buy your new Painting Course , But only pay by Paypal and Visa Card ..We in the Netherlands only use the iDEAL payment system ,It is an effective payment system in all of Europe..It would be nice if you could also add iDEAL payment.
Just 4 minutes in, and just wanted to say that while colour combinations ARE subjective, You'd still need to learn how everything harmonizes together. I'm a musician myself in a heavy, dissonant niché genre of music. But I can only make the dissonant notes work tastefully if I actually know what I'm doing. Still, Indeed it is subjective wether the music is nice to a person. But you gotta learn the basic rules to break free of them.
Hello there, thank you for the video and the color theory chart. It's been my desktop wallpaper for several months now. And altough I'm interested in the course, i'd like to know if it can be applied to airbrush painting? I assume it can, since it's color bound and not medium bound.. But i'd like to be sure. Greets Dietrr
Coming back to finish watching this later and hopefully download the poster!!!! This is so great. I’ve always disliked the traditional color theory, or really lack of.
I came here to see if you consider the primaries RYB or CMY you didn't disappoint. You explain it exactly how I do. "if you think RYB are primaries, then make magenta and cyan from them" You make people figure it out on their own. It's very hard to accept what you've been taught for decades was a lie.
The greatest Masterpiece should have the Powerful Color systerm and ignore much More Detailing on the Canvas just like Claude Monet or Vincent VanGogh . am I right ?
Thanks Florent! Believe it or not, but Istill have to 'argue' about what true primaries ( in subtractive system..) actually are, even on the Fine Art degree program, in scotland. They still only mention the traditional 'painters' colour wheel, and hypnotise themselves and the students into believing that the muddy thing they get from mixing blue and red every time is actually purple/ violet....
Can't believe I've never seen this video before. Bravo! Best color theory lesson I've seen on UA-cam. Thank you good sir! I wonder if this color wheel you've created works the same with watercolor?
While following the test for retinal persistence and complimentary colours. I got slightly different results after looking at the dot for 10 seconds, and I did it about a half a dozen times to be sure. I got the same for the first two sets of colours, which was the inverted cyan (top) and red (bottom), and magenta (top) green (bottom). But for the third set i got orange at the top and purple on the bottom. Is there something wrong with my perception ? 🤯 It has really thrown me off 😅
Hi Florent. I'm glad I've come across you and hope to continue enjoying and learning about oils and painting in general. I enjoy listening to you. The colour theory wheel requests to be bought. Did you not say it was free?
This is gold!! I have watched several colour theory videos but everything went over my head and I couldn't put any of theories into practice. But this hits different!! This is practical. Thank you for making this.
In my opinion- colour theory is an essential foundation that should not be skipped, the subjective nature of colour shows up because everyone's vision is slightly different. But the principles of the emotional language stay the same. For me, I know that when I close just one eye, I see cooler tones through my left eye, and warmer tones through my right, so the colours I pick will be different to yours even If I follow colour theory religiously. And yet the atmosphere and emotion stay the same through everyone's eye. Colour is a contextual language and the worst thing you can do is get stuck in the symbolic ideal that makes you think *red is evil and blue is good*. The only thing you should be concerned with is how the colour looks through *your* eye relative to only your feelings. - learn the chords - use those chords to make whatever sounds good to you
idk about this guide on how to make music. seems iffy. (I'm kidding) I think because I use watercolor, I color things very differently and ended up getting a pure pigment set to try to not buy 1 of each color in every brand. I noticed a trend in certain vibes of color in digital art also.
The test around 13:20 give me a result that is more of a between what you say and the classic completary, the red gived me a cyan I think not exactly the same, didnt' see a sifference between the two but the the cyan didnt gi e me same red so.. it was a slightly orange red and very vibrant (like if my perception would give a between, what I mean is classic complementary would told us that cyan is a vibrant bluish turquoise so complentary would be a vibrant redish orange, and what you say is red, I had something between, a red that was very slighly orange and vibrant but very slighlty. Same result for the blue and yellow, or even more prononciate because this time I seen the difference in both colors, the blue gived me a very slighly orangish yellow and the yellow gived me a bluish purple, as we mixed both complementaries, the purple that we tought us that was yellow complementary and the blue that was on the screen with the yellow. As for the red that gi ed me a cyan I didnt really see a difference for the green and the magenta, or maybe a bery little like if the green were very slightly blue and the magenta v.slightly red. (I did the test 4 times to be sure and to watch all colors) I already seen this video and the first time also I had something like this (I also comented, I think my comment is still here) My conclusion, either it's more of a between the two or everyones perception of colors, complementarys etc are not exactly the same. Do someone else had as me a kind of between, the cyan giving a vibrant veeery slighly orange RED and the blue giving a yellow that a liiitle bit orange, the yellow gives a blue that sliiightly purple etc ? Or am I an alien.. ?? 😂
With the six squares, why my eyes saw Orange and ultramarine shade of violet... and not the two complementaries colors who was there at the begining ... Always the same result after fix the dot... and these colors were not there before... I would want to know if somebodyelse saw the same phenomen... Thank you.
Your presentation is wonderful and I want to hear what you have to say. Your background music is ok in the description of your color wheel until it is too loud and conflicts. I wish this could be fixed. But otherwise I fully understand!!! And you made something to relate to the other missing colors. Why was this not done before. You're a genius!
I actually liked the video and I think you’re very talented, but I tried to download the for free poster you mentioned but everything on the link is to purchase, and I understand you gotta sale as well but you if you promote something “for free” you should actually give it (and make it easy to find it) not to make it for free after passing a labyrinth of selling strategies.
This makes sense for traditional, for digital the only way to utilize it similarly and consistently is by use of on screen mixing with a digital oil brush if I am correct? thank you for the video and demonstration very helpful.
Great video, and yes, sometimes "anything goes" but more often than not it is just an excuse for mediocrity, think of the worst from De Kooning, that´s not someone who knows his color, that´s a mess.
If you red my comment you'll see that for me this green and this magenta ren't exactly opposite but there are very near so eventually the yellow give a more purple color that the blue and on your wheel I see that yellow isnt opposite to this blue but to a more purple blue, perfect ! But red and cyan, no, at least for me, in my perception, as I said in my many comments, with cyan the red is a bit orange and with the red the cyan is a bit green. Now your wheel has a correction for yellow amd blue but I think it also needa one for red and cyan, btw we can clearly (yes clearly, sorry, I really don't want to be harsh, and you seem to be a cool guy) see that at some part of the wheel the gradient is very slight and other very hard, the distance between red amd orange is too big for example and in the yellows the gradient are very hard, we go very quickly from a tint to another, when in the reds, the blues, it is very progressive.. I think it should be verification to see if something's wrong. If you want (answer) I can watch more precisely and try to figure what modification to like this you can try it to see what it does.
May I suggest something.... would you do a video on how to read a reference photo...before starting a painting...that will give a road map for the painting? Like...where is the focal point, what values are dominant ...far to distance objects in the reference...etc
i would suggest studying more about composition, making a grid, and something called an "underpainting"
You will need to study the principles so you can design without reference :D reference is faster tho
you should check out Ian Roberts' channel too. he's great for breaking down composition and photo references. from one photo, 10 different artists might have each a different compositions because each one decides their own crop and focal point, and even if they have a similar comp, they'll have different ways/colours/value structures to approaching the piece.
Ian Roberts' channel is awesome for exactly that!!
Yes I would like also compositiont related to color proportion, with it tonic, dominant and accent!
This video doesn't touch on it but most art schools teach you to see value first before you see color. The first 2 years of my art school was focused on seeing value of blacks and whites in terms of graphite and charcoal drawings (drawing/drawing theory). Because drawing is not the same as painting you spend another 3-6 months learning to paint black and white before you start to use color. When you do start to use color you don't just jump into 12 colors....you start with one along with a black and a white. We did many monochromatic paintings. Then you move up to complements plus a black and white. You slowly work your way up to 3 (primaries/triadic) colors and gradually using more and more colors by the time you finish art school you have mastered 8-10 different colors along with all the values with black and white. Everybody hates to work and they all want to easy way out. If you learn slowly by taking one color at a time and doing many painting with each plus black and white you will not only learn color theory but also value which is unfortunately lacking in many amateur paintings. It's called practice makes perfect. Start simple and work towards complex. Doing this any other way will take more time and cause more confusion and will slow your growth as an artist.
Thanks for sharing this process. I was thinking what I could do while I struggle to find inspiration, and I do as I haven’t figured out exactly what inspires me. I might as well follow this process at least to learn colours.
Thanks for the great advice as well
A massive THANKS to you, sir! I take your advice to my heart! God bless you!
This is really solid advice and will definitely incorporate this into my art journey! Thank you!
This man deserves an award.
I’ve never agreed more strongly with a comment before
We should give him one
💯💯💯
Buy his class. That's a pretty good award.
I couldn't agree more.
Art teachers: **Blah Blah Blah uninformative stuff**
UA-cam: **actually teaches**
Word!!
It's sad how true this comment is...
Its true of any subject really. Lol
This was years ago holy shit
Thank you so much for this video! I wish my father, who died 3 years ago, could see this... He loved to paint, but he lacked formal education and his biggest difficultly was mixing colors to get the color he needed. I tried helping him by searching for good educational videos or books, but I never found something as good as your lesson here. At least I will now be better at mixing colors and maybe he will see me from heaven and be glad I'm doing it well...
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@@CJ1402 we shall not cry :'''''''''''''''"""""""""""""""""]
So heartwarming.
Wow! I did not know that COLORS help create a bond between a FATHER & his SON. Life is STRANGER than FICTION. Thank Pavelb7206 for sharing his heart-warming story.
You, my friend, are a truly awesome individual. Aside from your knowledge and obvious talents and insight, your generosity in sharing it with us is, in itself, inspiring. I'll be purchasing your tutorial on color theory as soon as I am finished writing this comment and downloading your color wheels.Thank you so much my friend.I hope to watch many more of your online teachings.
Peace
I know values. I've drawn with charcoal and graphite and values tell the story and make the shapes. I'm learning about color, and I have never seen a better, more comprehensive explanation than this! Yes Sir, you deserve an award and are a really good teacher. Thank you!🙏🏿
How’s that going for you? Colors I mean. I’m currently in the same predicament and I’ve definitely begun to understand color yet when I try to apply this knowledge my hands don’t want to cooperate. Nope. I feel like crying even if I, too, liked this video.
omg perfect timing!! i was getting frustrated with my painting bcz of the colors :) thank you!
Same
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So true! It seems like he reads our mind!
I purchased your Color Theory Tutorial: "The Art and Practice of Color" and the poster as well. This is such an incredible body of work, Florent! I'm also so happy that you have done this video for everyone to be able to access it. Many thanks and blessings. 💖. 🎨 💖
How? I saw a $10 patron membership monthly. Is there a way to purchase a certain tutorial?
@@cynthiamarston2208 Scroll down to the 3rd picture, that is for the Art & Practice of Color tutorial to purchase. www.florentfarges.com/education/
Oh that is a lot. Hmmmmm did you see Patron $10 a month option? I wonder if it is the same. Or one hour at a time maybe huh... I mean it’s totally worth it but I am honestly poor due to too many animals I can’t give up since $ changed
@@cynthiamarston2208 Florent said he was working on a color theory course, I believe it was last year, so I had been saving up - didn't know the price until he released it. I'm not a portrait painter so his other course wouldn't offer me as much help as this one, which has been a huge sticking point in my work. I live near an accredited college that offers fine art classes, but the cost of their "introductory" course is in the thousands. By comparison, this course is much more cost effective for what I need, which is color. Cynthia you can email Florent directly and ask him about your concerns and best options for what your painting needs are in your art journey. What the sticking points are for you in your work and I'm sure he would assist you in the education options that he offers.
@@shadowstarr7 I joined Patron $10 a month. It’s a start. I do portrait and only portrait. Not gonna live long enough to get good at everything. Yes. Portrait Oil Color. My sticking point is proper and correct prep drawing. Proportion I’m part way thru my commitment to paint 4 hours a day fir 31 days. It’s to create that as a habit! Thank you for your help. There are lots of goodies in the membership and I can use fir now!
You are incredible!!! I wasted my life for one hour in some other dudes video on mixing colours where explaintions were vague and his colours did not look as described ( like his red looked orange, purpal looked brown) and all the mixing just looked muddy overall. Your presentation is amazingly clear on every level, explaination, visual and examples you use. Your articulation is impeccable. Thank you for being such an incredible teacher. You are definitely making a huge difference ❤
Glad I could help!
Just purchased your course, this is exactly what I've been hunting for, for YEARS. Something about the traditional color wheel never quite clicked for me but every resource I could find (even by some super talented artists I really admire) was teaching everything based on this color wheel. I thought I was just a hopeless case for not understanding. This video alone made so many things click, especially the bit about true complementary colors. I can't wait to dive into the course material. Thanks for making this :D
Thank you so much Maria, indeed I was once in the same situation, color theory can be quite confusing and slip away from actual usefulness. It took me a long time to come up with this ! Glad you like my work 😊Feel free to write if you need anything !
French people are so cute.
Thank you this video put me to sleep and educated me on color theory at 3 am
Yes, I have been looking for a color wheel like this for over a year now. I have noticed many adults as well try to correct me because they are professional and I am not: they tell me I have the wrong theory, but I have researched and have learned otherwise. Their experience allows them to make better images than me, but that doesn't always mean they are correct, but generally, they are correct. This is a great video to show the artist in my life. I'm about to be 16 btw,, ^^ just so you know what I mean by adults. I love color, but I lack experience because although I understand it, I haven't made a body to brain connection with color. I have been scared to commit and waste art material, I always have to have double because I fear imperfection and wasting material: I'm afraid I can't get materials being where I come from. Although this is no longer true, it's been holding me back and left me less inspired. But I am still passionate.
Edit: So I lack color confidence, illustration confidence in general, and color intuition.
Please help! I want to improve ^^
Hello Again,
This is an absolutely fundamental struggle for artists... The problem of "memorization" of a limited colour wheel has been the precise reason why I usually tend to only draw or use inks for creating. There is wave after wave of terrible advice out there...artists get frustrated and lost in this struggle. Your very "balanced and thoughtful" approach still allows for subtleties. There is so much more information in your approach. I think likening colours to musical notes was perfect....it gives one a less chaotic path to colour. Thankful for your work, and teaching...your work, I feel will be far reaching over time and use. Very, very thoughtful and thankfully "clear" explanations. As always, I wish you well. Stay safe and thank you again!!!
Thank you for this video! This is the most comprehensive explanation of why having just 3 primary colors doesn't work for painting. When I teach painting I always tell my students to buy at least 6 colors, plus white & black: cadmium red, magenta (quinacridone), yellow, cyan, ultramarine blue, and phthalo green. You can get pretty much any color mixed with those 6, plus white & black.
I’ve always been told that there were 3 primary colors and have never question this before. This is so interesting and game changing to add cyan, magenta and green to my thinking process. Thank you so much !
Merci merci merci merci beaucoup! I'm starting to take my painting hobby seriously and you really made everything so clear with your video in a straight-forward way, I can't thank you enough for sharing your knowledge with us
Hi speak french ?
GREAT VIDEO. Thank you for sharing.🙏🏻🙏🏻
# How can I use color theory as I have color deficiency?❓❓❔❔
*EVERYONE IS GETTING THE ITTEN COLOR WHEEL WRONG!* 🎨🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
It's NOT meant to be used for MIXING. The Color Wheel from ITTEN is for COLOR HARMONY.
- Cyan Magenta Yellow for MIXING
- Red Yellow Blue for HARMONY & Creating Color Schemes!
EASY AS THAT!
I love how arts have theory and science behind them. It just makes them that much special to me, and it makes me appreciate even more complex bodies of art
And simpler because it has a system to follow, so you get rid of infinite practice to get something done
In this video, you state the pdf version of the color wheel is free, your website charges €4.99. Which is it?
Wonderfully informative video Florent! This video finally explained too me why the traidition color wheel and theory always seemed 'off' too me. What an incredible tool your enhanced version is. Thanks for sharing the PDF. I will be putting it to good use!! Many thanks!
Wow, I've been working on improving my colour theory for a couple of years now, and this may be the best teaching video I've seen! Thank you so much!!
I want to clear a thing the complementary opposite of light is different then dye in the video you said the complementary opposite of green is magenta blue is yellow and red is cya these are complementary opposite of light not dye
"Chroma" is the Greek word for "colour". In the video the term is used in the place of "saturation" and I was slightly perplexed for that matter since in my mind "chroma" should be used instead of "hue".
Just mentioning..
for half of the time i was thinking what is cutter that he is saying, then i realized he was saying color 😅😅
Thank you so much for this competent and charming video. I'm dying to get creative with my paints and your color wheel has given me great insight into color theory and how to apply it in practice.
Adding a list of corresponding pigments was a really great idea.
Thank you..light and shadows..Master🎨i hope you the best🍀🌍🦋
Best color pallet for richness in facial skin tones ? Caucasian. They are the hardest to make “colorful” being a lot off pastey and yellow and pink some blue ugh. I don’t mind making a better skin tone than seen in person! Or in photo. After all I’m trying to make an attractive painting.... without changing the likeness. You know?
I am teaching art history and art appreciation. You explain tons of philosophical and technical aspects very well. I paint, too. Studied all that like you. I dig your style, your work, all your videos are great. All Best for 2021 :-)
This makes me not doubt myself, I failed an assignment in art school because I had to do a complimentary color painting and I did it in blue and yellow, failed because teach said blue comp is orange and that made absolutely no sense to my mind.
Best video on color theory i have ever seen. Not to mention throughout all the different courses I have taken through my entire life up until this momment. Greatly thinking about his course now. Thank you ver my much!!!
Gold mine of color theory. This explains so much that I couldn’t understand from the color wheel. 27:56
How can art classes in college compete with UA-cam? I've taken 2 drawing classes, each costing about $1200, and they were a joke compared to UA-cam. Thank you, Florent, for these amazing videos!
That’s because if you do UA-cam like this you really have to do it because you’re passionate about it but if you’re a college or have a course like that you don’t need any passion because you could just want to collect easy money
the simple task of the purple ball practice in relation to the colour wheel ... I'm cured. I will always relate back to this. Thank you FF
thanks a lot for the vid
your vids are always inspiring me to paint , although I'm failing a lot, your vids are helping so much
8:02 this is exactly what I’ve been looking for. Every time I try to look at videos to learn color theory, value and chroma are out of the picture(especially value). When you’re just going off of hue it’s hard (unless your style is purely bright colors). I’m glad to finally find something that touches on the color wheel’s other two dimensions.
Edit: 23:18 is a big help as wel
C'était tellement informatif Florent!! Merci beaucoup pour cette vidéo, c'est la première fois que je trouve une "color wheel" aussi bien expliquée. Pour une fois je sens que ça va m'être utile pour mes peintures. Merci pour ce travail de qualité!
Very informative, thanks.
This is amazing.... I’ve been always been scared of painting because something felt off and this makes so much sense. Thank you!!
You know...20 years ago I had time to take three full time semesters of art. Community College level. Fees each semester around I don’t know anymore at the very least $200. I may as well just call it rent of $600 for studio space! The amount of info is relentless and great in this series I couldn’t stop watching, taking notes and rewatching. It has a very artistic presentation too. The chart now will be a totally useful reminder of much of the best info so I got it too. And I have dozens of projects to experiment with now....one day at a time. I’m getting more organized! It has a calming effect.
I am not a super artist, but it makes sense as a designer.
I am an artist that has never been able to grasp colour 😂 however, I actually understood your video and hope sprang to life. Thank you.
Get to the point - too much talk going anywhere!
Amazing video. Very helpful!
Colours everything for me ...
Thank you so much. Listening to you gives me hope, it feels like some schools just butcher the beauty of art, and all knowledge that comes with it. At my school my teachers hide behind: everything is subjective and relative... Probably cause they dont know. And my growth suffers for it, and therefor I, but this helps me. Thank you so much. Very good!
Thank you! This is the best color theory lesson I have ever seen. You made it very simple and understandable. Love your color wheel thank you for making that available.
I learn something super helpful everytime I watch one of your videos. I might actually call myself an artist with your help! Thank you for doing what you do!
22:48 theres the lie, manipulation-
I CAN GIVE YOU THE INFO FOR FREE BUT...I NEED MONEY SO..." I DONT HAVE TIME". yea right.
I guess I'm too dumb for colors. I didn't really understand it. I still have no clue how to go from monochrome art to colored one.
Thanks so much Florent! Wish I learnt any of this through college. Greetings from Mexico!
Amazing !!!!
Thank you so much for sharing your passionate dedication
Creating this COLOUR TOOL
...IT helps me a lot a lot a lot
Merci infiniment Florent!! Tout prend sens, vous êtes un excellent professeur :))
Just started painting and having difficulties with mixing and choosing colors .. your video is really helpful. Thank you for sharing 🙂
Valuable, thank you… And you mixed your colors on a neutral background. That was important but I can’t remember why… I’m too exhausted with a headache.
When You get some time make a video about the Impressionest Color Palette paint names used . I found some palettes used by Monet : (different years) however some colors have been discontinued.
Jace from Hiram OH USA 12/14/2021
Ok but we technically perceive FOUR primary colors and four gradients between them. We perceive RGYB and the ranges between them. I challenge you to make a color wheel with these four colors across from each other (R across G, Y across B) and compare which color wheel has the SMOOTHEST and most coherent gradient.
I'm no artist, but from what i have learnt RGB system works perfectly for light based color mixing - you can get absolutely every color from those three primaries. Pigment mixing is another story and uses CMYK wheel to supposedly get any color.
I see there are 2 types, CMYK and RGB, I wonder which one to use for display design (I know that display design uses RGB), but sometimes I still see people apply CMYK for display design. Can you tell me which one to use?
I love your reference and comparisons to music... I am a musician and have played improvised jazz mainly for years, with reference in my mind to color as I play... improvising with sheets of color, lines of color, different colors, different color intensities, on and on... you have helped me as I now will compare and explore this in reverse in my new hobby in oil painting. Thank you!
Really really helpful,first time notice should treat color with HSL as 3Dimension way
I tried to buy your new Painting Course , But only pay by Paypal and Visa Card ..We in the Netherlands only use the iDEAL payment system ,It is an effective payment system in all of Europe..It would be nice if you could also add iDEAL payment.
Just 4 minutes in, and just wanted to say that while colour combinations ARE subjective, You'd still need to learn how everything harmonizes together.
I'm a musician myself in a heavy, dissonant niché genre of music. But I can only make the dissonant notes work tastefully if I actually know what I'm doing.
Still, Indeed it is subjective wether the music is nice to a person.
But you gotta learn the basic rules to break free of them.
Encore Mille mer pour vos vidéo riches en informations et passionnantes ❤️
Hello there, thank you for the video and the color theory chart. It's been my desktop wallpaper for several months now. And altough I'm interested in the course, i'd like to know if it can be applied to airbrush painting? I assume it can, since it's color bound and not medium bound.. But i'd like to be sure. Greets Dietrr
Coming back to finish watching this later and hopefully download the poster!!!! This is so great. I’ve always disliked the traditional color theory, or really lack of.
I came here to see if you consider the primaries RYB or CMY you didn't disappoint. You explain it exactly how I do. "if you think RYB are primaries, then make magenta and cyan from them"
You make people figure it out on their own. It's very hard to accept what you've been taught for decades was a lie.
Omaaagawwwdddd literally…. Wtf…. I’m so shook. This was an amazing video.
The greatest Masterpiece should have the Powerful Color systerm and ignore much More Detailing on the Canvas just like Claude Monet or Vincent VanGogh . am I right ?
Thanks Florent! Believe it or not, but Istill have to 'argue' about what true primaries ( in subtractive system..) actually are, even on the Fine Art degree program, in scotland. They still only mention the traditional 'painters' colour wheel, and hypnotise themselves and the students into believing that the muddy thing they get from mixing blue and red every time is actually purple/ violet....
Thank you for doing this Color Theory for painters! Just bought all the pdfs, as the poster was not available. Thanks !
Can't believe I've never seen this video before. Bravo! Best color theory lesson I've seen on UA-cam. Thank you good sir! I wonder if this color wheel you've created works the same with watercolor?
Love your approach descending from music. These were exactly my thoughts.
Thank you so much for this presentation of your course, definitely getting it during the holidays... Thank you from Canada
Extremely helpful. I wish more knowledgeable artists would explain more of this! Great job man.
While following the test for retinal persistence and complimentary colours. I got slightly different results after looking at the dot for 10 seconds, and I did it about a half a dozen times to be sure.
I got the same for the first two sets of colours, which was the inverted cyan (top) and red (bottom), and magenta (top) green (bottom). But for the third set i got orange at the top and purple on the bottom.
Is there something wrong with my perception ? 🤯
It has really thrown me off 😅
Hi Florent. I'm glad I've come across you and hope to continue enjoying and learning about oils and painting in general. I enjoy listening to you. The colour theory wheel requests to be bought. Did you not say it was free?
Very helpful and really well . Thankyou.
I'll try it
Jesus christ 5min in and I feel like it hasnt even started just explaining what categorization is...I dind't know I clicked on a video for that -.-
This is gold!! I have watched several colour theory videos but everything went over my head and I couldn't put any of theories into practice. But this hits different!! This is practical. Thank you for making this.
In my opinion- colour theory is an essential foundation that should not be skipped, the subjective nature of colour shows up because everyone's vision is slightly different. But the principles of the emotional language stay the same.
For me, I know that when I close just one eye, I see cooler tones through my left eye, and warmer tones through my right, so the colours I pick will be different to yours even If I follow colour theory religiously. And yet the atmosphere and emotion stay the same through everyone's eye.
Colour is a contextual language and the worst thing you can do is get stuck in the symbolic ideal that makes you think *red is evil and blue is good*. The only thing you should be concerned with is how the colour looks through *your* eye relative to only your feelings.
- learn the chords
- use those chords to make whatever sounds good to you
AHHHMAZING!! WOW! Thank you so much for this!
This video really helped me, thank you very muchh😍 also, i never got bored it was super fluent..🎉
idk about this guide on how to make music. seems iffy. (I'm kidding) I think because I use watercolor, I color things very differently and ended up getting a pure pigment set to try to not buy 1 of each color in every brand. I noticed a trend in certain vibes of color in digital art also.
Honestly these videos have helped me so much. this year I had a few solo shows and cant stop painting. Thank you! (my wallet dosen't, lol)
The test around 13:20 give me a result that is more of a between what you say and the classic completary, the red gived me a cyan I think not exactly the same, didnt' see a sifference between the two but the the cyan didnt gi e me same red so.. it was a slightly orange red and very vibrant (like if my perception would give a between, what I mean is classic complementary would told us that cyan is a vibrant bluish turquoise so complentary would be a vibrant redish orange, and what you say is red, I had something between, a red that was very slighly orange and vibrant but very slighlty. Same result for the blue and yellow, or even more prononciate because this time I seen the difference in both colors, the blue gived me a very slighly orangish yellow and the yellow gived me a bluish purple, as we mixed both complementaries, the purple that we tought us that was yellow complementary and the blue that was on the screen with the yellow.
As for the red that gi ed me a cyan I didnt really see a difference for the green and the magenta, or maybe a bery little like if the green were very slightly blue and the magenta v.slightly red.
(I did the test 4 times to be sure and to watch all colors)
I already seen this video and the first time also I had something like this (I also comented, I think my comment is still here)
My conclusion, either it's more of a between the two or everyones perception of colors, complementarys etc are not exactly the same.
Do someone else had as me a kind of between, the cyan giving a vibrant veeery slighly orange RED and the blue giving a yellow that a liiitle bit orange, the yellow gives a blue that sliiightly purple etc ?
Or am I an alien.. ?? 😂
He looks like a man, like from Roman times, Victorian Times, Modern Times.
What a great face he has - that would work as a good art model, no doubt!
Hm..So much information & food for thought!
Thank you Florent, a truly priceless video to study.
With the six squares, why my eyes saw Orange and ultramarine shade of violet... and not the two complementaries colors who was there at the begining ... Always the same result after fix the dot... and these colors were not there before... I would want to know if somebodyelse saw the same phenomen... Thank you.
Your presentation is wonderful and I want to hear what you have to say. Your background music is ok in the description of your color wheel until it is too loud and conflicts. I wish this could be fixed. But otherwise I fully understand!!! And you made something to relate to the other missing colors. Why was this not done before. You're a genius!
I actually liked the video and I think you’re very talented, but I tried to download the for free poster you mentioned but everything on the link is to purchase, and I understand you gotta sale as well but you if you promote something “for free” you should actually give it (and make it easy to find it) not to make it for free after passing a labyrinth of selling strategies.
Thank you So much! Well explained, Helpful content. :)
When I search for colour theory ur video doesn't show up . Guess what I search for ur video and I recollected my basic again
This makes sense for traditional, for digital the only way to utilize it similarly and consistently is by use of on screen mixing with a digital oil brush if I am correct?
thank you for the video and demonstration very helpful.
Great video, and yes, sometimes "anything goes" but more often than not it is just an excuse for mediocrity, think of the worst from De Kooning, that´s not someone who knows his color, that´s a mess.
This guy has passion.
If you red my comment you'll see that for me this green and this magenta ren't exactly opposite but there are very near so eventually the yellow give a more purple color that the blue and on your wheel I see that yellow isnt opposite to this blue but to a more purple blue, perfect ! But red and cyan, no, at least for me, in my perception, as I said in my many comments, with cyan the red is a bit orange and with the red the cyan is a bit green. Now your wheel has a correction for yellow amd blue but I think it also needa one for red and cyan, btw we can clearly (yes clearly, sorry, I really don't want to be harsh, and you seem to be a cool guy) see that at some part of the wheel the gradient is very slight and other very hard, the distance between red amd orange is too big for example and in the yellows the gradient are very hard, we go very quickly from a tint to another, when in the reds, the blues, it is very progressive.. I think it should be verification to see if something's wrong. If you want (answer) I can watch more precisely and try to figure what modification to like this you can try it to see what it does.