Schmincke Retro Travel Set - Colour Mixing Chart
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- In today's video, I am creating a colour mixing chart for my new Schmincke Retro Travel set.
I think it makes a really great variety of colours for out and about sketching, in a really lovely compact tin.
Materials used:
- Schmincke Horadam Retro Travel Palette - I also have another video introducing this palette - • Schmincke Retro Set Tr...
- Roman Szmal synthetic squirrel round brush - size 10
- Jacksons Watercolour Block, Hot Press 6" x 8"
Blog mentioned for advice on making colour mixing charts - www.watercolor...
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Lovely little first impressions video. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I’ve just ordered this set - it arrives tomorrow 🤗 - thank you for swatching like this, as it shows me it will be a great landscape palette! I think I will definitely add a cool red and blue, a warmer yellow and possibly a violet to add even more possibilities. Will also try this colour mixing layout for myself! Happy painting 😊
How are you liking your set so far? Did you add a cool red and blue? Thanks for watching and I am glad it was helpful!
Wow, I’ve never done one of these so I found it very interesting! Lovely colours
Think about adding a small pan of dioxazine purple and pan of cobalt or manganese blue. I agree that you need some kind of red oxide and maybe a quin rose or better yet, a pan of Qor quin magenta.
Oooh thank you, those are some great colour suggestions!
i really like this paint palette this was amazing i liked all of these colours 👍 i like how you did not say like green bule red yellow and so on you say the full name so that you have gave us ghe chance to buy the colours fantastic this is really inspiring since i want to be a artist aswell all of you videos are inspiring for me keep up this amazing,fablous content 👍👍👍
Lovely colours, I think you mixed them well. I would like to see the mix of the three colours you mentioned at the end, the venetian red, the ultramarine and the raw umber, was it?
Oh I had forgotten I had mentioned that mixing triad - I will try and do a mixing video to try it out - it was going to be using the ultramarine, english venetian red and yellow raw ochre. Thanks for watching and commenting :)
Very useful to see this, I am hopeless at making them . I like dirty greens and it is a bit light on those, hoping my olive green yellowish will do the needful and make some nice mixes. Those four extra spaces could make such a range of difference depending on what they are, it’s a great opportunity to make this set exactly what is wanted. 12 colours in such a tiny package is brilliant. Thanks for this very useful chart.
Ah I am glad it was useful, I am pretty useless at making them too, but it is a good exercise to do anyway as you learn more about the paints than you expect! I am still considering what to put in the middle, I think a cool red would be handy and as you say some colours to make some dirtier greens!
@@emmacavillsketches carmine is closest to the cochineal speciality colour they issued and makes a nice cool red that will keep the retro feel, it also mixes well with the light ochre for fair skin tones, and can be mixed to get darker tones too.
I love mixing charts like these - they can be a bit impractical to make but they’re so nice to look at :) & have good info too. there’s a variation on this chart that I also like to do, i’ll try my best to explain it 😅 you do two swatches for each mix, but instead of doing a full strength and a diluted swatch, you do a 60:40 ratio and then a 40:60 ratio. (or more like 75:25). for example, venetian red mixed with ultramarine blue in the *row* of venetian red would be more venetian red than there was ultramarine blue. but in the *column* for venetian red, it would be more ultramarine blue than venetian red. aka the rows have a stronger concentration of the color they belong to, & by filling it out row by row you’ll also get all the columns filled in, which have a weaker concentration of the color. so instead of 1 color in a 50:50 mix of two paints, you get 2 colors from the same paints but one leans more towards one color, and the other leans more toward the other one. so venetian red & ultramarine blue would give you a reddish grey, and then a more bluish grey. it’s kinda fun but very time consuming LOL
going with a cool red is a great idea! you could also go with a cooler blue- phthalo blue green shade being the best choice for mixing, but i’ve enjoyed indanthrone blue for making greens that are a bit less muddy than ultramarine mixes, without being so neon it hurts my eyes lol. prussian blue would be a good choice too, it fits with the vintage theme as well- you could get some really nice rich jewel tones with that. I love adding potters pink to my palettes, the granulation is so nice to work with and it’s great for landscapes & skies too. chromium oxide could be fun too- it’s a more historical color & it’s opaque, but you can make a lot of interesting mixes with it, especially deep colors. cobalt blue or cerulean blue are also blues I use a lot, especially for skies. and ofc my new favourite which is ✨lavender✨
btw: what dip pen or fountain pen did you use at 11:26? i’ve been looking for one with a chisel nib and i really love the line variation you used in that painting!
Thank you so much for your explanation of the mixing ratio's! It's all a bit sciency for me, but really worth taking the time to understand what is possible from our palettes! The chisel pen is a super inexpensive Pilot Parallel pen - the one with the red cap, which is a 1.5mm - i just refill the cartidge it comes with once it runs out, with a waterproof ink - in this case Sketch Ink Jules :) Thanks again for your comment!
Fabulous video - what a colour range you can achieve! It’s really helpful to see - and I’m now wanting one of these myself! 😂the earthy green is surprising and lovely shadow colours like you say. What about a lavender?
Thanks Nikki! A lavender could be good - a difficult one to mix and handy for shadows and distant hills!