COLOR THEORY - My Ideal Palette and Color Mixing Strategies for realistic Colors
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- In this video, I talk about about the pigments I prefer for my palette and explain my color mixing strategies for realistic paintings.
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I am an artist living and working in France. I learned the techniques of the Atelier of the Nineteenth century and now I try to share some of my knowledge with the rest of the world, because I think that beauty still has an important role to play in artistic creation. I do mostly drawing and oil painting, and my goal is always to provide techniques, thoughts and explanations that can be useful to anyone, from beginners to more advanced artists.
The material I use most of the time (not necessarily in this video) :
Drawing
Equipement
✓ Kneaded eraser
✓ Plumb line
✓ Small mirror
✓ An old synthetic brush
✓ Masking tape
✓ Cutter
✓ Sandpaper or sanding block
✓ Mahlstick or Hand rest (DIY)
✓ Level ruler
Graphite
✓ Pencils 2H, HB and 2B
Charcoal
✓ If available: Nitram charcoals (H, HB and B)
✓ Square charcoals
✓ Natural charcoal box
Black and white chalk
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
✓ Square Conté noir : HB and 2B
✓ Chalk or pencil holder
✓ Pencil sketch Conté Pierre noire : H and HB
Sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté : Blood and blood Medici
✓ Crayon Polychromos Faber-Castel : sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
Oil painting
Palette
(Extra-fine paint, recommended brands depending on availability: Lefranc Bourgeois, Winsor and Newton, Royal Talens Rembrandt)
✓ Titanium white PW6
✓ Yellow ochre PY42
✓ Burnt Sienna PR101 or PBr7
✓ Venetian red or English red PR101
✓ Permanent Alizarin crimson PV19 or PR177 or Quinacridone Rose PV19
✓ Cobalt teal blue PG50
✓ French ultramarine blue PB29
✓ Raw umber PBr7
✓ Burnt umber PBr7
✓ Ivory Black PBk9
Brushes
✓ About ten filbert hog bristle brushes sizes n° 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12
✓ Some flat brushes
✓ Round sable brush or round Kolinsky sable n° 4, 8, 10, 12 (from the size of the nail (about one inch) or synthetic imitation
Medium
✓ Linseed stand oil
✓ Odourless mineral spirits
✓ Safflower oil
Surface
✓ Linen canvas, fine grain universal coating
✓ For studies : Canson oil-acrylic oil paper Figueras
Others
✓ Palette
✓ Foam and spalter brushes
✓ Palette knife in the shape of a water drop, no souldering
✓ A few small pots, containers, jars...
✓ Paper towels
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Thanks for watching !
That you give away your color wheel for free tells me you truly want to help others not just make a fast buck off us “wannabe” artists. Thank you for your kindness and generosity. May you be blessed throughout your career!
Cannot believe that this information is available for free! God bless you!
We will charge you next time 😂
@@1974gladiateur :P
Totally agree. In Addition.....( Would you make a Specific video w mediums and drying times....i.e. I have paintings that Rrrrrr peeling and chipping / flaking from layering that I've spent 10+ years on.
I need some help with going forward at this point. Lost so much confidence painting after seeing those Paintings I have spent that much time on. 🤞🤞🤞
And I thought I had right.
I can show examples. Reply please I could use a hand up. I'm just so beatdown by this....
Your professional approach and delivery of information is incredible. I paint as a hoppy and I listen to you intently God bless you, I learned so much from you 💋🙏🏻
I really like Venetian read. I rarely use it because I have a tendency not to use the reds on my palette, but I have a tube of it and I’ve played with it. Lovely colour, great for flesh tones
This channel is amazing, I absolutely love the way you present the topics, great narration, nice editing, great camera work, the extreme close up shots of the colors are sensational! Keep up the great work. Cheers!👍🏻🍀😎
love the feeling and passion you nurture towards art .inspires me so much.beautiful video
i really enjoy your videos about color theory.
Brother, this was one of the BEST made color theory/pallete videos out there. Excellent! Along side Andrew Tischler pallette vid. My pallette is the same...
Lead + Titanium white, Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna, Trans Red + Yellow Oxide, Yellow Ocher, (sometimes Gen naples yellow M. Harding) Cad yellow light, Cad red light, cad red deep(sometimes), Quin magenta(always), Cobalt teal, and Ultramarine(sometimes Curelean) Blue, and thalo green....all Blue Ridge Oils, Windsor pro grade, Gamblin artists, or Rublev oils
Hi. Old Holland sells Cremnitz White, the best white there ever was. I went to my local art supply shop and straight asked them if they can bring me some and surprisingly they said yes. I waited about two weeks and I managed to buy two cans. The price was around 50 euros per can and the cans were not that big, however there is enough quantity for me to be happy for awhile. For reference, I live in the EU, Romania.
The lead white is the only white that will not chalk up light pastel colors and bar none the best white for use in glazing. My 2 cents.
Lithopone white PW5 ( I have a tube from Lukas) is the best white for glazing in my opinion. I don't have much experience with it ( I started using it only recently) , but it was a pleasant surprise . I like also the way it mixes with other colours. I'm using lithopone when I want more saturated mixes and for subtle glazing.
It's also non toxic and does not have the issues of the zinc oxides.
I'll see how it goes..
Florent you’re an incredible master on still life paint!!You match it so realistic!!
Most of this I've learned before, but the way you explain things makes it worth re-learning.
Great vid! For my portrait paintings I use a palette of Flake white replacement, transoxide yellow, transoxide red, vermillion, alizarin red permanent, viridian green, raw umber. Sometimes adding, ultra marine, naples yellow. For landscapes etc: the more modern cad hues and kobalt blue/ceruleum blue, titanium white. I never premix, I find it tedious and am not very organised!
Have you tried gamblin 1980? it’s their student grade titanium white. This is where I cut corners and save significant change.
$11 bucks for 150ml 1980 vs $30 bucks 200ml W&N artists grade ! I’ve done tests on both of them and there is not much of a difference significant savings for me starving artist you got to do what you Gotta do
I just love your approach to teaching. As a novice, your videos are so invaluable
Brilliant! Very generous of you my friend.
Lead white is absolutely amazing on a palette.
It just offers an amazing amount of flexibility and basically does everything Titanium white doesn't.
You're severely limited when it comes to glazing and scumbling without lead white. You can definitely do some incredible things with it.
It also tastes great!
@@henryglennon3864 I think Van Gogh preferred the yellows.
Finding success with the Reilly Palette, I also enjoy using a modified Zorn palette. Zorn is a good palette for beginners bc it takes a lot of overthinking out of the equation
Hi Florent, I watched your oil painting medium video and you did say how you can’t stand the smell of alkyd based mediums, I personally would recommend you try the gamblins solvent free fluid it is and alkyd resin however it’s made from safflower oil and it’s consistency is very similar to liquin fine details by Winsor and Newton.
Thank you Florent! Very interesting and so helpful. Especially appreciated the information on toxicity and it's future in our colour choices. I have seen many warnings; It helps to know that there are alternatives!!! Great work as always! Loved the still life!!! 💖🖌️🖼️🎨💖
Thank you so much for this and all your videos!!! I have downloaded the pdf . 🙏 Thanks for sharing it for free. You are a blessing!!!!! May you be very very very happy and healthy always .
Florent, you are very talented and likable, and your channel is pure gold.
Talking of science, with Winsor and Newton Alkyd 80 range, I mixed every color with every other color, then ditto plus titanium white giving a matrix of about 3,000 colors, then sorted in primary groups and put in album. I only mix the colors for each part of a painting. Then the A4 mixes, at the end of a session seal them in polythene and put them in the freezer. Colours remain fresh, for me, up to a month.
Can anyone tell whats the deal with cadmium colors?
You are so wonderful to a beginner artist! Thank you for all you do! I plan to buy the poster of your color wheel because it has so much information I need on it!
Thank you. Your videos and courses are amazing, very detailed, to the point of just what I need to know. Many thanks...
Amazing, and really useful information here. Thank you!
Thank you, for sharing this wonderful information. :-)
Hello? Can we use pb28 instead of pg50? What difference can be? I have gamblin cobalt teal blue (pb28) now I am thinking should buy a new williamsburg cobalt teal (pg50)
I don't think you could even really import lead white, as it's banned from the EU I think. I can't seem to get it here in the Netherlands either. Also, the 'big' thing about lead white is how it is a white that will pretty much last for decades, contrary to some other 'modern' whites that are known to 'bleed or sweat oil' after like 50+ years or so. One of those modern whites is actually zinc white. It's a truly big problem in mid nineteenth century paintings. The zinc oxide forms zinc 'soaps' by reacting with other elements, which basically destroys a painting in the long-term (wherever a lot of zinc white was used). Anyway, excellente excellent recommendations as far as color palette and mixing goes. Very appreciated!
PB:28 is NOT natural Ultramarine. It's something completely different: Cobalt Blue, aka Thenard's Blue, aka Cobalt Aluminate Spinel. CoAl2O4.
PB:29 Ultramarine contains none Cobalt whatsoever, and is an extremely complex mineral, containing Sulfur, Aluminum, Sodium, Silicon and Oxygen. There is no difference between natural and synthetic Ultramarine, other than that natural contains other materials and is thus weaker. Natural Ultramarine has no 'Color Index Generic Name' of its own, afaik, but it's considered bad practice to label it PB29.
Titanium white
Azo or cad yellow lt.
Cad yellow or I may just use cad red lt.
Cad red or pyrrole red
Permanent Alizarin crimson or permanent magenta quinacridone magenta
Ultramarine Blue
Cobalt
Sometimes cobalt teal
Permanent green
Transparent red oxide
Yellow ochre
Raw and burnt umber
Lead white is more lasting, titanium white creates not really strong layer of paint, I personally like zink though know it should be used cautiously, mostly for mixtures, and that's what I mostly do. Titanium is too opaque for me and kills all the colours. What I see is that many artists use these whites according to their own approach and it's good to learn all about these pigments to choose the one that really suits you. I'm a bit scared of using lead white but I want to try it anyway. I'm mostly concerned about cleaning brushes and pallette from it because if you accidentely touch it you can't wash hands with natural soap, and I'm allergic with synthetoc soap. So I understand why titanium became most common white, tough it's not perfect at all.
Thanks for sharing your colour mix tips. Its very helpfull for me. You are supercool as always 🔥🔥🔥
I love watching your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and skills! Can i ask, if I do not know how to draw, is it still possible to paint realistic images? Is there a technique for that? Or just quit 😅
Thank you for sharing, your paintings are beautiful I checked out your website. Inspiring to make me want to start painting
Hello Florent, thank you for another amazing video. What brand of paints do you use? I just checked my Windsor & Newton colour chart and none of their numbers match the ones you gave us on here and colour names are not the same either. I thought pigment numbers were standard for all brands? Kind regards
"If I need to use something else, I'm going to use something else. I don't care . . . It's going to work just as well . . . I use ultramarine blue. This baby, I would never trade for anything in the world. It's the greatest color I can find." ☺
Once it is downloaded is there any way it can be professionally printed? Very, very helpful. Thank you.
I have bad news for you: titan is on the list of critical metals, a list of metals than we are approaching a peak and then we will have less an less avaiable until we will have no more.. as cobalt and metals used for solar panels.. eolien.. and electric cars.. we are even going or maybe even be on the oil peak.. in fact, because of all this, the limitation in space (place not the sky) worse and worse soil, earth quality, air quality, water quality, fish in the sea, temperature going up and other things, we are going into a collpse of our society.. we cannot empech it,bits to late, we know it since 1970 but didnt change anything.. now we can just prepare ourself and limit the damages.. if the subject interest you you can look a short video animation called "there is no tomorrow" about 35 min long and very educative and easy to understand, and for more read "the limits to growth".
Titan white is precious 😉
Okay sweetheart, you lost me. LOL. I guess I need to watch again when I'm better focused.
Thank you! You are a blessing to everyone!
Gamblin makes a lead white substitute which is a titanium white with the traditional handling properties of lead white.
Florent, really appreciate your videos. i a mlearning, and you are helping me, thank you!!
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That’s a very bright yellow ochre, wow.
The reason you use metal colours is that they tint , tone and shade more easily into values that fit realism in portraits and landscape . Lead white is safe to use as long as you don't spread it on your croissants...or your fingers that hold your smokes ...never mind stupid bureaucrats... There is more lead in the ground from millions of old car batteries and so , arty farty wankers are worried about a pissy amount of lead from a used tube ?!? Just don't flush it and turps down sinks...and keep small 2 or 4 legged creatures out of the bloody studio.cheers
even if I'm getting more into watercolour that video was really helpful with this important colour information.Thank you!
Zinc white for glazes and titanium for highlights have always worked for me.
Lead White in France is like a fine banned Cuban Cigar in America…doesn’t stop us from getting them….
Thank you, Florent! Good advise and updates of paint colors!
i knew a guy who accidentally squirted cadmium red into his mouth while opening the tube with his mouth. Nothing happened to him really although he is a bit slow. Mind you he was already slow before he ate the paint, which is why he ate it in the first place... lol
Thank you! Thank you for being such a great and kind teacher. )))
there is no point in using brown wood as a mixed palette. You always want to have a white background to be able to mix the colors better. The wooden pallets present only the tradition that hasn't changed, although it doesn't make sense.
I loved the explanation for Cobalt Turquoise because just looking at a tube one tends to overlook the range of color mixes it enables.
*buys as much Cadmium paint as I can so that when it's banned I'll have expensive historical paint*
Another excellent video full of information. I love how the color wheel shows where each tube color belongs. Do you have any chart showing the colors in order of transparencies, and another showing the transparency of the colors. That will be so helpful.
great video! I always love to see which pigment are used by others!
I have my palette separated in left an right, with white in the middle. on the right hand side: sometimes unbleached titanium dioxide, yellow ochre, sometimes transparent yellow oxide, transparent oxide red, indian red, burnt umber, sometimes ivory black. on the left hand side: cadmium yellow light, sometimes a transparent yellow, cadmium red light, quinacridone magenta (pr122), ultramarine blue, phthalo blue green shade or cobalt teal (both good cyan ;-) ) and last but not least sometimes a green like viridian, phthalogreen or greengold.
All your videos are good advice can you help please how to stop Liquin going thick in the bottle thank you
Thank you so much....Sout Africa 13h29
God Bless You & Thank You😃I Love Titanuim White.
i couldnt figure out what the heck a cutter was, then i realized u said Color,. sorry, no offense intended
May I disagree about Lead White. It was the greatest improvement of my palette because of the subtleties it permits, allowing to work with earths as I couldn't before. I'm glad titanium is enough for you, but I wouldn't change it for any other white
I'm very glad that you're aware of the comments. I'm considering to try Cobalt Teal, instead of Cerulean Blue, thought I allready use Viridian as a cold green, and I keep thinking that I'm not able to differentiate Viridian tints, from Cobalt Teal straight from the tube. What are your thoughts about it?
i could send you some flake white if you want. from uk regards trevor
Amazingly informative and detailed. Thank you !
Thank you for making your videos available. I often watch them more than once.
As I do also!
Pour ma part , j'utilise le bleu phtalocyanine ( Pb 15 ) en version verte et non rouge ( moins turquoise ) car avec votre palette , vous êtes coincé pour les bleus foncés tendance turquoise.
Will the color wheel poster be coming back for sale? Will it ship to the USA?
Nous avions des peintures solides qui avaient fait leur preuve aujourd'hui au nom d' l'écoresponsabilité, ils font finir par tout nous interdire. Que donneront dans le temps ces nouveaux rouges, ces imitations de cadmium? Nul ne le sait vraiment? Franchement en peinture d'art les quantité sont tellement infimes (surtout aux prix que coûtent ses pigments) que ça en devient ridicule. Qu'on arrête de nous infantiliser, nous avons suffisamment de bon sens pour savoir qu'il faut prendre toutes les précautions d'usage pour manipuler nos produits.
Par ailleurs, ils n'hésitent pas à nous faire avaler bien des saloperies au nom des enjeux économiques. Mais ça, visiblement, ça n'a l'air de leur poser aucun problème. Mais le plomb et le cadmium dans nos tube de couleur, alors là... Pensez dont...! D'autant qu'une fois le tube rebouché et la peinture terminée, ces substances - le plus souvent emprisonnées dans nos médiums résineux et autres vernis - ne risquent plus de migrer ni de se retrouver dans nos rivières ou polluer l'air de nos habitations.
Non... vraiment, tout cela est d'un ridicule et surtout très hypocrites? Mais, il faut bien donner des gages à nos amies écolos.
Thanks for inspiring us keep going to your talent ☝🖌 happy new year i hope more videos to come in this year 😀
Je voudrais vous poser une question... Pourquoi vous ne faites plus de vidéo en français car dans vos débuts vous en faisiez beaucoup et là c'est tout en anglais... car je comprends un peu l'anglais mais je manque des bouts donc est-ce que vous pouvez en faire d'autres en français?
Winsor and Newton (the Winton) has a flake white. Don’t know if it is the real thing (?)
For a beginner, this is too many colors. To learn the proper process of mixing colors for a beginner, in my opinion humble opinion, you should have a limited pallet of colors. The pallet should consist of the primaries plus White. AS your experience in color mixing progresses, you could always add all those beautiful colors to your pallet. In my humble opinion.
Sure, however the definition of what is a primary color is complicated. I have a video about this . But I agree that beginners should start with limited palettes though and add more colors progressively (or not). However, I don't think that a RYB palette ia always the best option...
You can still find lead white. I know a guy.... :)
Thank you for this great lesson. God bless you every day.
Range of violets and earth tones are the most difficult to get with pigments
sounded a little upset about them banning cadmium red...
Thank you very much for the detailing of colours.
The more I watch, the more I think you look like Van Gogh
This video was so helpful thank you so much!
I'm a graphite artist wanting to go into oil painting so watching you to learn about what I need and how to begin is amazing and I know I will be super ready.
There's another channel that has a completely different approach called "Draw mix Paint". He only uses the primaries RYB plus burnt umber and white. Only 5 colors. The thing is he can pretty much do the same thing this guy does with realism, with the exception of the super bright colors like cobalt teal blue. May be an easier approach, but really do as you wish.
Very useful, as always! Thank you 🙏🏻❤️
does this translate to other mediums like watercolor?
Outstanding video. Thank you!
When do you use crimson vs magenta?
Any alternatives to Cobolt Teal (non toxic)
Thank you I so enjoyed this. God bless you
What's the controversy around cadmiums??
I find these "controversies" surrounding toxic pigments very troubling.
First lead white, then cadmium. What's next? The cobalts?
What if these pigments are not replaceable?
At what point do artists stand up to these governments making these decisions "for the public good"? Shouldn't artists decide for themselves what materials to use? If an artist makes an informed decision whether to include toxic pigments, why can't governments respect that?
Sorry! My libertarian hackles get raised when those in authority become overbearing in their need to protect us from ourselves.
@Kristian Matthews
While shocked, I can't say I'm surprised that California would have such restrictions on OMS. They are they ones who post the health warnings on oil paint tubes! Now I see how it's hardly about public safety, and more about a scheme to gauge artists instead.
""To the early squad reading this ,may god gives your parents a life of 100 years full of prosperity and wealth ❤️""
✨Thank you ✨this so helpful !
Hello, I know at the top of your glass palette you have pthalo green, cobalt teal, ultramarine blue, alizarin crimson, cadmium red, burnt umber, red oxide ?, yellow ochre, cadmium yellow and titanium white. But could you please tell me all the colors you have going down the right side? Thanks!
Thank you 🙏 god bless you
wow!! just amazing information, I need to keep watching your videos to keep learning.. you are a very unique and real, great artist..
HEY! This is art there is no rules.
Thank you for the video is very helpfull. I use white titanium altemerian blue. .cademion red and yellow . Yellow ochre. Brunet brown . Black. Cobalt blue . And terquize .
May I ask, is there an oil color brand that has all of these single-pigment hues in their range? If not, which brands are you using together? I've seen videos about limited palette and it is economical but I think its good to try "new" pigments once in a while. It's beneficial to realize that you have multiple ways to achieve what you are after. Thank you for your palette!
Gamblin
@@gingersam851 Thanks!
Just joined patreon, will increase it when able, thank you so much for all your videos!! I will be studying all.
I noticed you use a professional ACRYLIC brush ¿is there any downsides using this brush when painting with oil?
I've never used flake white, but I did use scarlet vermillion in one small painting. The amount of care I took to only put the vermillion on canvas, brush and waste jar (which then went to hazardous waste depot) meant that it was a higher anxiety project than usual. It's a strong but co-operative pigment - not overwhelming like the phthalos. I will never use it again, but I'm glad I did.
Thank you so much for these videos!
Well... When I was using acrylics I had quite a good selection of color tubes. The convenience of having pre-mixed colors, coupled with the difficulty of mixing acrylics and the quick drying time, somehow force you to have many colors. With oils have dramatically reduced the quantity. I don't use cyan yet, I use manganese blue, and don't use the phtalo green as don't find the need yet but more or less I have the same or similar colors as you do. In any case, thanks a lot for your good suggestions. Oh...forgot - I have Sap Green too which I think is quite useful.
So glad you nit only mention but use Munsell. Magenta and Cyan were integral to the freshman color and light course. You make the discussion not only rational but sensible.
As to my palette. Because pigments naturally vary in transparency, I have an extensive shelf of paints. my palette is very dynamic and many times there might be more than one pan set up. This has evolved over time as I have learned more about the pigments. I am fortunate to live quite close to a well-known artists paint company and they take my phone calls.
thank you for being an artist's artist and sharing your knowedge.
Just for your info, since you are in France aswell, Sennellier mars black is similar to ivory black but it dries even faster than umbers :o (I have another mars black, old holland, that is slow like ivory, so it's the Sennellier pigment that is fast).