How to Mix the Color Turquoise: Color Theory 101
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2022
- Have you tried to mix a vibrant turquoise blue, perhaps in a sky or ocean wave, but you keep getting grays instead of beautiful clean color? Maybe it’s not you! It might be your paints. Watch this video to find out if you can get there from here with your current colors, or if a trip to the art store is necessary.
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Thanks for watching!
BRUUUUUUUUH but i don´t have turqoise LMAO
Hahaha better get some!
the answer is here: ua-cam.com/video/mSYnnQ7WbfI/v-deo.html
@@nunya321 That video also mixes with colors which are turquoise or contain phthalo (which is turquoise) out of the tube. So it’s the same answer!
Using a turquoise to get to turquoise is not the answer I was looking for.😊
I believe that the confusion a lot of people seem to have with this comes from the fact that we're told in elementary school that the primary colors are Red, Yellow and Blue, with no explanation, and then in the modern age, people see the RGB mode, on their computer, which seems similar (Red, Green and Blue), but those are two different things and unless they studied the subject specifically, a lot of people aren't aware that they don't work at all in the same way and that there's basically two systems for producing colors: Additive (RBG, for light) and Substractive (CMYK, for print). The RGB system produces colors by adding different colors or wavelengths of light together, and we use it for computer monitors, TVs, LED lights, etc; while the CMYK system produces colors by superimposing 3 other colors, which are Cyan (a kind of turquoise), Magenta and Yellow, with (or without) Black. That's actually what a color ink cartridge contains in a printer. These pigments are considered the real primary colors for printing and are pretty intense. The system is called substractive because contrarily to light, that adds the colors, when you're using something like ink or paint, the different wavelengths are substracted, which means that every color is blocked except the one we're seeing, that bounces back off the surface and our eyes interpret it as a specific color.
But now, if Cyan, Magenta and Yellow are primary colors for print, why aren't they commonly used as primary colors for painting as well? It's not that there's a third system, it's simply that most paints are very dense and opaque, and it's much more difficult to get the desired results by mixing them, unlike with ink, that's pretty much transparent, so the computer calculates the exact amount of each color that's needed to get the right result and the printer superimposes coats of these three colors instead of mixing them together like we do with paint. Because of this, Red, Yellow and Blue are still taught to be primary colors for painting, but this has its limits. Some colors can't be attained by mixing these pigments and have to be bought.
That being said, even in print some colors are unattainable by simply mixing Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. That's why people in the traditional printing industry (using a press) often use other pigments, like Pantone Colors (along with CMYK) which offer more intense and precise colors for specific areas, that a digital printer can't produce using the CMYK system alone.
Also, it is worth noting that:
Magenta + Yellow = Red
Cyan + Yellow = Green
Cyan + Magenta = Blue
Which are the three colors in the additive system (RGB). Both systems are complementary but non-interchangeable (mixing light colors and mixing paint or ink won't give the same results).
I just mixed cerulean blue, lemon yellow, white, then a *little* ultramarine and I got a beautiful turquoise.
The problem is that she started with a base of ultramarine which is violet leaning and not green leaning. Turquoise is a green leaning color. Cerulean is a much better base.
So the trick to mixing turquoise is to start with turquoise paint.
Yes! 😂 It’s the only way. Unfortunately I struggled many times in the past trying to mix blue, yellow, and white!
I get a tube of deep turquoise from Liquitex and it can be lightened and made more green. I just put in some phthalo green.
Ultramarine blue is so far apart from yellow that it doens't come anywhere close to making a rich turquoise. In fact, if you use a yellow a little bit more on the orange side, like indian yellow, the ultramarine + indian yellow mix comes out a super greyed out muted green. Phthalo turquoise or even phthalo green is the awnser in that regard, as you showed. Phtalo Blue is also appropried, but since I bought a tube of phthalo turquoise, i found it more useful then either phthalo blue or phthalo green alone. Thanks for the video
I just purchased my first tube of Cobalt Teal. I fought it long enough :) Wonderful and important video, Lacey!
All this time I thought you could mix any colour with the primary colours :( thanks for this video I now know why I’ve always struggled with turquoise because I only ever use blue red yellow black and white for all my paintings!
in the color theory used for traditional art, the primaries are lemon yellow, magenta and cyan, the "cold"primaries. a brillant green is a cold color. mixing a warm blue and a warm yellow (like in the video at first) the result will always be a muddy, grayish green. ultramarine is the warm blue. if you want to try to mix colors with just 3 colors +black and white, get lemon yellow,magenta and cyan. if you wanna add to your palette, get cadmium yellow, cadmium red and ultramarine blue as the warm primaries.
you dont need a paint thats called turquoise to get a turquois, phtalo turquois usually just uses phtalo cyanin pigment (usually pb16, but some call it turquoise when using pb15;3 which is just your cold primary blue, which is enough to mix turquoise with a lemon yellow (py3)
thalos colors can indeed make a hue of turquoise, but not ultramarine (is too far in the violet area for turquoise)
Thanks, not the answer I was looking for, but the answer I needed :) Sometimes, you just need that pigment.
no. the answer is in a different video: ua-cam.com/video/mSYnnQ7WbfI/v-deo.html
oh thanks, back when I tried to, I was using colors that probably were already a mix of pigments. I should have tried with my pure pigment colors. but now I have a new ink ;-) (ah, I was experimenting with acrylics btw and with acrylic inks)
@@nunya321
@@nunya321actually this video lands you at the same answer 😂
What about pthalo blue, a little cobalt and a tad of white? One cannot use yellow with blue. It becomes an unattractive flat green
yes, you can do that: ua-cam.com/video/mSYnnQ7WbfI/v-deo.html
Phthalo is a turquoise colored pigment
can you get to it from a phtalo blue ... as the water based brand I use doesn't have a pthalo turquoise
Sorry for the late reply. Sometimes yes, depends on the brand. Phthalos tend to lean toward turquoise and some brands I’ve found even the phthalo blue will get you a turquoise type color.
Is it that: you never mix cobalt teal with its complement because it will only go grey?
What do factories do ? They usually make different color from three primaries so does the printer that printed your photo , so what's the difference ?
Actually, in print, they superimpose transparent layers of the colors Cyan, Magenta and Yellow, with (or without) Black. The "system" is called CMYK. These pigments are pretty intense, and Cyan IS already a turquoise.
@alexisgs8800 Bingo! Thank you 😊
What pigment is that?
Phthalocyanine is the pigment you’re looking for to make turquoise.
Make a mint green then add more blue or green depending on what turquoise you want
Is this Blair school of art?
Except I’ve seen people mix green and blue to get turquoise.
There's a lot of different greens and blues. If the color wasn't dull it must have contained some kind of Teal pigment.
you made a lighter turquoise adding white to a darker one
Me, 2 palettes full of blue, yellow, white later watching this video
You need green
Ultramarine and Viridian can produce turquoise.
Not in my experience!
all of that just to say you don't know how to make it. I would never use ultramarine blue for that, I have been using either dark or sky blue depending on what I need. Then I will mix it with green, and bam. You have Turquoise.
So the only way for me to mix turquoise paint is to get turquoise what a scam! Screw colour theory. :(
Hahaha I understand the disappointment!! But it’s because turquoise is the true primary blue.
perhaps change the title of your video
Alterine blue? Ok....
How to mix turquoise....BUY TURQUOISE!! Thanks.
What's the point of this video if you're just going to say it's impossible and we should just buy the paint...
I'm going to guess that you are an Aries.
Nope!
this was such an awful video and wasted my time. this is why i hate that whole “use youtube to learn” bc people suck at teaching. you just used turquoise to make turquoise instead of teaching me or anyone how to create it on its own with just primary colors
Turquoise *is* the primary color. That’s why you can’t mix it with other blues. The blue that most people think is a primary color is not a primary at all.
@abby-td9bl
Loll you want her to lie to suit your needs? Or maybe we should change the laws of physics? The problem is not the internet. What she explained is exactly right.
I don’t have the color turquoise and you said you were going to solve that problem. You have the color turquoise…. Sorry but you did not answer anything doll.
Maybe not the answer you wanted, but it’s unfortunately the truth!