How to Mix Vivid Colors
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- Опубліковано 1 бер 2017
- In this video I explain how to mix vivid colors with oil paint.
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I like the honesty of this guy, "we sell them but really you don't need to buy them".
I can’t tell you how thankful I am to you for putting out all these free content. You are very enjoyable to watch, and you seem to have a knack for talking to other artists. A perfect recipe for a phenomenal instructor.
Honestly, I agree. It's very hard to find an informative and experienced artist who gives very great example and advice. Straight to the point and explains exactly why things work or don't.
The fact that channels like this exist is what gives me the confidence to try and learn painting. I'm so thankful for the work you've put in to teaching these skills. Subbed!
Never be afraid to atempt creative hobbies, theyll make u happy. stick to it!
I have learned so much from ur painting techniques that I would have never learn if I hadn't found you on Utube love
Your techniques and they work every time! Thank you
I feel the same.
Same here
Mark, I am so very thankful for your willingness to share your knowledge of color and techniques in creating art. I’ve learned more in watching your videos in two weeks than learning when I attended 3 1/2 years of college 40 years ago....
@@rhondagrajewski7582 absolutely, Wondering if you would know what type of brush he’s using to mix here. I can’t seem to be able to mix with a flat bright.
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This may be the best lecture on color I’ve ever seen! So clearly presented and interesting! Well done!
No.1 Channel on UA-cam for learning colour mixing!
Thank you very much for the very clear and sympathic way you explain this useful technique. And what a relief - you even do it without background music!
Hope that you are still 'with us' - I agree, you are THE best teacher. I watched you many years ago when I was still painting with oils, then switched to soft pastels, 3 yrs now back to oils and really ! Needed to see and hear you to help get me back into oil painting . Best I learned was to dump the solvent. GREAT !!! will watch all you have filmed. Bless you !
Please make a video on how to mix skin tones and the essential colors for mixing skin tones!
Thank you for passing down your knowledge 🙏🏽
I would practice by making a spectrum of skin tones. You usually want a neutral brown (Brown and green), black, white, red and yellow. I go light to dark when i practice but you can do the opposite, if you want. I mix mostly white, brown, and just a bit of green for lighter skin tones, I mix a little bit of red green and blue together to get a reddish black and then darken it up. If you want it more red, go for more red, if you want some yellow in there, add some yellow. Most skin tone paints are a little too yellow or red I'd say. Unless you're going for specific ethnicities, I'd mute out some of those colors. But you can use those colors to get some shades or highlights.
you are so generous mark please never stop uploading these very informative videos
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This is definitely the most informative art channel on UA-cam. Thank you!
Dear Mark, your channel is the BEST!! Hi from Russia!!
I'm pretty sure you make lots of people really improve and go to the new level of understanding!! Thank you for your marvelous works!!
I love how informative your videos are. I binge watch them at work and get really excited to apply my newfound knowledge in my studio at home. I am pretty inexperienced when it comes to mixing colors. I pick up a blue tube of paint (not really knowing the value or hue it) and attempt to mix the color I am looking for. Eventually I find the right tone, but knowing that Pthalo blue is stronger than Ultramarine really helps to avoid making the wrong color. I would love if you made a video explaining the chemistry of oil paint. For example, go further in depth into the fat over lean rule. Maybe explain why not use certain combinations of color, technical things like that.
Great video! Love your products and all the information you give to aspiring painters. Can't wait to use your new pigments.
Yay!!!! I've been waiting for these!!!!!!! YESSS!!!!!!!!!!! So excited!!! I love painting underwater scenes and I think I need these in my life ❤❤❤
Thank you VERY much for all the knowledge I have acquired about colors and techniques through your videos. I am so intrigued about painting now, it's untrue. You are simply a fantastic teacher!
Great colour mixing advice. You really hit that vivid blue that I was hoping for and even that purple was good to know about. I'm starting with a limited palette for oil painting and mixing should be easier now that I've watched your colour mixing videos. Thank you.
great to see you back again. another cool video. i had to laugh though, you will never make a salesman :-) "here's our new colours but i ,almost never need them' you made the point really well though joking aside. its so rare to hear someone being honest. lovely mate. warmest regards, Glenn (from rainy England)
I love the brush cleaning tip using paint instead of MO's what a clever idea!
Thank you! I just discovered your awesome instructions here! Easy to follow and understand!
Again, thank you!
OMG, I was trying to mix vibrant colors with a limited pallet to flowers and foliage in my backyard. I used your other paint mixing video, that's kind of my go to so far. I got really close with just a few colors but this video is SO helpful for the really virbrant colors. In particular, there was this really vibrant purple flower. I could mix some of the colors there, but I think I will go back and try again.
Thank you very much for your instructions and demo. I found it very useful and I must say I do like your new colours. They look very vibrant and I am sure I will be buying them.
This is most definitely the best video for me to have watched on mixing paints! Thank you for sharing your insight!
This is the best channel for painting out there, also your site is amaizng!
Lovely cad red scarlet - I would love to paint with that e.g. in abstract compositions just to enjoy the strong and beautifull vibration
This is great advise to a newbie and even those who have been painting for decades...Im a newbie (one year) and saves myself and others from exposure especially if your living in an apartment in wintertime with no ventilation and want to eradicate exposure...also saves money and time...And tine is a veryvaluable commodity...
WOW. the cleaning paint by using the next color is so amazing. I really hate having to use so much gamsol when I'm painting so this is a game changer, can't wait to try it out
Your tutorials are wonderful. Thanks very much for the lessons.
Thank you for this!!! I am doing a painting with a very bright intense orange buoy and I was having trouble getting the correct tone. I kept adding white to lighten it but after watching this I realize I should have added more yellow
brilliant lesson, thank you.
I can simply watch you mixing color all day.
Is there a need for a warm yellow,to complete a cool and warm of the primary colors,very informative tfs.
You are an amazing teacher!
Awesome videos! Thanks very much! Just bought my first set of Geneva colors and color checker!
Thanks for recommending this approach. Definitely enlightening!
Thank you- I really enjoy yr colour lessons even though I use acrylics I'm curious... do your limited colour teachings apply to other brands & what would be the alternative colours if we can't find colours like Pyrrole Rubine for example
Thanks for another great video, I love using Geneva Paint. I will certainly be buying your new power colors when they become available.
That's quite an idea, having a supplemental palette just for mixing the most difficult, saturated colors. I have not yet come across this - nicely thought out, good development!
Mark, very good information. You are a master indeed. Great video. Thanks for creating these.
Love your videos! Very educational and useful. Thank you so much!
Much appreciated Mark, I am thinking of buying the geneva thalo blue in addition to my geneva essential palette 🎨 🙏
Thanks Mark, always learning
Thank you so much. Love your paint, and all your products.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you! Excellent lesson!
you've really helped me see the reality of drawing even thought you probably haven't had many video on it. you said something along the lines of drawing what you see from a photograph or in still life is a easy as breaking it up into shapes and i was wondering if you could give me more useful advice like that.
Brilliant! Would love to see more!
I've started painting plein air for the first time -using the Carder color palette and color checker. But I had a really hard time matching the color (even though I could get the value). So this gives me indication that I probably need to supplement my palette with some vivid colors. Mark would you ever consider doing a plein air paint demonstration?
It would be great if Mark is encouraged at some point to do a demonstration of outdoor painting, in slow motion, thanks Mark for your advice, they really are of great help and of great interest, the questions you ask can solve our doubts
as always thank you for being so generous word your recommendations
Hey Mark, love your videos! Any chance of you shipping to Australia any time soon? would love to try the geneva set.
Absolutely great explanation! Thank you so much
Thank you very much for this lesson.
hai, could you give some suggestion substitute colours for those 5 colours, if i use acrylic paint windsor & newton? btw love ur works! thank you!
Thanks for this useful lesson
Hi Mark. Thanks for the grit video again. Can you tell me when the new colours will be available in your online store. Thanks again
Robin Mitchell
thank you so much! I will clean my brushes from the way you demonstrated from now on
I attended the Art Acadmey of Cincinnati in 1969. So I've got 50 years of painting under my belt! Your reiteration of these basic "truths" send the message home, and are indeed quite powerful rules! TY ...Newk from Kentucky
Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
He is a wonderful teacher!
FANTASTIC VIDEO, Thanks Mark for presenting such a well thought of video in color mixing. learning a lot from this;-)
Thank you for the lesson! Very good
am grateful for you i love this colours
Thank you for showing how to clean brushes between colors. i've been using spirits and though it was really inefficient.
Thank you very much for your technique
Another great video!
very helpful .. thank you so much
Immensely helpful. Many thanks
thank you for this lesson sir
Great video, helps a ton!
Thanks very much Mark. I have a question for you. Can you use the purple as your colour opposite in the colour wheel. Like orange, purple and green.
Great information - thank you
Thanks for sharing. Very helpful.
great lessons , great video!
If i could choose a master to teach me, i would definitely choose You sir! Highly professional, i enjoy listening how You explain things.
Hi,
Many thanks for this informative video. As per my understanding, seascapes demand a vivid turquoise colour, which is almost impossible to match the tone with Ultramarine blue and Cadmium Lemon, Pthalo turquoise acts as a great solution especially for seascapes. But Cobalt Teal is an expensive pigment which is acts as a primary in blending turquoise colours.
Also, Magenta seems to be more useful in blending violets and purple as it is more inclined towards the true red. Quadriquinone magenta is a really versatile pigment and unlike Cadmium Red meduim, it has no yellow bias.
Hi. Could you make a tutorial on how to mix colors with the apelles palette?
The right varnish or topcoat is a good additional way to make light and color pop with depth.
I have so many videos on color mixing but I only got it when I saw you.
Very helpful and informative. Thank you. The only thing is for the blue on the glass it would have been easier to just use the pthalo blue.
Great Set of Videos! I really needed this one after painting 30+ years I've finally been enlightened about how to mix colors! Thank You Thank you. where was youtube 30 years ago?
30 ago (1988), PC computers (for public) only had a monochrome monitor, and there was only 640 Kbytes (not mega, kilo) memory. Actually 1Mbyte but only 640Kb was available as RAM for software, as the rest was reserved and used by the system functionality. The cpu was between 4 to 8 mgHertz. The windows technology was still Right Protected for Apple computer so only DOS for IBM type PC. All that means nothing even possible for a real photo nevermind a video.
Is the palette knife a suitable mixer as opposed to a brush....less waste? Is your preference just personal choice?
You just don't really need it. Especially since, as you're painting, you'll want to constantly go back and modify the color you're working with-- much easier to just do that with the brush than adding a palette knife to the process
Maybe if your doing an impasto🤔
Its quicker to use palette knife and alot cleaner. You can also keep your brush in value order ie light or dark. Paper towel one wipe and its clean. However each to their own.😁
You loose color if you mix it with the brush
Also, measurement is more accurate, and you waste less paint. I use a palette knife with acrylics, and it makes building colour gradients much, much easier.
Good teacher, really
I've had a difficult time mixing a nice sky color without phthalo blue. With Ultramarine, my skies end up looking too dull. The Ultramarine behaves as though it has some red, such that when I add some green, the color ends up a bit desaturated; looks worse when I lighten it near the horizon with white.
I can understand why the palette works the way it does. My question when researching your pigment choices was: can these produce high key tints and shades? Pyrrole and Titanium definitely. Cad Yellow and Ultramarine are the mild suspects but work well enough. I wonder if Cad Yellow could be replaced by Hansa (though that can lean too cool). It makes perfect sense why Pthalo and Cad Red are power colors in your palette: Pthalo for insane tinting strength, and Cad Red for high key mid values.
Iam from iraq and l thank u so much for your work.. This is so helpful for me
Hi,
I love to paint seascapes. It's really necessary to get a tube of turquoise for this purpose because the bright turquoise is most challenging to mix. Of course this is a really necessary power color for realistic water scapes.
Sorry to hear you had a fire, hope you're ok and it's not too much damage. Fantastic vidoes, thank you.
And I really need a colour checker when they're back. x
Thank you! With every video I watch I learn more and more! In addition to what I’ve learned in art school. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
did they decide not to do the purple, or is it still coming?
Loved the video. Many thanks for sharing. :-)
Great video !!
Glazing is a great way to get vibrant, intense colors with a limited palette. You could easily have created the blue-green with only the blue and yellow paint if you used a glazing medium to layer them over white.
I love your lessons! Watching them since a couple of days and learning so much! Thank you very much
im an acrylic artist and love your videos
Mark,
I like your older Primary Color Wheel where you show Burnt Amber outside your ‘three colors radius wheel’, as this represents your three basic colors (somewhat more distinctly); of which your Burnt Amber and White are not colors from the Primary Colors.
Too, please consider adding an outer radius circle showing your three Vivid Colors. Represent these three colors, in a smaller color portion, as your Primary Color Wheel should stand out stronger.
Mark, thank you so much for uploading this video! you did mention briefly that phthalo blue is toxic would you mind going into that further?
Wondering that myself. I don't think he's correct on that
I believe he meant toxic as in it gets into every color after you've mixed some of it. It has a nasty habit of staying on the brush, I don't believe he necessarily meant toxic in the terms of toxicity.
What is the surface are you using to mix? I like how easily you can clean it
Cuenta de UA-cam
It's a glass palette with neutral color painted underneath.
Thank you!
If you want decent seascapes it is very handy to have phthalocyanine blue on board. You can also mix a cerulean blue for skies quite easily and aqua and cyan are easy to mix. Phthalocyanine blue and burnt umber can make a good black as well....Q...why did you choose the manganese purple over a dioxazine ? Is the dioxazine too powerful ? Cheers.
Thank you so much
Would you at some time show mixing Cyan and Magenta? Magenta is especially difficult for me.
Same!
I realize this comment is quite old, but in case it's helpful; Since paint is a subtractive color process, I'm pretty sure Cyan and Magenta can not be created using a RGB palette. It seems like a CMY palette should reach all colors though.
@@TomlinsTE It's always a trade off when it comes to the most highly saturated colours. CMYK palettes can't reach intense ultramarine and violet blues.
@@TomlinsTE cyan magenta and yellow true primary colors as it makes all colors except white black. look at magazine back page the color swatches are on last page to make all colors