Very cool! Just found your channel. This is probably one of the better videos on you tube for anyone learning colour mixing. There’s one or two other artists who look at colour mixing too. It’s so refreshing and giving some really valuable knowledge.
Since Yellow Ochre is one of the cheapest pigments out there, being a totally natural and harmless earth color found in the ground, it seems fatuous to mix something looking a bit like it from Cadmium Yellow, which is a heavy metal color (potentially toxic) and which costs a lot more than Yellow Ochre.
I think this lesson is more about how to make colours from what you have, not advocating buying one over the other. It’s useful to know how to mix these colours for other reasons too. There’s been a huge push in recent years to avoid heavy metal pigments, and some no longer in production were bad. But if handled right there’s nothing wrong with these pigments. Disposal is a bit of a faff but totally do able. So many of the pigments almost no artist does without such as the cobalt blues, turquoises and ceruleans. But cadmium’s get all the bad press. And did you know ultramarine can become toxic when mixed with sewage water? I’d advise anyone concerned to watch some episodes of the Spin Doctor whose expertise was in this field. It’s good to avoid toxins especially if we have pets and youngsters around. But as he explained you’d have to eat many tubes of cadmium paint to damage ourselves. And the good thing is we use only a trace of pigment in watercolour compared with other mediums. Just putting some perspective on this. My big concern would be cats, because looking into using essential oils in a burner last year I discovered their livers are incapable of dealing with many things we commonly use. And only need tiny particles to cause them problems. So never let your cat pad across your paints or dip into the paint water. x
This is so exciting!!! I've been intriqued by color theory & mixing colors and the one color I could find NO direction on creating was Perylene violet . Another artist used it frequently for underpainting & to add interest in her paintings. Expensive to buy...& I had no clue. THANK YOU Emma !!! You made my day!!!
I am just a beginner but I love color mixing and experimenting with it. I love the colors you have mixed in this video, such beautiful colors 😍 Thank you so much 🙏
When I started only had limited pallet so wish I had seen this then. Thanks Emma. By the way my eldest daughter is 41 next week and although grown up they still want you😊. I have followed so many of your videos and my art improving all the time. Painted the turtle and cat the other day, never drawn or painted animals before and my family love them. Thank you once again for ll the encouragement. Good luck with your family, make the most of them while they are young time flies and they will soon be grown up. X
Such a great video for all level learner especially early basic learners. You made it so easy and your mixing technique seemed created now and then. It gave me so much creativity and I started creating other variations and tones and got totally lost in the process. Love your work already but I think this made me moved and involved in exploration more deeply. Thanks and keep making such videos more often
Very excellent demo on mixing 🎉. I need to play more with mixing. There are so many colors that I’ve yet to discover. Mixing your own makes your painting so much more personal. Great video as always ❤
Wow! I took Art all through high school but we never covered how to mix colours! Now I know. Thank you so much! Please make more about mixing colours as it really is so interesting.
What a great lesson, very helpful. I would love to see more color mixing for sure. I would really like to see your full color palette, what colors it includes and why. What colors mix with each other and how you use them. Thank you so much
Haha... I've been mixing my own perelyne green without even knowing what it was called. Super! This was a fun video, and I loved seeing your thought process into what to mix.
Wow!!!!! That was the best color mixing information I have gotten in years of searching for help! Excellent video Emma. The way you talked through it and showed your pallet was incredibly helpful. You just can't convey this with only a chart. I would definitely like to see more.
Love this, I’ve probably bought too many paints because like you, I LOVE THEM SO! I am going to try some of these out. Love your videos and have learned so much. You are a wonderful teach. Thank you!
Wow, thank you so much. This is an awesome video for a beginner like me. Easy, to the point, full of information, exactly what I needed and wanted. And I think it is useful for anyone that loves color and this medium. Thank you again 💐💐💐👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Excellent video... I'm in love with the greens created from neutral tint and quinacridone gold.... I'd love to know if ultramarine blue, ultramarine rose colours can be created by mixing...also, can you do a video on colour families...like what traits of the colour lend to their names such as the cadmium family, quinacridone family, madders, ultramarines, perylenes, etc... as always, I have enjoyed this video too...my best wishes to your lovebugs ❤️
The names are mostly due to its chemical composition, mineral origins or even botanical like madder red comes from the root of the madder plant which is a lightfast red dye. You should check color wheel videos and other resources to better understand the color temperatures and how it influences color mixing, like warm red and warm yellow will make a vibrant orange etc.
@@bluejenny26 Yes, it is Daniel Smith, however, the color is very similiar to W&N's Purple Lake. I have both colors and the two are almost exactly alike. Thanks for the info.
Awesome!! I love finding fun new color mixes. I recently learned that if I add a small amount of neutral tint (I use W&N Pro brand for that specific color) to red or green or violet, it makes the lovely moody perylene shades you have here. Kind of a quick shortcut. 😊
Dang girl, you got those colors spot on! Super cool! Thanks for this! Am hoping to see the June florals soon! Hope you and ur family are doing well, Emma!
This is useful info really even with a big collection of paints! After all learning mixes and using limited pallets for a particular artwork is still incredibly useful! I will say saving time from having convince mixes/paints is great and pigment properties are not copied by mixing. Such as granulation, separation, opacity, ouch, etc. cobalt teal blue (pg 50)has properties mixing a similar teal won’t replicate. And nickel Azo yellow ( PY 150) has a vibrancy and pushes other pigments in a way you can’t ‘mix’. If that makes sense! Mixing can be fin and important but it also can waste time and not be ‘worth it’ for some people. Note you can also premix convince colours in empty wells/pans! Premixing so it’s already in your pallet. Not each time you need it!
I’d like a color tutorial for certain leaves or flowers or certain items . Like “use this fo 1. Eucalyptus leaves 2. Daisy leaves 3. Peony flowers 4. Blue jeans 5. Red barn color 6. The best sky color
I could use more mixing videos from you. Many run around bushes and i appreciate your straight to the chase explainations. I have watched dozens in the past couple days. So i have comparisons ....thank you.
Just found this thank you can you do mixing earthing tones one on neutral colours What is neutral tint pant and what is it used for please thank you. Stay well stay well hope winter is not not to bad🐨💐🌈
I would love to see more of these. My watercolour books tell me to use ochre, red ochre, (I've got yellow ochre in my pallete but no clue how to get the other 2). Another book asks for Cyan, Azure (isn't that just teal?) crimson/scarlet/vermilion /carmine (I know they're all reds but how to get each is a mystery)...
when you use WN paints the colours windsor blue and red it would be nice for the beginners, who use other brands to mention the traditional names. e.g. phtalo blue or prussion blue etc.
That was awesome. I have a set of mission gold paints and I don’t like their version of indigo but now I can make one from their paints Instead of using a different brand
Loved this video. I have Perylene green, maroon and violet in my Amazon wish list right now, but now I can make them myself! Any substitutions for Windsor Blue, I don’t have that one. Thank you. I’d love to see more mixing videos like this one.
Windsor Blue is a base color, so it’s hard to mix it. It’s a good blue to use to mix many other colors. It’s also a blue that is good for a CMY color wheel. Also known as Phthalo Blue in other brands.
Which Windsor red do you prefer... there are 3 to select from. Windsor red deep, windsor red blue shade and windsor red green shade. Thanks! Love your videos! Which is the paper that you recommend that works like Arches but is less costly. I have been getting frustrated with watermarks when adding dimension in flowers. Thank you so much! You are the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!
very helpful!!!!k. how is the best way to make those other color charets that have the same colors above and down the side? I think ite is in your excellent booik. I am afraid to do it? any tips
Hooker’s green varies in hue so much from brand to brand…and some look very close to Sap Green. Do you use the W&N version in your recommended palette list?
I know beggars can't be choosers, and I do NOT want to seem ungrateful, but I can't seem to get a clear screen shot of your final view of all mixes. Don't know if my problem is with Print Screen or with Paint. Any idea what I am missing?
my problem is I don't have purple or alot of the "muted" colors to mix. I have red, yellow, green, blue, and sienna. basically rainbow without pink or purple
The value of the lesson is not merely matching colors we don’t have in our palettes, but generally how mix colors in general.
Very cool! Just found your channel. This is probably one of the better videos on you tube for anyone learning colour mixing. There’s one or two other artists who look at colour mixing too. It’s so refreshing and giving some really valuable knowledge.
Since Yellow Ochre is one of the cheapest pigments out there, being a totally natural and harmless earth color found in the ground, it seems fatuous to mix something looking a bit like it from Cadmium Yellow, which is a heavy metal color (potentially toxic) and which costs a lot more than Yellow Ochre.
I make it from Hansa Yellow Medium. I avoid cadmiums as well.
I think she recommends cadmium yellow hue, which, correct me if I’m wrong, doesn’t contain cadmium.
Yellow ochre is also granulating in a lot of brands so mix in it yourself mean you can keep it non granulating
I think this lesson is more about how to make colours from what you have, not advocating buying one over the other. It’s useful to know how to mix these colours for other reasons too. There’s been a huge push in recent years to avoid heavy metal pigments, and some no longer in production were bad. But if handled right there’s nothing wrong with these pigments. Disposal is a bit of a faff but totally do able. So many of the pigments almost no artist does without such as the cobalt blues, turquoises and ceruleans. But cadmium’s get all the bad press. And did you know ultramarine can become toxic when mixed with sewage water? I’d advise anyone concerned to watch some episodes of the Spin Doctor whose expertise was in this field. It’s good to avoid toxins especially if we have pets and youngsters around. But as he explained you’d have to eat many tubes of cadmium paint to damage ourselves. And the good thing is we use only a trace of pigment in watercolour compared with other mediums. Just putting some perspective on this. My big concern would be cats, because looking into using essential oils in a burner last year I discovered their livers are incapable of dealing with many things we commonly use. And only need tiny particles to cause them problems. So never let your cat pad across your paints or dip into the paint water. x
This is so exciting!!! I've been intriqued by color theory & mixing colors and the one color I could find NO direction on creating was Perylene violet . Another artist used it frequently for underpainting & to add interest in her paintings. Expensive to buy...& I had no clue.
THANK YOU Emma !!! You made my day!!!
I came here for perylene violet as well. It won’t fit in my pallet but I keep seeing my fave artist using it.
Thanks for video. The reason I have Perylene green (which I think is actually a black pigment) is to darken other greens.
Me too - I love how adding Perylene Green to other versions of greens creates lovely, cohesive variations for bouquets!
I am just a beginner but I love color mixing and experimenting with it. I love the colors you have mixed in this video, such beautiful colors 😍 Thank you so much 🙏
When I started only had limited pallet so wish I had seen this then. Thanks Emma. By the way my eldest daughter is 41 next week and although grown up they still want you😊. I have followed so many of your videos and my art improving all the time. Painted the turtle and cat the other day, never drawn or painted animals before and my family love them. Thank you once again for ll the encouragement. Good luck with your family, make the most of them while they are young time flies and they will soon be grown up. X
Such a great video for all level learner especially early basic learners. You made it so easy and your mixing technique seemed created now and then. It gave me so much creativity and I started creating other variations and tones and got totally lost in the process. Love your work already but I think this made me moved and involved in exploration more deeply. Thanks and keep making such videos more often
Another great video. Yes, please do more color mixing! The subtleties of adjusting are very interesting to me.
Me too, it's fascinating!
Very excellent demo on mixing 🎉. I need to play more with mixing. There are so many colors that I’ve yet to discover. Mixing your own makes your painting so much more personal. Great video as always ❤
Thanks!
Play time! Fun to watch and see how you think through and adjust your mixes.
Love your mixing videos. It reminds me to vary my color palettes and even vary the tones of my favorite colors.
Great! Very helpful to watch you play around and mix colors! It is fun to experiment and see all the colors you can mix.
Wow! I took Art all through high school but we never covered how to mix colours! Now I know. Thank you so much! Please make more about mixing colours as it really is so interesting.
Hi, As a French speaker, I totally agree with your pronunciation of mauve ;)
Great mixing video. I liked watching your whole process on how to got to the end color - Thank you
Perfect video !! I would definitely love more of the coloring mixing/matching videos. You're awesome Emma !!!
What a great lesson, very helpful. I would love to see more color mixing for sure. I would really like to see your full color palette, what colors it includes and why. What colors mix with each other and how you use them. Thank you so much
You make me fall in love with watercolors again. And I haven’t touched my art supplies in over a year 🥺🥺
It was really cool to see your process and how you can just add a little bit of a colour and it really changes it!
I have trouble mixing to make a gray sage green for eucalyptus color
I just found this color today by accident. Cerulean Blue Hue and Jaune Brilliant. 50/50
A very useful video. Thank you! I would be interested in how to make quinacridone gold. And neutral tint also please. Thank you!
Haha... I've been mixing my own perelyne green without even knowing what it was called. Super! This was a fun video, and I loved seeing your thought process into what to mix.
This is so helpful, appreciate this very much.
Please do more colour mixes.
Wow!!!!! That was the best color mixing information I have gotten in years of searching for help! Excellent video Emma. The way you talked through it and showed your pallet was incredibly helpful. You just can't convey this with only a chart. I would definitely like to see more.
Love this, I’ve probably bought too many paints because like you, I LOVE THEM SO! I am going to try some of these out. Love your videos and have learned so much. You are a wonderful teach. Thank you!
Wow, thank you so much. This is an awesome video for a beginner like me. Easy, to the point, full of information, exactly what I needed and wanted. And I think it is useful for anyone that loves color and this medium. Thank you again 💐💐💐👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Excellent video... I'm in love with the greens created from neutral tint and quinacridone gold.... I'd love to know if ultramarine blue, ultramarine rose colours can be created by mixing...also, can you do a video on colour families...like what traits of the colour lend to their names such as the cadmium family, quinacridone family, madders, ultramarines, perylenes, etc... as always, I have enjoyed this video too...my best wishes to your lovebugs ❤️
The names are mostly due to its chemical composition, mineral origins or even botanical like madder red comes from the root of the madder plant which is a lightfast red dye.
You should check color wheel videos and other resources to better understand the color temperatures and how it influences color mixing, like warm red and warm yellow will make a vibrant orange etc.
I love the color mixing videos. I'd love to see mixed: payne's gray, quin gold, rose of ultramarine, burnt orange or burnt seinna. Great video.
Rose of ultramarine is a Daniel Smith color. It’s equal parts Quin Rose & Ultramarine Blue
@@bluejenny26 Yes, it is Daniel Smith, however, the color is very similiar to W&N's Purple Lake. I have both colors and the two are almost exactly alike. Thanks for the info.
Thank you Emma. I love these mixing videos! It is so valuable and I learn so much. I’d love to see more!
Awesome!! I love finding fun new color mixes. I recently learned that if I add a small amount of neutral tint (I use W&N Pro brand for that specific color) to red or green or violet, it makes the lovely moody perylene shades you have here. Kind of a quick shortcut. 😊
Another great and so useful video, thank you again. Interested in seeing more colour mixing demos! 😍
Dang girl, you got those colors spot on! Super cool! Thanks for this! Am hoping to see the June florals soon! Hope you and ur family are doing well, Emma!
I love this palette!!! I'll be more adventurous thanks to your guidance. Please do more Emma.
Thank you Emma , I also love the mixing videos and would look forward to more of them 😊
Really enjoyed this video on mixing paint colors.
Thanks so much for posting.
This was informative… a color theory vid!!! TFS Emma! 🙏🏾👍🏾😃
Thank you Emma, very informative Hope your little one is much better now xxx
This is useful info really even with a big collection of paints! After all learning mixes and using limited pallets for a particular artwork is still incredibly useful! I will say saving time from having convince mixes/paints is great and pigment properties are not copied by mixing. Such as granulation, separation, opacity, ouch, etc. cobalt teal blue (pg 50)has properties mixing a similar teal won’t replicate. And nickel Azo yellow ( PY 150) has a vibrancy and pushes other pigments in a way you can’t ‘mix’. If that makes sense! Mixing can be fin and important but it also can waste time and not be ‘worth it’ for some people.
Note you can also premix convince colours in empty wells/pans! Premixing so it’s already in your pallet. Not each time you need it!
I’d like a color tutorial for certain leaves or flowers or certain items . Like “use this fo
1. Eucalyptus leaves
2. Daisy leaves
3. Peony flowers
4. Blue jeans
5. Red barn color
6. The best sky color
Thank you so much for this video! I’m going to try and mix some of these myself now that you have put this together for us.
Thanks again!!
Love this type of videos, very helpful, thanks for putting the info on screen. 😊
I really liked this video Excellent lesson to learn to mix colors. I’d love to get more videos on this subject :) thanks!
i'm not into florals... but i subscribed to ur channel just for your mixing colors videos! :)
so, please keep them coming!
Great tutorial. Would love to see one for cool and warm greys
I really enjoyed the color mixing video. Thank you. Would love to see more.
I could use more mixing videos from you. Many run around bushes and i appreciate your straight to the chase explainations. I have watched dozens in the past couple days. So i have comparisons ....thank you.
I love your color mixing videos Emma. You are amazing.
Wow excellent 👌 I'm waiting for this one tutorial and refresh what I knowledge
Really enjoyed and learned a lot .what a wonderful session.thanks for following up with notations as well
Bless you
Love color mixing , would love to do more
So freaking HELPFUL! Thank you Emma! 🙏🎨👩🎨
This is great! What is your suggestion for mixing Paynes Grey?
I've also noticed it depends what sets you have. like some "burnts" I have are closer to sienna or umber depending on tones/shades
Do you have a video on mixing an autumn pallete?
Just found this thank you can you do mixing earthing tones one on neutral colours What is neutral tint pant and what is it used for please thank you. Stay well stay well hope winter is not not to bad🐨💐🌈
I would love to see more of these. My watercolour books tell me to use ochre, red ochre, (I've got yellow ochre in my pallete but no clue how to get the other 2).
Another book asks for Cyan, Azure (isn't that just teal?) crimson/scarlet/vermilion /carmine (I know they're all reds but how to get each is a mystery)...
Thanks Emma. Love these types of videos.
Complementary, not contrasting, but very informative video! I learned a lot.
when you use WN paints the colours windsor blue and red it would be nice for the beginners, who use other brands to mention the traditional names. e.g. phtalo blue or prussion blue etc.
Helpful video thank you! You say 'Mauve' Like us English folk do 😁 xx
That was awesome. I have a set of mission gold paints and I don’t like their version of indigo but now I can make one from their paints Instead of using a different brand
Loved this video. I have Perylene green, maroon and violet in my Amazon wish list right now, but now I can make them myself! Any substitutions for Windsor Blue, I don’t have that one. Thank you. I’d love to see more mixing videos like this one.
Windsor Blue is a base color, so it’s hard to mix it. It’s a good blue to use to mix many other colors. It’s also a blue that is good for a CMY color wheel. Also known as Phthalo Blue in other brands.
Five minutes in and I LOVE THIS! I've wanted this kind of instruction for ages!
Don't suppose you can tell us how to mix Hooker's Green...?
Wow… Thank You!! I needed this so much!!
Hi ! my first language is French, the way you pronounce "mauve" is correct ! It's the same sound as "oh" when you say : oh my god !
I love your video ❤️ Thank you so much ! By the way "mauve" you say it very well 😉
Yes more mixes please
Thank you for this! Can we make /mix our own Coral, Lavender, ??
Which Windsor red do you prefer... there are 3 to select from. Windsor red deep, windsor red blue shade and windsor red green shade. Thanks! Love your videos! Which is the paper that you recommend that works like Arches but is less costly. I have been getting frustrated with watermarks when adding dimension in flowers. Thank you so much! You are the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes.id love to see more
very helpful!!!!k. how is the best way to make those other color charets that have the same colors above and down the side? I think ite is in your excellent booik. I am afraid to do it? any tips
Hooker’s green varies in hue so much from brand to brand…and some look very close to Sap Green. Do you use the W&N version in your recommended palette list?
i dont have too much windsor paints what would be a good sub? i have some schip farb, rubans, and some art philosophy
Thank you Emma. Love this, it's so helpful. 😊
Super helpful!
I love color mixing, although it sure does need practice! Is the Winsor Blue that you're using- Winsor Blue Red Shade? Thanks 😊
This is great Emma! Love to watch and learn color mixing. Please share more! 😊 Is there a way to mix Emerald Green?
Love this! Would you please give us a list of basic colors that we should buy to mix the others, please? Thank you so much!!
It’s in the description:)
To make indigo, did you use Windsor blue red shade or Windsor blue green?
This video is so helpful. Thanks so much.
I would be interested in how to mix paint for skin color.... thanks!
Would love to see more color mixing videos
Brilliant, thank you Emma
Love this tutorial! Thank you!
Loved this video! More please.
Thank you so much for the information!
What brand of Hookers green? 😊
It was fun!
I didn’t n’ t have that violet . What is a substitute?
Loved this video thank you!
Is there a way to mix manganese violet?
Sooo helpful. Thanks
I know beggars can't be choosers, and I do NOT want to seem ungrateful, but I can't seem to get a clear screen shot of your final view of all mixes. Don't know if my problem is with Print Screen or with Paint. Any idea what I am missing?
Very helpful! Thank you! 😊
Nice video, very well done!
Thankyou!. Excelente is really useful!
Very useful and intresting thank you
my problem is I don't have purple or alot of the "muted" colors to mix. I have red, yellow, green, blue, and sienna. basically rainbow without pink or purple