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I often mix Burnt Umber and Ultramarine to get dark colors for landscapes. It's my favorite dark-mix.

There is something on your videos that makes me feel you are providing with such BIG value information. Thanks a lot for sharing.

SUPER helpful to think of Burnt Umber as a dark yellow. Thanks for this video, hope your move went well! Much Love from my studio to yours from New Mexico USA!

You can paint with just white, ultramarine and burnt umber. It makes cool and warm color at any level of darkness. Is amazing how good the color can be in a portrait with just this. It's much better than trying to paint with green and red, and purple and yellow wouldn't even work. Burnt sienna is good, much more red and good for portraits but is not dark enough.

You’re the man, man. It’s your laid back energy, and your relaxed personality that makes the video work.

Bonus tip: burnt umber is even somewhat light-valued, compared to the darkest ranges on the value scale. For a _very_ dark yellow, you can mix a transparent green + orange. For example, burnt sienna (PR101) + viridian (pg18) will make a very dark yellow, which may not even register as yellow at first if you're not used to thinking of tones that dark as yellows

Starting out on oil paints, the one thing I love about your channel is your mastery of color theory and how simple you make such a complex set of colors with the 5 basic shades. I’m still going to start out with 12-15 tubes just in case and to have some fun with auxiliary colors like Prussian blue or van dyke brown but I see now how less scary building up a good set of oils has to be!

I'm going to do awful things to my bank account for these paints

I like raw umber because I feel like it’s “thicker” then burnt umber and also less transparent. And to me it seems cooler than burnt umber so when I want warm brown I mix raw umber with light red and it works perfectly. Especially for shadows in portraits. I use Winsor&Newton paint.

I replaced burnt umber with burnt sienna looooong ago and never looked back. I just find it much more versatile. You can easily make burnt umber by mixing sienna and ultramarine.

Mark you have so much knowledge about paints. I never really knew what burnt umber does, and the difference between that and raw umber. Thanks so much .

Your artistic slant on every subject you talk about is so different than the mainstream. Thanks for getting us to see a different perspective with your video commentaries.

You always blow my mind with these simple things.

I learned enough in the first 1&1/2 min to do me good. The rest is frosting on the top. Thank you for getting to the point and sharing your knowledge efficiently. Awesome!

Burnt umber + milk = chocolate milk ;-)

This is so true. I'm painting bitter sweet at the moment and I don't thing there's a single green, yellow, or orange that I haven't used your burn umber. I'm still hooked on your paints!

This makes me wanna experiment with mixing my burnt umber with other colors. But it's 10 pm and I should be sleeping right now (damn work Dx). The thought of seeing burnt umber as a dark yellow really blew my mind!

I missed you! Please upload more video about colors and paints, thank you for your sharing your opinions💌

Browns in general are great colors for mixing and toning down other colors. I never thought of BU as a yellow but now that you mention it you are so right!

Mark, thank you! been trying to find the easiest way to frankly, eliminate raw umber as a necessary color! thanks for the tip, really helpful!

This helps a lot. I've had problems painting bananas and lemons because I think of burnt umber as orange. I'm a slow learner but after a year am starting to understand the Geneva paints. Thanks.

'Mummy brown' is a nice yellowish brown. I occasionally use burnt umber but not much. I hardly ever use black even though I have several shades of it. I prefer to mix other colors together and give the illusion of black. This is when I paint with oils. When I paint with my airbrush and do celestial type paintings I do use black. The darker the better.

Mark, glad you are in your new studio. I want to tell painters everywhere that if they have not tried your Geneva paints they are missing a great opertunity to really learn about painting with oils. I have painted for 25 years and nothing comes close to yours, Williamsburg is good but yours is easier to work with,however you need to develop the skills of color mixing,something that is missing in today's mainstream . Good luck my friend. Rick

love when you do videos like this, this is gold !

You certainly opened my eyes about using burnt umber.

I love working with a limited pallet; it's so fun to find the exact color I need by mixing! :D

I like Geneva's but the best burnt umber I've ever used was an old tube of Permanent Pigments (the brand that would later become Liquitex) from the 70's or 80's. High pigmented and very dark out of the tube so you could mix a dark black, reddish undertone, bound with only linseed oil so it wasn't too soft but also not grainy, dried quicker than my other paints, and didn't seem to sink in at all hardly. Sadly, it's now nearly gone. Gotta start checking eBay or thrift stores for more...

I just want to say you are an amazing art teacher. I have been watching all your videos. I have had formal training in college. After watching your videos and finishing my first piece applying your methods to my work, my painting has significantly gotten better. I was so so pleased! This is the way I have wanted to paint. Don't get me wrong I have a ways to go but I feel like I have taken a huge leap forward. THANK YOU THANK YOU! I am saving up for your paints.

perfect color for darker parts of gold/bronce materials

I'm also fond of including Naples yellow. It's so much subtler and softer than cadmium yellow. Often useful for including in skin tones, too, I find. Burnt umber mixed with Naples yellow also produces a nice warm honeyish greyish colour, which is quite good for stone walls and objects.

Your comments are gold

I put burnt umber in my coffee.

I was going to say "burnt umber is so dark" then I looked at your paintings, and I realized "nope, it's perfect for his style" XD

Geneva paints are the best paints I have used and I was a kind of paint freak, trying and hoading a lot of different brands.Geneva paint full of pigment and so nice to apply.I also like the fact the tubes are big, it encorages me to be bold with the paint.Burnt umber is my basic color.

Love watching everything you teach your so in tune with color and painting

not a painter but in seconds this guys style had me convinced hes the real fucking deal

Another excellent and informational video about color mixing. Thanks, Mark. I got a lot from this.

You are amazing! thank you for these online lectures.

From your videos, I'd say you're a master. I studied with the renowned painter, the late Nelson Shanks. While he was technically proficient, he had lapses in taste. The worst thing he ever did, was paint a well known aged actress nude, including frontal! Taste is as important as knowledge.

It's been a staple colour for me for many years. I use it in every piece.

i mix burnt umber with everything

With Yellow Red and Blu you can mix all the colours you need , even bournd Amber.

Burnt umber is more like dark orange than yellow to me. Raw umber leans much more towards yellow.

Thanks for this upload. now I see burnt umber as a dark yellow. that's must easier

Thx so much you are so helpful and generous with your knowledge. Absolutely love your videos

Thanks your advice is invaluable.

I learned a lot just in those few minutes. Thank you ❤

My favorite shadow is burnt umber,with purple. My second is green (or bleu). And my third white....

Thanks and yes, to darken yellows is a strange and diffficult exercise.

I made the mistake of not getting burnt umber when I first started painting, only a day in and I ended up going back to the store and grabbing some

Rublev from natural pigments paints are the best ever because they don’t contain any stabilizer or fillers or extenders. All other brands are adulterated to make them cheaper. if an artist is looking for longevity of their paintings, then matters are different.

What do you think about the claim that the burnt umber pigment (or any other earth pigment) is more prone to cracking over time because of it's drying properties and would you agree that, if one is concerned about that, switching to a transparent brown oxide for instance would be a good idea?

I'm a self thought artist, and I started painting by buying a set of 12 colors, I never bought any more colors than those since I never found a need for them and it turns out that the ones I use the most are the same ones in your color palette

Congratulations, I love your work

Thanks for another GREAT video Mark. It's been too long!

Best advice always!

These videos are fantastic, thanks Mark! I'm still confused about what "milky" means, though. This must be the fourth or fifth video I see this mentioned, but I have no idea what this means. Can we see a demonstration or can someone please help me put this into words? What does "milky" means? Is it about the hue, e.g. a yellow-ish white color is milky? Is it the saturation of the color, colors that are unsaturated are milky? Or is it the value? Bright colors are milky? Is it something about the paint? The paint is milky depending on its transparency (lower or higher pigment/medium ratio)? Or if it's glossy vs matte? Maybe it's about the composition? A color is milky when it blends poorly and/or doesn't belong where it is painted? A bad transition of colors makes a color milky? Does it get milky depending on the thickness of a layer of paint? A layer too thin is milky? Paint texture? viscosity? I really don't know, I'm just throwing concepts to see if any one sticks.

This is very good Master. Thank you

Burnt umber is my contouring make up color 😘👍

Awesome! THANK YOU! 😊

Thank you!

Mil gracias por los subtítulos en español gran maestro

Love your videos!!

Thank you, this is super helpful.

Hi Mark, First thank you for your teaching videos. I have a slight red-green color blindness and was always put off mixing colors because of that. I stuck to books which said which colors to mix and where to put them. Now I understand color much better and have started mixing my own, so thanks a million for that. This video has left me somewhat confused however. I get that Burnt umber can be considered as a dark yellow but in other videos you say you use it as a dark red and you put it in your color wheel as dark orange. My confusion is if you take it as your first step in mixing a dark green then presumably you would add some blue but if you took it as your first step in mixing a dark purple your would also add some blue. If the first steps are the same what are the next steps? Am I right in thinking it would be white for purple and yellow for green or have I got this upside down?

Thank you so much

Thank you Mark for all those details and deep info you are giving in this video and in all your videos. I would like to try Geneva colors and wish if I could find small tubes at first. Would you think of producing smaller tubes in future? Best regards / CA

Very interesting video. Thanks

Excellent!

Great, thanks

Hi Mark, How do you feel about the tendency of the umbers to increase the yellowing as a painting ages?

Thank you

What about burnt underwear?

Can't I just mix red, yellow and blue to create a hue similar to Burnt Umber?

YOU ARE AN ART SAGE.

Black is 60% blue. Useful fact. When I begin blending a gray I start with a pile of blue.

I really can't decide which is better burnt amber or burnt sienna.

This question is a bit off topic but I live in Thailand so I guess I'll wait until I get back to the USA to buy Geneva Paints but until then, do you know of any comparable oil paints in S. E. Asia? Thanks, Don

Are the Geneva paints you used in the video always that liquid, or did you add something to them? The consistency seems to be almost like goauche.

Would you be able to apply all of these same rules to Watercolor paints?

What brand is better than winsor newton? Their burnt umber dries 3 days before all their other colors for me

Is there a way to make burnt umber out of the Zorn palette? Or at least something close to it.

"Most color groups that you mix colors for tend to start with black or something very close to black., but black is in most color groups." Maybe you've explained elsewhere, but what does this mean? And why would you "start with black as your first color"?

You said it was an orange before! And to place it next to orange on colour wheel not yellow pahaps I was not listening properly thanks!

Can confirm, bought a burnt umber pencil today and drew Vermeer's Girl With The Pearl Earring from scratch in a few hours.

me gustaria que se tradujera al castellano

what do you mean by "milk"?

The only colour you need is LAMP BLACK

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Milky shadows?

i was going to ask why you could not create this colour

A lot of people use raw umber for the underpainting. Would burnt umber be better?

Do you plan to sell pre-stained canvases?

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Hi, what does 'milk' or milky mean in this video. Thanks. Jim

milky? is that chalky?

I still prefer raw umber. I found burnt to be too reddish.

no the shaddow eil be a mix betwen the table color and the banana, somwhere in the blue scale .. burned umber i a eath colour and not found on the colour sircle not even the shaddow colorsircle. a impressionist would never use it in the shaddows simply because you will never find it there .

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