Very nice, Sarah, thanks! Good accompaniment to my morning coffee ☺️. I’ve a question about Prussian Blue … is it as lightfast (or not) as its watercolor version, and then, if it’s used in mixtures, would those mixtures be compromised by it? Really enjoying your videos. 🦩🌺

I have another idea that might be useful for learners watching your channel. Your strips are great, but I have never taken the time to be so thorough. I did want to learn more about mixing greens in particular, though, so did something similar in a chart with just my blues/turquoise's and yellows/yellow-earths. Having a one-page reference with all the types of greens I could make was enlightening. I was very surprised at some of the outcomes. I hadn't even really thought turquoise would be a good green component, but it creates some really good, totally non-turquoisey colors! There are a few convenience greens I like that I never would have guessed how to make, but saw on my chart.

Thank you for sharing Sarah! This was super helpful

You opend my eyes. Thank you!

Excellent presentation, as always!😺

That tree on the opposite page from your muted swatches is magical! No one paints like you, Sarah. 🤗

Thank you Sarah, this video was super helpful.

Love this approach for using the color strips!

Thank you Sarah. Excellent information 😊

What a stunning layout of sketches and how you present them is so helpful. Ty.

Thank you! Great information! I look forward to seeingmore

So helpful 💜💜💜

This is super helpful and your voice is so relaxing 🖤

Thank you so much Sarah! This is one of the best advice Videos for gouache I have seen! 😊

Really fantastic video!

such a helpful video thank you

I’ve learnt so much from your channel, thanks for another great video!

I'm about to start my gouache journey and you videos are being a great guide as how to start. Thankyou

This video was amazing

Great video! Thanks for making this :)

It's so meditative to watch you make this colour chart! And super helpful to hear your thoughts on why you chose these colours. Thank you for sharing!

Muchas gracias por compartir tus conocimientos y ser tan clara en tus explicaciones. Saludos desde Argentina

What a great way to start my Friday! Thanks Sarah and I need to get cracking on doing more of my color swatches!

Pozdrawiam z Polski :) To jeden z najbardziej przydatnych filmów jakie widziałam i bardzo mi pomógł w przygotowaniu własnej palety kolorów. Ogromnie dziękuję! Przekazujesz bardzo konkretną wiedzę

This just helped me sooo much! I'm just starting out with gouache and I'm glad I use W&N (mostly) haha. I started making my own swatches already :-) I have different colours to the ones you mentioned in this video, but it's such a great introduction to mixing colours! Thank you for sharing these tips and saving me a lot of pain!

Thank you for putting this together like this. I actually understand the limited pallette better with this explanation.

Omg. The mix sticks are an excellent idea! Especially for me as a newbie - I can picture the colour I want but have no idea how to get there.

Wonderful, thank you.

I'm really glad i just discovered your channel. Your artwork is so inspiring 😊👍

I would love a detailed description on how you achieved the beautiful neutral chart.

Thank you for this great lesson. This is an incredibly inspiring video and such useful information, very well explained.

I’m working on color mix strips like you did. It’s addicting! Mine are just 2 colors mixed so far. I’m learning which colors I will probably run out of sooner .

Great video, beautiful paintings and perfect timing! I'm a complete newbie to gouache. This has really helped me decide which paints to buy. My original choices were not far off from your recommendations but seeing the swatch results were a huge help. Can't wait to get started. Thank you!

So good 😊 thank you 🙏 🙌❤️

Brilljant! I would never have thought about turquoise an Perylene Green! Now off to my paintcuboard to see if I have any of your colour choices! I certainly have to try this palette, thank you so much for the video!

As always.. so loaded with learning, and simplified for a beginner :) I am just starting with goauche, after about a year of working with watercolours.. and it’s so tempting to hoard colours (I already have more than I would ever use). But working with a limited palette will help so much with understanding color! Thanks Sarah :)

This is such a cool and helpful video on color mixing in gouache. I never thought of using turquoise green as a base mixing color. Interesting that you recommend Winsor Newton. They are one of the few brands who make looking up the pigment info of their paints so easily.

Your limited palette is a wonderful, classic cymk choice of colors.

This is super helpful, thank you. I definitely need to make the longer swatches for my gouache and watercolours

Very informative.

I would love to see how you made those little vertical colour charts! it would be so helpful too!

Love your channel! In watercolor I usually mix a rich deep black from PR122 and Pbk31. I really enjoyed watching you trials of bismuth vanadate. I am torn between that color and Holbein’s benzimidazolone lemon yellow as a PY3 replacement.

My palette used to be two reds, two yellows, two blues, burnt sienna, and white when I painted on a regular basis. This palette would allow me to reduce that number by two. Going to purchase a few I don't own and give this new 5-color palette a try.

thank you sarah :)

It's so interesting to see how your choices for gouache differ from your choices for watercolor. Your rationale makes so much sense though! All your tips have given me a lot to consider for when I build my own set.

Thank you so much for this video , it helps a lot on choosing colors to start with . I usually paint watercolors not now feel like some change. I didnt see all of your videos , my question is why you prefer gouache over watercolor ? I had a try of gouache long time ago, was disturbed by the color shift when dry. But now I want to restart .

Wow most most most most most most beautiful painting

My picks would be; Hansa yellow deep, cadmium red,although having cats I replaced my cadmiums for a hue, ultramarine, burnt umber, burnt sienna. My Conveniance color would be a magnenta or an indigo blue. Last not seen in gouache yet so I mix my own from my sennelier tube and white. Burnt umber and burnt sienna are luxurery colors; but I feel kindof naked in any palet without. Im dutch and inspired by artists like a Rien Poortvliet. Wich means lots of browns and natural colors; I cant see mysealf doing a seascape with cobalts; it is to bright for a dutch scene.

Thanks.

Oh man, colour is so intimidating! But thanks so much for explaining it in a way that makes sense ^^

Very educational! Can you please consider making a vid on how you create your color strips (mixing cards)?

Beautiful!!! Make an artbook and an instructional one!!!!

Great tips, Sarah! Question I have is how well the WN Titanium White goes over the other colours without fading or darkening (ie: the tiny sailboats painted on one of the sketchbook paintings).

I too have a limited set of colors, a slightly different range, and it amazes me how with a bit of practice, one can really mix any color under the sun with them! My range is Cadmium Yellow Light (M Graham), Cadmium Red Light (M Graham), Quin Rose (M graham), Opera Rose (Holbein), Burnt Sienna (M Graham), Flesh Tint (Winsor+Newton- Just for the sheer convenience it provides me since I do more character drawing with my art supplies), Dioxazine Purple (M Graham), Ultramarine Blue (M Graham) Pthalo Blue (M Graham), Pthalo Green (M Graham), Cobalt Teal (Watercolor that I just add a bit of white gouache to) then the two whites and Jet Black (M Graham). I love how different each artists' tastes are. It really says a lot about who we are in the end. Like an extension of ourselves.

very interesting video, Sarah. I just recently started painting using gouache and found that some colors i have are very transparent. How important would you say is the opaqueness of a color when you pick them? Sorry for the newbie question :D

Thanks, very useful tips. Loved the colour strips -will definitely try that. One question about Prussian Blue. I've read it is considered a fugitive colour -which keeps me from using it, although I love the hue. Do you have any thoughts on this? Do you still keep Prussian Blue on your "desert island 🏝️" palette? If you had to replace it with a similar hue and value colour, what would be a suitable choice? Thanks again!

I would love to learn to paint scenery like this, I do more florals with watercolor but I would love love love to learn to paint like you. do you tape off your journal to keep the cohesive square? Do you use hot press watercolor paper?

Hi Sarah this video was very helpful I have a question if there's for example 20 colors should I do the2color chart for all of them ?

Love your style , do you prefer gouache over watercolor? I am trying to decide, I muddy colors and overwork my paintings a lot.

Desert island colours at 6:24. ,Lemon yellow, Alazarin Crimson, Cobalt turquoise light, Prussian Blue, perylene black (and white, natch)

Your channel is amazing. You infos are very helpful and I'm learning so much. I was about to buy myself a set of tubes(10-12) but after watching this I will try your desert 5. I notice that your browns might be rather difficult to achieve with these 5 for a beginner like me. Could you recommend the one brown you would add to those 5? Or perhaps the one other colour that would solve the brown issue easier? I usually paint anime scenes, landscape with buildings, and portraits. I thank you for everything.

I am always happy to see huge colour variation in your paintings. I can never understand artists whose entire collection of works looks the same in terms of colour mixes. As if they only know one type of green mix, one shade of red and so forth. It is so easy to get a big variety of colours even from a tiny selection of paints, and yet there are so many artists who stick to the same colour scheme for all of their work. I personally don't understand how they don't get bored. Because colour scheme dictates the mood of the painting and the feel you get while looking at it. Using the same colour scheme over and over feels super limiting for my creativity. I know that they can get a very recognizable look to their work, but to me that also makes their work too similar, and I get bored after seeing 3-5 pictures, and I am not curious about them again in the future, because it will just be another version of the same. Sorry for the long rant, and thank you for such great demo on how to choose colours for different subjects, must be very helpful and eye opening for beginners. I personally use the same method of looking through my colour charts to pick colour scheme for a planned painting. Great video, also very interesting to pause at the flip through!!!!

I'm also into minimizing my Palette. It's interesting to see how everyone comes up with unique selection of colors. It differs depending on what people paint at the most, I guess. If you were based in not Schottland, instead India for example, the color selection would have been mudier ones like ochres and sap green etc. I can see vibrant landscapes there through your Scottish palette.

You inspired me to swatch my gouache, finally, after having it for 2 years but being too scared to use it. XD I was about to play your gouache playlist for some tips and I'm curious if you know there's a few oddball videos in the playlist? (Not that I don't appreciate shuffle dancing and music covers, haha. )

Hi Sarah, thank you so much for the video. I have a question about the white paints. Which one do you recommend between titanium white and zinc white to buy the big tube? and do we need both? or it can use interchangeably?

Ohhh!! I'm early ❤️❤️❤️

Hi! Thanks for teaching and sharing this! I tried mixing and following but i kinda got lost in that part of the video 14:50, which colors are to be combined in that part? hope you can take time to answer, would really appreciate it! thank you!

Have you tried the cheaper version of winsor and newton gouache? Wondering how it compares to the designers gouache.

Wish I could get an understanding of those colour chart blocks. I just don’t get it, find them so confusing, as they seem all over the place 😂. I need things to be organised in neat little rows in order to understand them. I know what you’re doing is the right way, and everyone does it that way, but it just confuses my brain. Your strips, on the other hand, makes complete sense to me 😁 Thank you!

Great channel so exciting iwant to ask have you a paintnig course for ghouche online?

2:32 Is it a warm blue? I would say that Ultramarine is warmer because it is closer to red. But I guess it's a matter of what theory you hang on to. Thanks.

Hi Sarah. I love this painting. Ive been doing the 2-color strips all day today. I see the value in them! And they’re fun to do. You mention that this painting is in your Patreon but I can’t find it. Do you have a link perhaps?

Am I the only one that doesn't understand the colour charts 🥺 I feel so stupid haha! I get that the column colour is mixed with the row colour on the top/right hand side but I can't figure out what combos have made the pastels on the bottom/left. I tried gouache for the first time today, I've only used acrylics on and off for years and haven't painted with watercolour since I was in school. Having to go right back to basics 😳 thanks so much Sarah for all your help, I've watched so many of your videos so far!

Do you think the W&N cobalt torquise is prettier or the Holbein?

Can I recommend a variation on your chart? I have started doing a variation where the main diagonal is the straight paint in part of the square and diluted (with water for watercolor - mixed with white for gouache). Then, all the squares above/right of the diagonal are a mix of the two colors leaning towards the top color. Again, those squares are divided with a diluted/tinted version. The squares below/left of the diagonal are a mix leaning towards the color on the left, and again part of each square is diluted/tinted. This format gives a lot more information in one chart. It essentially combines the near-ends of your mixing strips, adds tinting, and puts it in your chart format. It is a little more work than your chart, but a lot less than your strips, and adds more tinting examples.

This was eye opening, but what about "needing" warms and cools? Most advice that I've seen says that you need warms and cools. Do you just work with what you have and adjust as much as you can when needed, or do you use different colours in different situations?

How would you mix a teal/turquoise without having to buy one? BTW I use Holbein acrylic gouache.

What colours do u mixed to get the neutral shades ma'am? What r the abbreviated words that u mentioned above each shade (eg:yRP)

lol,, Scotland looks very similar to here (Newfoundland, Canada). and now i'm curious about how to handle fog... i get alot of fog here.. is there something i can do with gouache and watercolor??

If I heard that right, you said you could get a really good black by mixing Alizarin Crimson with Perylene Green, so would you switch out your black for the Perylene Green? After I listed out your deserted island palette and your sea and forest palettes it looks like you only use a total of 7 colors across all them which isn't a lot really. For most people 7 colors would be a limited palette. I'm really enjoying your channel. Thanks for making these videos 😀

My only concern about using Prussian blue is that it's almost fugitive - I'd be concerned about it fading in the mix.

Where do I learn about layering of gouache? Can u help me with that & I'm really searching for resources but not everyone teaches about the subtle shades & intricate details which r made in gouache.

So if you were on that island with the 6 color mixing set and the tide brought in 2 other colors..... what would you want them to be?

how did you mix to make the neutrals? :Oc

It is my understanding that gouache is just opaque watercolor and if that's true I'm surprised that quinacridone magenta would be gouache. Could you explain that to me? Is it true that gouache is just opaque watercolor?

Please write a book🥰

Ah, that sketchbook!!! And how naughty of you to taunt us with just a glimpse of what it contains! The colour mixing chart , especially for gouache, is my Nemesis- I can only get 2 first gradations right, after that it's all one hue 😂 It's usually looks better when it's wet, when it dries, it's a dog dinner and not a colour chart! And I am confused how to make a mix darker, for example: say, I mixed red and blue and got a middle value colour, should I add black to it to make it darker? Or more blue.. although, sometimes the colour just gets blue-er, and not darker. # confused.🙄

Hi, after seing this I decided that I need to do something similar with the set I have and make a limited palette. But now I need to get food for our dog, our sweet monster dog! 😜🙃

I watched this clip the 4th time. but still i don't understand your mixing chart, beginning at 13:11 - from where did you mixed this dark blue/purple/lila suddenly?

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Did you just add prussian blue at the bottom of that color?

why the crimson instead of magenta?

I tried to follow but I‘m a bit slow - just can‘t follow just which exact colours you are mixing. I need a visual guide please.