Every first year art student needs to see this presentation. I could have saved hundreds, maybe thousands of hours of work and a ton of money had I seen this. Thank you very much! Never too late to learn!

This is an excellent video! With all the years trying to understand how to create my color palette this video helped me understand more than anything I have learned in years! Thank you so very much!

This by far after many art teachers and trying lots of colors to find my palette this has been the most fruitful. Thank you. 😎😎

Your paintings are just wonderful. Your kind and thorough instruction about color is unsurpassed. Thank-you very much. God bless you for so sharing the gifts He has given you.

Thank you. I’ve heard other artists talk about using just the primaries but you have actually shown us how

Very informative and it cleared up a lot for me. Thanks you.

A sincere presentation with sound concepts strengthened and exemplified in the beautiful paintings displayed

Clear, practical, useful, and above all, an excellent teaching Demonstration of how to use a limited palette approach. I’d believed that limited palette painting was a simplistic one-size fits all approach and I avoided it. Learning how John uses the nuances of different pairings and groupings has been a huge Ah Ha! This artist has obviously achieved mastery. Bravo and thank you!

Now I know why I’ve ruined so many paintings. Thank-you. Very clear & concise.

C 'est une merveilleuse video. Tous ces conseils sont à garder précieusement. Merci de Paris

I was always a bottle acrylic painter and have migrated to tube acrylics and have just started dabbling in oil, therefore mixing colors and choosing a suitable palette has been a real struggle. This is by far the most helpful lesson I’ve come across. It was understandable, wasn’t overwhelming, and actually produced a huge sigh of relief…it was that helpful. Thank you kind sir for your priceless wisdom. I’ll always be grateful for this and will try to find your book as well.

Excellent explanation, thank you.

I love the dull muted red and blue violets! I use them in every piece❤️‍🔥

John as always so great with explaining and I love using his approach in limited pallet. Thank you so much for your knowledge sharing

This has been one of the most revelatory videos I’ve watched. The practical advice is priceless. I have pared down my palette based on his ideas, it’s made a significant difference in my painting, with much more to learn on the video/book I purchased. Such a master in both art and his ability to communicate the salient points in these methods.

Thank you for the video! I work mainly with watercolor, and I love limited palettes and changing them around. I used different and sometimes exotic triads, but for more serious illustrations I use the same six colors that give me a variety of textures and colors within a unified gamut.

Thanks so much John for taking the time to explain colour simply from the beginning….will help take the ridiculous confusion away with colour choices. A fun new level thks

I never had much desire for painting. I used to do lots of pencil drawing and some pen and ink. I didn't do much artwork for years until my daughter showed some interest. I did a few things for her that she wanted, fairies and things. I was very surprised to see many of the things I did for her go with her to college!! Things I did for her and some things I just did as exercises. She took a page of Sheridan style floral patterns I did as practice for leather work. I started getting some interest in paint and managed to mix up some mud with some old watercolors laying around. Since then I have explored mixing and split primary palette. I had made some notes for paints I want to buy based on a Winsor & Newton color chart. I found 6 of them here...Lemon Yellow - Cad Y lite - Ult blue - Cobalt Blue - Alizarin Red - Cad Red. I have my white and black chosen and was going to get three more - Yellow Ocre - Raw and Burnt Umber. Your vid confirmed my choices. Very informative and thanks so much for this - your paintings are amazing!

Thank you. Wonderful paintings!

Thank you so much for this video! It is incredibly surprising how your creative approach to the color system makes it easier to understand the choice of colors and oil manufacturers. And gives oil painting a less expensive form of art! Now I am simply amazed and in love with this approach! As a novice self-taught artist, I was looking for something similar, and finally found it with you!

Thank you. This was a fantastic video! I changed to a limited palette earlier this year and it transformed my work.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Great information!

Everything is now clearer to me.

Thank you for your generosity in sharing your experience and recommendation of a 3 color primary palette. A new subscriber and glad I found you on KZfaq.

A very useful and instructive video - Thank you

great video and i appreciate your knowledge and clarity of the content. Thank you !

@22:50 Wow!!! That's genius!!! thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! : )

Thank you so much John!!! Excellent video!! Very clear and so useful!!

wonderful and helpful instruction. thank you!

That was very helpful, beautifully demonstrated and clearly explained. I learned a lot. Thank you!

Very helpful. Thank you for sharing your color mixing knowledge.

Great job very informative and brilliant waste paint or waste time ! Thank You Mr. P.

I enjoyed very much the systemic and logical explanation... and the admonition to "mix like crazy" - love it!

Great information. I'm assessing my tube colors based on this!

Great presentation - really clear and helpful. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge, it's the clearest and easiest video i have come across!

This is wonderful! I’ve been a fb “friend” for years, and have been amazed at your beautiful paintings! I’m going to love your videos!

Wonderful lesson. Thanks

Thanks so much for sharing, really great content and well presented!

Great lesson. Thank you!

Great tutorial John. Thankyou from Australia👍

Thank you for sharing your experience and extensive knowledge on the subject! I’m definitely getting the book!

Thank you very much John. This was really interesting and helpful. I'm trying to limit my palette. I appreciate your help here.

Thanks John. I work with watercolor, I believe this video will help me. I want to use a limited palette for the very reasons you mention. Harmony and simplicity. Knowing mixes from the colors. 👩🏻‍🎨 cheers!

Wow! Absolutely amazing.

You are very kind, thank you!

So helpful - thank you!

Thank you, great video! But I wish the camera was stationary when looking at the color charts. I start to get a little motion sick and have to look away. But that's probably just me and maybe a few other people.

Thank you. Great, clear, understandable instruction. God bless you. Love your paintings.

very helpful! thanks for sharing.

This was so very helpful. I think it will help make my paintings more sophisticated. You are a warm and great teacher.

Thank you, excelent content!

Great information. Thank you very much😜🤘

Thank you so much for this Video!!!

This is so helpful! Thank you so much!

TY! Great info!

Thank you so very much! You are so very generous.

your pictures are awesome and thx for all these usefull tip´s :)

I learned so much from this video. Thank you.

So helpful. Thanks

You’re work is spectacular and it’s amazing that you a hieve what you do with 3❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥🥇🥇🥇🥰🙏🏻👍🏻

Amazing, I always learn from you.

I have the Unlimited Colour book and video, and it’s changed the way I approach colour. Thank you, John!

It’s also a more flowing experience when you’re not deciding which color to use and can take(for me) 6-8 colors and fly! Personally for me 3 IS enough but not enough for me! You’re very articulate and an instructor I can listen to and hear🥇❤️‍🔥🙏🏻👍🏻

You are an amazing tutor, thank you

I spent a year trying to figure out which colours and type of paints to use to finally get to where you point to in a single video. I’m using acrylic but wanted some of the working time of oil so I went with the golden open line and have pruned myself down to a handful of primaries with a focus on three main ones. In hindsight my reasons for not choosing oil were not accurate but at this point I’m happy with the open line.

This is what I’ve been doing and it works !

Good information on painting.

Thank you, that was amazing 🤩 I really hope you will do more of this kind of stuff. It so incredibly valuable. Make lots to pound it in. Where can I find your book please 🙏

I love colour mixing. I paint with watercolours. So I don't even use white lol. Reducing my palette has been a lot of fun.

Thank you sir.

Mr Pototchnick you should make lots of such informative videos and step by step videos of your paintings. They are really inspiring and very helpful. You book 'Limited palette and unlimited colours' seems to be very good and very informative but Sir it is very very costly. Especially with the shipping cost. Please can you make more step by step painting videos ?

CB and CYM looked good in the background

Great video on limited palet and color mixing - and I really like to have the warm-cool primaries at hand so that I will end up with 6 primaries - cad red light, quinacredone red, ultramarine blue and cerulean blue ( cobalt) one cad yellow light cad yellow deep, titan white 🎶💚🎵 and I am curious what white do you prefer? Do you use medium? And what oil color brand do you prefer? 😊🙏

Very good advice, very understandable. thank you so much, I am going to now to mix some colors and make color swatches.

Other red pigments are worth exploring such as alizarin crimson, carmine red and quinacridone. These reds have high tinting strength and are ideal for use in oil painting glazes, to increase color saturation of the color beneath. Alizarin is almost blood-like in appearance and adds depth to any color mixture. Carmine has incredible tinting strength and requires the smallest amount in color mixtures. But there are a lot of red pigments that are either superfluous (as the aforementioned provide color mixes they provide) or are redundant. Flesh tint, Winsor orange and permanent magenta to name but three.

Your colors do sing and I love this color sensitivity - Beautiful landscape paintings - and I am curious what white do you prefer, ?what oil color brand do you prefer? And do you use medium? 💜

Been playing around lately with thalo blue green shade, quin red, cad yellow light, and raw umber. It's a bit hard to control, and I'm not sure I could do it without the raw umber, but wow does this palette create nothing but pure colors and greys. I feel truly limitless with this selection.

This is a very helpful video and will help reduce the clutter on my palette. One question though, do you include any neutrals on your palette (white, black or gray)?

I always look for interesting primaries and there are so many that if not exact come close enough

thankyou very much.

As with any other color, there are two chromatic directions this ‘primary red’ can go, and that is warm or cool. Permanent rose is a sharp, almost acidic hue, and which therefore is the ideal component for mixing violet colors. Ultramarine blue, being biased towards red, would result in a clean violet color. Permanent rose, therefore is a good hue to use for cool reds. A useful warm red can be found in a few oil pigments which might be cadmium red, scarlet lake or cadmium scarlet. The use of cadmium red.....This red being biased towards yellow is the ideal component for mixing orange or gold colors.

Still a great teaching watching 2nd time😎😎

a great video. Is there a way to create limited palettes with secondary colors like viridian? I really like those pigments and I don't want to give them up. Is it possible to make a palette of primaries and add a fourth special or favorite color.

Please, what kind of white do you use? I started to try Zorn pallete, and in the beggining I tried white from the paper, but was not enought, so I adder white gouashe (wich is not exactly watercolour, it made me feel as cheating...)

When you're picking primaries do you have to take into consideration the opacity ?

WHERE is the link to PURCHASE the products mentioned? AND, is that color chart included?

Great; thank you. Turn off AGC on microphone to cure intermittent whooshing sound

Is cadmium yellow pale the same as cadmium yellow light?

I am reading this two years after you published it but I am wondering if what you show here could also apply to watercolors. Should you happen to notice my question, I would appreciate your response. Thank you.

where can i find the dvd's and book

So you have to mix 16 tubes on your palette before knowing which to use. So much for limitation. Nice paintings though not with just the same 3 primaries.

I'm confused. Why not just use pure (not leaning towards warm or cool) primaries? Then you'd be able to mix any color.

most people do not know that ALL color printed pieces are printed with CYAN, MAJENTA, Lemon yellow and black. MOST ALL colors can be achieved from these 4 pure colors. A lot of reds are "contaminated" by yellow already if they are warm so getting a nice violet is impossible for instance.

The notion that red is a primary color firstly needs to be dispelled. Red is in fact a secondary color (orange is a tertiary color.) True primary red is one that resembles the ‘red’ of printing ink which is in fact magenta. In terms of oils or acrylics, it is the tube labeled ‘permanent rose’ that most resembles the magenta of printing ink, and therefore would be a vital inclusion in the artist’s palette. Mix permanent rose with yellow and red will result.

Quin red is more stable too

I'm a big fan of Quinacridone Magenta as a red primary.

raphael was first to use limited palette

That’s not the reason I buy paint as the one thing that doesn’t come in the tube is talent! I work within a limited palette usually of a split complementary, however, I have 10,000 colors to pick my 6-8 from and never use white paint

Nothing you do with your paint is a waste.