Mixing complementary colors with watercolor for perfect shadows

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2 ай бұрын

In this video I show how to mix together complementary colors with watercolors, why you need to know it and how to use it.
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Paint
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winsor and newton tube paints
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Paint colors in my Winsor and Newton palette
Hookers green light
emerald
viridian
cad yellow hue
lemon yellow hue
cad red deep
turquoise
Opera rose
winsor and newton cotman travel pans (student grade)
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arches cold press watercolor paper
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Baohong watercolor paper
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Student grade paper
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“Just Journal It” watercolor notebook
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princeton round 2
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Пікірлер: 18

@sharonrowe5720 2 ай бұрын

Great exercise with a limited pallet, thank you! 💛❤️💙

@Linda-kh6rl 9 күн бұрын

Well iam back again iam from SHERMAN, TEXAS❤

@AlexYorim Ай бұрын

I use poster color and HIMI gouache. My favorite combo for using dark blacks is Prussian blue, which is a muted cyan, and burnt sienna, which is a muted red orange. I have tested with CMY mixing before, and whenever I mix a black using CMY, it ends up with gray instead of black. My cyan gouaches had added white on it, and my only deep cyan is a phthalo blue watercolor, and my most favored magenta is an opera rose color. For mixing "blacks", is is it okay for me use phthalo blue watercolor to go with my gouache, or would Prussian blue be a good substitute?

@miasmuffinsandmore6774 2 ай бұрын

Very nice! Thank you fro another wonderful video!👍❤

@miasmuffinsandmore6774 2 ай бұрын

oops! *for😅

@dianaromig732 2 ай бұрын

Adore these color mixes 🎉. I may have to make myself a mini palette using these 3 colors. The mixes are MY colors ❤

@saftah0305 2 ай бұрын

Hi Kristin! Where can we find cyan watercolor?

@kristinvanleuven 2 ай бұрын

My favorite “cyan” is cerulean

@kakiahall1248 2 ай бұрын

Thank you and what are your yellow and magenta colors and brands please?

@pascalealbertini7508 2 ай бұрын

It's so interesting 😁👌 Thanks so much for this video ! It's so interesting... again 👋😁🌞🌈

@sjkoz24 2 ай бұрын

Hi hi. What yellow please?

@sjkoz24 Ай бұрын

Well now I know what yellow not to use … Windsor Yellow Deep. That was a frustrating exercise; not a single black from the 50/50 mix of complimentary colours. I learned a lot however. I’m guessing PY3 is the pigment to use which is Hansa Yellow Light. I’ll give it a go tomorrow 😜

@Maliika-Art1979 2 ай бұрын

Amazing video thanks for sharing my friend 💫✨🙏🥰

@AditiMalviya-vp9qe 2 ай бұрын

1st like and 1st comment at 1:33 A.M 😁😁😀😄😃

@barbmummey5467 5 күн бұрын

Great lesson. Thanks!

@kristinvanleuven 5 күн бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@morrisonwatercolors 7 күн бұрын

Your fingernails are 🔥

@sjkoz24 Ай бұрын

I have wasted so much paint, am so very frustrated and not impressed by the lack of disclosure in this tutorial. Why can’t you just tell your audience exactly what colours/pigments are being used? There are two yellows in the palette “linked” to in this tutorial. I have one of them which did not produce a black or near black as stated in a previous comment. I tried the next best; Lemon Yellow PY175 and still no blacks. The Cyan you prefer is not in the palette. Which was used in this tutorial? I appreciate what you do; the time and effort it takes, I really do. I respect your work and commitment but please stop stringing me along with all the guess work.