The Best Color Mixing Exercise You Don't Know About

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This video shows a color chart mixing exercise based on complementary color pairs, using purple and yellow. This color chart is very effective in terms of training your eye to see subtle shifts of color, to develop a more sensitive color mixing technique, and mixing different levels of saturation with the opposite color instead of relying on straight white and black out of the tube.
Painting demo in gouache by Art Prof Clara Lieu.
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@artprof 3 жыл бұрын

Watch our stream which explains complementary colors by discussing blue and orange: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bsCZp9aY0arDm6s.html

@janhogan3873 3 жыл бұрын

Terrific lesson, goes to show how you really have to roll up your sleeves and work hard, who ever thinks art making is easy and relaxing is much better than I am.

@artprof 3 жыл бұрын

Haha, you're right-- art is most often than not EXTREMELY taxing! - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff

@patmaher6305 3 жыл бұрын

Really appreciating these videos, and yes I'd love to see a paint along for the second half of exercise - the still life. I'm learning SO much.

@artprof 3 жыл бұрын

That's so good to know, thank you!! We're glad you're learning from them :) - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff

@myartprocess6003 3 жыл бұрын

Prof, I love you and the Art Prof family for helping all of us become better at our craft. I also like to leave comments so you'll have higher visibility in KZfaq land.

@artprof 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! ❤️ -Prof Lieu

@nadifouldi3131 2 жыл бұрын

You are a great teacher, as well as fun to learn with, thanks so much.

@viiIeiraS 3 жыл бұрын

I did the exercise bu sadly I didn't had enough white 😂 Anyway I did the graph and a drawing, I didn't painted with gouache for 5 years (or more) , and for the time I was painting I really released the stress, and didn't think about anything else. Thank you so much for sharing your skill and help us take a break of all this pandemic news. I shared my exercise on instagram hope you will see it 😊 Kisses from Portugal and thank for making me use my materials that were collecting dust in the shelves 😜

@artprof 3 жыл бұрын

We saw your work on Instagram, it's amazing! Thank you so much for painting along with us-- it's always stressful to get back into a medium, but practice is always great :) - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff

@viiIeiraS 3 жыл бұрын

@@artprof was forgotten how much I actually enjoyed to paint with gouache, I have the brand used one the video, but at the art school I would also buy the brand 'Lefranc and Bourgeois', it has a really creamy texture, kind of similar with the oil paint consistency ( I don't know if it's cheaper everywhere, but it is on Europe, because it's a French brand). It's a struggle to find good gouache 😂

@lindyashford7744 Жыл бұрын

@@viiIeiraS oh, fantastic that you use Lefranc et Bourgeois, I have a stash of this in paint palettes, dried, nearly all colours except a sharp magenta and a purple are rewettable and creamy after over 40 years! But no where stocks them in my country :(. The work I made with them over the years is still good with no fading. I would love to see your work….

@m87020 3 жыл бұрын

more gouache tutorials please !! love the channel

@artprof 3 жыл бұрын

You got it! Thank you so much :) - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff

@yeahgirl11 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to make this video!

@artprof 3 жыл бұрын

You're so welcome! Thanks for tuning in :) - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff

@tiffanylbacon 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this lesson! I’m new to watercolor, painting actually and want to learn about colors and mixing them. I really appreciate what you do for us!

@artprof 2 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome, thank you for taking a chance on watercolor and our channel :) - Mia, Art Prof Staff

@lindyashford7744 Жыл бұрын

Her and years ago I had a little book called the methuen handbook of colour that taught me a lot. I tried to get a copy again and read that it is now lik gold dust because the plate for it got destroyed in a fire back forty or more years ago! I h been looking for an alternative anything about colour when your video popped up, and delighted me. I started off with gouache and airbrush because I was so scared of using a paintbrush. But it was a noisy process! I have just returned to some graphite tonal work I did ages ago and want to redo it with subtle colour, and did not know where to begin, it involves 24x7x4 tiny gradations, I don’t even know how may that is, but it give a remarkable three dimensionality when done. I am not at all certain I will succeed with the colour version! But the fact that I can see all the variations on your mixing chart, especially if I just shut my eyes for a few seconds and open them, and all the greens and oranges and blues and yellows are there! So now I can see that to make my piece I will have to do exactly what you have done here at least 24 times over. Aaaagh! My son says it will take a month to do, but now I think with your help it could be less…. I am using acrylics, and oddly enough it is a good basics set that is most suitable, or a soft body. The rest are just too crazily pigmented to do the tiny steps like you can do with gouache. So now I think after watching this video that really the choice of primaries is really important though I know you can use all sorts of triads as a starting point and in a way if you are painting from mixes that choice is going to determine a colour mood. I loved this video! So am now off to see whether the most neutral blue yellow and red will be best for my needs or whether I need to look for cyan magenta and yellow. Art Prof, I wish your cameras could capture the subtle darker shades as well. PS thank you for reminding me of Munsell. Your mixes are awesome, as is your colour vision.

@artprof Жыл бұрын

Good luck on your tonal project, that sounds like quite an endeavor! I agree, the Basics paints are surprisingly pretty decent and have nice flow. -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist

@paulaf5283 3 жыл бұрын

I love your suggestion to look in hardware stores for art supplies and tools! I'm sure I can get better bang for the buck there.

@artprof 3 жыл бұрын

For sure!! It can be a great resource :) - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff

@bluewren65 3 жыл бұрын

It would be helpful if you used the pigment numbers as well as the trade names of the colours. Also, are you using a titanium white or a zinc white? I'd like to see a video with this done using the true primaries: cyan, magenta, yellow. I really watch these types of videos out of curiosity to see how different folks approach colour. I'm fortunate that I've always had an innate ability to see what colours are in a mix, even before I knew anything at all of colour theory. Sometimes when I read about colour theory I find myself getting confused because it seems inefficient to use words to describe something that is visual. To me colour mixing is a totally abstract and wordless activity.

@kandylandoffical 2 жыл бұрын

Art prov is an amazing resource!

@artprof 2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it!!! :) - Mia, Art Prof Staff

@cornshot9857 3 жыл бұрын

Just bought gouache and was looking just for this

@artprof 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic! - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff

@moshatce 2 жыл бұрын

That was so much fun xD

@artprof 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you think so! - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff

@pauacuv307 2 жыл бұрын

Miss Clara, I just have to say it, I love you and your videos (love as in love for a teacher). You just punch those academics that want everything puritan.

@artprof 2 жыл бұрын

Hahah Tysm!! -Prof Lieu

@fabmediastudios3512 3 жыл бұрын

A quick comment, colour wheels and colour charts need to be done for the medium that you’re working with. Acrylic, oil, gouache, watercolour, etc., all have different end points, mix differently, etc. It’s important to know that even if you switch from one acrylic manufacturer to another, that you deal with a colour chart to know how the colours mix.

@artprof 3 жыл бұрын

That's a great tip! You're right, all paints mix differently. Making color studies can help you figure out the medium better, and you get a great guide out of it! - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff

@uwescheuten483 Жыл бұрын

perfekt teacher !

@alvax2455 3 жыл бұрын

I would love a paint along!

@artprof 3 жыл бұрын

Great to hear! - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff

@nancyvfinn5253 8 ай бұрын

Color mixing=rabbit hole!! Depends which "primaries" one starts with. I was a dyer for 30 years *0*, mixed all the colors. So much fun!

@artprof 8 ай бұрын

Oh man, what is your favorite palette to work with? You must have tried them all! -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist

@nancyvfinn5253 8 ай бұрын

I had 4 reds, two warm (orangey) two more purpley, a warm and cool blue, one yellow and one black which when quite dilute, had a purple cast. One could make volumes of colors with this.@@artprof

@jbspiszer908 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe this will help me understand gouache better!

@rachaelvtstudio2579 3 жыл бұрын

In the CMY colour wheel, yellow and blue are complementary. Which is good for digital to print, but doesn't do the same thing in RYB colour wheels.

@artprof 3 жыл бұрын

I still get confused when it comes to that stuff, haha! Thanks for the tip :) - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff

@noodlecatcountry 3 жыл бұрын

You can get a set of Winsor and Newton gouache that has Primary red, Primary Yellow, Primary Blue, Perm. Green Middle, Ivory Black and Zinc White for a pretty good deal sometimes, especially on Amazon. I think I got it for like around $25 for 6 14ml tubes. Sometimes it's a bit more, but if you keep an eye out they seem to go on sale a lot, and it's perfect for this!

@artprof 3 жыл бұрын

Oh that's great to know!! Thanks for the tip :) - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff

@joe_now_here_ 3 жыл бұрын

1:35 Oh is that what it is. Now I get the exercise! All I had to do was watch the beginning haha

@Anniegrazie14 2 жыл бұрын

Learning gouache from having watercolor as my main medium and I am guilty dunking the brush in the water! 😅😅😅 thanks for this!

@artprof 2 жыл бұрын

I totally do that too! I always treat them the same, haha - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff

@mayahika 3 жыл бұрын

To be honest, I really try not to use black but if ever I do, I would mix it with another color but I don't know if it's fine or not.😅

@artprof 3 жыл бұрын

Using black is super hit or miss, sometimes it looks great and other times it's out of place! I think mixing it with another color always helps if you do decide to use it :) - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff

@lillyxoxo4303 4 ай бұрын

You talk like Christina yang from greys anatomy haha love you ❣️❣️

@maryambavarsad6710 3 жыл бұрын

i wish you do more videos about colors bc the colors in my paintings are always off and i'm so frustrated and on the other hand there's not much good content about colors in painting that i can find

@artprof 3 жыл бұрын

Have you seen these other color videos we have? Here is a playlist: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/otOjrduKsszPhKM.html And yes, more color videos to come! -Prof Lieu

@DazzlingAction 3 жыл бұрын

good brand of gouache?

@theartgirl9073 3 жыл бұрын

Prof lieu, I know you don’t paint in acrylic, but I use the “liquitex” and “basics” brand (for acrylic) would that be considered a good brand? I have been using them for i while so I might’ve gotten used to them, and just for comparison I got a Windsor and Newton tube for comparison and they’re kinda the same but maybe I just can’t tell the difference 😂

@artprof 3 жыл бұрын

I've used the Liquitex "basics" acrylic, it's not my fav acrylic paint as it's a little drippy for my taste. I do think the W&N acrylics have a lot more body compared to the Liquitex, but honestly it really depends on the person. Golden has very good quality acrylics, but they're not cheap! -Prof Lieu

@artprof 3 жыл бұрын

Acrylic is my primary medium, and I prefer Liquitex over W&N, but similar to Clara, it's about the body- I prefer medium body over the heavier body acrylics. Liquitex Basics are a fine paint to learn how to paint with. Once you feel ready to expand, Golden is the best brand if you can afford it. There is a huge difference in quality between Golden and Liquitex Basics. -Lauryn (Art Prof Teaching Artist)

@theartgirl9073 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for replying!

@NeptunesHorses5909 3 жыл бұрын

Basics is Liquitex's student line and has less pigment and more fillers. Better results with their professional lines once you've explored with Basics.

@user-jj8kg5ef2t 3 жыл бұрын

Is there any need nowadays for gouache, with those jelly-gouache coming out with 36, 48 or even 54 color set?

@artprof 3 жыл бұрын

That's a great question! I personally have no idea, but enough people seem to use them so they'll probably stick around for a while :) - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff

@leonsantiago5162 7 ай бұрын

when your primaries are cyan, magenta, and yellow ... yellow and blue are complements ... simply by virtue of being opposites on the wheel ...

@Anastasiabruno 11 ай бұрын

What are the pigments ?

@artprof 11 ай бұрын

It’s the Winsor and Newton gouache primary colors set. -Lauryn, Art Prof Teaching Artist

@Kimmieziven 2 жыл бұрын

I tried mixing a good amount of neutral greys for gouache value studies.. and it was too purple.. hope i finish all the 5 values i made for my palette

@artprof 2 жыл бұрын

Best of luck!! You've got this :) - Mia Rozear, Art Prof Staff