What i wanna know is how to take a green and get the yellow out to get blue paint. This is assuming the green i have was made with yellow and blue for sure. Or if it is green made by yellow and black how to turn it blue without using blue paint as my end result is i want azure which you get by blue and green to make cyan then mix blue and red to get purple/violet then mix the cyan with a small amount of violet and you get Azure
I’m afraid you’re confusing subtractive paint mixing with additive light mixing. What works for one doesn’t work for the other, and you can’t combine these techniques. You can’t unmix paint, at any rate not easily. Physical pigments in paint and wavelength colors in light (most often seen on computer screens these days) mix in opposite ways. The primary colors of paint are not as we are generally taught, red, yellow, and blue, but rather magenta, yellow, and cyan, which can be mixed to make red, green, blue and black and many other colors. Contrariwise, in light-mixing the primaries are red, green, and blue, which can in turn be mixed to make magenta, yellow, cyan and white and many other colors. You may notice the primary colors and the mixed colors in paint mixing and light mixing are *opposites* to each other. And finally, the green in this video is made by mixing physical pigments, one a black and one a yellow. Their color is part of their physical properties and can’t be separated from them, so that even if you managed to separate out the pigments (which would be a fairly involved process), you would just have the same yellow and black you started with.
@@achronalart So there is no way to turn a green paint back into blue paint without using blue to override the yellow? Like say i mixed Acrylic Cadmium Yellow Light with a Acrylic Cobalt Blue to get a green color, other than using a mixture of blue paint would there be a way to turn it back to blue? Like i am talking about mixing paints if you don't have blue paint and wanted a blue color without going to the store and buying a tube of blue paint
@@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena I’m sorry, color mixing is very complicated and subtle, and not easy to explain in short notes like this. If you haven’t got a blue there are ways to fake it. Like painting with a pure grey among otherwise brown-and-gold colors will *look* bluish by contrast. If you haven’t got something close to magenta and something close to cyan you won’t be able to mix a blue with paints, I’m sorry. Certainly not if you start with a strong yellow like cadmium in your mix. It will just go muddy. FWIW, phthalo green, I have found *is* close enough to cyan that if you mix a little of it (because it is a *very strong* tinter) with some good clear magenta, you will get a kind of blue. That’s as close as I can get. Good luck!
@@achronalart You can mix Silver with a shade of red to get Fuchsia and add a yellow grey mix of green and you can get closer to magenta color and add a bit of white and you might actually get magenta The colors i used for that Magentaish shade was Naptholene Carmine, Lemon Yellow, Titanium White, Silver and Neutral Grey. Yellow Orcher mixed with Viridian and small amount of White gives close enough to Cyan or Phthalo green. If i am unlucky adding all this together might get me a dark or light shade of magenta. But no you honestly were a really big help Though one thing i don't understand is why mixing grey and yellow makes green or even silver and yellow makes green, like is it a property of yellow itself? as Blue, Cyan, Black, Grey, and Silver mixed with Yellow makes different shades of green. Yes complicated indeed but more fascinating the more one thinks about it
@@achronalart I like to apologize for a mistake i made it is Viridian Green mixed with some White that makes Cyan DON'T put in Ochre Yellow and if you do and put some Magenta on top of that you are going to get the color Livid which is a grey blue or blue grey. Drastically not what we want lol. Now i did get a lavender or plum like Magenta by repeatedly mixing Naptholene Carmine, Titanuim white and Ivory black ontop of the Naptholene Carmine, Lemon Yellow, Titanium White, Silver and Neutral Grey mixture. Which does make me think that you can steal pigments from black by repeated saturation from White and in this case adding red after black, so i could probably turn the black and yellow mixed green into Cyan with enough saturation from white and adding in black and yellow. The problem is if it takes a lot as then i need a big container, although another problem is if it turns Livid from too much saturation as while that is technically blue it is not the one i want
So... I've been experimenting with a takeoff of verdaccio for skintones on miniatures for a while, which was basically your yellow ochre + black mix with some white added in for tonal values, and it never occured to me to play with the color of other yellows in the mix. More experimentation will be occurring now.... also, totally agree with the final comment on the closing scroll. ick.
Omg thank you so much for including the pigment numbers. ❤❤❤
So happy I found you today.
THIS is an informative channel!
Thank you for sharing all the nuances too!
Very nice video, hopefully many more will be forthcoming.
And... Good Paintin'
excellent. would subscribe if you had more videos. you’re an excellent teacher
What i wanna know is how to take a green and get the yellow out to get blue paint. This is assuming the green i have was made with yellow and blue for sure. Or if it is green made by yellow and black how to turn it blue without using blue paint as my end result is i want azure which you get by blue and green to make cyan then mix blue and red to get purple/violet then mix the cyan with a small amount of violet and you get Azure
I’m afraid you’re confusing subtractive paint mixing with additive light mixing.
What works for one doesn’t work for the other, and you can’t combine these techniques.
You can’t unmix paint, at any rate not easily.
Physical pigments in paint and wavelength colors in light (most often seen on computer screens these days) mix in opposite ways.
The primary colors of paint are not as we are generally taught, red, yellow, and blue, but rather magenta, yellow, and cyan, which can be mixed to make red, green, blue and black and many other colors.
Contrariwise, in light-mixing the primaries are red, green, and blue, which can in turn be mixed to make magenta, yellow, cyan and white and many other colors.
You may notice the primary colors and the mixed colors in paint mixing and light mixing are *opposites* to each other.
And finally, the green in this video is made by mixing physical pigments, one a black and one a yellow. Their color is part of their physical properties and can’t be separated from them, so that even if you managed to separate out the pigments (which would be a fairly involved process), you would just have the same yellow and black you started with.
@@achronalart So there is no way to turn a green paint back into blue paint without using blue to override the yellow? Like say i mixed Acrylic Cadmium Yellow Light with a Acrylic Cobalt Blue to get a green color, other than using a mixture of blue paint would there be a way to turn it back to blue?
Like i am talking about mixing paints if you don't have blue paint and wanted a blue color without going to the store and buying a tube of blue paint
@@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena I’m sorry, color mixing is very complicated and subtle, and not easy to explain in short notes like this.
If you haven’t got a blue there are ways to fake it. Like painting with a pure grey among otherwise brown-and-gold colors will *look* bluish by contrast.
If you haven’t got something close to magenta and something close to cyan you won’t be able to mix a blue with paints, I’m sorry. Certainly not if you start with a strong yellow like cadmium in your mix. It will just go muddy.
FWIW, phthalo green, I have found *is* close enough to cyan that if you mix a little of it (because it is a *very strong* tinter) with some good clear magenta, you will get a kind of blue. That’s as close as I can get.
Good luck!
@@achronalart You can mix Silver with a shade of red to get Fuchsia and add a yellow grey mix of green and you can get closer to magenta color and add a bit of white and you might actually get magenta
The colors i used for that Magentaish shade was Naptholene Carmine, Lemon Yellow, Titanium White, Silver and Neutral Grey.
Yellow Orcher mixed with Viridian and small amount of White gives close enough to Cyan or Phthalo green. If i am unlucky adding all this together might get me a dark or light shade of magenta. But no you honestly were a really big help
Though one thing i don't understand is why mixing grey and yellow makes green or even silver and yellow makes green, like is it a property of yellow itself? as Blue, Cyan, Black, Grey, and Silver mixed with Yellow makes different shades of green. Yes complicated indeed but more fascinating the more one thinks about it
@@achronalart I like to apologize for a mistake i made it is Viridian Green mixed with some White that makes Cyan DON'T put in Ochre Yellow and if you do and put some Magenta on top of that you are going to get the color Livid which is a grey blue or blue grey. Drastically not what we want lol.
Now i did get a lavender or plum like Magenta by repeatedly mixing Naptholene Carmine, Titanuim white and Ivory black ontop of the Naptholene Carmine, Lemon Yellow, Titanium White, Silver and Neutral Grey mixture. Which does make me think that you can steal pigments from black by repeated saturation from White and in this case adding red after black, so i could probably turn the black and yellow mixed green into Cyan with enough saturation from white and adding in black and yellow.
The problem is if it takes a lot as then i need a big container, although another problem is if it turns Livid from too much saturation as while that is technically blue it is not the one i want
Funny, just the other day I was telling my friend about this very thing. Of course, you're the one that taught me about it in the first place. :P
So... I've been experimenting with a takeoff of verdaccio for skintones on miniatures for a while, which was basically your yellow ochre + black mix with some white added in for tonal values, and it never occured to me to play with the color of other yellows in the mix. More experimentation will be occurring now....
also, totally agree with the final comment on the closing scroll. ick.
i just wanna know what is the name of this colour