I have some pinks and was always thinking whether the diluted Alizarin Crimson is the same as the Rose colors. I have Winsor & Newton Cotman Alizarin Crimson Hue (PR206), Permanent Rose (PV19) and I've bought Rose Madder Hue (PR206) only to see whether there is a difference. They all look different to me, despite the same pigment. So I would not say I could get Alizarin Crimson if I just use more of the Rose Madder.
I own all of the colors that you showed here, not all by the same brands though. And everything put together, I own 97 colors (yes, I counted just to answer the question) and many of them in several versions/by different brands. Yes, I know this is a bit excessive (even though looking at some people's wc collections, they would probably laugh at how small mine is), but I really enjoy trying out different colors and pigments, and I don't smoke or drink, so I can spend my money on paints instead. 😸 🎨
Helpful things to know, especially as a new learner. I own a very good selection of paint but none like you mixed. Definitely a video to take notes on.
Every time I look at my "viridian hue" (phthalo green, blue shade) I hear Michele saying 👽 "landscapes like some kind of space alien nightmare," and I remember it's unnatural but can be neutralized with a blue-based pink. Hearing your voice in my head, the mark of an effective teacher! Thank you, Michele.
The abstract you mentioned that was painted with Opera Pink hasn't faded maybe because it is hung away from sunlight? Please don't risk your lovely work fading by painting with fugitive colours. Alizarin crimson has a bad reputation for fading, too. Love your videos Michele! Clear, concise with a smattering of humour. 😁😁
My Alizarin is permanent, as for Opera pink it has a bad reputation only partially deserved. The pink does not fade, only the iridescent part of the pigment. I have found it looks good after years hanging in the light.
I'm also on the zombie completion scale. This video gets me really excited to mix more of my own colours rather than relying on a pre-mixed colour. Thanks for making this so easy to understand!
His was extremely helpful in understanding the intricacies in how to identify and mix warm grays to cool grays, then an introduction to cool off whites, thank you!
Excellent video. I have only been painting with watercolour since September 2021 and it is now almost July 22. I have taught computer art for about 20 years. Using pigment colours is a very different animal. The transition has been a journey that won’t stop anytime soon. Your videos, Michelle, have been so helpful. I didn’t have enough experience to take it all in the first time so I am rewatching them and now am understanding more. I will probably watch a third time as well. Cheers🇨🇦
I'm sold on the pink as I've a fondness for crockery. Your painting of plant pots in saucers is absolutely inspiring Michell. I'm so tired of landscapes and skies, my sketching abilities can come to the front with this style.
I am just beginning my journey into watercors and you have changed my life You are a gifted artist and a brilliant teacher. Thank you for all ypu gift us with! Xoxo from Alaska What an excellent tip
You do a wonderful job teaching color mixing. This video explains it so well. I was needing one that detailed the mixing of greys for rocks etc. Thanks so much!
Very well explained and helpful. I have all of these colors And we'll definitely be experimenting with those mixes that are new to me.I have no formal fine art training, and started learning watercolor 3 1⁄2 years ago using an online video course. We started with 6 colors, A warm and cool of the 3 primaries.I then took a class on craftsy On luminous watercolors And added another 4 colors. Somewhere in that 1 year time., I got hooked and I now have a pallet collection Of 43 paints Plus Another 2 or 3 in the box that I will most likely not use but had to try. I have been doing mostly florals but I am moving into landscapes, so have a whole new Exploration experience Ahead of me. Just for reference sake, I am 70 years old, live in a small rural town on the west coast of the United States, and have little or no access to art education except online.Your Videos are some of the best I have seen.I appreciate you doing them on RUclips because I am also on a very limited budget, So online courses Are rarely an option. Keep up the good work!
Thank you Deb, so pleased you are enjoying the videos, I will be making lots more. I am also doing online courses now but appreciate that not everyone has that option. I will be putting lots more free videos up too! Take care, Michele
I'm always watching these at 3 am and am too brain dead to even know what to say, except thank you! This probably sounds completely stupid I didn't realize this is how colors are mixed, I have just been taking the closest tube to my target color and trying to "push" it closer to my target. I mean, most YT channels will just pick two colors and stir, and call that done. But you go through the thought process out loud and then get even more particular about creating the right shade. SO helpful!! 💝💖
Michele, your skin is a lovely shade of ivory that looks like creamy velvet and it is so smooth and unblemished like porcelain. With your hair colour you look just perfect, not something from a grave, although I do love your little self deprecating jokes. Keep up the wonderful videos, I love them. Started painting with watercolours again, during lockdown , (always loved them but never mastered them, especially mixing them) after years of photography, oils, graphite, charcoal, coloured pencils and finally some pastel work . I have really enjoyed them and have done landscapes, portraits, flowers, old architecture and so on in 2021, photo processing for a while again, now its winter, back to painting again. Thanks, you are an inspiration.
Oh Michele, I laughed so hard at "space alien nightmare"!! Yes! I love Quin Rose! Thank you for this excellent video - I took copious notes and learned so much! I am at the stage of what I would term "advanced beginner" in watercolor painting, and I love to mix colors but don't really know what I'm doing. Just trial and error (heavy on the error,) so this helped me very much! Thanks, also, for the laughs; your sense of humor is much like mine! Have a blessed day! Donna
Ah thank you Donna, so glad you liked it 🌺 Advanced beginner! I like it 😁 I shall have a blessed sleep actually as it's gone midnight here but enjoy the rest of your day! ☺️
i have been a watercolor artist for the past 45 years and have been doing it the hard way! Now I have the best instruction I have ever had and am anxious to see how it all works for me! You have made painting so much more fun! No teacher I have ever had explained mixing the watercolors like you have. They teach as if I was a child just learning. I am 85. I must get busy! 😊
I am sorry, Michele if you misunderstood me. I love your style of teaching and enjoy your videos very much. There just aren't any teachers that I know of around me that have approached the subject. I am not talking them down. Dellouise H@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber
Thank you for all you do to teach us color facts ! I am a visual learner and your videos are wonderful visual explanations of the color relationships and reactions, which makes everything alot less complicated and it also helps me to remember those relationships and reactions. Michele you are a GREAT teacher AND you are a cat person, which makes you extra special. Thanks for sharing. ~: )
I understand better now, but I remember having a coniptic fit trying to mix purple last month or so (using the wrong red). This was interesting (pink is my favorite color) and quite informative. Thank you, Michele!
Ok Ive found the answer to the question I posed here, so no need to answer. Ive signed up for the drawing. goody!!! getting on with it now. thank you Michele.
I have quin rose from Daniel Smith, and I haven't used it at all yet. But now I understand it much better! Thank you very much for your great instruction.
Very helpful. I have cad red perm perm carmine and perm rose. I think I have been using cad red when I should have been using perm rose and have been ending up with mud a lot!!! Thanks
I live in an area where I am very limited in what I can get, and even shipping can be difficult. On a recent trip I stocked up on pinks, but was a little lost when it came to using them. I also have struggled to get neutral colors- this has been super helpful. Thank you!
Thanks Michele ✨ I love colours too. Have way more than I actually need. More of a want really 🤭 Having that many colours wasn’t very helpful for learning colour mixing though. Am catching up now. Yes I have Quinacridone Rose (Daniel Smith’s - PV19), but I currently have Winsor Newton’s PR122 on my palette. Can’t remember if they call it Quin Magenta or Quin Lilac, and I’m not getting up again to go look, because I’ve had a long old day. Your clear instruction really helps it all sink in… and with a few much-needed giggles to boot. Thanks again. Dug-up corpse indeed! 🤭
I had to laugh when you were talking about viridian green! I live in Australia, and this colour (toned down) is brilliant for matching eucalyptus foliage :) I'm finding your videos to be extremely helpful with regard to colour mixing and building a palette.
You really are skilled! 👍Maybe it would be even more obvious to us beginners if you show on paper every mixing step? For example when you mix two colours on your palett and you immediately see that you need a third to get the colour you're after. 1) It's impossible for us wiewers to know what shade you're after only by saying names. If you show us on paper you can say" no, that's too grey, not what I was going for. I believe I need some x colour in it." Then you show us how you mix it on the palett, and finally on the paper? 2) As a proffessional YOU immediately see what's wrong and know how to correct it, but us wiewers can't read your mind and that way know what's wrong? So please show every every step on palett AND paper? Thank you❣
Thanks Brita, I will certainly try to show more steps. I do show more on my Patreon videos where I work on my own paintings. It's harder on youtube as people have very short attention spans, some of them anyhow! Thanks so much for watching :-)
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Thank you for answering!😊 I see what you mean regarding peoples focusing span. On the other hand you often loose interest when you don't understand, when you just don't follow? 🤔
I have all 83 QoR watercolors. I love color. I mix I play I convience I do what ever. And I agree you can't mix a bluish pink. It's a definite needed color. I don't really use mine the same as you do at all but I loved learning all tge ways you do. My skin tone fave for Caucasian is a conviencince color. I use QoR's vanician red watered way way down. And for darker skin mix it with paynes gray and water it way down. Or their van dyke brown. I have some beautiful things happening in the watered down of watercolor. But I sometimes take my quinacridone magenta way watered down as a glaze for rosy cheeks or lips or sunlight over any of those skintones mentioned above. I love the blue pink to mix with oranges and purples to make sky's super beautiful.
Hi Michele thanks for going into the finer side of colour mixing and having subscribed i always hit the like button and you do have a lovely complexion 😊
I am loving these color mixing videos. I work with polymer clay and have been mixing colors by the seat of my pants thus far. But I am wanting to get out of my color comfort zone and also to be able to predict what a color mix will be. So this information has me looking at my colors in a new way. Thanks so much: I'm subscribing.
Wow! I will watch this again to imprint it better in my brain and take some notes. It was exciting to see how to get such realistic, useful colors. I am quite appreciative for your videos. I am going to play around with my colors. I have all cake colors and wish I had bought the gel type. . . someday I will make a new investment. One more thing - are there videos (yours) that state what brush to use while painting?
Thank you so much for this color mixing lesson. I have a lot of trouble following instructions in a book for “absolute beginners” (which I am) because the author gives formulas for various mixes, but I don’t know what brand he is using, and I don’t know how on earth one would measure accurately 60% of this, 30% of that and 10% of something else. Now I understand how I can mix my own colors much more satisfactorily. This is very exciting!
Wow that landscape you show at ~12:54 is sick. It has a trace of stylization that almost makes me think of something surrealistic like Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, but with a really photorealistic depth of detail & precision to all the texturing… Very impressive. Anyway thanks for an interesting video. It was very useful to learn about blue-based pinks.
This is all incredibly helpful information! Thank you so much! I have a Buff Titanium in one of my beginners sets and it seems quite similar to the last few mixes that you demonstrated.....so hopefully I can replicate what you've shown here and will not need to repurchase it or anything similar when or if it runs out.
Michele These lessons on colour are incredibly helpful! I have a lot of colours in watercolour paints but have struggled with the mixing and especially getting good skin tones. Thank you so much for sharing this information. I sure wish you lived in Canada so I could take lessons from you directly!
Love you videos! I have yet to try painting with WC, just watching and learning so much from you. I am an oil painter primarily and have been terrified of WC.
Wonderful video! I thought I understood the basics of mixing but am still getting mud. Your videos are clear and just technical enough to explain what's happening. Thx Michelle. Hugs from Texas.
I use ultramarine and burnt umbre for blue black to brown black or cobalt thanks for the tip about cerulium blue I use a palette of 8 colours based on ian kings pallette of colours
Already I own too many, if we count watercolors gouaches and watercolor pencils. And yes I will definitely be color mixing more and more as I develop skills, rather than buying any more diverse paints going forwards.
I love your color mixing videos...I am learning so much. I am definitely going to use more of my blue based pink...it is so versatile. Thank you for sharing your expertise ✨
Good explanations. The camera angle was a bit wonky to the point I felt like I was sort of standing on my head or something. A bit circle light could help with the shadows. Just something I noticed that distracted me--if it's something you think would be good to adjust somewhat. I'm a TOTALLY new painter, so I appreciate any help I can get!
This was so interesting. I would never have thought of using viridian green with yellow and pink to get those beautiful neutrals. Thank you for making it so simple and straightforward.
Fab, I've always wanted to buy opera pink for my palette to add spark, now this is giving me the tipping point to do it! Thanks so much. Good to know my Quin Rose will suffice in the mean time.
Whenever I watch one of your videos, I learn something useful. Thank you so much for sharing the benefit of your experience with all of us! -Oh, I have all those colors, but not any phthalo green.. The color gives me indigestion. Never ever thought of mixing quin rose with it to calm it down, since I don't have it(!)
thank you Michele another informative, interesting video that i enjoyed...i knew it's an 'older' 🌼video but as a new subscriber i'm catching up...i came across a lovely colour mix: rose and raw umber makes a greenísh grey neutral and another: rose and viridian softens it to a lovely versatile colour. 🎨
The thing with Viridian is that true Viridian pigment is quite beautiful and subtle. Unfortunately what's labelled Viridian is more often than not actually Phthalo green!
My absolute favorite watercolor paints are d.s. quinacridone rose, d.s. phthalo green BS, d.s. or m.g. phthalo blue GS, d.s. lemon yellow py175, and S E N N E L I E R D I O X A Z I N E P U R P L E. Sorry I had to type this way, you tube AI changes spelling and meaning in what I type.
Oh, I never buy a color set (we don't yet have single tube paints to buy in my country unless it's W&N and DS) that doesn't have a blue-based pink in it. No matter how much I love the other colors, blue based pink is a must for me.
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How many of these colors do you own, and will you be trying any of these mixes?
I have the blue pink and will surely try this! Thank you for sharing
I have probably 50ish colors. Yes I will be trying these mixes! I’m always exploring
I have some pinks and was always thinking whether the diluted Alizarin Crimson is the same as the Rose colors. I have Winsor & Newton Cotman Alizarin Crimson Hue (PR206), Permanent Rose (PV19) and I've bought Rose Madder Hue (PR206) only to see whether there is a difference. They all look different to me, despite the same pigment. So I would not say I could get Alizarin Crimson if I just use more of the Rose Madder.
I own all of the colors that you showed here, not all by the same brands though.
And everything put together, I own 97 colors (yes, I counted just to answer the question) and many of them in several versions/by different brands. Yes, I know this is a bit excessive (even though looking at some people's wc collections, they would probably laugh at how small mine is), but I really enjoy trying out different colors and pigments, and I don't smoke or drink, so I can spend my money on paints instead. 😸 🎨
Helpful things to know, especially as a new learner. I own a very good selection of paint but none like you mixed. Definitely a video to take notes on.
Every time I look at my "viridian hue" (phthalo green, blue shade) I hear Michele saying 👽 "landscapes like some kind of space alien nightmare," and I remember it's unnatural but can be neutralized with a blue-based pink. Hearing your voice in my head, the mark of an effective teacher! Thank you, Michele.
Haha!
This is one of the most understandable explanations on basic color mixing with pink I've seen so far. Thank you.
You are very welcome!
The abstract you mentioned that was painted with Opera Pink hasn't faded maybe because it is hung away from sunlight?
Please don't risk your lovely work fading by painting with fugitive colours. Alizarin crimson has a bad reputation for fading, too.
Love your videos Michele!
Clear, concise with a smattering of humour. 😁😁
My Alizarin is permanent, as for Opera pink it has a bad reputation only partially deserved. The pink does not fade, only the iridescent part of the pigment. I have found it looks good after years hanging in the light.
I'm also on the zombie completion scale. This video gets me really excited to mix more of my own colours rather than relying on a pre-mixed colour. Thanks for making this so easy to understand!
In Danish we do call it light red. Love your channel
This is very good, beginners, and experienced artists.
I absolutely love Viridian Green. Just use it wisely and sparingly in watercolor. In oil paints, it's essential for getting proper skies.
His was extremely helpful in understanding the intricacies in how to identify and mix warm grays to cool grays, then an introduction to cool off whites, thank you!
Excellent video. I have only been painting with watercolour since September 2021 and it is now almost July 22. I have taught computer art for about 20 years. Using pigment colours is a very different animal. The transition has been a journey that won’t stop anytime soon. Your videos, Michelle, have been so helpful. I didn’t have enough experience to take it all in the first time so I am rewatching them and now am understanding more. I will probably watch a third time as well. Cheers🇨🇦
Side note: I love your nails in this one! I bet you rarely get complimented, but it's always neat to see how they look in your different videos! 🎨
Thanks, I get compliments, and insults depending on the viewer (!)
I watch this over and over, it is fantastic!
Thanks so much!
I'm sold on the pink as I've a fondness for crockery. Your painting of plant pots in saucers is absolutely inspiring Michell. I'm so tired of landscapes and skies, my sketching abilities can come to the front with this style.
I am just beginning my journey into watercors and you have changed my life
You are a gifted artist and a brilliant teacher. Thank you for all ypu gift us with! Xoxo from Alaska
What an excellent tip
Hello Danielle, thanks so much for your support!
Yes I have got quite a bit of those colors. Quinacrine Pink is my favorite too.
You do a wonderful job teaching color mixing. This video explains it so well. I was needing one that detailed the mixing of greys for rocks etc. Thanks so much!
Glad it was helpful!
Very well explained and helpful. I have all of these colors And we'll definitely be experimenting with those mixes that are new to me.I have no formal fine art training, and started learning watercolor 3 1⁄2 years ago using an online video course. We started with 6 colors, A warm and cool of the 3 primaries.I then took a class on craftsy On luminous watercolors And added another 4 colors. Somewhere in that 1 year time., I got hooked and I now have a pallet collection Of 43 paints Plus Another 2 or 3 in the box that I will most likely not use but had to try. I have been doing mostly florals but I am moving into landscapes, so have a whole new Exploration experience Ahead of me. Just for reference sake, I am 70 years old, live in a small rural town on the west coast of the United States, and have little or no access to art education except online.Your Videos are some of the best I have seen.I appreciate you doing them on RUclips because I am also on a very limited budget, So online courses Are rarely an option. Keep up the good work!
Thank you Deb, so pleased you are enjoying the videos, I will be making lots more. I am also doing online courses now but appreciate that not everyone has that option. I will be putting lots more free videos up too! Take care, Michele
I'm always watching these at 3 am and am too brain dead to even know what to say, except thank you! This probably sounds completely stupid I didn't realize this is how colors are mixed, I have just been taking the closest tube to my target color and trying to "push" it closer to my target. I mean, most YT channels will just pick two colors and stir, and call that done. But you go through the thought process out loud and then get even more particular about creating the right shade. SO helpful!! 💝💖
Thanks! I am always watching YT in the early hours too. Need to sleep. Maybe just one more...
I started learning watercolors with quinacridone rose on my palette and I’ve never looked back. Thank you for this very clear explanation.
You are so welcome!
Michele, your skin is a lovely shade of ivory that looks like creamy velvet and it is so smooth and unblemished like porcelain. With your hair colour you look just perfect, not something from a grave, although I do love your little self deprecating jokes. Keep up the wonderful videos, I love them. Started painting with watercolours again, during lockdown , (always loved them but never mastered them, especially mixing them) after years of photography, oils, graphite, charcoal, coloured pencils and finally some pastel work . I have really enjoyed them and have done landscapes, portraits, flowers, old architecture and so on in 2021, photo processing for a while again, now its winter, back to painting again. Thanks, you are an inspiration.
That's very kind, film lights are flattering! We are just heading into summer here :-)
Watching you mix colors and explain how they work is fascinating. I'm beginning to see things differently.
Thank you so much!
Oh Michele, I laughed so hard at "space alien nightmare"!! Yes! I love Quin Rose! Thank you for this excellent video - I took copious notes and learned so much! I am at the stage of what I would term "advanced beginner" in watercolor painting, and I love to mix colors but don't really know what I'm doing. Just trial and error (heavy on the error,) so this helped me very much! Thanks, also, for the laughs; your sense of humor is much like mine! Have a blessed day! Donna
Ah thank you Donna, so glad you liked it 🌺 Advanced beginner! I like it 😁 I shall have a blessed sleep actually as it's gone midnight here but enjoy the rest of your day! ☺️
I have returned to painting watercolor after a 50 year pause. Your videos are so very helpful. Thank you very much and keep teaching.
Thank you so much 😀
i have been a watercolor artist for the past 45 years and have been doing it the hard way! Now I have the best instruction I have ever had
and am anxious to see how it all works for me!
You have made painting so much more fun!
No teacher I have ever had explained mixing the watercolors like you have. They teach as if I was a child just learning. I am 85. I must get busy!
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Ah, thanks, no one likes being talked down to, honestly!
I am sorry, Michele if you misunderstood me. I love your style of teaching and enjoy your videos very much. There just aren't any teachers that I know of around me that have approached the subject. I am not talking them down. Dellouise
H@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber
I'm 76 and fighting that feeling that I don't have time to get good at this! I've been painting for about 10 years but not as seriously as I am now!
Thank you for all you do to teach us color facts ! I am a visual learner and your videos are wonderful visual explanations of the color relationships and reactions, which makes everything alot less complicated and it also helps me to remember those relationships and reactions. Michele you are a GREAT teacher AND you are a cat person, which makes you extra special. Thanks for sharing. ~: )
Wow, thank you! Cats Rule :-)
WOW! This is so helpful! I never would have tried these mixtures on my own. Thank you!
Thanks for watching Cathy so glad you found it useful ☺️
I searched for your channel this morning, for just such a teaching. I'm choosing one more hue to add to a unique color mixing palette.
Welcome!
I bought opera pink a few months ago and I love it.
This has definitely given me a better understanding of color mixing, thank you. X
Glad it was helpful!
I understand better now, but I remember having a coniptic fit trying to mix purple last month or so (using the wrong red). This was interesting (pink is my favorite color) and quite informative. Thank you, Michele!
Ok Ive found the answer to the question I posed here, so no need to answer. Ive signed up for the drawing. goody!!!
getting on with it now. thank you Michele.
Thank you for this tutorial! It’s really straight forward and easy to understand. You’ve inspired me to use water color again!
You have lovely skin. Beats all the leathery Floridians who’ve over tanned here. Great mixing tips! Thanks!
Thanks Robin!
I have quin rose from Daniel Smith, and I haven't used it at all yet. But now I understand it much better! Thank you very much for your great instruction.
I’m brand new to watercolor. Your videos are always interesting and informative. Thank you.
Glad you like them!
This was the information I needed. Such a surprise, can’t wait to play with pink. Thank you so much for all your patience with us.💋
So pleased you found it helpful Pat 😊
So pleased you found it helpful Pat 😊
Very helpful. I have cad red perm perm carmine and perm rose. I think I have been using cad red when I should have been using perm rose and have been ending up with mud a lot!!! Thanks
It makes a huge difference you will find 🙂
I live in an area where I am very limited in what I can get, and even shipping can be difficult. On a recent trip I stocked up on pinks, but was a little lost when it came to using them. I also have struggled to get neutral colors- this has been super helpful. Thank you!
That is awesome!
I’m a beginner at watercolours. Your videos have been so helpful at teaching me things I should know in a systematic and organised way. Thank you.
You are so welcome!
Thanks Michele ✨ I love colours too. Have way more than I actually need. More of a want really 🤭 Having that many colours wasn’t very helpful for learning colour mixing though. Am catching up now. Yes I have Quinacridone Rose (Daniel Smith’s - PV19), but I currently have Winsor Newton’s PR122 on my palette. Can’t remember if they call it Quin Magenta or Quin Lilac, and I’m not getting up again to go look, because I’ve had a long old day. Your clear instruction really helps it all sink in… and with a few much-needed giggles to boot. Thanks again. Dug-up corpse indeed! 🤭
I have everything except the Quin pink which I order today! Thank you!
Wonderful!
You are so clearly helpful. Thank you.
This video was very interesting and USEFUL!
Thank you.
I don’t have any pink on my pallet... but I’m mainly Acrylic painter. After this video I have to take a hike to the art supply store.
I had to laugh when you were talking about viridian green! I live in Australia, and this colour (toned down) is brilliant for matching eucalyptus foliage :)
I'm finding your videos to be extremely helpful with regard to colour mixing and building a palette.
Thanks so much 🙂
You are an excellent teacher. Thanks 🙏❤️
Wow, thank you!
You really are skilled! 👍Maybe it would be even more obvious to us beginners if you show on paper every mixing step? For example when you mix two colours on your palett and you immediately see that you need a third to get the colour you're after. 1) It's impossible for us wiewers to know what shade you're after only by saying names. If you show us on paper you can say" no, that's too grey, not what I was going for. I believe I need some x colour in it." Then you show us how you mix it on the palett, and finally on the paper?
2) As a proffessional YOU immediately see what's wrong and know how to correct it, but us wiewers can't read your mind and that way know what's wrong? So please show every every step on palett AND paper? Thank you❣
Thanks Brita, I will certainly try to show more steps. I do show more on my Patreon videos where I work on my own paintings. It's harder on youtube as people have very short attention spans, some of them anyhow! Thanks so much for watching :-)
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Thank you for answering!😊 I see what you mean regarding peoples focusing span. On the other hand you often loose interest when you don't understand, when you just don't follow? 🤔
I have all 83 QoR watercolors. I love color. I mix I play I convience I do what ever. And I agree you can't mix a bluish pink. It's a definite needed color. I don't really use mine the same as you do at all but I loved learning all tge ways you do. My skin tone fave for Caucasian is a conviencince color. I use QoR's vanician red watered way way down. And for darker skin mix it with paynes gray and water it way down. Or their van dyke brown. I have some beautiful things happening in the watered down of watercolor. But I sometimes take my quinacridone magenta way watered down as a glaze for rosy cheeks or lips or sunlight over any of those skintones mentioned above.
I love the blue pink to mix with oranges and purples to make sky's super beautiful.
Hi Michele thanks for going into the finer side of colour mixing and having subscribed i always hit the like button and you do have a lovely complexion 😊
Fascinating. I need to watch this video again and take notes. I learned such a lot! Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Your colour tutorials are amazing,,, so much to learn
Thank you so much 😀
I am loving these color mixing videos. I work with polymer clay and have been mixing colors by the seat of my pants thus far. But I am wanting to get out of my color comfort zone and also to be able to predict what a color mix will be. So this information has me looking at my colors in a new way. Thanks so much: I'm subscribing.
Brilliant and educational..you are a life saver 😊❤..I've got permanent rose n opera pink..and opera rose..
Very helpful. I’ve only just found you to help with my watercolour painting and already feel I know more.
Fantastic!
Very useful video! I have the quinacradone pink and use it very often, but the DS pink is so bright and fresh, maybe next on my list...
It's an amazing colour, it literally glows!
This was very helpful
Wow! I will watch this again to imprint it better in my brain and take some notes. It was exciting to see how to get such realistic, useful colors. I am quite appreciative for your videos. I am going to play around with my colors. I have all cake colors and wish I had bought the gel type. . . someday I will make a new investment.
One more thing - are there videos (yours) that state what brush to use while painting?
I do have some videos like that, try playlists and Best Art Materials, I also have one for colour mixing I think...
Thank you so much for this color mixing lesson. I have a lot of trouble following instructions in a book for “absolute beginners” (which I am) because the author gives formulas for various mixes, but I don’t know what brand he is using, and I don’t know how on earth one would measure accurately 60% of this, 30% of that and 10% of something else. Now I understand how I can mix my own colors much more satisfactorily. This is very exciting!
You can do it!
Wow that landscape you show at ~12:54 is sick. It has a trace of stylization that almost makes me think of something surrealistic like Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, but with a really photorealistic depth of detail & precision to all the texturing… Very impressive.
Anyway thanks for an interesting video. It was very useful to learn about blue-based pinks.
Thank you!
This is all incredibly helpful information! Thank you so much! I have a Buff Titanium in one of my beginners sets and it seems quite similar to the last few mixes that you demonstrated.....so hopefully I can replicate what you've shown here and will not need to repurchase it or anything similar when or if it runs out.
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent.
Michele These lessons on colour are incredibly helpful! I have a lot of colours in watercolour paints but have struggled with the mixing and especially getting good skin tones. Thank you so much for sharing this information. I sure wish you lived in Canada so I could take lessons from you directly!
It's so hot here at the moment I wish I lived in Canada too. But really I am a terrible wuss about the cold. So glad you found the video useful!
So helpful, thank you!
Love you videos! I have yet to try painting with WC, just watching and learning so much from you. I am an oil painter primarily and have been terrified of WC.
You can do it!
Wonderful video! I thought I understood the basics of mixing but am still getting mud. Your videos are clear and just technical enough to explain what's happening. Thx Michelle. Hugs from Texas.
Great to hear! Hugs back!
I use ultramarine and burnt umbre for blue black to brown black or cobalt thanks for the tip about cerulium blue I use a palette of 8 colours based on ian kings pallette of colours
Excellent- thank you once more
My pleasure!
Interesting, helpful and useful. I learned a lot. Thank you.👍🤗
Glad it was helpful!
I laughed out loud at your “dug-up” comment skin-tone lol. This video has been really really helpful ... watch all your videos , keep them coming !
Lol you don't have to live with it 😆 Will do 👍👍😁
These are fantastic tips!
Glad you like them!
This was such a great tutorial, thank you 😊
You are so welcome!
Your Colour mixing advice is excellent! Thank you very much!!!💓
Thank you! Cheers!
This was a great tutorial
Thank you!
Thanks!
So interesting and helpful. Thanks!
You're very welcome!
This is such invaluable information for someone trying to decide what colors for a limited pallet or travel set. Thank you!!!
Love this! Thanks so much!
So glad!
Very helpful information! Btw your nails look very pretty here they make me feel tingly😆
Thank you!! 😊
Thank you for your excellent class. It's great to learn something new.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Already I own too many, if we count watercolors gouaches and watercolor pencils. And yes I will definitely be color mixing more and more as I develop skills, rather than buying any more diverse paints going forwards.
I love your color mixing videos...I am learning so much. I am definitely going to use more of my blue based pink...it is so versatile. Thank you for sharing your expertise ✨
You are welcome Shari!
Good explanations. The camera angle was a bit wonky to the point I felt like I was sort of standing on my head or something. A bit circle light could help with the shadows. Just something I noticed that distracted me--if it's something you think would be good to adjust somewhat.
I'm a TOTALLY new painter, so I appreciate any help I can get!
Excellent. I have been painting for years but this has really made me think better about colour mixing. Thank you
Great tutorial.
Thank you!
Woo I guessed it right! Lol. Took me over 20 years to learn that magenta was what I needed all along to get the hues I want 😂
This was so interesting. I would never have thought of using viridian green with yellow and pink to get those beautiful neutrals. Thank you for making it so simple and straightforward.
You are very welcome Nadea!
Color mixing is so interesting! You have brought out many important facts that we should be aware of! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Glad it was helpful!
Daniel Smith Opera Pink is dynamite!
Very helpful. Now I know why my white was not working
This is really helpful because I struggled with skin tones and light cream tones. Thank you so much!
I could not agree more with the need for this color!! I will not purchase a set that doesn’t have this kind of pink in it I need to have it!!
It's so useful!
Fab, I've always wanted to buy opera pink for my palette to add spark, now this is giving me the tipping point to do it! Thanks so much. Good to know my Quin Rose will suffice in the mean time.
You are welcome!
Whenever I watch one of your videos, I learn something useful. Thank you so much for sharing the benefit of your experience with all of us! -Oh, I have all those colors, but not any phthalo green.. The color gives me indigestion. Never ever thought of mixing quin rose with it to calm it down, since I don't have it(!)
Thanks, yes it's a tricky colour!
thank you Michele another informative, interesting video that i enjoyed...i knew it's an 'older' 🌼video but as a new subscriber i'm catching up...i came across a lovely colour mix: rose and raw umber makes a greenísh grey neutral and another: rose and viridian softens it to a lovely versatile colour. 🎨
Glad it was helpful!
You are a wealth of information Michele,thanks so much.claire
No problem at all ☺️
“Corpse that’s been dug up”! You really make me laugh. A friend once described his skin tone as “piggy white”. Maybe new color names?
Well Farrow and Ball wall paints have a colour called 'dead salmon' so anything is possible!
so happy to see someone else loves viridian as little as I do. Think Plastic.
The thing with Viridian is that true Viridian pigment is quite beautiful and subtle. Unfortunately what's labelled Viridian is more often than not actually Phthalo green!
I just got a Daniel Smith quin rose. I love it!
Oh, I must try that one ♥️
My absolute favorite watercolor paints are d.s. quinacridone rose, d.s. phthalo green BS, d.s. or m.g. phthalo blue GS, d.s. lemon yellow py175, and S E N N E L I E R D I O X A Z I N E P U R P L E. Sorry I had to type this way, you tube AI changes spelling and meaning in what I type.
Well, thanks! I've been wondering what pink to get
Glad I could help!
Oh, I never buy a color set (we don't yet have single tube paints to buy in my country unless it's W&N and DS) that doesn't have a blue-based pink in it. No matter how much I love the other colors, blue based pink is a must for me.