I’ve been using a limited palette for many years. People are always amazed at the wide range of colors I get from just 3 colors: Quinacridone rose, Phthlo Blue, and Hansa Yellow. And I’m amazed that other people’s palettes have a bunch of colors and then I realize that they probably don’t know how to mix colors. I’ve been mixing colors for so long now that it comes naturally to me.
@@LouiseDeMasi I credit John Muir Laws (he has a youtube channel) for showing me the way. On his website is where I first encountered using a this very limited palette. Since he plein air's a lot he was taking very little with him on his hikes.
Bonjour Louise from Montréal, Canada. I love your art, the way you explain, you are a great teacher and a great artist. I have a special request, I would like you to paint a pretty detailed tree branch in a painting and the you approach it, for example a bird sitting on a branch. Excuse my frenchglish…. I hope you understand the meaning of my request. Thank you so much to teach your knowledge, I follow each tutos and can’t wait for the next one. Félicitations Louise !
How pleasant you are Louise. I've enjoyed a number of your videos. Very fine. Please do not get too carried away by this new found inspiration. You can take this approach too far quite easily. You do fine with your own approach prior to this enlightenment. Best wishes!
Thank you for giving us your endorsement on a book that you have found helpful and fresh in your watercolor journey. I too have a bookshelf full of books related to the art of painting but not all of these books were as helpful as I had hoped. I’ll be on Amazon today 😊. May I also say that the most helpful and inspiring lessons in watercolor painting has come from my favorite artist Louise De Masi.
I just received a watercolor botanical book as a birthday gift. I cherish all the books that make me better as an artist. Truly a hobby for me with no stress of a deadline but thankful to you, L. for teaching the mix value of just a few colors to create wonderful paintings. In other words, you don’t need that much to make paintings…🙏🏽🙋🏻♀️👍🏽Mia
Hi Louise. Jim from Madrid, Spain (a fellow artist and a New Yorker expat living abroad). I saw this book's review in the past and I love Hazel's artwork, but I didn't buy it yet. After watching your video I'll probably put it on my list for "Father's Day"!! 😁👍 I'm a 6 month old subscriber to your channel. I really like the way you explain things in a practical "hands-on" manner and I've learned a few things with you, so thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'm a self-taught artist at age 56 (my life has been focused on the Biz world) and art has helped me through very difficult health issues in these past years (thanks to my wife and best friend that motivated me to start). I use to draw when I was a young boy but I never had the chance to pursue Art more seriously until a year and a half ago. Thanks to RUclips nowadays, I've learned so much and I'm actually painting in watercolor and gouache successfully (hopefully this year I'll be able to expose my artwork in my first Art gallery here in Madrid). FYI, I'm a wildlife and nature artist, though I also love plein air and urban sketching. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise... and I wish the best for you. I will continue to be a subscriber because I also love your videos. Cheers from Sunny Spain! 😁👍😎✌
Thank you, Louise! I just ordered the book from a retailer in the UK for quite a discount! Looking forward to its arrival! I’ve done a few of your limited palette paintings but need to do the first one you did!
Another advantage of using a limited palette is that it is easier to create a sustainable natural color palette as there are fewer colors to research and locate, forr those of us who want to avoid synthetics when possible (I live in the woods). To create a limited natural non-toxic palette, you could choose among the following, which are largely Earth pigments, with a couple botanically sourced options (there are many more): yellow ochre, red ochre, a more orange/brown ochre, a green earth, vivianite blue, or Maya blue, which is an indigo-based pigment. If natural blues are not easily available, consider a fairly non-toxic blue such as Ultramarine (e.g., blue green shade), a synthetic substitute for the expensive and rare lapis lazuli. For a deeper red, you could choose genuine madder, which is derived from a plant root. For a black, you could use vine or plant-based lamp black, or black walnut ink. For more on sustainable art, I suggest checking out Jyotsna's Lostincolour website and Elma Hogeboom's RUclips channel.
Looks great, I too will check it out! Thanks. And -- I love the outtake with the series of gestures! Didn't need any words at all to express the feeling!
Very good explanation, thank you. I also have her book and really love it. It helps me to understand my colours, but I am just starting, it's a challenge. Thank you and thank Hazel Soan.
I appreciate your sharing this information. Hazel Soan is an incredible watercolor artist. Following her advice clearly has granted you a step-up approach, and you sincerely share it well. I love your work very much. So many artists are speaking of limited palettes. Zorn is one of the more classic studies on the subject, although his work tended to be quite dark in contrast. Keep it up, we are watching you. 😊😊😊
Love this video and your message. You continue to evolve, grow and generously share your journey with us, even though your art has been top notch for years! Thank You ❤
Love this video/teaching looking forward to watching more. I haven’t put brush to paper yet, just watching video, i have much to learn. Thank you for sharing your talent, you make it look easy, so I’ll give it a try. 🤔
You mentioned this book a little while ago and I picked it up. It's a magnificent book and I've learned so much. Painted my first limited palette a couple of weeks ago with only 5 colors. Thank you for sharing! It's sooooooo freeing!
Brilliant as always and perfect timing! I can recommend yet another source book to my beginners students. I often feel sorry for them as I gently harp… ok repeat like a stuck record about colour temperature and mixing your own colours just for fun to understand what they will do on the paper. I love limited palette. I am still fond of using more than three or four, but I laugh at the unused hard as bricks old squares of convenience colours on my palette I squeezed out eons ago when I first bought it and debated for days which ones to fill those holes! Now I have many holes…don’t need them all. French ultramarine blue and Burnt sienna, both Winsor Newton, are kings in my grey bowl and are in all of my paintings. I would be lost without them and they give me all the greys and browns I need. Touch in permanent Rose or Hansa yellow medium and off to the races! I have a couple of Hazel’s books, but may have to add this one in too! Amazon is going to get a run on them because of how many of us love and respect your teaching and opinion. ALL my classes hear about your RUclips and patreon. Thank you wonderful, lovely lady for all you do. We love Leo and Dom too.
Omg Thankyou for recommending this book after watching your video today I bought this book on kindle I have always struggled with colour this book is amazing I keep going back and reading pages again I have bought a few books on colour but this is the best ……Thankyou for sharing ❤
Wow so beautiful book and thanks for sharing it mam.i also wanted to use limited palette to my paintings and this is so helpful mam.Beautiful paintings mam.😍😍😍🤗
This is best...and I completely agree, I have started using limited color palette and it does wonders. Also when two mixed colors separate themselves on the paper, it gives another dimension to the painting...and I love that...watercolors are the medium which let you do that... Thank you Louise for the insights :)
Hallo Louise! I look forward to your next video on Patreon. I really like the Agaphantus flowers behind you! Maybe they will be an inspiration for a new video. Best regards from Romania!
Thanks a lot for this video. Just bought a different book by this author but the one you show will be the next one. Each of your videos is inspiring. Seriously. They blow my mind and give me so much inspiration to pursue this not easy technique further. Thanks again to you and Don. All the best ! ❤
I have been recommending that book since I purchased it a year or so ago. Thanks for the info. You always are so helpful. There is a whole interview with Soan discussing the book on YT. I may have mentioned this in comments before. The world's best watercolorists use a more limited palette and they understand the properties of their colors very well. We have all bought pre-mixed colors that were popular, only to be disappointed. it is easier to shop and have the thrill of a new purchase (hence all of the "haul" videos that attract viewers) than it is to work with the colors one already owns.
Louise, I’ve been a fan and following for years. May I ask where you learned to draw? That’s the foundation of any painting for me and I’m struggling to achieve a good drawing. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this review! I immediately decided to invest in this book only to learn from Amazon that I bought it last year, lol. Apparently I have it in my library and read a few pages and got distracted. I am reading it now.
Really enjoyed the video! I think it's a super important and helpful topic. I'm really grateful that when I started painting years ago, that I was following this artist on the public TV who used a very limited pallet of traditional colours. To this day I find myself overwhelmed by all the beautiful watercolor pallets but that have so many colors it's almost paralyzing lol. I like to pick the ones I'm going to use in a painting, and see how they blend together in different ways, before I start painting. Paying attention to the warmth or coolness of shades is a concept by only recently came to, and that I love to help prevent muddy color mixes. Great video!
I always wondered if you had a book and I just read your bio and saw that there was one that you were in period unfortunately it looks like it's three hundred dollars now , A collector's item
By limited palette you mean choose only three or four shades from a selection for each painting . Some people might think by using a limited palette you only need to buy Cadmium red , cadmium yellow, and ultramarine blue for every painting. So am I correct that what you’re saying is limit your palette to three or four colours for each painting out of a bigger selection of colours you have
That's correct. You choose a limited amount of colours for your painting- they can be any colour combination but you try to mix everything you need from the colours you've chosen.
I also utilized only limited color schemes in all my paintings when I was healthy enough to paint--NITA LELAND and her two lovely color theory and color scheme books were a large part of this epic color adventure for me. I think I saw her book on your shelf, too--I'm very interested in how you would compare/contrast Nita's book versus Hazel's?
I want a book written by YOU ❤
You’re the best instructor on you tube! The limited palette is one reason, and you present us with photos of your progress.
Thanks so much Kelly! 💕 😊
I’ve been using a limited palette for many years. People are always amazed at the wide range of colors I get from just 3 colors: Quinacridone rose, Phthlo Blue, and Hansa Yellow. And I’m amazed that other people’s palettes have a bunch of colors and then I realize that they probably don’t know how to mix colors. I’ve been mixing colors for so long now that it comes naturally to me.
That's wonderful Danita. It took me a while to realise the value in using a limited palette. 💕
@@LouiseDeMasi I credit John Muir Laws (he has a youtube channel) for showing me the way. On his website is where I first encountered using a this very limited palette. Since he plein air's a lot he was taking very little with him on his hikes.
Is your Blue Red Shade or Green Shade?
@@leannatrottman It is Green Shade.
Which brand do you use?
Louise, your channel is the best bc of you!! Your teaching is great, and I watch you more than anyone.
Wow, thank you!
You're the best, Louis! 😊
Thank you!
And thanks for your bloopers.
They're always uplifting!
Thank you, I'm glad! 🥰
Bonjour Louise from Montréal, Canada. I love your art, the way you explain, you are a great teacher and a great artist. I have a special request, I would like you to paint a pretty detailed tree branch in a painting and the you approach it, for example a bird sitting on a branch. Excuse my frenchglish…. I hope you understand the meaning of my request. Thank you so much to teach your knowledge, I follow each tutos and can’t wait for the next one. Félicitations Louise !
I was wondering why your paintings look so beautiful. Great that you shared ❤
How pleasant you are Louise. I've enjoyed a number of your videos. Very fine. Please do not get too carried away by this new found inspiration. You can take this approach too far quite easily. You do fine with your own approach prior to this enlightenment. Best wishes!
Thank you for giving us your endorsement on a book that you have found helpful and fresh in your watercolor journey. I too have a bookshelf full of books related to the art of painting but not all of these books were as helpful as I had hoped. I’ll be on Amazon today 😊. May I also say that the most helpful and inspiring lessons in watercolor painting has come from my favorite artist Louise De Masi.
Thank you very much for your kind words. I hope you love the book and refer to it often. 🥰
I'm not sure how i landed here, but I'm SO glad I've found your channel. Incredibly insightful!
Thank you very much!
Great video, but I've loved the green in the corn painting...
I just received a watercolor botanical book as a birthday gift. I cherish all the books that make me better as an artist. Truly a hobby for me with no stress of a deadline but thankful to you, L. for teaching the mix value of just a few colors to create wonderful paintings. In other words, you don’t need that much to make paintings…🙏🏽🙋🏻♀️👍🏽Mia
Hi Louise. Jim from Madrid, Spain (a fellow artist and a New Yorker expat living abroad).
I saw this book's review in the past and I love Hazel's artwork, but I didn't buy it yet. After watching your video I'll probably put it on my list for "Father's Day"!!
😁👍
I'm a 6 month old subscriber to your channel. I really like the way you explain things in a practical "hands-on" manner and I've learned a few things with you, so thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I'm a self-taught artist at age 56 (my life has been focused on the Biz world) and art has helped me through very difficult health issues in these past years (thanks to my wife and best friend that motivated me to start). I use to draw when I was a young boy but I never had the chance to pursue Art more seriously until a year and a half ago. Thanks to RUclips nowadays, I've learned so much and I'm actually painting in watercolor and gouache successfully (hopefully this year I'll be able to expose my artwork in my first Art gallery here in Madrid). FYI, I'm a wildlife and nature artist, though I also love plein air and urban sketching.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise... and I wish the best for you. I will continue to be a subscriber because I also love your videos.
Cheers from Sunny Spain!
😁👍😎✌
Thank you for your lovely message Jaime. That sounds exciting! Good luck with it all - I wish you the best too.
that cover for that book is so nice🥰 will have to see if the library has a copy
you flowers are so gorgeous, so peaceful looking🥰
Oh my gosh. 😂 stayed for the bloopers. You’re adorable. Thanks for that. I’m such a fan. ❤
I will definitely be adding this book to my library. Thank you!
Hope you enjoy it. Thank you Monique.
Thank you, Louise! I just ordered the book from a retailer in the UK for quite a discount! Looking forward to its arrival! I’ve done a few of your limited palette paintings but need to do the first one you did!
Very interesting video. Thank you!
I’ve just reserved this book at a bookstore. I can’t wait to read it! I would buy just because of its cover lol. It’s beautiful!
Another advantage of using a limited palette is that it is easier to create a sustainable natural color palette as there are fewer colors to research and locate, forr those of us who want to avoid synthetics when possible (I live in the woods).
To create a limited natural non-toxic palette, you could choose among the following, which are largely Earth pigments, with a couple botanically sourced options (there are many more): yellow ochre, red ochre, a more orange/brown ochre, a green earth, vivianite blue, or Maya blue, which is an indigo-based pigment. If natural blues are not easily available, consider a fairly non-toxic blue such as Ultramarine (e.g., blue green shade), a synthetic substitute for the expensive and rare lapis lazuli. For a deeper red, you could choose genuine madder, which is derived from a plant root. For a black, you could use vine or plant-based lamp black, or black walnut ink. For more on sustainable art, I suggest checking out Jyotsna's Lostincolour website and Elma Hogeboom's RUclips channel.
Thanks so much for all the information Sam- very helpful.
Looks great, I too will check it out! Thanks. And -- I love the outtake with the series of gestures! Didn't need any words at all to express the feeling!
Very good explanation, thank you. I also have her book and really love it. It helps me to understand my colours, but I am just starting, it's a challenge. Thank you and thank Hazel Soan.
Thank you Bonnie- and thank you Hazel Soan too! 🥰
I appreciate your sharing this information. Hazel Soan is an incredible watercolor artist. Following her advice clearly has granted you a step-up approach, and you sincerely share it well. I love your work very much. So many artists are speaking of limited palettes. Zorn is one of the more classic studies on the subject, although his work tended to be quite dark in contrast. Keep it up, we are watching you. 😊😊😊
Have/love this book. Good for everyone. Great to go back to periodically as you progress.
Thanks Deb- Yes I reach for this book a lot.
That is a really interesting tutorial Louise, thank you I must start mixing the 3 basic colours and swatch themThank you for sharing with us xx
Thank you Amanda. It's well worth the time to do that. 🥰
Hi Louise. I have this book and it's really helpfull. Thank you sharing with us
I love your outtakes ❤ gentle soul vibes.
Love this video and your message. You continue to evolve, grow and generously share your journey with us, even though your art has been top notch for years! Thank You ❤
You're very kind. Thank you! 💕
Thank you! I have set myself on this journey of learning to mix colors. This is so timely and perfect! I ordered one immediately!
I hope it's useful to you. Thank you Linda.
Love this video/teaching looking forward to watching more. I haven’t put brush to paper yet, just watching video, i have much to learn. Thank you for sharing your talent, you make it look easy, so I’ll give it a try. 🤔
Thx, Louise !!
And the ending was so funny !!! You should make a show ! ahaha !!!!
You mentioned this book a little while ago and I picked it up. It's a magnificent book and I've learned so much. Painted my first limited palette a couple of weeks ago with only 5 colors. Thank you for sharing! It's sooooooo freeing!
Absolutely. I'm glad it has been useful to you. Thank you!
Brilliant as always and perfect timing! I can recommend yet another source book to my beginners students. I often feel sorry for them as I gently harp… ok repeat like a stuck record about colour temperature and mixing your own colours just for fun to understand what they will do on the paper. I love limited palette. I am still fond of using more than three or four, but I laugh at the unused hard as bricks old squares of convenience colours on my palette I squeezed out eons ago when I first bought it and debated for days which ones to fill those holes! Now I have many holes…don’t need them all. French ultramarine blue and Burnt sienna, both Winsor Newton, are kings in my grey bowl and are in all of my paintings. I would be lost without them and they give me all the greys and browns I need. Touch in permanent Rose or Hansa yellow medium and off to the races! I have a couple of Hazel’s books, but may have to add this one in too! Amazon is going to get a run on them because of how many of us love and respect your teaching and opinion. ALL my classes hear about your RUclips and patreon. Thank you wonderful, lovely lady for all you do. We love Leo and Dom too.
Me too - they are my most used colours. Thank you for your kind words Alison.❤️ It's a book I return to often in my little library.
Excellent video! You are an amazing teacher and one who is deeply appreciated!
Thank you very much Patty. 😃
Omg Thankyou for recommending this book after watching your video today I bought this book on kindle I have always struggled with colour this book is amazing I keep going back and reading pages again I have bought a few books on colour but this is the best ……Thankyou for sharing ❤
Wow so beautiful book and thanks for sharing it mam.i also wanted to use limited palette to my paintings and this is so helpful mam.Beautiful paintings mam.😍😍😍🤗
This is best...and I completely agree, I have started using limited color palette and it does wonders. Also when two mixed colors separate themselves on the paper, it gives another dimension to the painting...and I love that...watercolors are the medium which let you do that... Thank you Louise for the insights :)
My pleasure and thank you!
Just bought it! 🙈
Thank you for this valuable tutorial ❤
Hallo Louise! I look forward to your next video on Patreon.
I really like the Agaphantus flowers behind you! Maybe they will be an inspiration for a new video. Best regards from Romania!
Thanks a lot for this video. Just bought a different book by this author but the one you show will be the next one.
Each of your videos is inspiring. Seriously. They blow my mind and give me so much inspiration to pursue this not easy technique further. Thanks again to you and Don. All the best ! ❤
Absolutely superb tutorial. Thank you Louise 💕
Glad it was helpful. Thank you Rosie.
Thanks Louise as usual you are the best. Very insightful ❤
A pleasure. Thank you!
Thank you so much! I always love a good book!
You are welcome!
I have been recommending that book since I purchased it a year or so ago. Thanks for the info. You always are so helpful. There is a whole interview with Soan discussing the book on YT. I may have mentioned this in comments before. The world's best watercolorists use a more limited palette and they understand the properties of their colors very well. We have all bought pre-mixed colors that were popular, only to be disappointed. it is easier to shop and have the thrill of a new purchase (hence all of the "haul" videos that attract viewers) than it is to work with the colors one already owns.
So true. Thank you Joy. I watched that interview. Hazel explains things well. I have learnt a lot from her.
I'm gonna order this book
Louise, I’ve been a fan and following for years. May I ask where you learned to draw? That’s the foundation of any painting for me and I’m struggling to achieve a good drawing. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this review! I immediately decided to invest in this book only to learn from Amazon that I bought it last year, lol. Apparently I have it in my library and read a few pages and got distracted. I am reading it now.
Fascinating!
I just ordered it! 😊
Really enjoyed the video! I think it's a super important and helpful topic. I'm really grateful that when I started painting years ago, that I was following this artist on the public TV who used a very limited pallet of traditional colours. To this day I find myself overwhelmed by all the beautiful watercolor pallets but that have so many colors it's almost paralyzing lol. I like to pick the ones I'm going to use in a painting, and see how they blend together in different ways, before I start painting.
Paying attention to the warmth or coolness of shades is a concept by only recently came to, and that I love to help prevent muddy color mixes. Great video!
Thanks you Chantal. I could have saved myself a lot of money in the beginning if I had known. 💕
@@LouiseDeMasi at least you're helping out so many artists now by posting this :)
I really like the bright colours you used for the corn 🥰🥰🥰. I do understand the use of tonal values though. Your work is lovely.
Thank you Kathleen.
@@LouiseDeMasi The corn painting...I think you may again like the green you used in another 10 years from now.
Love this
Very true! James Gurney and John Potashnik teach this also
Thank you. This was so interesting and helpful.
The corn painting is especially beautiful! Please consider redoing it as a lesson?
Thank you!
I always wondered if you had a book and I just read your bio and saw that there was one that you were in period unfortunately it looks like it's three hundred dollars now , A collector's item
By limited palette you mean choose only three or four shades from a selection for each painting . Some people might think by using a limited palette you only need to buy Cadmium red , cadmium yellow, and ultramarine blue for every painting. So am I correct that what you’re saying is limit your palette to three or four colours for each painting out of a bigger selection of colours you have
That's correct. You choose a limited amount of colours for your painting- they can be any colour combination but you try to mix everything you need from the colours you've chosen.
I also utilized only limited color schemes in all my paintings when I was healthy enough to paint--NITA LELAND and her two lovely color theory and color scheme books were a large part of this epic color adventure for me. I think I saw her book on your shelf, too--I'm very interested in how you would compare/contrast Nita's book versus Hazel's?
I have Nita's "How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself' book. I'll look for her other books. Thank you for mentioning them.
I just ordered this hardcover book from ABE books for $30, far less than Amazon.
Thank you. I use too many colors.❤
Can it be used in oil painting too. Denmark
Name of the book please
Art of The Limited Palette by Hazel Soan: amzn.to/3w5kSid
I can't afford a bunch of colors. 🇺🇸
Get the primary colors and mix the rest.
What type and numbers of brush you use?