Watercolour Painting with a LIMITED PALETTE
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- What is a limited or restricted palette?
How do we use one?
What are the benefits of using less colours?
It might be easy to think that reducing the amount of colours we are using in a painting would be a bad thing. Surely it's good to have access to all of the colours and the full range of the colour wheel?
Well yes, it can be. But it can also be a wonderful thing to really limit the area of the colour wheel we have access to.
A limited or restricted palette can mean many things. In this particular video I talk about using a limited palette in watercolour painting. What using a 3 colour palette can do for your painting and why you should consider giving it a go :)
I hope you enjoy and thanks for watching.
T
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Your theory of simple but accurate caught me. Simple is great for a beginner and accurate is important for everyone. You act what you preach 👍🏻🥰🙏🏻
Absolutely...it's a painting mantra that's served me well;) T
I was doing a little study of just using warm and just using cool colors. Mine was pretty basic, using an apple 🍎 and adding shadows, a few weeks back. Glad I came across this video.
Love this simplified clear explanation of use of limited palette. I love to do it, but seem to always fall back on my old ways. I need to just take the paint out and play more! And put all the rest away so I am not tempted… as you spoke my eyes roamed over the elephants in awe of your amazing;g skill and talent. Two little swoops and the ear is alive and moving! The light is perfect, the shadow just right!!! It’s not overworked of fussed with. Brilliant! It’s still realism, but more artistic. I am envious and a huge fan. I always tell folks about your channel.
Hi Alison, thank you for such a kind and generous comment. I really appreciate your support!:).....just playing with paint I feel is so key to watercolour; and finding that balance of learning a bit of the technical stuff mixed with just having fun and letting go in the moment (so much easier said than done, ha!) T
Hi everyone. Thought I would just share some thoughts on two recent studio paintings. Both full imperial sheet (22"x30")
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I hope you enjoy it and find it useful. Let me know your thoughts as I have all ready recroded a video on colour wheels to come out soon, plus various ones planned on choosing colours for paintings and limited palettes.
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I have been trying to keep a limited palette and it has changed my paintings. I loved how you explained the concepts and illustrated digitally which area you were talking about. Thank you. I love your videos!
Extremely interesting information that I hadn’t really considered. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with a novice such as myself.
My pleasure...thank you for the comment and support! T
Really useful; as always, you explain the subject so clearly!
Thanks Rachel! :) T
Thank you! Your paintings are always a delight 😊
Ahh, thanks so much Chantel :) T
Great video! I always stretch my skills when I limit my palette to 3 colors. It’s a great practice!
Tank you. Totally agree...not always easy but always interesting process!!:) T
Amazing video and advice! I find working in limited palette challenging but it's so essential to practice and mix your own colors.
Thanks so much, Oksana! It is hard and it does literally feel limiting and restrictive to start with. But as you say, it does make you think more about colour mixing and can be great fun!!:)
Useful lesson.. Thank you, Tom!
Thank you :) T
This is really informative 🧡I'm glad I came across your channel, have lot to learn from you 💐Greetings
So pleased! Thank you for the support. T
Fascinating! I’m looking forward to your videos about color; you do color so well! It might be cool to demonstrate color gamuts that fail, functionally or artistically (and why) or maybe are super-specialized (nocturnes?) But whatever, you always make good videos! Thank you!
Thank you so much! Plenty to come on colours. I like that as an idea, the ones that don't work so well or specialised ones. Thank you for the support ;)
Hi Tom, I absolutely love both paintings and it’s been really useful to see how you used a limited pallet and just how much you can do with just two or three colours! I find not only limiting my colours quite hard but also choosing which ones to use so the videos you’ve mentioned that you’re going to bring out will be really helpful!
Thank you for making these videos😊
(and a zoom demo based around this idea would also be brilliant!)
Hi Jo, thanks so much for a great comment. It is amazing what can be achieved with so few colours, very fun too. It does feel literally limiting to start but can make us more concious about our colour mixes. And yes, picking colours can be hard - I certainly plan to do a video on this. I take the approach of usually one of each primary, but then "allowing" myself an extra colour or two if i can;t reach what I want - after all, you're the one making the rules whilst you paint ;) - more videos to come and zoom demo on idea is great idea!!:) T
Fantastic, you did it again. I start to se the light. Your paintings are wounderfull. I have to learn this. I did your raino it went OK, I want to do some figurys, but it is difficult to chose the colours, this is the way to do it
So glad it helped. Thank you so much for the kind words and comment!:) T
@@tomshepherdartist I did it. I used Primiary yellow, quinacridone red and ultramarine blue for a figury, keeping me in the orange area like the elefants and it went nice and balanced. Super, i am going to make another to day with the same colours to practice. Super. sorry for my bad english, I am danish.
Thanks Tom, really interesting to see both subjects painted with different colours, I wish I was more daring to try this. Look forward to your videos explaining colour in more detail, it's a really interesting subject.
I agree, it is a fascinating subject :) Thank you for the comment and support. T
Hi Tom, thank you for going deeper into colour. I was drawn to the use of warm and cool colours in your 'simplify your subject' tutorial a few weeks ago featuring the cheetah, so I enjoyed this lesson, particularly in your thought process on how to maximize and edit your colour pallette and how the use of colour creates perspective and highlights the focal point.
So glad you enjoyed it and found it useful! I love how much can be achieved with only a few colours or a very specific palette :) Colour is endlessly fascinating, T
Very useful video. are you related the the famous David shepherd who painted whose beautiful African elephants and other animals of Africa?
Thank you!! I am not, all though funnily enough I do know two his granddaughters. Such a wonderful and inspirational artists!!
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Thank you! I’ll see if I can change that. T
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