There’s a quote: “Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.” That’s how I feel about this video! I sit here with my jaw dropped; praising Stephen Quiller for the computations going into this wheel like a kid who just saw a rabbit pulled from a hat! Thanks for your elegant and simple explanations of color theory. You make this stuff feel within reach of the non-art degreed splasher. Thank you so much. Hugs!
Truly an amazing video. The first time I have ever been able to fully comprehend the reason and methodology for the Quiller Wheel. What a game changer. Indeed it's evident that you are brilliant for teaching so eloquently. You. make the information both tangible and relatable too, a GIFT. You are a SUPERSTAR! We miss you and your incredible education!🧡✨🧡
Well, I disagree with you at the end. Maybe for some you don’t need this but you just explained this so well that all my understanding of mixing from three pigment colours just fell into place. OMG!!! This is a big deal and thanks to Steven Quiller for developing this wheel. I love your channel. Please stay with your channel. Gee maybe I am a colour nerd too! 🇨🇦
Amazing! I tried it and it works! I made prussian green, indigo, and venetian red. They weren’t exactly like the actual paints, but pretty darn close, close enough that if you didn’t already own the color you could definitely mix your own. It’s amazing. I finally understand how the quiller wheel works! Thanks Oto.
Thank you for this eye-opening series! FYI, I just ordered Stephen Quillers' book from his website and I received a separate laminated smaller version of the wheel. A very nice little package! There is a larger pull-out version inside the book itself. I laminated that too.
Thank you again Dr. Oto Kano.I hope you know that you are an excellent teacher. Your voice and explanation are fantastic. I am looking forward to other of your watecolour tutorials. I will spread the word to other watercolourists.
I never knew that was how you use the quiller wheel! What a great way to find new mixes for neutral colors, thank you and I’m happy to be geeking out with you about color mixing!
Love this series on Color Theory! It is so hard to find good and useful information specifically for watercolor in books or online. You are much appreciated! I am so excited to practice what you have taught regarding the Quiller wheel. "Top level geek stuff..." YESSS
I love this! I’m just learning color theory, so I think it’s really helpful to be able to not only make the neutral colors but also to understand what happens to color when you add certain things to it so that you can just tweak a certain color, even if you’re not making a neutral. So I think this is very helpful! Thank you for sharing!
I love your work. Your explanations and examples are very clear. I would love to see equivalent options in Winsor and Newton, and Mission Gold, if possible. Thank you.
I'm glad you have been enjoying the series. I haven't listed those brands, as I only want to recommend colors that I have seen & played with myself (because color charts are not reliable).
Great stuff! I’ve been investing in tubes of best for mixing colours, buying empty half and full pans and pre mixing custom colours! This will be helpful when my next order of 50 empty half pans comes in. I’ve been painting more/faster by laying out tons of pre mixed. I advise people try in case it also works for their painting style.
I must be a geek too because I loved this video. I didn't know how to use the Quiller wheel. Amazing how it works. Thank you for sharing this with us. I've looked at the Quiller wheel many times and wished the wheel had all of our colors on it--or at least more of them on it. By the way, your pronunciations were perfect. Having worn braces myself in the last five years, I would have never guessed that you had braces on.
Oh my goodness this is awesome news! I am obviously a floor geek too! I just ordered the wheel for myself... This is my idea of fun when shut up cos of the rain... My my!
Wow, SO informative. Did not know anything about Quiller wheel at all, this is amazing. Makes me want to drop all my tasks and deadlines and experiment with this a.s.a.p :D
This video was so amazing and eye opening. I have learned so much with this series. Your explanations have been very clear and easy to understand. Thank you!
yeah!! I love this geeky stuff and could mix colors all day long! thank you so much for this video..I've never heard of the Quiller wheel before and am happy that you shared it..now I'm looking forward to get even deeper into geek knowledge 😅 oh and btw, your brackets weren't disturbing at all! greetings 😊
Thanks a ton for doing this video!! The in depth explanations of what colors are doing is super fascinating:D Also now my little travel pallet can paint just about anything :D
Great explanation. I teach colour mixing, and this is very similar to my approach. Not many teachers of colour actually know how pigments behave within the colour space. Handprint website has great colour-saturation curves of various pigment mixtures.
I love the sennelier mixes i can get with my 12+6 set, rarely any mud but these are really nice extra's specially for my burnt sienna and burnt umber fetish,hehe
Thank you for doing these color theory videos, they have been so very helpful. You were also very easy to understand - the braces didn't make too much of a difference although I bet they'll be weird to have to get used to!
I never knew how to really get all that info from that Quiller Wheel. Than you so much. I had braces many many years ago & I remember how painful they were at first. Hope you do not experience much pain.
Congratulations on your adventures with braces! Been there and was happy that I made the leap! As for the video, I love anything about color theory and mixing! My only issue with mixing is when I'm in the middle of a project, I find that far too often I fail to mix enough. And as I learned as a student, years ago, once you make your mix, you can almost never get the same exact mix again a second time. That's been proven true over the years, especially in larger projects. sigh. This is a wonderful series and I am really looking forward to more! Cheers and thank you! :)
thank you !!!!!!! Explained that amazingly! i need to find that wheel!!! And i hope your mouth is ok... I've know people who had braces and they say it can be quite painful :(
I have to tell you something that I am sure will put a smile on your face! I had the subtitles turned on to watch this video so that I wasn’t annoying anyone around me with the sound. You’ll never guess what the subtitles called the “Quiller Wheel”… … the “Killer Whale”!!!😂😂😂 Made me laugh
Oto!!!!!!! So fabulous. My goal is to distill this down to a palette of 4 to 8 colors that will do ANYTHING and go ANYWHERE. At the moment, I’m focusing on color understanding. (I’ll consider granulation as my painting skills mature.) Other than the split primary, do you have advice for the quest for a palette more condensed than the 12-color studio palette you’ve been demonstrating? Thank you again for this teaching. (And your speech was fine, no problems). 😉👍🏽🎨🎨
Lynn Stott I find that the minimum amount of colors is 5 - a middle yellow, quinacridone rose, ultramine blue, pthalo blue and burnt sienna (or transparent red oxide or quinacridone burnt orange) to create easy grays with the ultramarine blue.
Great advice! Some sort of pigment/hue wheel is almost always useful. However when i mix colors, mixing a yellow ochre -which is usually relatively cheap- from ultramarine and an expensive organic yellow orange feels wasteful. And if i am mixing oil paint, pigment type gains more importance because of drying characteristics. For example yellow ochre (PY 42 or 43) becomes touch dry in 2-3 days, but ultramarine and cadmium orange mix takes up to 10 days to somewhat feel dry.
Hi Dr. Oto...Your statistical comparison of colors is needed for my visual sense. You are always on my watch list. Having started this procedure with my paints before palating, where do you get color info, e.g.: its neutral counterpart, comparable colors for deeper intensity, etc. Is there a published description book or mag from DS that informs painters. Their DS palette of greys were very informative when marketing new items but other than that I cannot find any references to older colors, e.g. duochrome paints. Yavapai Genuine is new and wondered how it fit in with ochre and burnt orange. Thank you.
It's all nice and clear when you know which colour you want to mix by looking at this colour wheel, but how do you know how to mix a colour that you see in your reference picture. How do you know where it sits in the colour wheel? Is it just guessing or is there a technique on figuring its place on the wheel.
The Handprint version of the color wheel is also very nice. Very similar, also listing pigments and paints. Not sure which one came first. www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/cwheel06.pdf
Was going to say I use the Handprint one, Bruce MacEvoy did his original one in 1999, then an altered one in 2006, I'm not sure if Quiller's was earlier.
Yay for geekyness. Thanks Oto. Such great education and clear as a bell. No speech problems noticed. It will be no time and you will be used to your braces.😉💚💜💙 Thanks ever so much.
Great Job Oto! Thank you so much, I am really loving these videos. Just to spark an idea, could you cover the Artist's Color Wheel on handprint? I think it ties into the Quiller Wheel, but can't quite make the connection. Thanks again for all your hard work
Great video:) was super helpful. I saw you have transparent red oxide in your description as addition to your palette.. can you tell me what you use it for? Does it help with colour mixing?
Hi, that's a personal choice. I don't really enjoy painting with oranges but I need something on the palette to neutralise warm blues. TRO is really good for that (also makes some gorgeous colors if you mix a tiny bit to ultramarine blue).It is a great alternative if you prefer a more muted option.
There’s a quote: “Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.” That’s how I feel about this video! I sit here with my jaw dropped; praising Stephen Quiller for the computations going into this wheel like a kid who just saw a rabbit pulled from a hat! Thanks for your elegant and simple explanations of color theory. You make this stuff feel within reach of the non-art degreed splasher. Thank you so much. Hugs!
Truly an amazing video. The first time I have ever been able to fully comprehend the reason and methodology for the Quiller Wheel. What a game changer. Indeed it's evident that you are brilliant for teaching so eloquently. You. make the information both tangible and relatable too, a GIFT. You are a SUPERSTAR! We miss you and your incredible education!🧡✨🧡
it was driving me crazy to figure out how to mix burnt umber! Your videos are just an endless resource of such great, applicable information!❤
Absolutely the best color theory ever- have learned so much!
Geek work assures me the spectrum is orderly and magnificently malleable. THANK you!
Well, I disagree with you at the end. Maybe for some you don’t need this but you just explained this so well that all my understanding of mixing from three pigment colours just fell into place. OMG!!! This is a big deal and thanks to Steven Quiller for developing this wheel. I love your channel. Please stay with your channel. Gee maybe I am a colour nerd too! 🇨🇦
Amazing! I tried it and it works! I made prussian green, indigo, and venetian red. They weren’t exactly like the actual paints, but pretty darn close, close enough that if you didn’t already own the color you could definitely mix your own. It’s amazing. I finally understand how the quiller wheel works! Thanks Oto.
Thank you for this eye-opening series! FYI, I just ordered Stephen Quillers' book from his website and I received a separate laminated smaller version of the wheel. A very nice little package! There is a larger pull-out version inside the book itself. I laminated that too.
Thank you again Dr. Oto Kano.I hope you know that you are an excellent teacher. Your voice and explanation are fantastic. I am looking forward to other of your watecolour tutorials. I will spread the word to other watercolourists.
Aw thank you Vivian, that would really help. Thank you!
I never knew that was how you use the quiller wheel! What a great way to find new mixes for neutral colors, thank you and I’m happy to be geeking out with you about color mixing!
Thank you for geeking out with me Nicole!
Love this series on Color Theory! It is so hard to find good and useful information specifically for watercolor in books or online. You are much appreciated! I am so excited to practice what you have taught regarding the Quiller wheel.
"Top level geek stuff..." YESSS
Loving the color theory series, I have learned alot from it. Keep up the good work, you are a great teacher!
So glad you have been enjoying the series, thanks for watching all the videos Ain :)
I love this! I’m just learning color theory, so I think it’s really helpful to be able to not only make the neutral colors but also to understand what happens to color when you add certain things to it so that you can just tweak a certain color, even if you’re not making a neutral. So I think this is very helpful! Thank you for sharing!
What geeky fun! You are a fantastic teacher, and that Quiller fellow is clearly quite an original thinker. Best of luck with the braces!
I feel like I have discovered a new planet! Unbelievable. You are a treasure🥰
Another brilliant tutorial 👍🏼 I have that Quiller wheel... now it makes even more sense.
Yay, so glad the wheel now makes more sense :D
You really have a way of breaking down color theory without it feeling overwhelming.
Thank you for this series!
Aw thank you Stefi, so glad it's easy to understand. Thanks for watching.
I love your work. Your explanations and examples are very clear. I would love to see equivalent options in Winsor and Newton, and Mission Gold, if possible. Thank you.
I'm glad you have been enjoying the series. I haven't listed those brands, as I only want to recommend colors that I have seen & played with myself (because color charts are not reliable).
Great stuff! I’ve been investing in tubes of best for mixing colours, buying empty half and full pans and pre mixing custom colours! This will be helpful when my next order of 50 empty half pans comes in. I’ve been painting more/faster by laying out tons of pre mixed. I advise people try in case it also works for their painting style.
I must be a geek too because I loved this video. I didn't know how to use the Quiller wheel. Amazing how it works. Thank you for sharing this with us. I've looked at the Quiller wheel many times and wished the wheel had all of our colors on it--or at least more of them on it. By the way, your pronunciations were perfect. Having worn braces myself in the last five years, I would have never guessed that you had braces on.
So glad you enjoyed geeking out with me Robin :D
oooo, I see the point of the Quiller wheel now, haha! XD
It's really fascinating!
Ha ha yes at first sight, it's hard to understand what it's for. But it's a very useful wheel for color mixing geeks like us :D
This color theory series has been incredible! Thanks so much. Sara
You’re wonderful in your teachings. You make this understandable!!! Thank you!
Oh my goodness this is awesome news! I am obviously a floor geek too! I just ordered the wheel for myself... This is my idea of fun when shut up cos of the rain... My my!
Getting the colors I don't have so I can do this myself...
Omg for sure this was super helpful even if its not watercolors this helps me for acrylics :D Thank you so much for making this video❤
Cool! (Or should I say Warm!😉). So interesting! Love learning about mixing colors.
Glad you enjoyed it Mary, thanks for watching!
SO INFORMATIVE! I'm so excited to experiment with watercolors now!!
These series are very well designed perfectly understandable and ultimately helpful, and wonderful series. Many thanks, Oto.
Fascinating! I never understood the Quiller wheel...now I do!
Wow, SO informative. Did not know anything about Quiller wheel at all, this is amazing. Makes me want to drop all my tasks and deadlines and experiment with this a.s.a.p :D
Have fun mixing colors Ana :D
Thanks so much for this. You are such a good teacher! ( I guess you appeal to the geek in me.)
Yay, so glad you enjoy the geek
Bless you. I hope your future days are brighter. You are loved and appreciated by many. 💜
This video was so amazing and eye opening. I have learned so much with this series. Your explanations have been very clear and easy to understand. Thank you!
Really glad you've been enjoying this series :D thanks for watching.
What a great Wheel! Thank for all your expertise.. well explained and now i khow how to use it.
yeah!! I love this geeky stuff and could mix colors all day long! thank you so much for this video..I've never heard of the Quiller wheel before and am happy that you shared it..now I'm looking forward to get even deeper into geek knowledge 😅 oh and btw, your brackets weren't disturbing at all! greetings 😊
Thank you so much for joining me in geeking out :D
Brilliant, yet again. I am so glad I came across your channel.
Thanks so much for these videos. As a new painter I find all of the materials you've provided so very helpful. You are awesome!
Thanks as always, you do a magnificent job explaining!
Really interesting stuff Oto! I love the version of Yellow Ochre that you made.
Thanks a ton for doing this video!! The in depth explanations of what colors are doing is super fascinating:D
Also now my little travel pallet can paint just about anything :D
Yay! So glad you get to enjoy your travel palette to the full now :)
Thank you so much! I have this Quiller chart and have been confused on how to use it.
Thanks Oto! Very useful video - i will definitely try to mix some neutral colours
Oh, and your pronunciation is absolutely fine :)
Thank you for the feedback Gintarine, so glad my pronounciation was ok!
Great explanation. I teach colour mixing, and this is very similar to my approach. Not many teachers of colour actually know how pigments behave within the colour space. Handprint website has great colour-saturation curves of various pigment mixtures.
I love the sennelier mixes i can get with my 12+6 set, rarely any mud but these are really nice extra's specially for my burnt sienna and burnt umber fetish,hehe
Really fascinating! Love your videos. I learn so much. You explain things so well. Thank you.
Aw thank you for your very kind words
Love learning this…so helpful…thank you!
Thank you for doing these color theory videos, they have been so very helpful. You were also very easy to understand - the braces didn't make too much of a difference although I bet they'll be weird to have to get used to!
So glad to know that the braces didn't make much of a difference Heather, thank you for letting me know!
I love u! Thank you for sharing all these amazing color theories!
Thanks so much for this video of the Quiller's Wheel. You teach very well. I am learning so much from this Color Theory series.
So glad you are enjoying the series Val, thank you for watching them :D
I never knew how to really get all that info from that Quiller Wheel. Than you so much. I had braces many many years ago & I remember how painful they were at first. Hope you do not experience much pain.
So glad the Quiller wheel makes sense now :)
Congratulations on your adventures with braces! Been there and was happy that I made the leap! As for the video, I love anything about color theory and mixing! My only issue with mixing is when I'm in the middle of a project, I find that far too often I fail to mix enough. And as I learned as a student, years ago, once you make your mix, you can almost never get the same exact mix again a second time. That's been proven true over the years, especially in larger projects. sigh. This is a wonderful series and I am really looking forward to more! Cheers and thank you! :)
You helped me learn to use my quiller wheel.thank you
I'm so glad! Thank you for watching.
That was fascinating! Thank you 👍
wonderfully clear and articulate series - thank you very much
thank you !!!!!!! Explained that amazingly! i need to find that wheel!!! And i hope your mouth is ok... I've know people who had braces and they say it can be quite painful :(
Thank you Babydoll, the braces haven't been too bad so far. Fingers crossed!
I always thought Killer Whales were black and white 😂. Great job with the braces ❤❤❤
Very fun and interesting!!!
Thank you Holly!
I have to tell you something that I am sure will put a smile on your face! I had the subtitles turned on to watch this video so that I wasn’t annoying anyone around me with the sound. You’ll never guess what the subtitles called the “Quiller Wheel”…
… the “Killer Whale”!!!😂😂😂
Made me laugh
am here for geekery....... bring it on LOL thanks for the video
Glad you are here for the geeky stuff Ian :D
Very informative thank you 👍 I too geek out top level 😜
This is EXTREMELY cool. I will definitely be getting my hands on a copy of that.
Have fun with the quiller wheel!
I finally understand the chart.yay
This has changed my life, thank you :)
Oto!!!!!!! So fabulous. My goal is to distill this down to a palette of 4 to 8 colors that will do ANYTHING and go ANYWHERE. At the moment, I’m focusing on color understanding. (I’ll consider granulation as my painting skills mature.) Other than the split primary, do you have advice for the quest for a palette more condensed than the 12-color studio palette you’ve been demonstrating? Thank you again for this teaching. (And your speech was fine, no problems). 😉👍🏽🎨🎨
I would recommend the split primary, and then add convenience colors that you use the most.
Lynn Stott I find that the minimum amount of colors is 5 - a middle yellow, quinacridone rose, ultramine blue, pthalo blue and burnt sienna (or transparent red oxide or quinacridone burnt orange) to create easy grays with the ultramarine blue.
Jane Blundell recommended Burnt Sienna as the fourth color to accompany the 3 primaries, if that helps at all this late after you asked.
This is SOOO interesting Otto!! Definitely a handy skill to have
This series is so helpful. Thank you.
Thank you
Great advice! Some sort of pigment/hue wheel is almost always useful. However when i mix colors, mixing a yellow ochre -which is usually relatively cheap- from ultramarine and an expensive organic yellow orange feels wasteful. And if i am mixing oil paint, pigment type gains more importance because of drying characteristics. For example yellow ochre (PY 42 or 43) becomes touch dry in 2-3 days, but ultramarine and cadmium orange mix takes up to 10 days to somewhat feel dry.
Yes, there's no reason not to use a yellow ochre. This video was just a geeking out demo in how color mixing works.
Excellent information Oto, really enjoy this video. Thank you.
Thank you Julio, so glad you enjoyed this video :D
Hi Dr. Oto...Your statistical comparison of colors is needed for my visual sense. You are always on my watch list. Having started this procedure with my paints before palating, where do you get color info, e.g.: its neutral counterpart, comparable colors for deeper intensity, etc. Is there a published description book or mag from DS that informs painters. Their DS palette of greys were very informative when marketing new items but other than that I cannot find any references to older colors, e.g. duochrome paints.
Yavapai Genuine is new and wondered how it fit in with ochre and burnt orange. Thank you.
Well done!!!
It would be so great if you would please add a list of colors from Windsor Newton! Oh please, oh please???
I've learned so much from you and these videos in particular. Thank you so much!
Really glad you are enjoying these videos :D Thanks for watching!
It's all nice and clear when you know which colour you want to mix by looking at this colour wheel, but how do you know how to mix a colour that you see in your reference picture. How do you know where it sits in the colour wheel? Is it just guessing or is there a technique on figuring its place on the wheel.
The Handprint version of the color wheel is also very nice. Very similar, also listing pigments and paints. Not sure which one came first. www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/cwheel06.pdf
Was going to say I use the Handprint one, Bruce MacEvoy did his original one in 1999, then an altered one in 2006, I'm not sure if Quiller's was earlier.
I love your channel
This is great! Thank you!
Yay for geekyness. Thanks Oto. Such great education and clear as a bell. No speech problems noticed. It will be no time and you will be used to your braces.😉💚💜💙 Thanks ever so much.
So glad that my speech was ok, phew! Thank you for letting me know.
Great Job Oto! Thank you so much, I am really loving these videos.
Just to spark an idea, could you cover the Artist's Color Wheel on handprint? I think it ties into the Quiller Wheel, but can't quite make the connection.
Thanks again for all your hard work
Wooo I'll look into it for you Steph.
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Like very much 👍❤️. Are you using acrylics or watercolor or something else?
How to mix anycolour by using this colour wheel please.
Want that wheel now 😂
Love this top geek stuff!
YESSSSS!
Have you seen the new DS Greys?
Great video:) was super helpful. I saw you have transparent red oxide in your description as addition to your palette.. can you tell me what you use it for? Does it help with colour mixing?
Hi, that's a personal choice. I don't really enjoy painting with oranges but I need something on the palette to neutralise warm blues. TRO is really good for that (also makes some gorgeous colors if you mix a tiny bit to ultramarine blue).It is a great alternative if you prefer a more muted option.
Dr. Oto Kano oh good to know! I’ll look into that when creating my palette:) thanks
Have you found a porcelain palette other than this one.
Oto, what would be funny to do is paint some real eggs those colors and put them in the wheel.
Hi can you give me the pdf of quiller wheel?
Just check Google Images
Quiller's book Color Choices has his wheel and Amazon has his wheel in poster size. I love his book Color Choices. Hope this info is helpful.
I always thought raw umber was actually a green hahaha
Do you mind if I try to guess your accent? Australian ?
The subtitle says killer whale instead of quiller wheel 😂
None of these colours are neutrals though...