If you are interested in getting some fantastic insight in to color mixing I highly recommend Chris Breier's color mixing course - chrisb.thinkific.com/courses/color-mixing-course?ref=868193
Thank you so much for this I been painting since a little girl and I studied color theory and all that but I guess I'm just not getting it but I would love nothing more than to just have to buy a few colors and make every single color I want so I think I may go take his course
David thank you! I am saving this as reference. I have a reason to need this exact information for a future thing. I didn't know I needed this information. When you see it you will know. And I will be adding a link and shouting you out when I get there. This will be months from now but I think my thumbnails will alert you to what I am talking about. I don't want to be rude so I am keeping this nonspecific as best I can. Thank you SO VERY MUCH for this video! (and all the others too)
Thanks for the shout out! I enjoyed watching you mix colors and make decisions about what you needed to add. It’s really cool seeing someone apply the color mixing techniques that I use for representational art and apply it to acrylic pouring. 🎨 Great video!👍
Hey Chris are you on RUclips? I don’t do TickTock I don’t do Instagram and if lefty says that you’re good I trust him! You got yourself a good friend there hold on To him David’s one of the best great 👍 person
so glad i found your channel! After watching videos and buying stuff I just could not get started. Your info is amazing but it's your way of inspiring others that is the best part of your channel. Thanks so much
great video. something to remember when mixing, keep in mind what kind of light you are mixing in vs what kind of light there will be when the finished painting will be hung. daylight, fluorescent, LED light and regular iridescent light will change the appearance of a color. also, knowing how paint dries darker, when trying to match your mix to a color swatch, using a hair dryer to quick dry a dot of your color mix on the swatch will save time on over-mixing if you accidently add to much of one-color tint. less corrections will save time.
Hi and thanks for your clear and detailed explanations. I believe you are serving many folks like me, who experience the world both analytically and visually but cannot understand or explain the latter. Also, some day I hope to be as comfortable as you are on camera.
Thank you so much! Your channel breaks it down for my left brain. While I love watching the other channels, they don't explain WHY the paint is reacting the way it is. Your channel popped up as a suggestion after several weeks of watching the others, and I'm so thankful it did!
Dude you are awesome, I love how you explain how everything works together. Thank you for not being an asshole like some people tend to be when they are good at something. 👏
This is an old video…I just found it! I want to do the pour painting but was worried it would cost too much money!😂 this is amazing I’m soo glad I found this project! Thank you so much. I went to art classes for a while and the most thing that amazed me was that yellow and black made green!😂😂 I can’t wait now to start my new painting journey. I just have to get containers to hold the paint! ❤️💕👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🇬🇧🇬🇧🐶🐶
Mixing brown on my own was hard but finally did it. Every artist should learn colour theory, it allows us the ability to create our own tints, tones and shades.
Wow, definitely need this. I would have thought that it would have been more white for the light blue, not the yellow. I definitely need to check out Chris's course. Another awesome and informative video. Love how your painting turned out too.
Thank you for all your teaching After watching you last night today I did one of the best pieces Lol 61 just started pouring about 3 months ago I love it and you are wonderful David thank you thank you!! You answered so much for me last night 🌃
I'm in the same boat as use. Not an artist i.e. left brained ;-) . The colors you use explains why Ink jet printers also use those colors ;-) Thank you for your videos. Great work!!!
Yes! Yes! What a great informative video....mixing colors has always been a challenge for me so I always buy the color I need. We have bins of paint. Will check out his course. Thank you!👌😁
@@marystewart8905 , I hear ya! My daughter and I will take his course. It just seems easier to buy a bottle of the color I want. Dave is such a great guy to share all this information. 👌
I enjoy acrylic painting so , much I'm learning a lot about the different types of pours there's so much to learn it's so exciting , also I find it relaxing as well
You make it seem so easy which in turn gives insensitive and motivation. Last video I watched I turned around and welcomed Autumn with a ring pour using autumn colors and I liked how it came. Then with the left over paint I did a dirty pour and that one I liked even more. Always looking forward to you next tutorial.. Thank you 🙏🏽
It is a lot of work but I really enjoying doing it. I try to take as many shortcuts as possible without sacrificing quality and those are the tips I try to always bring to my videos. Thanks again for watching Noemi.
Hi David! I taught gifted (high IQ) students for many of my 40 years of teaching. Having said that, you remind me so much of many of my former students….Analytical, focused, and very methodical when it is a topic you love! I continue to learn from and love your videos! Keep um coming! 👍🥰❤️
That was a very nice compliment thank you so much Nita. Not sure about the IQ part but breaking things down in to their very basic forms is definitely my preferred learning method.
Just the video I wanted to see. I’m still not comfortable getting my paints ready pour. I’ve only done two actual canvases. This wii be helpful. Thank you!
Dankeschön,wieder was dazu gelernt. Vielen lieben Dank für deine Zeit und das du dein Wissen mit uns teilst. Zuletzt noch was, das was du am Anfang von dem Video gesagt hast trifft auch auf mich zu. Dachte nie und wirklich niemals das ich künstler werden kann auch wenns nur für mich ist und Hobby mäßig. Dankeschön nochmal für alles ich schau dein Kanal sehr gerne auch wenn ich nicht alles verstehe wegen der Sprache. ❤💛💙💙🤍
@@LeftBrainedArtist vor allem es bringt die Menschen zusammen. Ohne das hätten wir niemals Kontakt zueinander. Das ist auch sehr schön daran. Man lernt und wächst und es macht wajmhnsinnig spass und Gesundheitlich hat es mir persönlich sehr geholfen an manchen Tagen und tut es immernoch. Bleib gesund freue mich auf das nächste Video von dir. 😉
What great timing you have! I just received the same Blick colors, plus the mars black, in a six pack of pints. Can't wait to get started. Thank you for your informative videos.
Thank you so much! I was looking for a video which explain how to do colors by yourself and use them for pouring !!! It will be better for my budget 😁😁😁. (Sorry for my English) , Cecile, from France
Once again you are my hero. I have spent a few days searching for the perfect (for me) teal… spent around $30 on different paint brands and not happy with any of them. With this video I created the PERFECT color - exactly what I wanted in under five minutes and probably less than $3. Im going to check into Chris…. Thank you! Now I need to try that dang maroon again 🥰
Excellent Tutorial David. I need to take Chris’s class as I have problems understanding color theory. I am just like you a left brain person and fo not consider myself an artist. Love pouring because it is a lot easier than actual painting with a brush. Thanks for sharing. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
I so often see you uploaded a new video and feel you must be sitting on my shoulder or, more so, peeking in my brain. You are teaching things I have been wanting to do but can't yet pull the trigger on. You give me what I need to get moving on mixing paint or whatever the subject matter you are showing us. To your four colors, I would add black. When you were mixing the blue, I thought a tiny bit of gray would work. Now stop looking in my brain because it's kind of a mess 😁
That is an interesting point. You can so many shades of black that you can just create it by adding specific colors together. This is where a more transparent version of yellow and blue can help as it gives you a deeper black.
Just taking a much needed break from a writing project (deadline due very soon!) and this popped up. Perfect video for stress relief and very educational too 😊
Turned out very pretty! Great course to look into. Math was always a struggle so I guess I’m not left-brained. Not sure where that leaves me…. Thank you for showing this!
Left brained and right brained are way too broad to encompass everyone. You are you Kathy. And your needs and abilities are unique. Just a convenient name for my channel and my approach to pouring.
My art teachers always taught me that from elementary to college. College it was dived into further for web and printing processes. I actually have mini books on it. It’s pretty cool.
Me too but it never really stuck. Maybe I wasn't ready to really internalize it back then. Now it is starting to be a habit. Probably because I use it so much more.
Great information. I have mixed my own colors quite a bit. I think of it like a printer…you only have cyan, magenta, yellow and black in there and they make all the colors.
The only thing i would add is metallics. Using professional heavy body metals are worth the money. They show up and give the piece a little oomph, and a bit of black to cool the color if needed. Great job, LBA.
Great content David, though you sped it up when you were mixing colors so I didn't quite understand how the other colors were made. I DO now know not to use black to darken as I have been doing. I don't use tiktok so can't link to your artist friend...any other options you recommend to learn color mixing in more detail? I always love watching your videos because I learn sooo much! Thank you!
What an excellent video. And thanks for the link. I’m having shoulder surgery on Monday and won’t be able to paint for a while. Maybe that will give me something to do!
I love your channel! I have a question. I've put this on a group but I want to see if you might have a suggestion. I had my paintings in storage and 3 have come out stuck together front to back. I'd really hate to lose these. Do you have an idea on how I can separate them without pulling the paint off. They were probably done with craft paints since that's usually all I can afford.
Great tutorial David. I just bought 32oz or all the primary colors from Blick since they had a sale. I was wondering, do you have a recipe for Blickcrylic paint + Floetrol that you could recommend as a starting point? Thanks!
Hi LBA, I was wondering if you can do a video on using up paint that has been scraped from a canvas & collected. I have nearly 5 litres of used mixed colour paint that has been scraped off & put into a 5 litre container. There are so many colours mixed into this container. Is there anything that can change the colour which is a darkish charcoal. I put 2 coats on a white piece of paper & once dried is a very dark charcoal muddy colour if that makes sense. I know a lot of people will collect their used paint & not know what to do with it. Hoping you can do an experiment??? Love your videos & watch them all. Hoping you can help, Cheers Samm
Great video. There's an excellent book on mixing colors: Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green by Michael Wilcox. Super great info on mixing paints and how to get the color you want. Technically you need 8 colors, a warm and a cool version of the 3 primaries, black and white. But in reality it's 9. A good clear violet is hard to mix without it getting dull.
Neon's aren't worth trying to create yourself, or at least I haven't found any good way. Really bright orange is the same way. Metallics and iridescent can be made with mica powders.
Please do a video on how do use the hairdryer what kind of hairdryer didn’t use I just totally destroy absolutely everything I put my hairdryer to and I don’t know whether it’s the device I don’t know whether it’s how I’m holding it I don’t know and I’ve tried numerous things and nothing has worked so please do a video on how to use a hairdryer and what type of hairdryer to use for what particular pour
I was doing some googling this morning to find how to make a tan colour from my white paint. Then I thought of you and low and behold you have video about just that! I want to make a simple tan or beige colour out of my white. Everytime I add a little brown to it, I get a light brown but it always has a slight pink to it. What I learned from the google machine is to simply add a little yellow to it with the brown. Now I am not looking for an exact colour to match another one. I simply want to tint my white to a very light tan or beige. What do you think? Would adding a yellow to it work? Normally I would just try doing it, but I need about 16 oz. of it. Can you help me out?
I would mix it up on some wax paper so you can spread it out and see the color you are making. Honestly, my favorite video about this is from Chris Breier - ruclips.net/video/U3xJasFwWSg/видео.html
There's a reason that paint and pinot (or whatever paint night you go to) instructors only use the primarys with black and white. Okay, the most obvious is that it's cheap. But what I was getting at is by combining those colors, you can make any color you like. However, black is very dominant, so use less than you think you should. Also (and maybe you should do a color mixing video), black is not just "black". There's blue-black, green-black, purple-black, and even yellow black. Even in shadow, unless it's a black object in shadow and then it's still questionable, blacks aren't actually all black. If you mix a warm black (on the yellow/red side) into a cool painting (towards the blue side of the color wheel), you may not be able to put your finger on what's off, but your eye will see it to tell you it's off. Jet black is as close to "pure" black as you'll get. I suggest to my students to paint a single line of black on white paper. Drag it all the way down until there's no paint left. Check the middle to end color and you'll see whether it's on the yellow side or the blue. For instance, if you've ever painted with Payne's grey, the mid range is blue. Black comes in charcoal (which is blue), Ebony is actually a grey/olive green, and the list goes on from greens (which is usually what cake icing is and why your poop ends up green if you eat it) to yellows to reds ... Black is never just black. Same with white. Titanium is what most folks use because that's the purest. But go to a paint store and look at the chips. White is also not white unless you get titanium.
That’s absolutely beautiful OK I want more that mine is coming out like Iggy I don’t like anything that I’m doing lately so when that happens I walk away I get myself time off… Everything seems to be doll I wanted to be bright… And does Chris have a RUclips channel?… I will I wish she had in the sped up the mixing of the paints but I’ll watch it over and see if I can catch it👍🤟🤟
Use much less pouring medium. Must less. Maybe 1 part paint to 1/2 part medium. That should perk your colors up a bit. A good varnish will too but that is hard to envision when the painting is just barely drying.
I’m so horrible at mixing colors. It took me 31 attempts to get a version of teal. I want it to be easier. So just wondering, is there an app out there that takes a Hex Color and converts it to an acrylic color?
Ok i get what I did wrong the couple times I decided to get a different shade of blue and the two colors didn't fully integrate. I mixed the colors AFTER I mixed 2 colors that I had already mixed with pouring medium.
I learned everything I know from www.youtube.com/@ChrisBreier. Just watching his channel and listening to how he color corrects, especially in his short videos, really helped me to visualize what I awas looking to do with this.
David, maybe I broke the rules by putting the link to Breier's website? I just thought your followers would benefit from his mixing instructions and I found his PDF of mixing colors most useful. Also, he has many other tips like how to sign your work, etc. You know I'm a super nerd physicist/engineer but also love art and making art, so let me your rules about links or why you didn't post my previous entry. Thanks, Cliff
No problem at all Cliff. I use that PDF all the time. I am just fine with links as long as they aren't spam and on topic. Especially when they help others out.
Having a separate black can make it easier for many people. However, you can make black out of cyan, magenta, and yellow and then tailor. Doing it this way you can also make lots of different types of black with different color biases for the perfect color (think Paynes Grey or Dioxozine purple type deep colors that are almost black)
The primary colors are magenta, cyan, and yellow. Do not buy red blue and yellow paint You will get muddy dull colors. If you don't believe me that those are the primary colors and you still believe the lie about red blue and yellow What do printers take? How do printers make red when they do not contain red? Because red is not a primary color It is a mixture of magenta and yellow.
Dang it went so fast I couldn’t see what color you were adding. I backed up several times. NO HELP FOR ME 🤷♀️ I have learned so much from you, so disappointed 🤷♀️
In the bottom right on desktop or top right on mobile you can select the gear icon and change the speed of the video down to .75 or .5 to watch it in slower motion.
My intent is not to be offensive but this video is stressful and your explanations are so fast and not helpful to beginners. Sorry.but someone has to say it but got a few things from it.thanks for your time.
If you are interested in getting some fantastic insight in to color mixing I highly recommend Chris Breier's color mixing course - chrisb.thinkific.com/courses/color-mixing-course?ref=868193
Thank you so very much for your helping me in every area of acrylic painting!😊
joined his class thanks, I let him know it was from your referral
Thank you so much for this I been painting since a little girl and I studied color theory and all that but I guess I'm just not getting it but I would love nothing more than to just have to buy a few colors and make every single color I want so I think I may go take his course
David thank you! I am saving this as reference. I have a reason to need this exact information for a future thing. I didn't know I needed this information. When you see it you will know. And I will be adding a link and shouting you out when I get there. This will be months from now but I think my thumbnails will alert you to what I am talking about. I don't want to be rude so I am keeping this nonspecific as best I can.
Thank you SO VERY MUCH for this video! (and all the others too)
God bless you always, so helpful for me and everyone, thanks million times.👏👏👏🌺👏👏👏👏💐🌷👍
You are very welcome Mirna. Glad to help.
Its amazing how 5 colors can make so many other colors. Thanks for the informative video 😊
My pleasure 😊
You are the perfect teacher!
I don't know about that but I do try Maria.
I love it!!! Looks like storm waves in the ocean! ❤😊
Thanks so much!
Thanks for the shout out! I enjoyed watching you mix colors and make decisions about what you needed to add. It’s really cool seeing someone apply the color mixing techniques that I use for representational art and apply it to acrylic pouring. 🎨 Great video!👍
Thanks again for teaching me Chris. Mixing colors are haunted me for years. Glad I can feel comfortable doing it myself now.
Hey Chris are you on RUclips? I don’t do TickTock I don’t do Instagram and if lefty says that you’re good I trust him! You got yourself a good friend there hold on To him David’s one of the best great 👍 person
Yes, I joined your class! it's great!. I just am not sure how to mix a large quantity of colors for the acrylic pour.
@@jab3562 Thanks, I’m glad you like it! I plan on doing a RUclips soon about how to mix larger volumes of paint.
Thank you, David! A mine of useful information! xx 💋
Always nice to share what I am learning Fran. Thanks for watching.
Nice job and thanks for connecting us to Chris Breier!
My pleasure. Love what Chris is doing and so easy to learn from.
@@LeftBrainedArtist I always enjoy learning about color and mixing colors. Thanks for giving the link for his You Tube channel!
so glad i found your channel! After watching videos and buying stuff I just could not get started. Your info is amazing but it's your way of inspiring others that is the best part of your channel. Thanks so much
I'm so glad to help Stacey.
Thank you 😊I pray that this day finds you blessed and paint splattered
Same to you!
great video. something to remember when mixing, keep in mind what kind of light you are mixing in vs what kind of light there will be when the finished painting will be hung. daylight, fluorescent, LED light and regular iridescent light will change the appearance of a color. also, knowing how paint dries darker, when trying to match your mix to a color swatch, using a hair dryer to quick dry a dot of your color mix on the swatch will save time on over-mixing if you accidently add to much of one-color tint. less corrections will save time.
Great tips Todd. Thanks for commenting.
Hi and thanks for your clear and detailed explanations. I believe you are serving many folks like me, who experience the world both analytically and visually but cannot understand or explain the latter. Also, some day I hope to be as comfortable as you are on camera.
It's only take a couple hundred videos Randall. If you start, you'll get there.
Thank you so much! Your channel breaks it down for my left brain. While I love watching the other channels, they don't explain WHY the paint is reacting the way it is. Your channel popped up as a suggestion after several weeks of watching the others, and I'm so thankful it did!
Happy to help! Please ask any questions you don't see answered.
Dude you are awesome, I love how you explain how everything works together. Thank you for not being an asshole like some people tend to be when they are good at something. 👏
Well I appreciate that. I try not to be an arse, especially when I think I am always still so far behind in my learning.
I truly enjoy watching your channel. You're so talented, amazing at explaining things & your voice helps calm my anxiety. Thank you for everything!
Well that is the best compliment I have gotten in a while my friend. Keep on keeping on!
@@LeftBrainedArtist thank you so much!
This is an old video…I just found it! I want to do the pour painting but was worried it would cost too much money!😂 this is amazing I’m soo glad I found this project! Thank you so much. I went to art classes for a while and the most thing that amazed me was that yellow and black made green!😂😂 I can’t wait now to start my new painting journey. I just have to get containers to hold the paint! ❤️💕👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🇬🇧🇬🇧🐶🐶
Let me know how it goes for you!
Mixing brown on my own was hard but finally did it. Every artist should learn colour theory, it allows us the ability to create our own tints, tones and shades.
100% agree.
Thank you. That was very informative..😀😀
My pleasure Vicki!
Thankyou! I agree with you one hundred percent! The theory for understanding color is right on! Guess I'm a left brain artist also. You made my day !
Thanks Dottie. Glad to help.
You make it so easy to make your own paints thank you so much I do appreciate you❤
Thank you so much 😀
Love your Intellect!!
You are a gem Sarah. Thank you!
Thank you, thank you yet again. Love your videos🎊🎊🎊🎊!!!
Glad to be of service Monie Moon. Let me know if you have more questions.
TRUE. I am also, thanks for guidance.
Thanks for watching Narayanan.
Those are some amazing colors.
Thanks Cecila. I am still a work in progress with this but it is nice to be learning and better yet understanding finally.
Wow, definitely need this. I would have thought that it would have been more white for the light blue, not the yellow. I definitely need to check out Chris's course.
Another awesome and informative video. Love how your painting turned out too.
He's helped me a ton over the year. Glad to see him putting it down in video where I can rewatch.
I agree about stick figure drawing,😊 but, I find acrylic painting relaxing
I love pouring. It's my calming place. Free hand just makes me anxious.
Thank you for all your teaching After watching you last night today I did one of the best pieces Lol 61 just started pouring about 3 months ago I love it and you are wonderful David thank you thank you!! You answered so much for me last night 🌃
That is so wonderful to hear. Can't wait to see the results Carolyn.
I'm in the same boat as use. Not an artist i.e. left brained ;-) . The colors you use explains why Ink jet printers also use those colors ;-) Thank you for your videos. Great work!!!
Exactly Mauritz. Thanks for watching.
Yes! Yes! What a great informative video....mixing colors has always been a challenge for me so I always buy the color I need. We have bins of paint. Will check out his course. Thank you!👌😁
Same thing, I know that I have over 160 different bottles of paints!
@@marystewart8905 , I hear ya! My daughter and I will take his course. It just seems easier to buy a bottle of the color I want. Dave is such a great guy to share all this information. 👌
It's crazy how many paint tubes I have. I really need to slim it down and actually selling my art. My art room is overrun at the moment.
🙂😉
You are a great teacher! Makes art “scientific” so it makes sense and is more reproducible ( in theory). Subscribed happily! Thank you
Welcome aboard!l Shannon. Glad to help.
Love the result. Reminds me of ocean waves from an aerial perspective! Love it!
Thank you Joanne! 😊
I enjoy acrylic painting so , much I'm learning a lot about the different types of pours there's so much to learn it's so exciting , also I find it relaxing as well
I totally agree Tammy! Both watching other people and actually pouring myself.
You make it seem so easy which in turn gives insensitive and motivation. Last video I watched I turned around and welcomed Autumn with a ring pour using autumn colors and I liked how it came. Then with the left over paint I did a dirty pour and that one I liked even more. Always looking forward to you next tutorial.. Thank you 🙏🏽
It is a lot of work but I really enjoying doing it. I try to take as many shortcuts as possible without sacrificing quality and those are the tips I try to always bring to my videos. Thanks again for watching Noemi.
Hi David! I taught gifted (high IQ) students for many of my 40 years of teaching. Having said that, you remind me so much of many of my former students….Analytical, focused, and very methodical when it is a topic you love! I continue to learn from and love your videos! Keep um coming! 👍🥰❤️
That was a very nice compliment thank you so much Nita. Not sure about the IQ part but breaking things down in to their very basic forms is definitely my preferred learning method.
Awesome Share. Your always sharing your knowledge and it very helpful. Thanks for sharing!!!👍👌👍👍👌💙💙
You are so welcome Amy. I hope you get to do some pouring this weekend.
Thanks for shearing all your knowledge, congratulations
Thanks for watching Mercedes.
Just the video I wanted to see. I’m still not comfortable getting my paints ready pour. I’ve only done two actual canvases. This wii be helpful. Thank you!
You can do it Valerie. If this guy that can only draw stick figures can, anyone can.
Dankeschön,wieder was dazu gelernt. Vielen lieben Dank für deine Zeit und das du dein Wissen mit uns teilst. Zuletzt noch was, das was du am Anfang von dem Video gesagt hast trifft auch auf mich zu. Dachte nie und wirklich niemals das ich künstler werden kann auch wenns nur für mich ist und Hobby mäßig. Dankeschön nochmal für alles ich schau dein Kanal sehr gerne auch wenn ich nicht alles verstehe wegen der Sprache. ❤💛💙💙🤍
Froh, dass ich Helfen kann. Faszinierend, wie wir alle unser künstlerisches Talent zeigen können, obwohl wir glauben, dass wir keines haben.
@@LeftBrainedArtist vor allem es bringt die Menschen zusammen. Ohne das hätten wir niemals Kontakt zueinander. Das ist auch sehr schön daran. Man lernt und wächst und es macht wajmhnsinnig spass und Gesundheitlich hat es mir persönlich sehr geholfen an manchen Tagen und tut es immernoch. Bleib gesund freue mich auf das nächste Video von dir. 😉
Thank you for sharing this knowledge, so helpful
You are so welcome Carol.
What great timing you have! I just received the same Blick colors, plus the mars black, in a six pack of pints. Can't wait to get started. Thank you for your informative videos.
Amazing to hear Kathi. Glad this was timely and helpful.
Thank you so much! I was looking for a video which explain how to do colors by yourself and use them for pouring !!! It will be better for my budget 😁😁😁.
(Sorry for my English) , Cecile, from France
Glad it was helpful Cecile. Your English is just fine.
Wow, it's like tuning a guitar if you haven't got an ear for pitch. I always struggle with colour mixing and you make it look easy.
I honestly feel the same way. Takes me forever to figure out how to make the color I want.
Once again you are my hero. I have spent a few days searching for the perfect (for me) teal… spent around $30 on different paint brands and not happy with any of them. With this video I created the PERFECT color - exactly what I wanted in under five minutes and probably less than $3. Im going to check into Chris…. Thank you! Now I need to try that dang maroon again 🥰
Maroon is tricky as it is a red purple with yellow added to dull it down.
@@LeftBrainedArtist well that’s a great place to start! Thank you for the tip! 🥰
Great video. Very informative. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching my northeast friend.
@@LeftBrainedArtist You're welcome.
Excellent Tutorial David. I need to take Chris’s class as I have problems understanding color theory. I am just like you a left brain person and fo not consider myself an artist. Love pouring because it is a lot easier than actual painting with a brush. Thanks for sharing. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Yup. You sound just like me Sunita. Thanks for watching!
You are awesome, thank you so much.
Thank you Sandra. We're all in this together.
Awesome video David and love your quick creation❤️👍😁👩🎨
Thank you very much! Your video is coming up soon. I'll let you know the date as soon as it is edited.
Excellent - as always!
Wow, thanks Victoria. Glad it was helpful.
Very very well explain thank you 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Great video! Thank you!
Glad you liked it! I love making my own colors now that I feel more confident doing it.
Just another great video frm David
TY Lorraine. Happy to keep them coming.
I love watching your videos and I learn something new every week. I love learning!
Me too. Thank you so much for the kind comment.
I always love your video's. So very helpful & beautiful!! Great job!!👨🎨💞😀
I'm so glad Julz. Always glad to help our a friend.
Thank you ‼️
You’re welcome Carolyn 😊
Please... my favorite is your floating cells. Many cells bright colors. Reminds me of past artist Ashley Carter. Can you please share techniques!😊
Which painting are you referring to? I honestly don't remember what I called floating cells.
I so often see you uploaded a new video and feel you must be sitting on my shoulder or, more so, peeking in my brain. You are teaching things I have been wanting to do but can't yet pull the trigger on. You give me what I need to get moving on mixing paint or whatever the subject matter you are showing us. To your four colors, I would add black. When you were mixing the blue, I thought a tiny bit of gray would work. Now stop looking in my brain because it's kind of a mess 😁
That is an interesting point. You can so many shades of black that you can just create it by adding specific colors together. This is where a more transparent version of yellow and blue can help as it gives you a deeper black.
Just taking a much needed break from a writing project (deadline due very soon!) and this popped up. Perfect video for stress relief and very educational too 😊
You got this! I hope you writing project goes well also Mary!
Turned out very pretty! Great course to look into. Math was always a struggle so I guess I’m not left-brained. Not sure where that leaves me…. Thank you for showing this!
Left brained and right brained are way too broad to encompass everyone. You are you Kathy. And your needs and abilities are unique. Just a convenient name for my channel and my approach to pouring.
@@LeftBrainedArtist and a great one!
Thanks so much you are the best
You're welcome Hyacinth. Glad to help.
That was pretty awesome 👏🏻 thanks for sharing your knowledge and this course too! It looks quite interesting!
My pleasure! I've really enjoyed learning from Chris over the course of this year.
@@LeftBrainedArtist I’ll pass it on👏🏻
My art teachers always taught me that from elementary to college. College it was dived into further for web and printing processes. I actually have mini books on it. It’s pretty cool.
Me too but it never really stuck. Maybe I wasn't ready to really internalize it back then. Now it is starting to be a habit. Probably because I use it so much more.
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Thanks. I can't say I have mastered this but knowing how to do it and what to practice has been very helpful.
Thank you for this.
My pleasure Linda. Glad to help.
Great information. I have mixed my own colors quite a bit. I think of it like a printer…you only have cyan, magenta, yellow and black in there and they make all the colors.
So true assuming you are starting with white paper. I need to practice more but so nice to feel like I can do it anytime now and get close.
The only thing i would add is metallics. Using professional heavy body metals are worth the money. They show up and give the piece a little oomph, and a bit of black to cool the color if needed. Great job, LBA.
True. Metallics, florescents, and really bright colors (like super bright orange) are impossible to make with just the primaries.
keep it up mate! i use your videos to help me get products at the art store
Thanks, will do!
Great content David, though you sped it up when you were mixing colors so I didn't quite understand how the other colors were made. I DO now know not to use black to darken as I have been doing. I don't use tiktok so can't link to your artist friend...any other options you recommend to learn color mixing in more detail? I always love watching your videos because I learn sooo much! Thank you!
He has a course if you are willing to invest $29 in to some amazing learning. He also has a RUclips channel by the same name.
@@LeftBrainedArtist wonderful, thank you so much for your prompt reply David!
What an excellent video. And thanks for the link. I’m having shoulder surgery on Monday and won’t be able to paint for a while. Maybe that will give me something to do!
It totally could be a time passer. I hope you a successful surgery and a speed recovery Gabriel!
@@LeftBrainedArtist Thank you! No painting and no piano. Ugh. Something that passes the time will be very necessary!
I love your channel! I have a question. I've put this on a group but I want to see if you might have a suggestion. I had my paintings in storage and 3 have come out stuck together front to back. I'd really hate to lose these. Do you have an idea on how I can separate them without pulling the paint off. They were probably done with craft paints since that's usually all I can afford.
You can try very lightly warminup but the back so of each and then try and pull them apart slowly.
Great tutorial David. I just bought 32oz or all the primary colors from Blick since they had a sale.
I was wondering, do you have a recipe for Blickcrylic paint + Floetrol that you could recommend as a starting point?
Thanks!
2 parts floetrol to 1 part paint plus water to the correct consistency.
Hi LBA, I was wondering if you can do a video on using up paint that has been scraped from a canvas & collected. I have nearly 5 litres of used mixed colour paint that has been scraped off & put into a 5 litre container. There are so many colours mixed into this container. Is there anything that can change the colour which is a darkish charcoal. I put 2 coats on a white piece of paper & once dried is a very dark charcoal muddy colour if that makes sense. I know a lot of people will collect their used paint & not know what to do with it. Hoping you can do an experiment??? Love your videos & watch them all. Hoping you can help, Cheers Samm
Sure. That sounds like a great idea. Normally that is used as a base coat.
@@LeftBrainedArtist Thank you I will look out for it, great for people on a budget!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Can you tell me where you bought the flexible cup where you put the paint in?
3oz silicone cups from Amazon - amzn.to/3m9x4pn
Great video. There's an excellent book on mixing colors: Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green by Michael Wilcox. Super great info on mixing paints and how to get the color you want. Technically you need 8 colors, a warm and a cool version of the 3 primaries, black and white. But in reality it's 9. A good clear violet is hard to mix without it getting dull.
Great points. Things like bright orange and a few others are hard to make also. The basics help a ton with pouring though.
Cool info.
Glad it was helpful!
Great but tell us how to make neon colors, pigment powders maybe?
Neon's aren't worth trying to create yourself, or at least I haven't found any good way. Really bright orange is the same way. Metallics and iridescent can be made with mica powders.
Please do a video on how do use the hairdryer what kind of hairdryer didn’t use I just totally destroy absolutely everything I put my hairdryer to and I don’t know whether it’s the device I don’t know whether it’s how I’m holding it I don’t know and I’ve tried numerous things and nothing has worked so please do a video on how to use a hairdryer and what type of hairdryer to use for what particular pour
I'll add it to the list for sure Jean.
This is how I started. Only five colors Deep Red, pthallo blue, Brilliant yellow, titanium white, and black. I mixed all of my other colors.
Yes! I need to use up all these random colors I have now.
I was doing some googling this morning to find how to make a tan colour from my white paint. Then I thought of you and low and behold you have video about just that! I want to make a simple tan or beige colour out of my white. Everytime I add a little brown to it, I get a light brown but it always has a slight pink to it. What I learned from the google machine is to simply add a little yellow to it with the brown. Now I am not looking for an exact colour to match another one. I simply want to tint my white to a very light tan or beige. What do you think? Would adding a yellow to it work? Normally I would just try doing it, but I need about 16 oz. of it. Can you help me out?
I would mix it up on some wax paper so you can spread it out and see the color you are making. Honestly, my favorite video about this is from Chris Breier - ruclips.net/video/U3xJasFwWSg/видео.html
@@LeftBrainedArtist Thank you, I'll have a look!
@@LeftBrainedArtist Thank you so much! I got the answer I needed!!
There's a reason that paint and pinot (or whatever paint night you go to) instructors only use the primarys with black and white. Okay, the most obvious is that it's cheap. But what I was getting at is by combining those colors, you can make any color you like. However, black is very dominant, so use less than you think you should. Also (and maybe you should do a color mixing video), black is not just "black". There's blue-black, green-black, purple-black, and even yellow black. Even in shadow, unless it's a black object in shadow and then it's still questionable, blacks aren't actually all black.
If you mix a warm black (on the yellow/red side) into a cool painting (towards the blue side of the color wheel), you may not be able to put your finger on what's off, but your eye will see it to tell you it's off. Jet black is as close to "pure" black as you'll get.
I suggest to my students to paint a single line of black on white paper. Drag it all the way down until there's no paint left. Check the middle to end color and you'll see whether it's on the yellow side or the blue.
For instance, if you've ever painted with Payne's grey, the mid range is blue.
Black comes in charcoal (which is blue), Ebony is actually a grey/olive green, and the list goes on from greens (which is usually what cake icing is and why your poop ends up green if you eat it) to yellows to reds ...
Black is never just black. Same with white. Titanium is what most folks use because that's the purest. But go to a paint store and look at the chips. White is also not white unless you get titanium.
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Why the 2 separate blues? Do you need both pthalo and ultramarine blue?
There are some really bright purples that mix better with each one. That's because one tents toward green and one tends toward red.
That’s absolutely beautiful OK I want more that mine is coming out like Iggy I don’t like anything that I’m doing lately so when that happens I walk away I get myself time off… Everything seems to be doll I wanted to be bright… And does Chris have a RUclips channel?… I will I wish she had in the sped up the mixing of the paints but I’ll watch it over and see if I can catch it👍🤟🤟
Use much less pouring medium. Must less. Maybe 1 part paint to 1/2 part medium. That should perk your colors up a bit. A good varnish will too but that is hard to envision when the painting is just barely drying.
I’m so horrible at mixing colors. It took me 31 attempts to get a version of teal. I want it to be easier. So just wondering, is there an app out there that takes a Hex Color and converts it to an acrylic color?
Unfortunately no.
Ok i get what I did wrong the couple times I decided to get a different shade of blue and the two colors didn't fully integrate. I mixed the colors AFTER I mixed 2 colors that I had already mixed with pouring medium.
Crazy how the paint and mediums react that way isn't it?
Still not sure what colours to add to make that colour when you say you see blue in it I don’t or if you see more red hard for me to know
I learned everything I know from www.youtube.com/@ChrisBreier. Just watching his channel and listening to how he color corrects, especially in his short videos, really helped me to visualize what I awas looking to do with this.
How do I eliminate almost any cells?😊
Keep your paint thicker. Use a medium that doesn't naturally cell like Elmer's Glue All or Liquitex Pouring Medium.
David, maybe I broke the rules by putting the link to Breier's website? I just thought your followers would benefit from his mixing instructions and I found his PDF of mixing colors most useful. Also, he has many other tips like how to sign your work, etc.
You know I'm a super nerd physicist/engineer but also love art and making art, so let me your rules about links or why you didn't post my previous entry.
Thanks,
Cliff
No problem at all Cliff. I use that PDF all the time. I am just fine with links as long as they aren't spam and on topic. Especially when they help others out.
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TYVM.
Actually, there are 5 important colors: Red, Yellow, Blue, White and, what I’m mentioning: BLACK.
Having a separate black can make it easier for many people. However, you can make black out of cyan, magenta, and yellow and then tailor. Doing it this way you can also make lots of different types of black with different color biases for the perfect color (think Paynes Grey or Dioxozine purple type deep colors that are almost black)
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LOL. I thought you said fed up version, not sped up version.
😂😃 It can be that sometimes too.
The primary colors are magenta, cyan, and yellow.
Do not buy red blue and yellow paint You will get muddy dull colors.
If you don't believe me that those are the primary colors and you still believe the lie about red blue and yellow
What do printers take?
How do printers make red when they do not contain red?
Because red is not a primary color It is a mixture of magenta and yellow.
Yup. Took me longer than I care to admit to really internalize that.
Dang it went so fast I couldn’t see what color you were adding. I backed up several times. NO HELP FOR ME 🤷♀️ I have learned so much from you, so disappointed 🤷♀️
In the bottom right on desktop or top right on mobile you can select the gear icon and change the speed of the video down to .75 or .5 to watch it in slower motion.
@@LeftBrainedArtistThank you sooo much 🌹❤️🙋♀️
My intent is not to be offensive but this video is stressful and your explanations are so fast and not helpful to beginners. Sorry.but someone has to say it but got a few things from it.thanks for your time.
Could you give me more details about why it was stressful and which parts didn't help a beginner Dottie?
As a English guy i cant stand the waffle you yanks talk about crap and finally get to the subject drives me nuts
Thanks for the feedback.