Uncomplicated But Eye Opening Color Theory for Artists
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When I was in art school my design teacher taught us colour theory (CMYK) and light theory (RGB). Magenta isn’t in the rainbow because the rainbow is light, but you can actually mix red from magenta and yellow because that’s colour. Soooo cool!
This!!!
Yes! True primaries cannot be mixed from other colors but thou can mix red and blue. It takes a bit to wrap your mind around it but once you do, the fun begins!
The reason why it's not in the rainbow is because the eye's color receptors that perceive red and blue cover wavelength ranges that do not exclusively overlap each other.
@@nysaea yeah the HUMAN eye. apparently like certain insects have more color receptors than we do to perceive more colors and honestly i think about that. also that cats and dogs see less. so weird
@@imsunnybaby Not only insects (which are another can of worms) but most birds and fish are tetrachromatic as well and can see UVs, and there are also animals with a monochromatic set of photoreceptors like snails. Never mind the mantis shrimp that has 12 types. But arent' we talkign about art here?
My dad was a professional printer throughout his career and he taught me that the true primary colours are Cyan, Magenta and Yellow. These three, plus black, are the standard inks used in colour printing. There are no other pigments you can mix to get any of these three. You can mix them to get red (magenta + yellow) and blue (cyan + magenta), and green (cyan + yellow) - which are themselves the three primary colours of light.
Haa.
Makes real sense. O.o
That's the CMYK model and is used in printing :D
The RYB model is outdated but is the one taught in schools
The RGB model is an additive model, while CMYK is subtractive
If I remember correctly, additive colours are from luminiant things, such as digital screens, which is why the RGB model is used by digital artists, while subtractive colours mix together with things like ink; they don't produce their own light
So RGB and CMYK are both primary colour models, just differing in their use :D
@@Jess-on-the-Tube Agreed! That would make more sense, I hope they implement it better :D
@@HermitFanimations woah, seeing hermit fanfimations here, so nice:)
As an art student in the early 1980s, color theory exercises were done with W&N gouache in cyan, magenta, primrose (yellow), a neutral black and a neutral white. We mixed everything as mixtures mostly, but the color palette simulated printer inks on a white page.
Quick tip: CMYK is great for people who love bright, unnatural color palettes for their art pieces. RYB is great for more natural subjects like landscapes, portraits etc. My style definitely a mixture of both so I always use a split primary palette in every medium I use. Obviously this is not a RULE it was just helpful for me when I was first starting to pick colors.
This is an incredible insight I hadn’t thought of; thank you!!!
do you have advice for a CMY and a RYB choice?
I feel seen with this comment. I suck at mixing color trying to imitate rl esp when it comes to my fav subject - blooms/flowers and general plant
@katriannam sorry! I don't often recheck my comments since people usually don't ask me stuff lol. CMY - Cyan (or even pthalo blue green shade or W&N aqua green, for slightly muted mixes/shadows), quin magenta & a cool yellow like lemon yellow or benzimdazolone yellow, which is slightly warmer than lemon. I use the latter in watercolor, but usually lemon in other mediums. RYB - in watercolor, DS' quin red or quin coral, diarylide yellow (warm yellow) and pthalo blue. Hope this helps or that you found your answer long before I responded 😊
As someone who worked with 35mm film back in the day: The yellow works because it's the inverse of blue. That is, if you take a picture of something blue, that color will show up as a yellow on your negative film.
Red, Green, Blue are the primary colors of light, and mixed together they form white. Because light is additive. If you take one of the colors out of the mix you get the inverse of that color.
Remove red and you get cyan, remove green and you get magenta, remove blue and you get yellow. (Yes, Red and Green light mixes to yellow).
Remove all the colors and you get the inverse of white: Black.
This is why Cyan, Magenta and Yellow make for a much better set of colors for painting, because they do in fact add together correctly to create the other colors. Red and Magenta, as well as cyan and blue are very similar colors though, so I understand where the confusion comes from. I also assume those three colors have historically been easier to make than cyan and magenta.
@8 bit synth When did I say yellow is the complementary color of blue?
Inverses aren't the complementary colors. That said Cyan is a type of bluish color, which invers to red. Red and yellow mixes to orange.
Which is why orange is a more pleasing complementary color to bluish tones, because bluish colors sit between cyan and blue, so the complementary sits best between yellow and red.
@8 bit synth he's talking about the negatives. Not the color wheel opposites
No they don't. You can't create what most people call a true red with Magenta and Yellow nor a pure orange. We just don't care much about those colors. Cyan is blue. Blue is a color category. You can't make a cobalt blue or an aquamarine blue with cyan blue. Mixing light and mixing pigment are not at all the same thing.
@@giseletheriault8633 The reason they don't mix as you argue is due to pigment density. (Did you even watch the video?)
Cyan isn't blue, look at a color wheel.
There used to be a time when people would say orange was a type of red, or yellow, depending on the hue. And yet today we consider orange it's own color.
Cyan isn't blue.
And sure mixing light and mixing pigment isn't the same thing. But the right pigments to mix in order to mix color correctly are cyan magenta and yellow. Why do you think printers and printing presses uses exactly those colors?
@@TheAurgelmir "Blue" is a color category. "Cyan" is not a color category. There is only one cyan. There are many blues. In the context of teaching children or lay people colors we are referring to categories not specifics. I don't know what you mean by "mix color correctly". CYM doesn't mix all colors accurately. It still creates versions of them. You will not achieve the clarity and saturation of cadmium orange or red by mixing yellow and magenta.
I didn't expect magenta to be the golden colour at the end lol I just picked up Quinacridone Red acrylic, at first I was like ew this is too pink for me, I wanted something more warm. Until I mixed it with blue and holy moly! You're right! Magenta does make a fantastic purple!
It sure does :) Glad you tried it!
You are a very good instructor. Easy to follow and clear in your way to communicate your concepts. This is one of the best explanations of color theory. You make it easy and entertaining. Great job, Kristy!
Wow, thank you!
Once I read the book of Michael Wilcox named “Blue and Yellow Don’t Make Green”. That was a game changer!!!! The best explanation of a color theory to me at least!!! So structured and well explained. I work in a fashion industry and that knowledge of color helps a lot to work with colors especially when it comes to the combo with a person’s natural palette, when ppl are convinced that some colors don’t work for them.
Thanks for sharing!
I'll have to look that book up, thank you!
I always enjoy your very professional videos. I love your twelve color color wheel. It’s a work of art. 💖💜💝
A split complementary would be choosing the two colors adjacent to the compliment. For violet and the compliment yellow, a split comp would be violet, yellow-orange and yellow-green. For yellow with a compliment of violet, the colors would be yellow, red-violet and blue-violet.
To be honest i don't care about color wheel, i paint by instinct and enjoy everything about choosing color and some time making mistake...i am free 😄
Perfection. Love it!!
My sistah !!!!! 💚🌻🌿🌿
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I wish I were here! I’m a very realistic artist and I have a hard time trying to figure out what colors to replace them with instead to do more expressive artwork.
Love that vibe.
Learning from you is such a joy!
I studied this at design school. It's about how colors reflect light and mix together, by addition or subtraction. When you take the colors as light, basically electromagnetic waves, you can obtain any color by mixing red, green and blue (RGB) light sources. These are mixed by addition. And if you mix them all, you get white light. When using pigments, the real primary colors are cyan magenta and yellow. They are mixed by subtraction of light reflection. If you mix them all, you get a desaturated muddy color. I hope I was clear and accurate enough. Have a lovely day
Absolutely. Appreciate it. The video was meant to scratch the surface in an approachable way. Although I’m happy to have a comments section bursting with so much science :)
That is when using light, not pigments. If what you were saying were true printers would use just those pigments. High end printing of artwork or even photographs use more pigments. Even house paint uses 9 to 12 pigments.
This is a wonderful way to encounter color, exploring the liminal spaces!!!!! I appreciate your videos, and respect the time and talent it takes to make these life changing moments for us. I am such a nontraditional artist, I love your philosophy.
I have some intuitive sense of color, but have been curious as to why I can't get the feeling I want when I mix my own watercolors in my small travel kit. Now I know why!!!! I have ALWAYS loved Magenta and Cyan. Permission to use them has now been granted-YEA.
I was looking for a color theory class, but now I think I will take your advice and play with the combinations first. and figure out the best and most fun ways to invite more cyan and magenta to the party.
BTW, my apartment is in an old Victorian that is painted Purple ,Green, and Yellow-Orange. It was one of my main reasons for living here!
Thank you so very much.
Oh wow this is wonderful to hear! Thank you for sharing so much. I never quite know of my way of sharing info makes sense in heads beyond my own lol!!
I couldn’t have said that any better myself. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and happy painting.
@@carolinehill8564 thanks! You too! Happy creating.
What a wonderful video, for some reason it all clicked within me after rebelling against the concept of color theory for such a long time. I was finding it boring but now I feel like a whole world of joy, experiment and wonder has opened up to me! Your split complementary is gorgeous. What you did is actually a split complementary with the 2 complementary colours being 2 steps away from the direct complementary instead of 2 and what blows my mind is that it works too! I tried this with other combos and it works so well! Imagine the possibilities wow mind blown!!
Baby steps is very good advice. I tried to be a really good artist too early on and started losing confidence. Now I sketch and paint a little bit everyday and copied other work which helped me learn and now I’m just using my imagination and photos and from other little exercises I’ve done I’m starting to get better more than I thought I could be.
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I love me some pink too!!
This video is just what I needed!
Omg just getting into watercolor painting and colors (seriously) for the first time and it’s been kinda overwhelming. This video makes using and understanding color theory really easy for beginners like me!
Thanks so much
You're so welcome!
Clear, encouraging and your enthusiasm is contagious! I am grateful when an artist so freely shares their experience and knowledge. GOD BLESS YOU!
Thanks so much for being here!
I can’t paint anything without opera pink .. game changer for sure x
Glad to hear!
Kristy…one word…BRILLIANT.
Oh geex, wow thanks!! Just how I see things :)
Boy! This simplified color theory!!!
I am a knitter and found this helpful. Thanks
Ahhhh so cool!
Still here this video is so relaxing
Thanks for another great video! One does have to watch that magenta is light fast (if desirable), as colors like Opera are often not. Linking another artists video shows how much you care about art and helping your audience. Thank you - it was excellent. You are a prime example of how one person can make a positive difference in the lives of many.
Thanks so much!
You are one awesome teacher. I know what colors please me, but I am not an artist. I just like to play. I’ve been over color theory many times and my eyes glaze over rather quickly but I keep coming back. I will surely learn something when I next play and watch your video again! Thanks for a very cool lesson. 😀
Thanks for watching!
Wow, you are so incredibly watchable. Actually you are the most enjoyable teacher ever! Thank you. ❤❤❤
Awesome perspective on color! I’ve been an artist my whole life and I’ve only heard about playfulness in color choice in vague terms. You’re soooo right about magenta! I finally learned last year that mixing colors is infinitely more interesting to look at and that we done need a gigantic pallette, but a bright pink/red/magenta is a game changer.
Glad it was helpful!
I did a great deal of rughooking and made custom rugs for family and friends. I reverse-engineered Warhol's work and realized that he used triadic and tetratic combos, and used them myself, to great effect! ETA I know why the yellow works, it ties in the primary colour of blue with the green, which of course is yellow and blue. Easy peasy ;-)
Wonderful!
THis is just what I need Kristy!
I honestly love tetradic color schemes too. When I was trying to figure out a color scheme for my branding, I went with a tetradic one too. I LOVE browns with bright colors, so I chose orange as a base color (dark orange = brown) and then made my tetradic scheme based on that. I'm extremely pleased with my brand colors now
ah! i will try that color theory chart! thats something new i haven't done before. i have tried for many many years to understand color theory and only when i finally got a split complementary set and mixed my own colors did it actually sink in and stay in my brain.
Please do!
This was super helpful. I haven’t really painted since college, but when this video popped up on the side of the history video I was watching the title intrigued. I subscribed and am looking forward to watching more of your stuff when I’m not trying to get ready for work. You’ve already inspired me to want to dig out my old Windsor & Newton paints and random brushes!
Oh this is amazing to hear! Dig those paints out!!!
This video is awesome. This somehow makes a lot of sense
Love color theory! It's so applicable and useful! 🎨
The paint box with the boy on the tin: it could be seen as two sets of compliments with an additional color (red-pink/green and blue/orange with yellow added), or as 3 analogous colors and a compliment with the addition of a color (red/orange/yellow with blue compliment and green thrown in.) I love that there are many ways to wrap your brain around this stuff. Gardeners/landscapers use color theory a lot. And God uses it all over, my favorite being a blue autumn sky with all the shades of red, yellow and orange across the landscape. 😍💙🍁
Fun! Thanks for this video!
I just saw it as a muted pallet. 😊
I probably should have said the tin with the boy in orange pants, yellow top and blue jacket. It’s fun how we all see color a bit differently.
Thanks for being here!
This video came into my youtube page just when i started to search for color theory, thank you, explanation was very clear and simple!
Glad to hear!
There are there are three sets of primary colors, primary meaning the colors you mix all other colors from: red/yellow/blue for pigment, magenta/yellow/cyan for printing, and red/green/blue for light. (Look at individual pixels on a tv for that one.)
Yes, and I think it's rather unfortunate that we teach kids about primary colors, but use the least primary like of the options.While it does allow you to make brown, which is completely impossible with RGB, it also leads to confusing things like being able to make a primary out of a secondary and primary color which doesn't work out so well in either of the other systems.
There is no distinction to be made between pigments and printing. What do you think we print with?
The RYB set as primaries was made back when it was the best available option, before we could produce cyan and magenta pigments, which are much closer approximations to true primary colors. It just stuck for historical reasons, but makes little sense with today's pigment technology.
@@nysaea Agreed. We should discard the red, yellow, blue model altogether. All it does is limit artists’ color ranges.
@@Window4503 To be fair, a well chosen RYB palette can be a great choice for artistical reasons, they can make lovely muted hues.
Teaching it to kids as a primaries palette is what I have a problem with. I've just read too many comments of people who had their confidence in art shattered because they couldn't mix bright secondaries and they thought they were just terrible at it and had no business pursuing art. It's just heartbreaking.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade The RGB additive system also allows you to make brown. You may just be confused as to what brown is: ruclips.net/video/wh4aWZRtTwU/видео.html
Diane I can say I really don’t blame you much because I’ve been trying to understand as much as I can and it seems so very complicated. But in order to be the artist I can be I have to try extremely hard to try and get these and if I ever have to go to school and take art classes I know that in order to pass the test I need to know as much as I can and gain knowledge of colors and why they are so important. I love colors so very much that I dress for colors, not to impress no one, it’s just that I’m fascinated with beautiful colors. I give it no thought once I put them on until someone approach me and tell me that the like how I blended my colors. Little do they know that I did it for my own taste. I grew up with my parents dressing me in the most dull less and dumbest looking colors and I felt sad and hurt while my classmates wore beautiful colors that matched. That changed me and how I view colors. Colors make you feel good and have a lot of meaning to how you feel about yourself.
That helps that you do it as you talk us thru
Glad that helps!
Yes I’m going to do this!!
Great!
i feel so inspired by this, thank you so much!! i am definitely going to make my own little colour wheel and studies now! :3
I’m glad!
The *Feminin Energy* in this video is *OVERWHELMING* 🤣👍💛
I had to go chew some tobacco and rebuild a chevy small-block-V8 just to recover. 😉
Makes sense to paint the same subject in the different color schemes to understand them better
Thanks!
When will someone talk about the actual pigments, as the color names change per brand. A color filled with different pigments reacts in mixing very differently than a color with a single pigment.
Oooh that’s a big loooong video!!!!
@@KristyRice Big, long and delicious, though!!! 🤤
The easiest way to find the same pigment as another brand is to look at the pigment code on the back of the tube/jar. Like Cad med red by liquitex acrylic has PR9 & PR170 to make their cad med red. It's basically the chemical compound that makes up the paint it self. If that makes any sense? Also each red pigment per say can be cool and warm tone so depending if you mix it with a cool or warm yellow, it could make a whole new range of colours.
semufu9 answered your question, which.... yeah. i usually read the label on art supplies i buy, and try to keep a little notebook with some of my faves' pigment codes jotted down for future reference
happy trails
That's one of the reasons why better brands will have a little test splotch on the tube. So, you know pretty precisely what the color is going to look like, even if there is some variation between batches.
Years ago I wondered why some of the commercial illustrations were so unified and restful. What I discovered was that whatever colors they employed they would pick a single color to influence all the colors they used. For example add a little single blue to every color you use. If added to orange it begins to neutralize the contrast, add to red and it cools the color, etc., etc. Then moving up and down in grey scales adds rich transitions. The other portion was pigment palettes alizarin crimson vs. cadmium red.,
cadmium yellow vs. lemon yellow, The cadmium palette is warmer and the other cooler. Loomis is a good example of this color styling.
Beautifully explained
@@KristyRice Thank you.
Yes, I’m going to try this exercise just because it looks like fun! Thank you.
Have fun!
Thanks for sharing this beautiful video! It was super fun watching your video and really motivating and inspirational! Keep creating amazing art videos! Love what you're doing!! Gonna go watch the next one!
Thank you so much!!
@@KristyRice You're very welcome!!🥰
Thankyou for a lovely informative colour painting. Much love to you and viewers😘👌🙏👋👋🌈
Thanks!!!
The Paint box poster. The reason the yellow shirt works is because this picture is every single color scheme at once. Along the edges there is a complementary pink/green border. The figure is wearing a triatic color scheme of orange/blue/yellow while also sporting a secondary-triatic color scheme (Two secondary and one primary color) of orange/yellow/green. As your eye moves through the picture you spot the artist pallet. The pallet is a hidden tetradic. The paints on the pallet even have that 'dirty-cold-margin area' you talked about earlier. Each one of the colors on that pallet will be a complementary to at least one or more color throughout the entire piece.
I've been coloring my drawings by instinct for over 50 years now----my mother was a locally well known artist, and she taught me the color wheel and color theory, but she rarely used either. She created her works from her imagination, and her weavings were incredibly gorgeous pieces that were exquisite works of art in their own right.
She started out in oils, but after about 20 years of that, switched to weaving and to quilt making, and there was no stopping her once she began dying all her own yarns for her woven pieces!
While I don't sew, nor do I weave, I LOVE to draw and to color the drawings, and do so prolifically, and to my own satisfaction.
Thanks for sharing!
I know your comment is from months ago. Your Mother sounds like a wonderful and very creative woman. Do you still have her weavings? Or any of her quilts? If you do, I am so incredibly jealous of you!! That is very special.
I don't think I've ever learned so much about colors, brushes, techniques, split complementary colors, hues, tints, etc etc etc in my life! All those settings in Photoshop.... I would just slide the slider and get the look I wanted. NOW I know what they mean. NOW I know how to paint a leaf and it's REAL easy once you get the hang of it! I've yet to paint anything outside of my *classes* (that's what I call your videos) but I'm creating the building blocks to GET to that *masterpiece*. Gosh I needed this... i wish I had started during pandemic but I am starting NOW and it's so much fun.... I've bought your products (brushes and paints so far) and when I buy something you've suggested I tell them you sent me. That's the least I can do for ALL you've taught me. I just love this, all this learning in a way that MAKES SENSE and it's FUN! And YES I am having a GREAT TIME! Thank you SO much, i will never tire of telling you thanks :)
Aw! Thanks for being here!!
Still here and enjoying :D
Working with Colour is legit like a nightmare to me, but when it’s explained like this, and the cyan magenta yellow thing... you’re amazing! Thank you! I can’t lie Colour theory is scary especially when I see it explained so rigidly so I gave up on understanding but now I want to go draw ❤️
You are exactly who I made this video for AND you had the exact reaction I was hoping for…inspiration not fear :) Thank you for sharing!
2:56 still here definitely!
I have two color wheels in my art board for guides. One made wit red, yellow and blue, and the other one made with permanent rose, indigo and pale yellow. Just because I wanted to explore more mixes than just the usual, like you've said in this video.
I’d love to see that perm rose, indigo and pale yellow!! Was it Naples? This combo makes me want sing a little!!
@@KristyRice it's cadmium yellow pale from Windsor and Newton. I can take a picture and share it with you, I love the colors that came out from it.
this is so helpful, thank you so much
Glad it was helpful!
Magenta is there in the ultraviolet range. 😊
Thank you Kristy!! I was stuck on exactly that … getting just the right purple.💜 I will be adding magenta to my pallet. Oopsies noted and overlooked 🧡💙
You are so welcome!
I absolutely loved your video...subscribed!
Yes!
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YES! I began painting traditional rosemaling almost 50 years ago and that has a very specific color palette. Green was made with ivory black and cad yellow. Ugh!
There was no purple and no pink, because those are more modern colors. Imagine my joy when i bought a few more colors and started mixing on my own! Fast forward 20 years and people actually wrote books on the real basic triad! I think inkjet printers had helped the comprehension of that but not The practice in art making.
The real problem has been lightfastness or the lack of it. The auto industry discovered things in the 1950s that brought us pink Cadalacs and turquoise Chevys. And that changed our paint boxes.
With all the excitement about lightfastness, i still don't understand why people still insist on using Opera and the traditional alizirin crimson. There is no perfect replacement, but still! Even when just decorating notes to distant nephews and nieces, those may be kept for 100 years in scrapbooks... or at least that was what happened in my family.
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There used to be serious issues with light fastness of paints in olden times, which is a shame as many of the older paintings looked absolutely stunning before the colors faded. And there's a bunch of paintings that just don't look right unless you view them in person with the proper lighting.
you could say the red yellow blue sepia zoo tin art is monochromatic because in a sense theyre all warm colors. its warm orange/red warm yellow and a warm blue(towards greenish) so it has a "sepia" "faded" effect ""monotone"" in that sense
Ahhhhh makes sense!!
Oh ya I love this !!!
Thank you!
In all of the colors in my BIG box (Monopoly game sized) of Crayolas, the secret color was and is my favorite.
Loved this video, Kristy😊
Glad you liked it!!
The yellow makes sense in that one composition because it's technically a double comp. 1st comp: red-yellow-blue triatic. 2nd comp: red-green-blue-orangr tetratic
Wonderful thoughts and advice!
Thank you!!
I gotta say it’s a pretty color wheel. ❤️🥰
Aww thanks!
Color studies are fun. Monochromatic is very helpful with learning values. Complimentary, is great to challenge yourself when you're feeling adventurous like one of the Masters. Split, is great to add a pop of drama. Teriadic can be a test unless you use it to mute down for more natural colors for landscape. Like you said, when you don't know what to paint, just pick a scheme to practice. I used to struggle with them until I realized that those paint sets that with tons of colors can trip you up because you may have a warm and cool blue and warm and cool red and mixing temperatures Has you crying in the mud😂. Also pure pigments blend better than multipigment colors, and pink is a tint of red or magenta.
Love it! Thank you🎉
You are so welcome!
I loved the split complimentary. Thanks for the challenge to make a wheel. Have only done it once before. Love your way of presenting color theory.
Awesome! Thank you!
Great! I'm new to trying to create crafts, and I struggle to start because I have no idea what colors to use. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
still here, srill learning, and eager for more!
Awesome tutorial, Kristy!!!!!!
Yay thanks!!
9:40 > Why the makes sense.
From a color theory perspective IS a slight outlier. It is sorta similar to the warm green that flanks the page. If I were painting, I would totally use that green as a shading color for that yellow.
From a composition perspective is where things get interesting as the composition is doing a diagonal symmetry thing.
So the yellow is the only thing in this composition that's unpaired and doesn't have a compliment, it also right on the line of symmetry and the focal point of the piece.
Putting the only color that isn't paired feels... intentional.
Ahhh love this explanation!
Purple is my favorite color, and working with Red and Blue is a nightmare. It is impossible to get the right hue with just red and blue.
Love this!
The yellow shirt makes sense because he is wearing the three primary colors that sit in the center of the art while the mixed colors are all around the character.
Thank you!!
Thank you for a very good explanation that makes it practical and simplified so color theory is loose to be a part of the artwork to enhance it and "blend" with the whole piece. Color should be experimental instead of boxed in.
Oh yeah! Another enjoyable video...I love your angle of coming at color theory from the margins 😁😁😁 cuz yeah...I take what I learned from art teachers etc and then have fun doing my own thing. BUT that knowledge base is super helpful especially if you get stuck, lol!
Also, happy to see you plug Sarah Renae Clark. She is wonderful and yes, super knowledgeable about color 😁😁😁
I really enjoy her vids!
Friends, just to reiterate, I am not a color theory nerd or expert of any kind. Like many I was taught color theory long ago and very quickly moved from my book learning of the subject to a more emotional/obsessive/intuitive connection with color. If you're looking for more formal terminology/approaches to color, there are plenty of youtubers out there for you. I'm simply here wanting to make sure you fall in love with color like I did and not be afraid of it.
A few notes:
In the split complimentary section the base color was violet, not yellow like the animated arrow suggested lol! Also the correct split complimentary was indeed yellow green NOT blue green… I was pretty sure I had it wrong as I was filming but I said to myself, “Kristy make it work”, and if it’s wrong make a point of it in the voiceover because it did indeed still work and I thought “I think that’s a valuable message” lol!
When I discuss hue, shade and tint, the footage didn't actually show an example of all three, sorry about that!
There are a few spelling errors I didn’t catch from my editor but ya know, it’s alll good!!
You might also like this video where I discuss color theory for composition :)
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Complementary and monochromatic are misspelled :) But I don't watch your channel for all that left brain stuff; sadly my hypervigilant left brain just sees all that without trying. Which is why I'm so happy to exercise my creative side with you.🤟
Oh yeah. 👍👍👍
Love the cyan, magenta and yellow color wheel... at this point as a beginner I can't grasp all the info on so many sites... but this was great to see you paint theory. Little by little I will learn... took time off painting and learning with fresh eyes, just slower pace. Thank 😊 you Kristy! A California Gramma ♥️
You’re welcome!!
Art is simple its how you want to interoperate it, Like me A lot of Colour theory doesn't work for me becasue of my tritanomaly I see things more like with pastel like shades. Everyones colour blindness is different too. Its cool seeing how everyone sees different collours though
Good for you for taking on something new--and like anything new--it will take some time--as long as it takes. The important thing is that you're having fun and moving forward. The more you play around with this stuff, the more familiar it becomes. Then the more competence you'll have. That breeds confidence...
I've taught watercolor for nearly twenty years and the best thing I can tell you is to make sure you have decent supplies (a few good colors and a decent brush or two with good paper) will save you loads of frustration. Not that you have to buy all top-dollar artist quality supplies---but what I heard most often from my students was "I'll use the cheap stuff until I get better at this...then I'll buy the better stuff"--but that's a bit like saying "I'll practice with a Matchbox car until I get really good at driving--then I'll get a real car and hit the highway..."
Trying to get vibrant beautiful colors from cheap (kids') paints that are mostly filler is all but impossible. Getting beautiful brush strokes (as the many showcased here in this video) with a craft brush--is highly unlikely. Papers that ball up and pill--or are made with a lot of filler will also cause a great deal of frustration (crappy papers can make the most vibrant of colors wilt)--most people who give up on watercolor do so before they've ever really given themselves a chance.
Keep at it, enjoy the process --and date all of your work --practice sheets and all--because we lose track of our success otherwise. Unless we're keeping track, it feels like we're not making any progress. But we are. Every time we pick up a brush, we are. Happy painting 🎨🌼
@@TheCrabbyCrafterlol I like the idea of leaving something behind for future generations I like what the Dungeons and Dragons show I watched said one of the characters said Always Leave everywhere you go a better place ^-^ I think as Artists its our Job plus we count as records if we do landscapes and cityscapes on how things use to be we might be in history books in the future some day
Thank 😊 you for these inspiring words!!! Last night I painted a floral heart wreath instead of just practicing leaves... I have great supplies... too much... but love my colors!!! Don't use Arches for every day- but have Fabriano 140lb cold press not cotton and Strathmore cotton 5 x 7" cold press I should be using more often. Found many Arches @ Ebay... set really. I appreciate the encouragement... I needed it more than anything. God bless you, a California Gramma ❤️
Thank you so much! For once I can actually see how much water you've put on the page! I can see you've actually paid attention to this, making sure the angle of the camera shows that up very clearly. It's always something I've struggled with when I try wet on wet and constantly muck it up. Perhaps I may have some success at last 😂 thanks again, I love this tutorial.
Glad it was helpful!
Easy to remember and fun. I should make your chart and hang it above my work area. It’s rather private but I don’t have the time. Would like to print yours. Sounds weird 🤔
Love this!!! Thank you
I learned that analogous colors are three side by side. I could be wrong, but just want to suggest it as a possibility. Also, and you may have addressed this in another video, with magenta and any other color it's a good idea to look for a highly lightfast version. I enjoyed this video! Thank you!
Yesss!! I think any colors next to eachother in a variety of numbers will work well! QoR makes a really nice and lightfast magenta, it's a good one!
I wasn't expecting magenta, although reading through the comments makes me see why it would work. I was actually expecting the "missing" colour to be the various shades of brown, and I am confused as to why they don't show up on the traditional colour wheel. Are browns just basically the darker shades of red/orange/yellow, etc?
Basically yes :)
Good beautiful study ..fun
Thank you!!
you uploaded this at the perfect time! i watched a “bougie color theory” video yesterday lol and woke up wanting to do a study. the color wheel in the thumbnail made me click bc it looked fun to do, but then the rest of the video was oooohhh so helpful and made the whole concept much more approachable!
thank you soooo much for this video 😭 now i won’t lose my marbles at my desk today and i’m actually excited to start! 💕
You're so welcome! Thanks for watching!
The eyes and the imagination doesn’t need a perfect representation of an object for it to make sense to the brain. That’s why a cartoony image of a human being is still recognizable as a person. There’s always room to break the rules. Let your imagination run wild and don’t be so rigid in thinking when it comes to creating, despite what the traditional rules say.
Great thinking!
@@KristyRice thank you. And great video
I love this video! Just found you, and I love your approach!
Thanks so much!
Thanks for the magenta making purple.
Of course!
So it blends
Thank you, this is super helpful!
So glad!
Loved it!
Yay! XO
I was so happy when you to add Magenta and Cyan to your palette. 1,000% agree and have been met with some backlash in online art communities over it... "CMY is for PRINT NOT PAINT! Waaaghhh!! " Dx ... If you want that sort of dirty look from classic paintings (like that 1940's-esque zoo painting you showed), by ALL means, use the classic color wheel. But if you want the pure 80's POP saturation of an eye-burning orange... USE MAGENTA AND CYAN!!
Red, yellow, and blue do NOT form a primary color set. It’s either RGB light or CYM(K) pigment. Red and blue paint make a dingy magenta, sure, because you’re mixing pigment instead of light. But you mixed blue and yellow to make weird gray and didn’t even mention the problem, that blue and yellow are total opposites. :(
They form the primary set that many ultra beginners have learned. I’m here to just start the process of unlearning or perhaps better said, re-learning. I don’t want to pummel folks with complicated science first. I want to ease them in to understanding and the best way to do that is to meet them where they’re at…not where they need to land. Very appreciative of your insight just the same.
Great video!
I love your approach to color theory! The interest is in the “in between” 💕
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Fun video, also: you have pretty nails.
Still here!