Mixing brown. Painting with acrylics for beginners.
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Brown colors contain red, yellow and a bit of blue. In this video I show you some examples.
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Such an interesting explanation , thank you very much for showing us how colour's are formed.👌👌👌 This would be how the old masters worked ! ⭐⭐⭐⭐🌟
True but keep in mind before the late 1800s many of the colours we have now didn't exist. Or, were very expensive.
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Your video helped me understand my green/red colur blindness for darker tonal values a little better where I can practice mixing primaries towards that understanding.
Kinda humorous story. After moving to a new town and driving late at night noticed the traffic lights were orange & blue, not the customary red & green. Since the local football team's colours were orange & blue (cadium red light & cyan) thought these fans were fanatical for their school team. Turns out the red/yellow/green traffic lights were designed for colour blind people (red/green being the most common) to red/orange & green/blue. :)
Good to know someone was thinking ahead.
Will check if you have a tutorial on mixing greens to supplement this one on browns for understanding red/green colour blindness.
Always thought birds and animals were attracted to the red/green contrast, i.e. red berries and green leaves, in finding food. Actually, younger plants are more reddish hence more tender and easier to digest.
Could you make a video explaining how to do glazes with acrylics?
I’ve been really interested in how that works and what the different techniques are, and how that is used for layering, etc.
I just found your videos today, they’re very helpful!
Welcome to the channel! Good idea for a video, I'll add it to my list. I guess that I can make the video within a few weeks👍👍
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thank you!!!!!!!!
You could show (maybe you already have a video like that), how to mix all you need with primary cyan, primary magenta, primary yellow, titanium white and black (mars?). Is it a good idea to try to work with that, can you make all you need with that, or can't you and what you will be missing the most etc.
I have some videos on this topic, the video about the primary colors: ruclips.net/video/SSCAhRFwsa8/видео.htmlsi=tc-l0Y4AT1snVqG4 and more info about that in this blog: www.toon-nagtegaal.com/blog/primary-colors-acrylic-painting-for-beginners/ I've also made a video about limited palettes, in that video I also discuss the set of primary colors and if they're always handy or not: ruclips.net/video/IYsOaL2oUGc/видео.html In short: the primary colors yellow, magenta and cyan are great for practicing color mixing, to learn all the essentials. But in daily life they're not always the most handy pigments when painting. For instance, I personally use ultramarine blue a lot (and that's not primary blue), because I hardly ever need very ultra bright greens. You could say that theoretically speaking, ultramarine consists of cyan + magenta, and when you mix that with yellow, you get a dull kind of green and most of the times that's great for landscapes. So, in that case you could say that ultramarine is a shortcut, I don't need to mix yellow + cyan + magenta, I just mix yellow and ultramarine. And then of course, every pigment has it's own set of characteristics. So, for instance when I want to have an opaque green color, I can choose to use yellow ochre (very opaque color) with ultramarine or cyan. The primary system is important to know, so that you know what you are doing when you mix certain colors, that you can mix vivid colors when needed or dull colors when needed. I hope it makes sense, feel free to ask questions!👍🎨
@@toon-nagtegaal Thank you very much for your reply! I have to admit, I continued to make some research and, with respect, it seems to me that it's not completely true (I can be wrong). I found out that CMY primaries are not "the system" for color reproduction, that it's not necessarily anything special, nor their combination a superset of all reproducible colors in painting. If we google color space chart, we can realize that any three chosen primary colors can only reproduce colors in the triangle between them when mixing them, they can't reach beyond. True, CMY can reproduce what's most necessary, especially if we want to use the "real", not super brilliant colors, that's why it's been chosen for standard process printing. But if we use more primary colors, then we make a polygon from them in the color space, which can be bigger than just the CMY one.
So, not only practicality, but also the need for certain very saturated pigments, can dictate the necessity of using more colors.
With that said, time to start painting a little bit more :)
Yes, that's all true but I am only practical and look at what happens on my palette. I know there are a lot of theories and science, but I get crazy if I study all that and it's not necessary for me to do that. I only look at what I can see happening myself at the palette. I never say that only one system is correct, because it isn't and we've got hundreds of years of color science and arguments. The main thing for me is: CMY is absolutely most useful way of thinking when painting with pigments, because it's what I personally can see happening on the palette (unless my perception of reality is completely off, but then still I like it ;-)) Therefore it's also the best system to use and help all my students with color mixing. Once people understand working with these primaries, they understand all the laws of color mixing instantly.
And then of course, every pigments has it's own characteristics. But if you know the basic theory, then you're able to see that and buy pigments that you like for specific reasons.
The first big big part of my life I struggled with color mixing, because I was taught that yellow red and blue were primaries and I never understood why I couldn't mix a vivid color (because the primary blue was a kind of ultramarine). But here in my studio I have over 20 different colors that I use, because that's useful. For instance I can make a color with the primaries, that looks like yellow ochre, but it doesn't have the opacity of the yellow ochre pigment.
So in the end, it's just what you're looking for. If you want to make art, then maybe watch out not to bother too much with theory, because there is no end to that and meanwhile you're not painting. Maybe just try out these primaries yourself and see what you think about them from your own practical experience. On the other hand, if you more of a research person and don't want to paint etc. then of course dive deep into theory. 👍
@@toon-nagtegaal Thank you very much for your time and reply. I agree. I've ordered CMY paints already and let's try how it works for me.
Please would you advise who stocks & sells this Amsterdam Brand Acrylic Paints?? It looks lovely and creamy and easily mixable paint. Thank you for the lovely Course on Mixing Such a Variety of lovely Colors. Great Tutorials, I have learnt a lot today. Huge thank you for your precious time in putting these vdeos together for all to learn!! I certainly have learnt a lot from your videos today. Best regards Lynda from South Africa. God Bless.
Thanks for your comment Lynda, glad the videos are helpful! I'm very sorry, but I don't know where you can buy Amsterdam paints in South Africa, maybe it helps if you know that these paints are from Talens? (Royal Talens). And the paints that you saw are from the Amsterdam Standard series. I think they are sold in many countries all over the world, but I'm not sure where exactly. And if you cannot find them, another brand that makes very similar kind of paint is Winsor & Newton, their Galeria line is very similar to Amsterdam Standard series. Hope it helps. Enjoy painting!
My oil colours are from Royal Talens. The Pyrrol red I have is a rather cool colour which nearly tends towards a blueish red. The Pyrrol red in this video, however, looks rather warm, more like the Pyrrol red light (which I also have in my „arsenal“ of colours). Now I am confused about which one to choose for my limited primary palette. 🤯 As for my Acrylic paints I use Schmincke Primacryl (split primary palette).
Aha, they didn't use to have that but I checked and I see that nowadays there is 340 (light), 315 (that's the one I use) and 345 (dark) From the pictures on the website I guess that 340 is slighlty towards the orange side. The dark version probably leans more to the purple side as you mentioned. So you observed that very well! In the end it doesn't matter exactly which colors you use, and as you're mentioning the term split primary palette, I guess you're quite an advanced color mixer. The pyrrole red that I use (315) isn't an exact primary as well, but in general I like the color because it's versatile. 👍🎨
@@toon-nagtegaalI am an absolute beginner in mixing. Just watched a lot of RUclips videos about colours (only theoretical), stormed into the art store right at the beginning - before having started painting - and bought way too many paints than necessary. I should have watched your videos earlier.😊 Now that I have discovered your channel I can finally start to practice.
🤣🤣🤣well, it's never bad to have too many colors!
Cool video ! How do you get those computerized color matched swatches on screen like that ?
I use photoshop and my video editor for that. Most photo editors have a color picker tool (eye dropper icon) and there are also apps for the phone that check colors instantly by using the camera lens. These a great tools to play with, even when you're not painting at all, to make color checking a game. So you can try to predict what kind of color, value and chroma you see and then check it with an app. For me it's a great tool to show things in videos.
But of course it's good to practice color checking by using your own eyes and check colors using the backside of a palette knife. 👍🎨
@@toon-nagtegaal thank you , those are great ideas for me to try !
Hi Toon, Is there a Red that would be a GOOD/EQUILILVANT substitute for Pyrole Red? I have so many reds on hand that I'd perfer not to purchase another if I have one that works for the time. Thank you.
If you have several reds, you probably have everything covered. Pyrrole red is sort of warm red, so it’s handy for vibrant oranges when mixed with yellow and slightly dull purples when mixed with blue. Maybe you have an orange kind of red for those cases. And for vibrant purples you can then use a red that has a more cool/purple bias. A naphtol red is reasonably close to pyrrole red.
@@toon-nagtegaal thank you, Cranidium Red Light for yellow bias? - and magenta or Alizarin Crimson for the blue bias red? thanks.
@@lolitakaloustianyoung7787 yes, that’s it!👏🏻👏🏻👍👏🏻
I think this one needs a few more jokes.
😂😂sorry, I’ll try next time👍