I must say this was the most informative color chart video I have watched on RUclips. Everybody says a lot but actually say nothing. This was detailed and extremely well explained.
I love your beginners series. Your's are the first that are so very step by step . You take your time and don't rush. I find that so much easier to follow. I've not painted or did anything art wise since I was in school (36 years ago) Thank you
These tutorials are a perfect complement to New Botanical Painting. I'm also left-handed, so it's very helpful seeing you holding the brush with your left hand. I'm especially thankful for the brush exercises and these color mixing tutorials. I'm pretty clumsy and it takes me a while to learn any skill requiring fine motor skills, so seeing you do these exercises reinforces the brush skills you teach in your book. Finally. I appreciate so much your teaching us how to create all of these colors from a 12 pan set. I'm learning a lot, saving money, and gaining that sense of satisfaction you alluded to in Episode Four. I was so tempted to go out and buy a big set, but this way, I'm *learning* to use my paints rather than just painting straight from a giant set without thinking. I'm using the Cotman 12 half pan set and have been able to make very similar mixes. Do thank you very much for your generosity in sharing.
Thank you, i have been watercoloring, off and on, for absolutely years, at the moment we are on a very severe lockdown (live in italy) and have deceded to get back 'in' to painting and realise i need to patiently go back to the basics. I am literally watching ALL your videos right from the start. Not only am i learning soooo much stuff but you have a lovely way about you that is making this journey for me a real pleasure.
Wow Nici thank you. It sounds like you’re being very sensible with your time in lockdown. Thanks so much for watching and it’s a real honour to know you’re enjoying my videos even as an experienced watercolour painter x
Hi Harriet Miserable day up here in Lancashire. This is excellent thank you. I am 71 and have just started trying to learn watercolour mainly from RUclips. Pleased I have found your channel. I will definitely create a chart like this. I can delete many of the colours in my Jackson Art basket which means my wife and I can eat this week! I'm certain this will take away much of the guesswork and mystery. I took a look at Alek Krylow Channel. Quite a character. I will be working my way through your videos. Thank you again. Alan
This is a great practice exercise that is the most useful chart you will use over and over. My college instructor had us purchase 6 tubes of primary (3 cool and 3 warm) with 2 neutrals. He said it was all we would ever need.
Great tutorial really helpful. I will do the same with my paints too. I have your book my friend bought for me, lovely book. Got as far as the Dahlia which went all wrong so I lost the will. However, now I have found you on RUclips I will get started again.
I’ve been trying to watercolour for literally years and I’ve learnt more in the last week from your (gorgeous) book and these you tube tutorials 🥰 thank you so much I am once again inspired 💕
There’s a real sense of doing it “wrong”. I think so many of us have art trauma from the early grades in school where some kids received all the praise and others were just passed by. That took the joy out of putting color on paper and enjoying the exploration.
My paints, paper and brushes have arrived - sorry I didn’t get them from you as you were sold out at the time - can’t wait to get started rewatching your episodes again and making these colour charts. Love your series, thank you for sharing with us all.
Hey Paul, no worries at all, I keep selling out and am struggling to get my hands on more stock at the moment. I really hope you have fun with the painting!
Just wanted to pop in to say thank you. I first started to watch because I found you and your painting so relaxing. But I since started to paint (early Jan 2021) and I am in love. I've watched almost all of your videos now. You are my favourite tutor :)
I am literally drawing charts for tomorrow's watercolour 'marathon' experiment! 😁 I love listening to you chattering, Harriet, while learning all the practical watercolour techniques for beginners from you.
This taught me so much! I tried a version of this before, but had trouble getting the mixing process accurate with the water and my brush would get really dry towards the end. I can’t wait to try your method! I’ve watched many many videos and this makes the most sense to me, thanks so much for your teaching style. You seem to fill in little details that others don’t mention but make all the difference. Sarah, Tennessee US
Thank you so much for your kind words, Sarah! It means a lot to hear that my teaching style resonates with you. I'm excited for you to try out the method!
I love this watercolour chart. I haven’t come across it before and it is the first one to actually make any sense to me. Thank you Harriet. I’ve actually watched it through three times! Obviously a slow learner 🥴 Stay well.
Wow - this is a fantastic approach! Thank you very much. I’ve been doing the more traditional swatch charts for years, however this is a thousand times more useful! Btw, I’ve just discovered your channel, and have been enjoying it very much. It’s top notch. Thanks!
I have just spent a wonderful couple of hours making one of these charts .... I wish I had known or been taught to do this long ago .... I did make mistakes - and I had to substitute colours for ones I had but on the whole I’m thrilled with it ... thank you
@@deWintonPaperCo I have a very old 424 Cotman watercolour box (tin) that my parents gave me many many many years ago when I was in school and I brought them to Canada with me and I remember I dropped it and all or some of the pans of paint fell out and I’m now after all this time trying to put the correct colours with the correct names which are different from the Koi set I got from a friend ... so this ‘class’ has helped me immensely
Thank you so much for sharing your skills and knowledge and welcome to You Tube! :) I've enjoyed this new series very much and am waiting impatiently for your book to arrive. I usually make my colour charts exactly as you describe, blending the colours along the top with the colours down the side but your suggestion is so much more useful, great tip!
Thank you! I've felt a warm welcome to youtube so that's a great relief. I'm glad you find this useful, I just think, for watercolour, when mixing two colours give you such a huge range, it is pointless to just do one swatch for each colour. in my opinion anyway.
Fabulous idea, thanks for sharing this. I’m brand new to watercolour, it’s been one of my lockdown projects (along with crochet 😀). I had my 50th birthday a few weeks ago & was lucky enough to get your wonderful book as a gift. I’m working my way through it but I loved finding you here on You Tube, your videos are brilliant, perfect for me as a beginner, your style and friendly down to earth approach is really encouraging. I’ll be doing a colour chart tomorrow , thanks again 👍
Ah Amanda Happy Birthday for the other day! I'm so glad you are finding the youtube videos a helpful addition to the book, that was my hope for releasing these tutorials. I hope you keep making progress.
I have only just discovered your channel and am now binge watching all the videos. I have had your book since the summer and have enjoyed trying the many of the projects. I was interested to hear you had so many attempts at the protea as I found that one particularly difficult although I've been painting in watercolour for many years. It's always good to watch someone with a different style for inspiration. Looking forward to the rest of the course.
Welcome aboard Jules, thanks so much for buying the book and now for watching all the tutorials! I really hope the filmed tutorials enhance your experience of the book.
Once again I appreciate the approachability with which you infuse your recodings. There’s an encouragingly homey yet confident air about them that gives one hope...LOL! The flow of meditative and reflective conversation makes me feel like we’re sharing tea and painting together. I’m in the homestretch of the school year, waiting on paints and a set of brushes I was curious about to arrive. Good thing too otherwise there’d be a ‘merry war’ going on in my mind to grade or to paint? I think both color charts will be one of my first detox exercises of the summer. Thank you once again for an excellent recording! Well done and carry on!
Hello Harriet..I did this colour mixing chart and it was not only helpful but also so therapeutic. I love that it’s in real time unlike other tutorials where there is music and no guidance. I get so overwhelmed with all those colour theory stuff. This is so simple. I am a beginner and I want to paint with joy instead of getting all stressed up. Thank you.
I am literally loving your tutorials!! I watch on my lunch break at work then I come home, practice and replay over and over!! Thank you so much as I was loosing patience with myself and you have inspired me again!
It is also a Sunday afternoon here in Switzerland, and I enjoy making these colour studies so much! Thank you so much for taking me on this watercolour journey. So much appreciated.
Wow! This is an amazingly useful color chart. I'm very much a beginner & have completed the traditional chart which hasn't been terribly useful to me. Your version of adding a bit more pigment with each line shows the wonderful range of colors available. I also like the camera angles you shoot the videos at. While I like to see the angle of the brush and how you're holding it, I'm also able to see how much the brush bends and how the pigment is pushed. Thank you for making these beginner videos. So helpful when trying to learn online during such a time as this; not to mention you're thousands of miles away. : D
I've only watched the first 5 episodes of this beginner series and I've learned so much already. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Now on to the last 5 lol
Thank you (one million thanks) for this video series. I’m novice in watercolor and this way of teaching/learning allows me to understand better the behaviour of watercolor. I own your book (spanish version) and it’s fantastic. TYVM 👏🏻👌🏻👍🏻
Thanks s o much Hanna, I'm so glad you have the book and now can augment your experience with these tutorials. It means so much to get your comments, thank you xxx
Thank you so much for this video 🙏 I am a beginner but I love experimenting with color mixing this video shows how much and gorgeous colors you can mix, it is just magical to see 😍 I would have loved to watch the whole process but it is long enough for me to no longer put 48 color palets on my wishlists 😂
This is the best colour mixing video I have ever seen. It feels so relaxing to see those gradient colour swatches. Love your efforts. You are really inspiring. ❤
That is an outstanding exercise! I can Immediately see the usefulness of having all of the color mixes available for reference. I know what I will be doing for the next few days with my 24 palette colors. Thank you so much! A grateful sweet pea;-)
Great video thanks, I have begun painting just a few months ago in lockdown. It is so relaxing, I have struggled to make different greens for a painting, so I am going to make this colour chart, it makes so much sense and usefulness than others I have made. Love your videos I can see that little work will get done now I have found you x
I have just found you in the last two days. I have been (trying) to follow several watercolor artists on RUclips for several months now. I find it hard to follow because the artists go fast (at least for me) and I get in a hurry and start messing up and then get really frustrated. I saw your tutorial on holly and winter foliage. I then started scrolling and decided to watch your beginner series. I have found it so useful. It makes me want to kind of start over and start fresh and slow down and just enjoy the process. I have been drawn to the loose style because since I have had no previous art instruction, I feel I don’t have to be so realistic. I can’t wait to see how I can improve with following you. Thanks so much for sharing your expertise here.
This is so smart and useful! I have watched many videos and found them too daunting to even start building a color chart. I love your calm and clear voice too. Thank you so much for sharing!
I started watching your RUclips tutorials a few weeks ago and I love your approach to teaching and the art itself. I have just done this colour chart with my raggle taggle set of tube paints and its a revelation! I still find mixing hard, but it has opened my eyes to what I have in my box, and how colours which look similar in the tube actually mix up differently. I'm going to do one with 3 reds down the side, and one with the greens giving the three primaries, then going to do a colour wheel I think. After many years of trying to paint I finally feel I'm about to get somewhere. I'd love to attend a workshop of yours, but I can't see that you have any coming up. I have followed other channels on RUclips, but yours is the best I have seen, I also bought your Botanicals book. Thank you for all you do. I'm also looking at joining Patreon, but I can't decide the level just yet!
This is such a useful idea. I'm about half way through and I love the colours that are emerging. Prussian blue is such a difficult colour to 'wake up'! Seems to take a lot more effort than the others. But it is so gorgeous. Thank you for a very enjoyable late morning /afternoon. This is definitely going in my #3GoodThings for today (I will tag you on twitter). See you soon T
I'm really enjoying your beginner series. Appreciate you taking your time with these lessons/tutorials. And I'm enjoying getting to know you as well. I've purchased your book but I'm trying to build up my confidence first. Thank you so much!
Love this! Pretty enough to be wall art and a plus as it will be useful. I am definately trying this and recommending it to friends. Plus love you books.
Hi Harriet, I’ve started your complete beginners section and thoroughly enjoying watching you and started my colour chart! Your easy approach and explanation is marvellous! A great teacher! I’ve ordered your 3 books today. Thankyou for getting me back into watercolour.
Super helpful!! It's so cool seeing the mixes created on the paper!! I've never mixed color like this before and it's just MAGICAL!! Thank you so much for sharing this!!!
Thank you so much Harriet for these videos, I took art GCSE when I was at school thinking it would be the easy option... clearly it wasn't and I could not draw let alone paint! Now I am nearing 40 I am keen to learn some new skills, especially some that may help me with our charity weddings. I have taken a calligraphy class and I am working on those skills at home and now I have taken up watercolour painting too. Your videos are interesting and easy to follow and so far I have been really enjoying it. I can't wait to get going on some leaves very soon! Hope you are well, take care love Naomi @ The Wedding Wishing Well Foundation x
Ah Naomi, thank you so much, I'm aware of the wedding wishing well and the great work you do. It's nice to take up painting for a mindful activity as much as anything. I'm so glad you're enjoying the videos.
Thank you. I have started at the beginning. I’m a painter but it’s been years. so this is so refreshing, learning a lot. Also left handed so that helps. Will get your book also. ❤
I love your tutorials. Watching you teach is very relaxing. You make me want to start on my color chart. I hope to get your book in August so I can read, watch and learn.🙏🏻🥰
Such a great idea, looking forward to trying this! I think I’ll put a piece of printer paper on to shield the watercolour paper from my fingerprints, thanks for the heads up! I really like the two different camera angles you use when painting. Jo xx
Hi Jo, I'm so glad you are looking forward to having a go. Yes, very sensible to shield the paper from any fingerprints. Ant will be very pleased to hear his camera skills are being appreciated!
de Winton Paper Co. definitely! By the way, I’ve seen a couple of videos mentioning glazing colours, do you use this technique? If so would you consider doing a tutorial about it please? :) xx
wow this is invaluable!! the best ive seen. im a beginner with these 12 and 24 colour palettes but there are so many colours missing and without the colour theory knowledge im always missing colours. i will definately be doing this...cant believe the colours now available to me without having to buy more paint so thankyou so so much
Just finished my chart. It’s amazing just how different each colour sits on the mixing palette and then mixes with the blues. The paynes grey is a cheeky minx and I found this the most difficult to mix as it just overpowered everything! 😂
This is fun! I can't believe I haven't seen it before! I just happened upon one of your links in another one of your wonderful videos! I wish I would have taken up water coloring during all the lockdowns!! I did do a lot of bread and pasta making! :)
Harriet, I really enjoy watching and listening to you. Your voice is pleasant, your explanations are simple and I respect your style. I agree, some loose watercolor styles are sort of sloppy looking, and while that might be "easier" to paint, I do like the bit of precision you apply. I think I'd like to model my painting after you. So, thank you.
I love your teaching style and your "loose controlled" way of painting. I was so impressed I joined your Patreon and even upgraded quickly to Sweet Pea tier after signing up initially. This colour swatch tutorial is brilliant and I look forward to trying it out. What would you suggest as other colour mixes to follow up that would be helpful in floral painting? Reds and pinks to yellows? Blues to reds and pinks? I am in the process of setting up a palette with all the colours in your palette shown in the episode How to Prep a Plastic Watercolour Palette using Winsor Newton paints. I purchased a large quantity of small tubes many years ago on eBay at a good price and was thrilled to see that your palette has many of them.
Ah thank you! And welcome to patreon as well as my RUclips channel. I think the best approach is to find a flower you like and use that as your colour palette reference
Your tutorials are so delightful.. You seem so earnest in desiring to teach others....I am a beginner watercolor artist and have also purchased your book which I love...I must say the dahlia discouraged me somewhat, but hearing you speak on this video on how even you had to practice and practice made me feel encouraged...I do have a question about your color chart above in this video: How and why did you choose the two blues and paynes gray to test with all the others?.....Maybe I'm missing something...!.....oh but thank you and God bless you!
Watching this is so therapeutic! Thank you for a really informative video, it's been really helpful. What colours would you use to create red hues with the 12 colour pan?
Hi Rachel thanks so much for your message. Red hues are going to come from the earthy tones in your palette. Anything from burnt umber, yellow and ochre mixing with orange, crimson and rose colours.
I cannot find a list of the pigments, or even the names of the colors you swatched along the top, other than the 3 you verbally mentioned. Can you provide? Thank you. It is a wonderful demonstration, but I don’t know what colors you are blending.
Hi Carolyn, thank you for pointing this out. I have updated the episode details. The paints are using the full set of colours form the Daler Rowney 12 pan Aquafine travel set: Lemon Yellow Gamboge Hue Cadmium Red Alizarin Crimson Cobalt Blue Ultramarine Dark Blue Hookers Green Dark Yellow Ochre Raw Sienna Light Red Burnt Sienna Payne's Grey.
Hello Harriet, I’m looking forward to doing the exercise along with my friend, we are just new at watercolor. We do not have that brand and instead we have the Rubens 24 full pan size. There is no pain Gray can you suggest an alternative I think for the other colours I have a fair idea of what to use. I bought all three of your books a month ago and my friend and I are working our way through it slowly and also realize that we need some more basic techniques. And also how to get colours close to what you use without buying the expensive brand. Thank you so much for all you do, Donna.
Thank you hurry up for your Speedy reply. I do have another question, I see somebody asked you about if you had a set of more colors and you suggested doing worms and cools would you use the same three colors on the left hand side of the chart? 🎉
Hello Harriet, I am really enjoying your tutorials! I wanted to make the colour chart but don't have a paynes grey in my set. What other colours would you suggest using instead, for the third colour? Thanks!
What colour is the “light red” as I don’t see it in the Daler Rowney travel paint set on Amazon. Did you replace the white with this colour to get the 12 colours in the set? If so what colour would I choose for Light red. I love this idea and want to try it out.
This is so helpful! Thank you for the gorgeous video and explanation. Perhaps I missed it- what size paper are you using and how did you mark your measurements for this chart? Just want to get similar dimensions. Many thanks 🙏
Hi Jill this is an a3 size piece of paper and I just worked out how many colours I needed to include along each side and worked out equal measurements for them
Harriet what is your opinion on spraying water on the paints? Most artists dip in water as you do and I find I spray in order to prevent coloring my water jar. Is there a reason not to do that? I also use a little dropper to put bigger bits of water in a well
Hi, Harriet! This is amazing, thanks for sharing! :) I just have a quick question about mixing the colors: why don't you use all the yellow (for example) on the final part of mixing the tone with blue? I am asking because I see you use the whole blue tone you put on the palete, but you left some of the other color out. Is there a reason? Thanks again
Hi Mari, when filming a one take video sometimes you don't paint a 100% perfect chart covering all bases. I'd encourage you to try the full potential of each colour mix!
I went online to purchase this 13 pan set, but it is not the same on your pallet. It has Chinese White in it. Can you tell me where to purchase that exact set. I want to create this same chart.
Hi, because this RUclips tutorial is 4 years old, the products in it have changed a little bit and I'm not sure that palette is available any more. I sell the updated 10 pan version in my etsy shop.
Hi Harriet, understand you are using the Daler Rowney Aquafine pan set paints here. I was wondering if you could recommend some essential colours if I were to buy tube paints? Thanks in advance!
Hi Jace, these are the colours I recommend buying if buying tubes: We use 14 colours in my book, New Botanical Painting. They can be categorised as Warm and Cold. Warm colours lean towards yellow hues and Cold towards blue. There are also Earth colours; ancient earth pigments that help create a broader mix of colours for the palette. WARM Sap green Green Gold French Ultramarine Cadmium Red Cadmium Orange Cadmium Yellow Mars Black COOL Hookers Green Prussian Blue Permanent Rose Cobalt Violet Lemon Yellow EARTH Ochre Burnt Sienna
Just wanted to add, that timelapses are not practical, if you want to follow along. I far prefer real time videos. Timelapse also somehow give me the impression, that I have to be very quick too, and then I don't concentrate and just make everything quick, quick with poor results.
I must say this was the most informative color chart video I have watched on RUclips. Everybody says a lot but actually say nothing. This was detailed and extremely well explained.
Wow thank you! Tell your friends!
I love your beginners series. Your's are the first that are so very step by step . You take your time and don't rush. I find that so much easier to follow. I've not painted or did anything art wise since I was in school (36 years ago) Thank you
Thanks so much Amy. Yes I like to do things in real time
These tutorials are a perfect complement to New Botanical Painting. I'm also left-handed, so it's very helpful seeing you holding the brush with your left hand. I'm especially thankful for the brush exercises and these color mixing tutorials. I'm pretty clumsy and it takes me a while to learn any skill requiring fine motor skills, so seeing you do these exercises reinforces the brush skills you teach in your book. Finally. I appreciate so much your teaching us how to create all of these colors from a 12 pan set. I'm learning a lot, saving money, and gaining that sense of satisfaction you alluded to in Episode Four. I was so tempted to go out and buy a big set, but this way, I'm *learning* to use my paints rather than just painting straight from a giant set without thinking. I'm using the Cotman 12 half pan set and have been able to make very similar mixes. Do thank you very much for your generosity in sharing.
Ah thank you so much for your lovely message. It really makes my day!
That range of colours from just 2 colours is amazing. Thank you
You’re welcome 😊
Thank you, i have been watercoloring, off and on, for absolutely years, at the moment we are on a very severe lockdown (live in italy) and have deceded to get back 'in' to painting and realise i need to patiently go back to the basics. I am literally watching ALL your videos right from the start. Not only am i learning soooo much stuff but you have a lovely way about you that is making this journey for me a real pleasure.
Wow Nici thank you. It sounds like you’re being very sensible with your time in lockdown. Thanks so much for watching and it’s a real honour to know you’re enjoying my videos even as an experienced watercolour painter x
Hi Harriet
Miserable day up here in Lancashire. This is excellent thank you. I am 71 and have just started trying to learn watercolour mainly from RUclips. Pleased I have found your channel. I will definitely create a chart like this. I can delete many of the colours in my Jackson Art basket which means my wife and I can eat this week! I'm certain this will take away much of the guesswork and mystery. I took a look at Alek Krylow Channel. Quite a character. I will be working my way through your videos. Thank you again. Alan
Enjoy seeing another left-hander in action - i have struggled a little with other right-handed instruction - but lovely to follow yours!
So glad this is helpful Neville!
This is a great practice exercise that is the most useful chart you will use over and over. My college instructor had us purchase 6 tubes of primary (3 cool and 3 warm) with 2 neutrals. He said it was all we would ever need.
wow thank you so much!
This series is going to be so good for me. I nearly gave up!
Dont give up! It's so satisfying, just keep at it.
Great tutorial really helpful. I will do the same with my paints too. I have your book my friend bought for me, lovely book. Got as far as the Dahlia which went all wrong so I lost the will. However, now I have found you on RUclips I will get started again.
Hi Sheila, so glad that you’re getting back into it!
I’ve been trying to watercolour for literally years and I’ve learnt more in the last week from your (gorgeous) book and these you tube tutorials 🥰 thank you so much I am once again inspired 💕
Oh my goodness Sarah THANK YOU. You are so lovely to say that. It's messages like these that keep me motivated to create more videos.
There’s a real sense of doing it “wrong”. I think so many of us have art trauma from the early grades in school where some kids received all the praise and others were just passed by. That took the joy out of putting color on paper and enjoying the exploration.
I'm so keen to help anyone who has felt like that enjoy art again.
My paints, paper and brushes have arrived - sorry I didn’t get them from you as you were sold out at the time - can’t wait to get started rewatching your episodes again and making these colour charts. Love your series, thank you for sharing with us all.
Hey Paul, no worries at all, I keep selling out and am struggling to get my hands on more stock at the moment. I really hope you have fun with the painting!
The 'shadow colours' are now my favourite! I never knew how to make them before I came across your 'Magnolia video' 🤯
Wonderful!
Just wanted to pop in to say thank you. I first started to watch because I found you and your painting so relaxing. But I since started to paint (early Jan 2021) and I am in love. I've watched almost all of your videos now. You are my favourite tutor :)
Thank you so much!
I am literally drawing charts for tomorrow's watercolour 'marathon' experiment! 😁 I love listening to you chattering, Harriet, while learning all the practical watercolour techniques for beginners from you.
Wonderful!
This taught me so much! I tried a version of this before, but had trouble getting the mixing process accurate with the water and my brush would get really dry towards the end. I can’t wait to try your method! I’ve watched many many videos and this makes the most sense to me, thanks so much for your teaching style. You seem to fill in little details that others don’t mention but make all the difference. Sarah, Tennessee US
Thank you so much for your kind words, Sarah! It means a lot to hear that my teaching style resonates with you. I'm excited for you to try out the method!
I love this watercolour chart. I haven’t come across it before and it is the first one to actually make any sense to me. Thank you Harriet. I’ve actually watched it through three times! Obviously a slow learner 🥴 Stay well.
Thanks Anita, I feel the same about watercolour charts, when I first saw this one, it made so much sense!
I agree 100%
This is fantastic! SO helpful! Fellow left-hander .... really really helpful
Glad it was helpful!
Wow - this is a fantastic approach! Thank you very much. I’ve been doing the more traditional swatch charts for years, however this is a thousand times more useful! Btw, I’ve just discovered your channel, and have been enjoying it very much. It’s top notch. Thanks!
You are so welcome! And welcome to the channel Vicki!
I have just spent a wonderful couple of hours making one of these charts .... I wish I had known or been taught to do this long ago .... I did make mistakes - and I had to substitute colours for ones I had but on the whole I’m thrilled with it ... thank you
Nice one Diane!
@@deWintonPaperCo I have a very old 424 Cotman watercolour box (tin) that my parents gave me many many many years ago when I was in school and I brought them to Canada with me and I remember I dropped it and all or some of the pans of paint fell out and I’m now after all this time trying to put the correct colours with the correct names which are different from the Koi set I got from a friend ... so this ‘class’ has helped me immensely
There doesn’t appear to be a rhyme or reason as to the way the colours are set in the tin according to the name chart below them 😳🙄
Thank you so much for sharing your skills and knowledge and welcome to You Tube! :) I've enjoyed this new series very much and am waiting impatiently for your book to arrive. I usually make my colour charts exactly as you describe, blending the colours along the top with the colours down the side but your suggestion is so much more useful, great tip!
Thank you! I've felt a warm welcome to youtube so that's a great relief. I'm glad you find this useful, I just think, for watercolour, when mixing two colours give you such a huge range, it is pointless to just do one swatch for each colour. in my opinion anyway.
The simplicity and usefulness of your lessons for beginners are amaziing! Thank you very much!
Glad you like them!
Fabulous idea, thanks for sharing this. I’m brand new to watercolour, it’s been one of my lockdown projects (along with crochet 😀). I had my 50th birthday a few weeks ago & was lucky enough to get your wonderful book as a gift. I’m working my way through it but I loved finding you here on You Tube, your videos are brilliant, perfect for me as a beginner, your style and friendly down to earth approach is really encouraging.
I’ll be doing a colour chart tomorrow , thanks again 👍
Ah Amanda Happy Birthday for the other day! I'm so glad you are finding the youtube videos a helpful addition to the book, that was my hope for releasing these tutorials. I hope you keep making progress.
I have only just discovered your channel and am now binge watching all the videos. I have had your book since the summer and have enjoyed trying the many of the projects. I was interested to hear you had so many attempts at the protea as I found that one particularly difficult although I've been painting in watercolour for many years. It's always good to watch someone with a different style for inspiration. Looking forward to the rest of the course.
Welcome aboard Jules, thanks so much for buying the book and now for watching all the tutorials! I really hope the filmed tutorials enhance your experience of the book.
This is an exercise worth doing and the way you demonstrate it makes it easy to do. Thank you 🙏
You're so welcome!
Once again I appreciate the approachability with which you infuse your recodings. There’s an encouragingly homey yet confident air about them that gives one hope...LOL! The flow of meditative and reflective conversation makes me feel like we’re sharing tea and painting together.
I’m in the homestretch of the school year, waiting on paints and a set of brushes I was curious about to arrive. Good thing too otherwise there’d be a ‘merry war’ going on in my mind to grade or to paint? I think both color charts will be one of my first detox exercises of the summer. Thank you once again for an excellent recording! Well done and carry on!
Ah yes I always want it to feel like I'm chatting with friends.
Hello Harriet..I did this colour mixing chart and it was not only helpful but also so therapeutic. I love that it’s in real time unlike other tutorials where there is music and no guidance. I get so overwhelmed with all those colour theory stuff. This is so simple. I am a beginner and I want to paint with joy instead of getting all stressed up. Thank you.
You’re welcome 😊
I just came across your tute today. TYSM for doing this type of color mixing :) It makes so much sense, rather than the "regular" swatches,
Glad it was helpful!
So cool! I knew i recognized this chart as soon as i saw it! I too learned it from Alec Krylow and just recently finished it! He is the best isnt he??
Yes!
I’ve been practicing brush strokes and doing color wheels. It’s very peaceful.
So glad!
Very useful, thank you so much.
Thanks so much!
lovely. i need to make one for my own too. thank you
You’re welcome 😊
I loved your patience, thanks a Lot 🥰
You’re welcome 😊
I have enjoyed these five videos so much - you have a gift for teaching. Thank you for sharing so generously.
Ah thank you so much....we're just uploading episode 6!
I am literally loving your tutorials!! I watch on my lunch break at work then I come home, practice and replay over and over!! Thank you so much as I was loosing patience with myself and you have inspired me again!
Ah Victoria thank you ! That's fantastic news!
It is also a Sunday afternoon here in Switzerland, and I enjoy making these colour studies so much! Thank you so much for taking me on this watercolour journey. So much appreciated.
You are so welcome!
Wow! This is an amazingly useful color chart. I'm very much a beginner & have completed the traditional chart which hasn't been terribly useful to me. Your version of adding a bit more pigment with each line shows the wonderful range of colors available. I also like the camera angles you shoot the videos at. While I like to see the angle of the brush and how you're holding it, I'm also able to see how much the brush bends and how the pigment is pushed. Thank you for making these beginner videos. So helpful when trying to learn online during such a time as this; not to mention you're thousands of miles away. : D
Ah thank you Carol. I’m exactly the same, I never understood the colour chart but this has been far more useful for me
This is a beautiful, ingenious idea! Now, to figure out how to do this to a 24 pan set. - cries -
You can do it! Think about the colours you use the most. You dont need to use every colour for this.
I've only watched the first 5 episodes of this beginner series and I've learned so much already. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Now on to the last 5 lol
Fantastic!
Thank you (one million thanks) for this video series. I’m novice in watercolor and this way of teaching/learning allows me to understand better the behaviour of watercolor. I own your book (spanish version) and it’s fantastic. TYVM 👏🏻👌🏻👍🏻
Thanks s o much Hanna, I'm so glad you have the book and now can augment your experience with these tutorials. It means so much to get your comments, thank you xxx
Thank you so much for this video 🙏 I am a beginner but I love experimenting with color mixing this video shows how much and gorgeous colors you can mix, it is just magical to see 😍 I would have loved to watch the whole process but it is long enough for me to no longer put 48 color palets on my wishlists 😂
You are so welcome!
This is the best colour mixing video I have ever seen. It feels so relaxing to see those gradient colour swatches. Love your efforts. You are really inspiring. ❤
Thank you so much!
Extremely useful video tutorial. You have a very soothing voice. Love this. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
That is an outstanding exercise! I can Immediately see the usefulness of having all of the color mixes available for reference. I know what I will be doing for the next few days with my 24 palette colors. Thank you so much! A grateful sweet pea;-)
Ah thank you Phyllis!
Great video thanks, I have begun painting just a few months ago in lockdown. It is so relaxing, I have struggled to make different greens for a painting, so I am going to make this colour chart, it makes so much sense and usefulness than others I have made. Love your videos I can see that little work will get done now I have found you x
Glad it was helpful!
I too have trouble with greens. I'll give this a try!
I have just found you in the last two days. I have been (trying) to follow several watercolor artists on RUclips for several months now. I find it hard to follow because the artists go fast (at least for me) and I get in a hurry and start messing up and then get really frustrated. I saw your tutorial on holly and winter foliage. I then started scrolling and decided to watch your beginner series. I have found it so useful. It makes me want to kind of start over and start fresh and slow down and just enjoy the process. I have been drawn to the loose style because since I have had no previous art instruction, I feel I don’t have to be so realistic. I can’t wait to see how I can improve with following you. Thanks so much for sharing your expertise here.
Ah thanks Lisa! Welcome!
This is so smart and useful! I have watched many videos and found them too daunting to even start building a color chart. I love your calm and clear voice too. Thank you so much for sharing!
Ah I’m so pleased!
Amazing and the most useful demonstration of how to create a color chart. I will spend my weekend starting to do this with all my palettes!
Sounds like a great weekend!
I started watching your RUclips tutorials a few weeks ago and I love your approach to teaching and the art itself. I have just done this colour chart with my raggle taggle set of tube paints and its a revelation! I still find mixing hard, but it has opened my eyes to what I have in my box, and how colours which look similar in the tube actually mix up differently. I'm going to do one with 3 reds down the side, and one with the greens giving the three primaries, then going to do a colour wheel I think. After many years of trying to paint I finally feel I'm about to get somewhere. I'd love to attend a workshop of yours, but I can't see that you have any coming up. I have followed other channels on RUclips, but yours is the best I have seen, I also bought your Botanicals book. Thank you for all you do. I'm also looking at joining Patreon, but I can't decide the level just yet!
Wow Sylvia, thank you so much!
I love your tutorials, they are so practical and easy to follow. This colour chart is such a useful tool, thank you!
Thanks so much, this chart was a breakthrough for me. I had never really understood the other types
This is such a useful idea.
I'm about half way through and I love the colours that are emerging.
Prussian blue is such a difficult colour to 'wake up'! Seems to take a lot more effort than the others. But it is so gorgeous.
Thank you for a very enjoyable late morning /afternoon.
This is definitely going in my #3GoodThings for today (I will tag you on twitter).
See you soon
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Glad it was helpful!
Today I ordered your books and while I‘m waiting for them to arrive, I Love watching your beginner videos. Great job 👍👍👍
Awesome! Thank you! That is such a wonderufl show of support, i really hope you enjoy them!
I'm really enjoying your beginner series. Appreciate you taking your time with these lessons/tutorials. And I'm enjoying getting to know you as well. I've purchased your book but I'm trying to build up my confidence first. Thank you so much!
Ah welcome Ricci thanks for buying the book and I really hope you enjoy watercolour!
Love this! Pretty enough to be wall art and a plus as it will be useful. I am definately trying this and recommending it to friends. Plus love you books.
That's a great idea!
Hi Harriet, I’ve started your complete beginners section and thoroughly enjoying watching you and started my colour chart! Your easy approach and explanation is marvellous! A great teacher! I’ve ordered your 3 books today. Thankyou for getting me back into watercolour.
Wonderful!
Super helpful!! It's so cool seeing the mixes created on the paper!! I've never mixed color like this before and it's just MAGICAL!! Thank you so much for sharing this!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much Harriet for these videos, I took art GCSE when I was at school thinking it would be the easy option... clearly it wasn't and I could not draw let alone paint!
Now I am nearing 40 I am keen to learn some new skills, especially some that may help me with our charity weddings. I have taken a calligraphy class and I am working on those skills at home and now I have taken up watercolour painting too. Your videos are interesting and easy to follow and so far I have been really enjoying it. I can't wait to get going on some leaves very soon! Hope you are well, take care love Naomi @ The Wedding Wishing Well Foundation x
Ah Naomi, thank you so much, I'm aware of the wedding wishing well and the great work you do. It's nice to take up painting for a mindful activity as much as anything. I'm so glad you're enjoying the videos.
Thank you. I have started at the beginning. I’m a painter but it’s been years. so this is so refreshing, learning a lot. Also left handed so that helps. Will get your book also. ❤
You are so welcome!
I love your tutorials. Watching you teach is very relaxing. You make me want to start on my color chart. I hope to get your book in August so I can read, watch and learn.🙏🏻🥰
You can do it!
I love this exercise, I can see how useful this will be as mixing for me I find quite difficult, thankyou x 😊
Brilliant!
This is the best chart I have seen!!
That means so much!
Such a great idea, looking forward to trying this! I think I’ll put a piece of printer paper on to shield the watercolour paper from my fingerprints, thanks for the heads up! I really like the two different camera angles you use when painting. Jo xx
Hi Jo, I'm so glad you are looking forward to having a go. Yes, very sensible to shield the paper from any fingerprints. Ant will be very pleased to hear his camera skills are being appreciated!
de Winton Paper Co. definitely! By the way, I’ve seen a couple of videos mentioning glazing colours, do you use this technique? If so would you consider doing a tutorial about it please? :) xx
I love that part of your book; how you divided the cool and warm colors. Makes mixing nice. Keeps the mud away :D
Yes!
Absolutely brilliant! Thank you so much Harriet, that's the most useful mixing chart idea I've seen. I can't wait to have a go at this! 😊
So glad it's helpful Suze
wow this is invaluable!! the best ive seen. im a beginner with these 12 and 24 colour palettes but there are so many colours missing and without the colour theory knowledge im always missing colours. i will definately be doing this...cant believe the colours now available to me without having to buy more paint so thankyou so so much
Glad it was helpful!
Just finished my chart. It’s amazing just how different each colour sits on the mixing palette and then mixes with the blues. The paynes grey is a cheeky minx and I found this the most difficult to mix as it just overpowered everything! 😂
Great job! Yes those deep colours are powerful!
This is fun! I can't believe I haven't seen it before! I just happened upon one of your links in another one of your wonderful videos! I wish I would have taken up water coloring during all the lockdowns!! I did do a lot of bread and pasta making! :)
Awesome! Thank you!
Harriet, I really enjoy watching and listening to you. Your voice is pleasant, your explanations are simple and I respect your style. I agree, some loose watercolor styles are sort of sloppy looking, and while that might be "easier" to paint, I do like the bit of precision you apply. I think I'd like to model my painting after you. So, thank you.
Thank you so much! That means a lot Lindsay!
I love your teaching style and your "loose controlled" way of painting. I was so impressed I joined your Patreon and even upgraded quickly to Sweet Pea tier after signing up initially. This colour swatch tutorial is brilliant and I look forward to trying it out. What would you suggest as other colour mixes to follow up that would be helpful in floral painting? Reds and pinks to yellows? Blues to reds and pinks? I am in the process of setting up a palette with all the colours in your palette shown in the episode How to Prep a Plastic Watercolour Palette using Winsor Newton paints. I purchased a large quantity of small tubes many years ago on eBay at a good price and was thrilled to see that your palette has many of them.
Ah thank you! And welcome to patreon as well as my RUclips channel. I think the best approach is to find a flower you like and use that as your colour palette reference
This was absolutely informative, thank you so much 💓
SO glad it was helpful
Your tutorials are so delightful.. You seem so earnest in desiring to teach others....I am a beginner watercolor artist and have also purchased your book which I love...I must say the dahlia discouraged me somewhat, but hearing you speak on this video on how even you had to practice and practice made me feel encouraged...I do have a question about your color chart above in this video: How and why did you choose the two blues and paynes gray to test with all the others?.....Maybe I'm missing something...!.....oh but thank you and God bless you!
Thank you so much! I just decided to use the blue/black tones as my choice to mix. You can make you're own decisions!
Really love this version, great idea. Thank you 💖
You’re welcome 😊
Loved the instruction. Thanks!
Thanks Jean
Thank you once again Harriet, this is exactly what I need to do. I may be some time 😂
Thanks so much Chris, I'm really pleased you found this helpful. Its a really nice, calming exercise to take up a few hours.
Great tutorial!! Thank you so much. 🤗
You are so welcome!
Thank you very much! ❤
Thanks so much
Love this idea
Thank you! 😊
I find colour theory confusing…. maybe just a memory thing with my age lol, but this is a fantastic exercise and kind of a cheat sheet. I love it. 🤗
So glad it’s helpful!
Watching this is so therapeutic! Thank you for a really informative video, it's been really helpful. What colours would you use to create red hues with the 12 colour pan?
Hi Rachel thanks so much for your message. Red hues are going to come from the earthy tones in your palette. Anything from burnt umber, yellow and ochre mixing with orange, crimson and rose colours.
So inspiring!
Thank you :)
fabulous!!!!
thanks!
I cannot find a list of the pigments, or even the names of the colors you swatched along the top, other than the 3 you verbally mentioned. Can you provide? Thank you. It is a wonderful demonstration, but I don’t know what colors you are blending.
Hi Carolyn, thank you for pointing this out. I have updated the episode details. The paints are using the full set of colours form the Daler Rowney 12 pan Aquafine travel set:
Lemon Yellow
Gamboge Hue
Cadmium Red
Alizarin Crimson
Cobalt Blue
Ultramarine Dark Blue
Hookers Green Dark
Yellow Ochre
Raw Sienna
Light Red
Burnt Sienna
Payne's Grey.
Hello Harriet, I’m looking forward to doing the exercise along with my friend, we are just new at watercolor. We do not have that brand and instead we have the Rubens 24 full pan size. There is no pain Gray can you suggest an alternative I think for the other colours I have a fair idea of what to use. I bought all three of your books a month ago and my friend and I are working our way through it slowly and also realize that we need some more basic techniques. And also how to get colours close to what you use without buying the expensive brand. Thank you so much for all you do, Donna.
Hi Donna! I think you can get a good paynes grey alternative by mixing a dark brown and dark blue together. Welcome to watercolour!
Thank you hurry up for your Speedy reply. I do have another question, I see somebody asked you about if you had a set of more colors and you suggested doing worms and cools
would you use the same three colors on the left hand side of the chart?
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Hello Harriet, I am really enjoying your tutorials! I wanted to make the colour chart but don't have a paynes grey in my set. What other colours would you suggest using instead, for the third colour? Thanks!
Well I would look for a cold dark colour in your palette, maybe a forest green, a crimson? Or an actual black colour too would work
What colour is the “light red” as I don’t see it in the Daler Rowney travel paint set on Amazon. Did you replace the white with this colour to get the 12 colours in the set? If so what colour would I choose for Light red. I love this idea and want to try it out.
Daler Rowney recently replaced the white with a light red colour. I am sorry I cannot remember the specific tone off the top of my head. 😊
This is so helpful! Thank you for the gorgeous video and explanation. Perhaps I missed it- what size paper are you using and how did you mark your measurements for this chart? Just want to get similar dimensions.
Many thanks 🙏
Hi Jill this is an a3 size piece of paper and I just worked out how many colours I needed to include along each side and worked out equal measurements for them
Harriet what is your opinion on spraying water on the paints? Most artists dip in water as you do and I find I spray in order to prevent coloring my water jar. Is there a reason not to do that? I also use a little dropper to put bigger bits of water in a well
I’ve never really bothered spraying water. I find I get the best control with my brush
This is amazing! Any tips for doing this efficiently with a 24 color palette? 😬
You could group your colours into warm and cool tones maybe and do two separate charts?
Thank you very much ...dear friend ( I don´t know your name Miss ) this is LOVELY .
Thank you too
Hi, Harriet! This is amazing, thanks for sharing! :) I just have a quick question about mixing the colors: why don't you use all the yellow (for example) on the final part of mixing the tone with blue? I am asking because I see you use the whole blue tone you put on the palete, but you left some of the other color out. Is there a reason? Thanks again
Hi Mari, when filming a one take video sometimes you don't paint a 100% perfect chart covering all bases. I'd encourage you to try the full potential of each colour mix!
I went online to purchase this 13 pan set, but it is not the same on your pallet. It has Chinese White in it.
Can you tell me where to purchase that exact set.
I want to create this same chart.
Hi, because this RUclips tutorial is 4 years old, the products in it have changed a little bit and I'm not sure that palette is available any more. I sell the updated 10 pan version in my etsy shop.
Hi, can you recommend good color theory books ? Thanks :)
Hmm, I'll be honest, I dont really use any books, it's all been about instinct and painting for me.
Did you say what size paper you used for this chart?
This is a3
Why do you mix them all with the blue, did I miss some thing you said?
It’s just my choice. I find this a good way of dividing the colours
I am glad that this is not a speed painting.
Yeah, that’s not my style
Hi Harriet, understand you are using the Daler Rowney Aquafine pan set paints here. I was wondering if you could recommend some essential colours if I were to buy tube paints? Thanks in advance!
Hi Jace, these are the colours I recommend buying if buying tubes: We use 14 colours in my book, New Botanical Painting. They can be categorised as Warm and Cold. Warm colours lean towards yellow hues and Cold towards blue. There are also Earth colours; ancient earth pigments that help create a broader mix of colours for the palette.
WARM
Sap green
Green Gold
French Ultramarine
Cadmium Red
Cadmium Orange
Cadmium Yellow
Mars Black
COOL
Hookers Green
Prussian Blue
Permanent Rose
Cobalt Violet
Lemon Yellow
EARTH
Ochre
Burnt Sienna
de Winton Paper Co. Thanks so much for listing them out Harriet, that helps me greatly as I’m having trouble getting the pans. Super grateful! 😊
Just wanted to add, that timelapses are not practical, if you want to follow along. I far prefer real time videos. Timelapse also somehow give me the impression, that I have to be very quick too, and then I don't concentrate and just make everything quick, quick with poor results.
Yeah I have found if i'm filming a time lapse I get so tense!