How to Mix Color to Match a Reference Photo!
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- This video has been requested a lot and also won on my latest poll of what video to make! Mixing colors can be hard at first but slowly your eye will get more accustomed to seeing small differences in color. Don't get discouraged and take your time to let yourself make the colors you are looking for in your paintings!
i would like to know what the best way of mixing the exact same color twice, i always have the problem of running out of paint and the biggest problem of re-making the color ):
I do the same thing! I never mix enough paint. What I do is, when I'm getting close to running out of a specific color, I stop and on the side try and replicate that color using the same method I use in this video. I can mix it right next to the color im trying to recreate and continue to reference back to that color to see if I'm getting close. If you do that, with some practice, youll be able to make that exact same color again!
I love how you explain your process. Very helpful!! Thank you! 👩🎨
So glad you liked it!
This was the best explanation of color mixing I've seen to date. I have such a hard time with color mixing. Can't seem to grasp it, so thank you!
I love that u mess up and you show it, in some other channels they just suddenly have the perfect color
Hello Emily, I'd like a similar video with a green heavy reference so that we get how to mix tree trunk brown and grass green and rocks please❤. Keep up the good work ❤
Absolutely! I'll put a video in the books for a very earthy reference photo color mixing practice. Thank you so much for your feedback!
@@EmilyMackeyArt Thankyou ❤❤
I would love to see that too :x:x
Thanks so much for this tutorial. I am a beginner so I have watched tons of painting tutorials and NONE of the other tutorials gave a lesson like yours on mixing colors. For example, I never knew that mixing colors opposite each other on a color wheel would tone down the brighter color. WOW! I never knew that! That's so essential to know when painting.
I appreciate your time, your talent and your wacky sense of humor. Positive vibes and One love from Jamaica!
I was trying to paint a picture of my orange tabby cat. And i couldnt get the orange right and then i remembered what you said about adding blue and it would mute it and not be so bright. And it helped tremendously. Youre honestly amazing and i thank you so much for putting your self out there online to help other artists. Love you bunches!
Alicia Speck HOORAY!!! That’s wonderful! I’m so glad that tip helped you out! Thank you so much for enjoying my videos! ❤️❤️❤️
Omg! Thank you so much for making this video! I've been struggling on matching the colors from my reference photo to my painting, and I haven't found a video that was as helpful as this one 😌
HOORAY! That's great! I'm so happy it helped you out!
TY so much. I learn by watching, more so than reading, especially when it comes to color. So glad your video did not have an overloaded, long intro (seems people want to impress w/them??). You got straight to the point. You seemed to have maybe rehearsed your vid before hand, and it went straight to the point! So nice to see a video on You Tube like this. Thanks so much for making, processing and sharing!!!
Wow this is amazing. Really loving all the content you’ve placed on your RUclips channel. I feel like I’ve learned so much just this week watching your videos. So educational and so helpful. Thank you so much! And your delivery is so light heart, just such a great channel. Thank you 🙏🏽
Wow this is such a wonderful comment! Thank you so much for saying all that. I work really hard to make my channel a place to learn and let loose and be silly and light hearted.
I just used this technique to patch some chips out of painted furniture. The blues I was getting were too purple, and adding a touch of vermilion suddenly solved my problem. Thank you!
Your vid just made me like ‘sooo that’s how you do it’ ah thankyou this was really useful!
WOW I HAD NO IDEA ABOUT MUTTING THE COLOR THINGIE IN COLOR WHEEL WOAAAAHHHH
Thank you, Emily. This was incredibly helpful. I liked how honest the video was.
You so smart. Now I understand the color wheel better. Big help. Bless your buttons!!!!
I am just getting into painting and this video helped me understand the mixing process well. Thank you!
Yay! So glad this was helpful!
You have really understand the color wheel. Bless your buttons. You so smart!!!!!
me and my sister love your paitings, speciallly the cloud. i litterly dream about painting you cloud. so could you PLEASEEE make a vid where you make the cloud step by step and talk about how you paint it and where you feel the shade and light should be on the clouds???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 pleaseeeee ireally wanna draw and paint as beautiful a you!!!!!! pleaseee i have been trying on for weeks and i end up with me not getting it pleaseeeeeee
You guys are so sweet! I've actually got a video coming out next week about a really easy way to paint a cloud! It's one of the many different methods I use to paint clouds. And I promise you many many "how to paint clouds" videos will continue to come out because they are my favorite thing to paint! Don't get discouraged if its been a few weeks and you still can't paint clouds like you want to. It takes YEARS for most artists to get to a place they are comfortable with in art, and even then they are still learning and always wanting to be better. Don't give up. Painting is a pursued skill way more than it is a talent. the people who stick with their art through thick and thin and don't give up are the ones who will find so much joy in their future creations.
I'm new to your channel and wanted to say a huge THANK YOU. Your videos are inspirational.....just like your paintings......and I have learned so much more from your straight forward style and delivery. You don't get too technical and complicated and I have had more fun.... and better results..... following your tutorials than I've had in a long time. So thank you again. Xx
ok i must say it is superr satisfying watching you mix paint with your palette knife!
this is so god damn helpful, how is this not more popular!!
The way you explain is so much better than any other videos I have watched
Thank you so much for this quick and easy to understand guide. I'm a complete beginner and your channel has been a huge help!
you explain reaaaaaly well
Thank you for teaching us!
You're awesome. I'm actually thinking of taking up painting as a hobby or maybe sell them in the future since I don't really have a lot of space at home. So I started watching acrylic painting videos which I thought I'd try to do as well, but then the artist starts using so may colors and I'm already computing in my head how much would that cost me. 😂😂😂 But when I saw the videos you made like the ocean sunset I thought whoa, you're really good at mixing colors. I'm so thrilled!!! I wanna try it soon but first I'd like to watch and learn more. Thank you!!!!
for me , this lesson changed the world
Thanks for this video, I’m super guilty of just using the paint straight from the bottle haha but now I feel like I have the tools to mix!
Love how you explain!!
Thank you that was so helpful…..I taught myself how to quilt now I am trying painting ,fingers crossed.
I'm glad I found you! You make mixing look so easy. ( Can I suggest to nix the music though?)
Amazinggg technique. Thank you so much 💯💯💯
Incredibly helpful for a beginner such as myself. Thank you for sharing this!!!!
That was very helpful to see you use the colours you had on your palette to create what you needed.... but my question is how did you know (just from looking at the reference photo) which colours you needed to start with? Why Indian Yellow instead of Cadmium Yellow, for example? How did you know you needed yellow at all? Does that just come with practice?
I love tour tutotials!
photo thats more green heavy! specifically trees. I struggle with painting trees they all end up the exact same color!
Nori Rinaldo Totally! It’s on my to do list!
your teaching is so awesome omg thank you
Thank you so much!!!
Excellent teachingof process!
Suuuuuper helpful!!
Thank you so much for this video. Im finally understanding the concept of mixing colors. So helpfull. 😍
marianne hjorth I am so so glad this helped you out!!!!
Thank you for this explanation! Very clear and well presented
You help me so much with my paintings thanks
Wow that was so helpful. Thank you
Hello! I have some basic basic questions :)
To start, I love your videos! This one in particular was incredibly helpful. I am a new newbie baby to paining, I took Art 1 and Art 2 in high school, but that was in 2013-2014 and we were given an A no matter how well or how poorly we painted. We didn't learn any techniques, mostly just self exploration and some art history. Well, except for shadow mapping on a reference picture, and drawing lines to help with scaling?? But anyway,
I wanted to know, when should you wet your paint brush? What does the order go? Dry brush> paint> water? Dry brush> water> paint? When do I/ should I wipe the brush on a paper towel? Should the paper towel be wet?
Thank you in advance!
I'm glad I found this video. I'll be thankful for life.
~Budding artist
I really love the way you teach feels very calm and soothing so tysm 😊
Thank you so much!!!
This video has changed my life! You’re awesome!
What palates do you use and what cleaning tool was that?
Hi Emily! I have a couple of questions... how do you make it so your acrylics doesn't dry out in the mean time while you are mixing the other colors? Also, if you run out of one color, is it hard to replicate the exact same? Do I have to make lot's of it at once so I don't run out of it in the middle of my painting? I hope you can answer, thank you so much! I love your videos thanks for ll the great tips! :)
Wow amazing explanation of color mixing theory. Thank u so much. I found this is the best explanation for mixing color. Love you♡♡♡♡ So helpful
Hello Emily!! im really amazed by your videos, especially this one, you are really good, but i have a question. What can i do if i have the opposite situation? i mean, i have one color and instead of making it less vibrant, i want it to be really vibrant. What technique can i use with the wheel color?
"owwww therz a bug.... there's a buuuggg " da wz cute though 🤩
Loved ur video...plz share link to all objects you use...like pallete and knife and all🥰
Thank you so much for this video it helped a lot. I've always struggled with color matching. One little, teeny, thing though.... I think that your background music for this video is a bit loud. It's over taking your narration. Other than that amazing job! I can't wait to check out more of your videos.
I have so much more respect for painters now
Very nice. Well explained. Thank you. !!
You are amazing!!!❤️❤️❤️
Wow this was very helpful!! Do you think you could do a video on browns? I have a very hard time doing brown without it getting too orangey/red, but if i dont use burnt sienna my browns just look awful
I'd find this very useful too
Absolutely! I'm thinking about doing one that has a combo of browns and greens in the future!
Very helpful video thanks for the tips ☺️☺️🎨🎨
Hooray! I'm so glad you liked it! Thank you so much!
Complete amateur here, now I feel less frustrated when I’ve been working with a color for 10 minutes and it’s far gone. Scrapping feels less like giving up now
YAY! Thats great! never ever feel like starting over is a failure. I still scrap paint that didnt turn out the way I wanted literally all the time. And I promise it gets easier with time.
Emily Mackey Art 🥺✊
This was so so helpful ❤️💜 you’re doing a greatttt job🥳
Can you also explain the materials and techniques you use to create and keep a palette while you paint? Could you do it using the himi gouache set? I get so freaked about muddying up my colors etc or how to gauge how much paint to pour? I have these GIaNT acrylic tubes and they just...bb they make a mess. I’m talking like CHILD LEVEL beginner breakdown
Wow, you make it soooo easy to understand, got it! Thanks
I'm so glad this video helped you out! Good luck with your painting!
You’re just amazing! Thanks so much!
Wow, thanks for your great tip, it help me a lot to learn
SO SO SO helpful!!!
This is so helpful!!! Thank you for this♡
Thank you, that was very useful!
I have been wondering! Where do you find a good palette that won’t dry your paints out.. like that glass one? Hobby lobby?
Hi Haddie, sometimes I use a glossy tile or a chinaware plate/saucer. Hope that helps you.
Wow this is priceless info 🥺
You're just amazing!!!!! 💓💓💓
Really helpful , thank you !
I am completely horrible at painting, Could you maybe give me tips for shading or making water look realistic?
You are my fav artist you know that right
Thank yoi so much for this. Much needed
What paints do you use? And what affordable acrylic paints would you recommend to someone starting out?
I would like to know what’s the brand of the paintings and where to purchase them
Woahhh so helpful👏🏾
Wow this is gold! Mixing purple is so hard for me. Any tips?
I would definitely recommend getting a tube of magenta paint. I always used to just mix purple with red and blue and it never turned out as vibrant as I wanted. But as soon as I started adding in magenta for purples, it changed my life!
@@EmilyMackeyArt awesome, thank you!
Doesn’t the paint dry while you’re mixing the other volors?
I had the same question. I think these are probably oils? Great video though!!
So in this video I am using oil paints, which take a a fe days to dry. When I use acrylics they dry much faster obviously. So when I'm using acrylics and painting from a reference photo, I usually just mix up the color I currently need and do that as i go along and need different colors, instead of mixing them all upfront like I do with oils. A humidifier or Getting a little spray bottle full of water and lightly spraying your acrylics could help them stay wet longer though! There are also some mediums I know of (But am unfamiliar with) that can slow dry time of acrylics that you might want to look into.
@@EmilyMackeyArt glycerol i believe is one
What's the tool you use to clean paint off your palette called?
I also would like to know! Seems like a scrapping tool?
Thank you so much! You’re a big help 🌻
This was soooo helpful💜
Where’d you get your paint scraper thingy from, it would really help with my messy pallets. Thanks
Are you using a razor to clean the pallet.?
Very useful. Though I guess not easy to mix up acrylic paints ahead of use?
I need to add another thank you. I knew the colour wheel, the primaries (plus the way pigments are made, there are cool and warm versions of each), I knew the secondaries and the tertiaries, the complementary colours and the way opposites become grey (or mud) - but I didn't appreciate that complementaries can be used to mute a colour!!! Bizarre, but I don't recall any book or magazine article that made that point clear. Oh for the last 40 years back again!!!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!💜💜
Hi, l like your video and way of explaining how to mix colors,😍💞👌
Thank you so much! I'm so glad it was helpful to you!
what is that thing you used to scrap paint and where do you get it ?
Omg thank you for this
Thank u.
By any chance could u tell me what brand of paints u use?
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this helped me a lot
Thank you very much it's definitely helpful for a novice! I watched translated verson from Bilibili
This was very helpful thank you
Thank YOU for watching!
This is the best colour matching & informative video I’ve seen thanks so much 🫶🙏
bless this video
Thanku so much, this was the knowledge I was always looking for
so glad you liked it!
Thank you!