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My Favorite 8 Colors for Watercolor
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- Опубликовано: 15 авг 2024
- What watercolor colors should beginners start with? Well that question has many answers. I'll show you 8 of the colors I come back to time and again. There are plenty of other colors that will suffice but at least you can get a sense of my thinking process as I choose and use these beautiful colors.
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Colors Mentioned:
- Prusian Blue
- Ultramarine Blue
- Yellow Green (Azo Green)
- Indian Yellow
- Quinacridone Red or Pyrrol Red
- Transparent Red Iron Oxide
- Sepia
- Paynes Gray
Additional colors usually found on my full palette:
- Cobalt Blue
- Cerulean Blue
- Phthalo Blue
- Phthalo Green
- Sap Green
- Olive Green
- Nickel Azo Yellow
- Azo Yellow
- Transp. Orange Iron Oxide
- Azo Orange
- Pyrrol Scarlet
- Quinacridone Rose
- Cobalt Violet
- Neutral Tint
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I think these colors are wonderful, perfect for a limited palette. I think M Graham should create a Steve Mitchell set.
I would love that! It's so much more affordable than purchasing the individual paints.
Thats would be awesome.
I would totally buy that, yes!
@@janemiettinen5176 Well...now you can purchase a Daniel Smith Steve Mitchell set. As of May 2020.
You finally can! He released a set a few months back.
This man is one of the best instructors on teaching Watercolour , he is to be trusted He will never guide you wrong! I have been I think to so many sites and I always come back to him . And yes I have found many artist I love but if you want to learn from ground O to be the best you can be mr mind of water color is the place to be I wish he would teach Chinese painting !,,
Wow! Such a generous comment. Thanks so much!
Jean Milhollin
Thanks
Jean Milhollin 5
AGREED!
Back when you were posting this i was painting with you not commenting..i went to an azo yellow rather than azo green and phthalo green yellow shade..i was having the same problem with yellow ochre that you had...muddy..not till using Lirons palette did i venture back but still wasnt convinced. I found that these 8 could lake me afield. No longer able to paint but reviewing as my great granddaughter thinks she wants to be an artist..,,me, i am trying not to overwhelm her with info and supplies, but that remains to be seen. I hope you continue your teaching for a long time..she is only 13, and i won't be here to guide her, but i am hopeful she finds good teachers along the way,
For someone who cannot afford to keep buying paints to find the right ones, this is the most helpful video ! Your Red iron oxide combo is exactly colors I was looking for. Good watercolors are so expensive and I was getting really overwhelmed with all the color choices, but your video just opened my eyes. Thank you so much for this!
You bet!
Me too! I love this video. Thanks M of W. I also love your delivery. No pretensions, just great advice.
Thank you for what you said about just playing with colors at first. I've been beating myself up for not actually making something yet. Glad to know I'm on the right track.
Yeah you gotta explore and discover what those colors will do. Best not to do it while you're painting something. 😁
Cool blie, warm blue, cool yellow, warm yellow, cool red, warm red, a cool neutral and warm neutral. Yep, sounds about right.
I agree w/Carl Pen's comments here - a good starter set'll have a warm & cool rev of each of the three primaries, plus warm & cool 'earth tones' (like Sepia & Paynes Gray, as you have here), with as many of these colors being transparent as possible (just gives you more flexibility). Azo Green & Indian Yellow seem (to me) to be pretty extreme choices for the warm & cool yellows - but wow - when you show how nicely they mix w/everything else to make such a beautiful variety of colors... I'm sold! Your videos are very helpful - thank you!
Thanks! Glad you liked it. I will hasten to say that I usually have more than 8 colors on my palette. These are just some favorites and not necessarily meant to be a fully balanced and complete palette, although they will suffice by themselves in most situations.
You are making it more real to me. Giving me directions of how to and I appreciate that.
I appreciate the scripture verses you use.
Thank you very much for your ministry.
Yes, great instructor!
I redid this exercise with these colors. I realized that I am scrimping on paint and need to train myself to make the colors really 'juicy' as you like to say. Onward and upward.
Not surprised to see payne's grey and sepia made the list. It's great to see how all the colors can mix and make new ones. Keep up the good work and take care.
Yep, great, useful colors. Thanks!
This exercise sure beats the color wheels instructors have wanted me to make! (Never learned as much from them as I have from your site and maybe one other.)
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carmium
Totally agree.
I bought these favorites of yours and they have served me very well. I highly recommend them for anyone who wants guidance with their palette. Thank you!!
So excited to have found a local source for M. Graham w/c paints.
Million dollar lesson here! Thank you so much. Its all about how the colors like to play together and i really like what these colors do to each other. Just lovely!
for someone like me whose partially colorblind- these types of things are actually quite useful
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Steve, I'm also partially colorblind and knowing the names of the colors you use is extremely helpful. I watched your on line class and it was great. If you could name your colors as you use them as you did in your online class, in your future videos in would help not just Jack and I but many more just like us. Please consider this. It really is a game changer for us.
Thank you
Steve I can't tell you how many times I've watched this video and how it has improved my watercolor paintings. After years of struggling (with apparently opaque colors) I have actually done paintings that I am proud to show. Your videos are informative, entertaining and so kind. Please keep them coming!
Thank you, I am not a painter but I do calligraphy and am learning to do that with watercolor.. Learning about how watercolour reacts is so much fun...
Great video. If there's any really poor or really cheep artists out there wishing to start watercolor work, I started with just 3 bottles of liquid watercolor...red, yellow, & blue. Worked well for me for years!
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I must have watched this video 5 times.I guess I am more interested in the chemistry of paints than the actual painting. I just got the W&N green gold and while thinking where to place it in my palette (yellow or green) I remembered having seen something similar in yours. Turns out it's the same pigment only different commercial name. :)
+Meda Halmaciu ah yes, not uncommon.
there's a great book called 'yellow and blue don't make green' that goes into the physics of light and pigments in a very practical way, you'd prob like it
You convinced me. That is a gorgeous pallete with so many possibilities!
I didn't have the budget to buy all 8 right now in M. Graham. However, Lukas full pans and Turner tubes are on sale at Jerry's Artarama. I went to the M. Graham site and noted each pigment and managed to exactly match the pigments between the two other brands. I also made sure they were all transparent colors and matched the colors themselves as closely as possible from their swatches (hard to tell from tablet pics.) Hopefully I end up with something similar.
I have a Cotman 14 color travel set now which uses the same pigment in their burnt sienna as M.G's red iron oxide and is thankfully one of the few brands to offer the pigment in a transparent. (It isn't quite as red/orange though) I also inherited my late Nana's watercolors and she had a Cotman's Sepia and a Liquitex Payne's Gray. Not quite the same but hopefully a good start. I don't think Liquitex even makes watercolors anymore?
If anyone is interested here is a match up of the colors on sale that I bought and the color I'm attempting to substitute for. Lukas full pan Green Yellow - Azo Green. Turner Permanent Yellow Orange - Indian Yellow, Turner Prussian Blue, Ultramarine Deep, Quin Red - Same Names. I also picked up Lukas full pan Magenta which is the same pigment as Quin Red but prepared differently and seems to produce a much more violet red than the Quin Red and I thought I might find useful in Florals. It is also transparent.
What really killed my budget was the 4 new brushes and a pad of Arches paper! Lol (Also based on your recommendations. I ended up with a black velvet 3 brush round set and a Neptune 1/2 inch cat tongue.)
Thank you for the video. I found it very useful. I'm a lifelong artist but watercolor has never been my medium so the advice on pigments and transparency levels has been extremely helpful! I prefer the luminosity and look of truly transparent watercolors so Yay! Thank you again 😊.
Kerri McCafferty
I bought mine on eBay. There was a jobber that had a store close out. I paid about $3. A tube. More colors than I needed but it was a great door in. Search professional watercolor NWT.
Thank you Karri. Very helpful.
Apprectate your looking into this.
Mary.
Just so you know, the same pigment made into watercolor by different companies usually produces noticeably different hues. Ultramarine blue is just about the only basic paint color that is consistent from brand to brand.
Go on line to Dick Blick, orJerrys Artarama
Thank you so much for this video. You Saved many people on spending $$$ they don't have on a ton of watercolor paint they don't need. Much appreciated by my pocket book!
My pleasure!
I love Prussian Blue too. :) I learned that when making a small palette it should contain: A warm and cool of: Yellow, Red, Blue, Green. Along with those two earth tones and a black of some sort. I learned this was a good starting point. The nice thing with just being told "warm and cool" is you get to choose the colour. Makes for vastly different palettes and you can begin to personalize them.
Burnt umber and prussian blue make a great black when mixed. You don't really need black.
Payne's grey is my favorite, it's all over in nature.
Mine too. I use it in so many mixes and with Sepia it a great monochromatic painting pair.
After watching the video about making "doodles ", I did one. My work is now a whole new level! Thanks
Definitely agree with the azo green here - I only began using it about a year ago, but am finding more and more uses for it. My personal favourite mixing partner for it is perylene green. I start most of my botanicals with that mix.
This is still one of my favorite videos!💕
I like to mix Payne's Gray and Permanent Rose, it makes a really interesting grape purple color
At last I have found an artists who knows how to get the message across and is comfortable and inspiring, makes such a difference when I get answers to my problems and they Tick! straight away. Thank you Steve and Happy Painting All ;-))
Fantastic showcase! Glad to find another prussian fan, it’s not a fashionable pigment these days but I started with a vintage set and fell in love. Now I know it’s history also brings to mind a tinge of sadness, faded glory and the horrors of ww2.
i watched this episode 2 years ago and coming back to switch up my palette. Love your chanel and your sense of humor
I'm impressed with the Red Iron Oxide! I personally would have never thought it would produce such gorgeous colors when mixed...
This was probably my favorite all time video. I use these colors all the time.
But I have to tell you I find M. Graham challenging. It seems to have a life of its own. I’m a Schminke gal. But these are THE best mixing colors.
Does the Azo Green mix the same in schminke? Seems unique to not end up with mud when adding red.
Also, the iron oxide with blue? does it mix like that?
I really benefit from and enjoy watching how you experience colors
I really like that you compared your mixtures to other existing colors. Some colors mixed in ways I didn't expect. Thanks for the vid!
Yes, they definitely will. Thats why its so great to play with them and experience your owncolors up close and personal.
I'm gonna have to give azo green another look!
Lovely color! I bought in on a whim several years ago and I use it regularly.
he's using all M. Graham paints in this video! just looked, and M. Graham azo green is available on amazon.
Sr Bob - I know that this is an old comment, but just thought I'd add that the same pigment, PY129, is also found in Green Gold by Winsor & Newton & Rich Green Gold by Daniel Smith. I have the W&N version & LOVE it!
Thank you, Jennifer, I was just going to ask about the equivalents in other brands!
Iryna Boeh
Probably the best video by itself on the craft of water color - I like how he stresses the density of water versus color, many thanks
This is the BEST video out there for anyone wanting to start with watercolors! I'm picking it up again after many years, and this video is the only one I needed to see.
Thank you for such wonderful, no nonsense, down to earth advice. The way you explained and demonstrated what your choice of colors can do is clear and easy to understand. I'll be taking a good look at M. Graham colors, because they are absolutely beautiful and so vibrant!
Thanks again!
Seeing this again, in June 2020, I am impressed with how truly useful and enlightening your instruction has been for me. Thank you!
This just came up in my feed and I noticed it said 4 years ago! What?! I remember when you first added this video. How time flies! Thanks for all your hard work 😊
Tell me about it! Thanks for the loyal viewership.
Lovely to see Payne's grey that high on your list, my absolute favorite color from the moment i used it for the first time. Turquoise blue and green are other favorites of me. And as a Dutchie, Orange of course ;).
thank you for this... i have watched a lot of the other video types you mentioned and they weren't really helpful. this was and i loved how you showed and explained why they are your faves and how they can be used and other options. thank you!
I could probably watch you mix colors for hours. I'm just fascinated.
Its a fascinating activity for sure, and very informative when you do it.
I'm on my 4th time watching this video because it's a great way to learn my colors in general. I've been overwhelmed for awhile now. Appreciate you! Thanks
I'm so happy! Adding M Graham Turqoise to my palette. No way I have found to mix it, got close, but not close enough. I plan to upgrade to all M Graham over a bit of time. As My Van Gogh pand run out, they will be refilled. I love to watch you paint with that paint, and it's a fantasric value as well! Thanks for this video! The Quin Gold is next on my list.
That's a great palette. Really really really nice. Taking notes over here!
Not pertaining to this specific video , but I love a comment you made in another .... “ a watercolorist must be brave.” I am new not only to watercolor, but to art practice as a whole. I have have tried acrylic and believe possibility wrongly, that it is easier. But I am attracted to the challenge and beauty of watercolor, but I must become brave !
I couldn't stop wincing when your Azo green kept falling into the Indian yellow, I've been there before. Also, thank you for your instruction!!
I make it short: THAT WAS HELPFUL. Thank you VERY MUCH!!!
this is the best color mixing video I ever seen love it and love your colors
Thank you for being always so Cristal Clear the way you teach. It improve my skils so much. Thank you.
Just wanted to tell you that I have finally bought some M.Graham and I love it!!! I began with Winsor Newton I was transitioning from painting in oils so knew the brand plus I got a great deal on EBay ( probably the first couple of years & prior to companies selling on it so was just a huge garage sale with garage sale prices).
Since watching RUclips when I was very ill and had to retire from teaching math earlier (36 years but wanted 40)…..
I discovered there are MANY different brands of watercolors…😂
I have tried……
Mission Gold, QoR, Schmincke, Sennelier, DiVinci, Rembrandt, Holbein and even handmade from Italy, A. Gallo(it’s nice paint but not considering cost & constantly changing colors)
But when there was a great sale or trial pack I try a different brand…
My husband says I’m naive…lol….” I drink the koolaid” truly believing every person who was “using/swatching/etc” their favorite brand of watercolors were “remarkably better than anything else…usually always much better than WN…I DO believe that is their HONEST opinion!!! I just didn’t have the same experience.
Bottom line…..
I have purchased and tried many different professional brands since 2018.
Just a few months after I had decided I was done trying any other brands…..
I’m packing to go and to stay with my mother for a month while my brother and his wife were in Europe and England. She had just been out of hospital/rehab less than a month and was moving in because they were very close to large metroplex with best medical…she had lived with me for 20 years prior)
So…. to continue…I’m getting some watercolors together (she also paints) and saw the MGraham sets I’d forgotten about (4 of the sets of 5 colors…cobalts;quinacridrones; landscape; etc….which Im now very grateful as prices 4 years ago were fantastic)
I’d never opened because I wanted to order 4-5 individual colors for my palette but had packed up because we knew we’d be moving anytime in next couple of years…
I decided to order the 4-5 colors when I was with mother and create a palette for both of us so we’d have plenty to do…
I also grabbed a new set of Rembrandt half pans I hadn’t opened yet…
I made swatches for Rembrandt as I waited for the MGrahams to arrive and it wasn’t any big deal…
Then I put together the M Graham’s palette!!
I couldn’t believe it!! I REALLY couldn’t believe the differences were NOTICEABLE and…in several areas…
1. SO EASY TO REWET!!!! Especially nice since I literally live in the desert.
2. PIGMENT LOAD
I have to be consciously aware of the amount I am getting onto my brush because there’s so much more than expected
3. VIBRANCY after it DRIES!! This is probably the one quality that I believe is totally unique to M Graham’s paints and the one thing I missed about oil paints…
I just LOVE them!❤
Remembering you had a video showing some great colors and combinations I was checking to make sure I had these!!
I’ll just need to order red iron oxide….
Thank you for your sharing your thoughts on M Graham’s paints. You and Lindsey W. both have said they are your #1 favorite. It’s why I purchased the sets as they came up on Amazon 4 years ago. (I still can’t believe I waited until now!)
I’m SO EXCITED! I just love them and so does my mother who is doing very well now (will be 90 in May) and just quit driving!!
If you ever get the opportunity please let Mr. MGraham know that he has made a quality product which IS, in my opinion, creates the best palette of any other major brand I’ve tried…..BY FAR BETTER ❤
Please excuse my rambling and detailed story….
Blessings,
Nancy Rolfe
Your channel is SO amazing!! Best watercolor teacher out there!
Thank you for recommending azo green! I live in New Mexico and it didn't take long to figure out that azo green and gamboge mix makes a nice warm ground color of high dessert landscape
The color mixes you made have me over the moon! I can envision a variety of landscapes with them, most obviously fall foliage. Thanks for sharing this!
👍 Cool!
Best color mixing and explanation of transparent colors.
Hello from Australia. I paint in soft pastels and acrylics usually and periodically ‘ have a go’ at watercolours, generally giving up after a few messy tries. But I have discovered your RUclips clips now and feel more confident. Many thanks! 👍👩🎨
Love M Graham paints. Almost impossible to make muddy colors but as a 30 year beginner it's the value. What value you put down wet is almost what you get when they dry. Way less value shift when drying.
Good demo of color mixing range from a small set of colors.
I also like to play with colours and try different things, You are right, that is the way to learn by trial and practice. Thank you.
I love being a minder. It is so much fun. I also love M Graham watercolors. They are so beautiful. Thank you for this video.
I love watching you because you take your time at explaining an you or so true at telling what each person wants❤
I have watched this video a dozen or more times! Not sure why, but I enjoy these pigments very much. And also and it’s helped me set up my palette. Thanks, Steve!
Oh my, the earth tones are to die for! Thank you for sharing, now I know what M. Graham colors I want for my landscapes!!!😍
Are these windor Newton's
Once again Steve am I ever glad to have stumbled across your wonderful tutes!!! now a totally dedicated follower of MoWC
I loved this colour mixing palette demo. Then I saw the scripture at the end and it was one of my FAVOURITE verses. 😊 my fist time seeing your channel. Definitely going to watch more
Just play! Woohoo! It’s the mad scientist in watercolor painters that makes this medium so amazing! If people can afford it, get the Daniel Smith Dot Card. The best way to find out one’s favorite colors is to try them, and Daniel Smith’s is the best way to try a huge range of colors (248?). I wish more venders would do it. I noticed Schmincke is starting to do it, and I LOVE Schmincke. I wish all the high end watercolor vendors would do this.
Anway, getting a basic 12 color portable pan set of colors by a decent vendor like Winsor or Kuretake Gansai Tambi will get you your “mixables”, and then you can just buy a few half pans of additional paints that you just love from one of the higher quality vendors (don’t get cheap watercolor sets). The basic set will give you first hand understanding of the paints behaviors and the few “special” pans will make the palette uniquely yours, with a guarantee that you will get some fun mixes using the basic pan set.
I find you are a fabulous teacher. I have a better understanding for colour because of you.
Thank you
Thank you for this video! I am just dabbling in watercolor. I am someone who will spend several 100's of dollars on supplies. Then when I sit down to practice - I get overwhelmed & confused by all the supplies I have to choose from! I ordered all the colors in your video - can't wait for them to arrive so I can start practicing! Also, I am amazed at how well I understand what you are explaining! Thank you so much!!
You sound like me, Patsie! I think the trick is to actually sit down and play with your paints to learn what they can do instead of a goal oriented painting like a landscape or a bunch of flowers, if you know what I mean. I learned the hard way, not knowing any better, and bought student grade paints and worse yet, student grade paper. I now know it's key to invest in good, professional grade watercolor paper. Even a novice can work wonders with student grade paints as long as they're using quality watercolor paper. Now I'm trying to learn which colors I need/want to put into my empty palette, sigh. I gotta do something with all the tubes of paint I've bought, lol.
@@marybirder5663 Thanks for sharing that!!! I am thankful I have a sister that can prevent me from doing this. lol
Prussian blue is one of my favs too. Need to try out the azo yellow
Thank you. Your color mixing is amazing
Great colour selection and excellent demonstration of colour mixing. Thank you.
I fixed this issue for myself. I bought ALL THE COLORS! LOL But it really is lovely to see how you combine your choices. They blend into each other so beautifully.
I know right!? I buy colors sometimes just because I love them but don't know if I'll ever use them.
Thank you very much for this video, Steve. As eternal beginner i was struggling with choices of colors, especially earthy tones.... RED IRON OXIDE! Omg, that thing is miraculous! No need for umbras, siennas or ochre any more... Now i can comfortably set myself up with just 9 pans.
Subscribed and watching for a few months now, keep your awesome videos up, please! Big cheers and thanks from Czech country :)
Great video, as always, Steve. I always love to see what artists put in their favorites list. I really like the way you show the mixes and compare them to other pigments. Very helpful. When I first started painting, I bought dozens of colors. Once I learned about mixing paints, I realized that many of them I didn't need and never used. An expensive lesson to learn. I think beginners will find this video invaluable. Wish I had had this when I first started.
Yes, its a great developmental lesson to learn. Thanks for that input Kristine!
I love Prussian blue. I did a painting just using it
Thank you for imparting your wonderfulness on us :) I am new to watercolor now that I have free time (retired USAF) and being black friday and all, just picked up 5 of the 8 colors... I have to pace myself :)
Thank you again Steve! I tried your combo in preparing for a limited supplies for a summer trip, and am amazed by the beautiful variety of tones that can be achieved with this palette! A fun learning experience.
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As always, love your non-dogmatic approach to art. After all, if we all did everything the same it wouldn't be art.
Prussian blue is my favorite color too! It's just beautiful and its mixes are awesome but i definetely rather using it on its own because is just stunning
Great demonstration and explanation of the uses of the colors! I've read various things on suggested colors but no one else has demo'd it like this.
Just great. Such a useful video. The last bit is probably the best. Don't wait to be told. Just play.
I already have a wc set (it's the St. Petersburg watercolors- which are fantastic and perfect for my style) but i have to say my favorite colors is probably the paynes grey. Paynes grey is my fav. color anyway (and i know it can be mixed with burnt sienna and ult. blue); but i especially like the SP color. It is so pigmented that if desired it could be almost black; and granulates into a beautiful, sad grey.
The colors in the SP set are so unique; i cant seem to find another paint like them! I love these paints and wouldn't trade them for any other. (okay maybe schminke; maybe).
Thanks for your input! 👍
Hello Steve! This video of yours is very useful for choosing the most essential paints at the beginner level. All beginners should be grateful to you for this. Out of inexperience, I bought 3 sets of DS paints at once, a total of 16 pieces, and I got several almost close to each other watercolor colors. If I had known this before, I could really do with 8 colors for a start, according to your recommendations. Thank you!
I may as well change my name to Miss Muddy because my colors are all the basics that you mentioned but didn’t demonstrate, such as Sap Green, and my mixing experience is a mud bath. I LOVED THE CLARITY you achieved here. This is why we love watercolor, for it’s clear, translucency, its vibrancy. I’ve gone off into Mud Central and honestly I’m sick of it. Time to try your choices. You may have delayed this teaching but I think it has saved me-color wise. THANK YOU!
I have a video specifically on muddy colors if you haven't seen it. ruclips.net/video/mjCitkGHRcw/видео.html
The Mind of Watercolor hi, yes I watched it. I’ve been watching all day. You have so much experience and knowledge to share.
this palette I can dig in, good for landscape and seascape
Wonderful video, as usual. Not all artists are good teachers. You are both. Thank you.
Thanks Richard. Very encouraging!
I just bought myself M Graham paints. I made my palette charts and did this exercise. It’s fantastic and the paint Mind blowing great.
Thank you for taking the time to produce this video. After attending classes, workshops, and subscription online instruction this is the first time I understood why so many different pallets have been suggested. More than ever I want to have a pallet that reflects the colors and paints that I enjoy working with. Again, thanks.
What a great video! You really model well what you teach. I agree, playing with color is a great way to learn more about the living quality of water color. One thing I do that helps me as a beginner: on my "play sheets" I will write next to the swatch which colors I've used. That way if I try to repeat that color combo for an actual painting I can look in my "play book". Thanks again for your excellent inspiration, God bless you and your loved ones.
Good input thanks!
This was very helpful! Thanks!
Excellent exercise to get to know what color will do! Thank you. I'm looking forward to playing with the colors I have now. (too many!) And thanks so much for putting your lessons into such nice little bites.
I just purchased these 8 colors!!!!! Can't waite to get started!!!
I learnt color theory and again I didnt know what to buy for the first time so I went and bought the winsor and newton pocket box with the 12 colors. I learnt painting and mixing and then I added more colors according to my liking.
Believe it or not...your opinion really matters...I really love the translucency of watercolor, but lack the experience to achieve certain colors..I have searched suggestions all over the RUclips artists for suggestions for a blue for a bluebird...you teach...we learn
I got some of my colors today. So exciting. Can't wait til the rest come so I can see all the greens I can get with azo green.
Thank you for demonstrating how your favorite colors mix to make different colors. My mother left me her watercolors, so I guess I will try those for now. If I can get the hang of watercolors enough, I would like to get the colors you use. I like their transparency.
Such a natural teacher and encourager!
One of the best Watercolor mixing videos ever! Thank you so much.
Thank you for this video. Watching those beautiful colors blend inspired me enough that I was able to paint for the first time in weeks. I’ve been feeling down and just haven’t been touched by my need to create until watching this. Thank you!