11:04 I love when I hear that it’s not the tools that make the artist but the skills. Those painters hundreds of years ago had basic things but created masterpieces we still enjoy today.
I love how nerdy he gets about it.... like you can see how he's holding back how excited he is talking about this. It's one of the best color history/theory videos I've ever seen.
absolutely! I subscribed thinking this WAS his channel, but now I see it's JerrysArtarama. I guess I'll stay subscribed, but wish it was Wellington's channel.
@JerrysArtarama I almost subscribed thinking this was your channel. I'm new at painting but had been a hairdresser for 30 yrs taught me about the color wheel and how colors react to natural things like hair. Colors are endless. Thank you for the tutorial, thoroughly enjoyed it. I stumbled across the video while trying to decide what to paint on my masterbath walls. Perhaps trees would be nice but honestly I live in a forest on Lookout mtn AL so looking out any window i see plenty. But I have to say I love your tree you painted. So sad to in live in the concrete jungle of NYC. There's nothing better than getting your hands in the dirt to grow your own food. Nothing from any store tastes like nor is nutritious. Walking through the forest with the horses in nature is the best.
I was told in my Art classes that I should never use black. Being a new artist at the age of 46, I didn’t challenge the concept. I was told that black conveys the absence of any color and leaves the painting with a void feeling. Thanks for the liberating knowledge!!
I am a digital graphic designer. My painting teacher (since before computer era) taught us using 4 colours: cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Those are also the basic colours used by printing houses (there are also special colors, those have codes and have to be used as a separate printing layer). Long story short: using CMYK can create any colour except neon colours, ofcourse. Black is a must when painting on canvas with these 4 basic colors or creating digital art for print, also using CMYK. A delicate shade of gray, using about 5-8% black (K) has the elegance of silver. Paint just one delicate object or wrte something using a delicate, elegant caligraphy and it will become a genuine visual jewel.
I'm reading the comments and......What do you mean he does not have a YT channel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?? you can see the passion he feels right through his eyes, It would be an honour to have such an art teacher.
Playing with color-aid paper to see how dramatically different one color can appear based on its background was my absolute favorite part of art class.
black and cadmium yellow light and medium have always been my go to base for greens in natural greenery. Add umbers and siennas as needed. These greens are so wonderfully delicate. I learned this when I was 11 yrs old…I am now 84. Became a designer and colorist for many years. Still paint a little. Yes, I taste color, too. Just like cooking. Unconsciously. I work instinctively, without really thinking, with one or two brushes. I can match any color.
I was in a normal school and our art teacher told us not to use black. We asked the question "why?" and the answer was not too bad, I think. He said, because it doesn`t exist in nature. But we also learned white and black are NO colours, so your explanation of black being a colour (you make a colour choice) is an eye-opener and very helpful.
I’m 23 minutes in and I’m already floored by the huge amount of knowledge I’m gaining from John. He’s spectacular and I adore his character as much as his lesson. He is inspirational in the way Bob Ross was in that he makes the kind point that art is personal and that rules need not apply if it works for you. Thank you so much for this!
The more often I happen upon these art tutorials the more I appreciate that I never went to any art school beyond HS. I have just always always loved the old masters and read about them and their techniques. I could just look at a Vermeer for hours. I AM happy that I happened upon yours today. Serendipity : )
In all my travels, often less traveled places, the language I needed most was French. Seemed like almost every country, the people all spoke a local language and French.
🎨 I use the term "play" a lot in painting. It has bothered some artistic people around me. To me, it means experimenting with an open mind and heart. It's a most joyous time and learning time for me 🎨
Love that❤. For me it's easier to play when I purposely buy cheaper paints or canvases so I'm not thinking about how much it cost me to experiment. I bought some of the cheapest acrylic paint that comes in those squeeze bottles in the craft section and made some of the most amazing landscapes and sunsets 🌇 I gave them all away as gifts and people seemed to really enjoy all the paintings I made just from playing around. Now I'm making a series from everything I learned thanks to just letting go and not thinking about everything so much.
I’m sitting here as a self-taught artist, 45yo, and came across this gem! I took one art class in college. The teacher seemed so judgmental, and the students seemed in competition with each other. It wasn’t the kind of environment I wanted to be in, besides, I was majoring in nursing. However, life still brought me down the artist path. Anyway, I enjoyed the lesson and your philosophy. I’m excited to be a new subscriber.
wow! I am only 20 minutes in, but had to pause to say "wow", such interesting information regarding the origin and names of these pigments, e.g. Raw Sienna vs. Burnt Sienna! Who knew?? and of course, how interesting about black and how it mixes, and also Lamp Black and Ivory Black name origins. I am totally enthralled. I have always been a bit of a nerd when it comes to the detail facts, so I am loving this. And I am realizing just now, how fabulous the presentation is too! I'm sure another teacher might not come across so interesting. Thank you!! Now eagerly back to the lesson......
I have never taken any art classes but I have painted with acrylics my entire life. He is by far the best teacher I have ever had and I have learned more in this hour than the last 30 yrs ok 40 something lol
I have played with acrylics and different water soluble mediums. And here I am enthralled with this video almost more than tutorials for stuff I actually use! Lol. He's a great teacher! I would take up oil painting if I went to his art school.
John, thank you for this very interesting tutorial on color theory. I wish I could take art classes from you. Amazing art instructor. Thank you. Jeanne
This was absolutely fascinating I didn't think I could sit through an hour about color but wow did I learn and was never bored! I always thought that black+yellow=green was actually a "mistake" and never even considered the range of possibilities! I want to go back through the video again and take notes. Thank you for sharing your deep knowledge!
I have always thought of black as a colour and love seeing how many greens l could mix using black and not blue. I live in Australia therefore our native greens are more towards olive and grey greens. Enjoyed this session. 🙏🏻
I love teaching colour theory. The colour tint charts begin on day two using a 5-colour pallet, & complimentary mixing charts. These tools help beginners get close to the colour they want to create, and are really great to begin daily practice with. Ohhh the feel of the pallet knife slicing thru a new thick blob of paint, smooshing it into the tempered glass surface. The creamy firmness as you spread it into the canvas (I recommend canvas sheets for easy transport.) I’m going to get me paints out, my dad’s Joseph Albers Colour Theory book and play!
I have learned so much here. I just started painted and am very intimidated by oil but one day I will venture into the world of oil. Thanks Mr. Wellington for this lesson.
Spectacular lesson. Thank you John and Jerrys for making this video available. I WISH I could afford art lessons with this man. Interesting how he makes the content memorable and interesting. I am going to buy Wellington green right now..
there are so many aspects to this tutorial that you just cannot not watch again & again. it’s crammed with knowledge and instructions and inspiration. “the freedom of making changes is the freedom to create”
I just said this to my daughter a few hours ago. I taught my student two hours prior, before picking up my daughter. Create My student is a perfectionist. Painting is an expression. Mess up then work it out or ignore it, on the spot or later. Our emotions flow as deeply or is lit up just the same as our paint achieves the onward experience of playing upon our own joyful brush-strokes journey. ETA🌹
I have learnt more about painting from this video than my time reading or attending art lessons,now I know where some names and paint,s originated from. Great informative video.
Congrats having a colour named after you. I watched the whole video even though I am not artistic and I am convinced that your beautiful soul literally transfers to your art. Your conversation is enthralling and your teaching top notch. Thank you
John, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, and joy. Jerry's, thank you bringing this wonderful artist to us. I am "learning" watercolor and the motivational motto for me is 'it's just paper". From here forward it will be " it's just paint and paper". I don't think that the medium makes much difference, whether it's oil, water or pastel, it's all about color and finding the mood that we are trying to convey. Thanks again, I think I'll go mix some colors now.
Obsessed with the dead pan humor about trees in New York. But honestly, I just learned a lot of incredibly useful things to consider as I return to painting and I am so grateful!
I never had the opportunity to take art classes. I studied business since everyone discouraged my creative career. But painting is where my heart is. Thank you for explaining all of this so well. I always questioned where artists originally found their paints and you answered it! Great job.
I learned so much from this excellent John Wellington tutorial! John's teaching style is truly exhilarating, and the clarity he brought about color theory was sorely needed on my part. I am now encouraged, focused and eager to get back to painting. Thank you so much for this video. I am going to watch and rewatch!
That was an excellent class. Thank you! As someone who went to art school and has been a professional artist for over 40 years, I had no clue that I could mix black with yellow to make dark green. So many instructors telling me to stay away from Black. This was very informative and I’m very grateful that you shared your knowledge with me.
'every choice is right if it works for you'. This is very true regarding teaching and making our own art and a philsophy worth 'subscribing' to. And yet experience and knowledge helps give us more available choices. The tutorial here is very good because it shows us more options. The thing is, I have mixed black and yellow before to produce green, but did not think too much about it beyond intuitiveness. So to have this demonstrated is really helpful, because then you have this new language to apply and choose from.
I absolutely love your instruction and perspectives! Thank you for generously sharing details including pigment names and their origins. Suddenly, so much makes sense and I think I would like to explore various color making techniques on my own.
What a fascinating video. Thank you for this analysis of colour, a little of which I have learned from knitting. Kaffe Fasset - Master knitter and colourist.
Oh my gosh, yes! Kaffe Fasset is amazing, and I have had all his books for years. I was always too intimidated and not a skilled enough knitter to actually knit one of his masterpieces, but his work is such a visual inspiration!
Yes, Kaffe is a painter originally, and he is very encouraging to us, who knit, to experiment with combining as many colors as possible to expand our seeing. Very like painting.
I love the way he explains things. There are trees in NYC 😂, I grew up there. I use to live 3 blocks away from Riverside Park, and blocks away from Central Park. Yes all the other things, concrete, subways, people, buildings can push out the trees. He explains art way better than how I learned in college.
Thank you John; Bob Ross would tell you it’s your world when and how you paint. He said, there are no mistakes only happy accidents. Your sharing color mixing but in my childhood crayons is how I learned to mix colors going from 8 to the 48 then 64 crayon colors. I did a portrait of each teacher. Black was my outline color in many childhood pictures. When I was criticized by other classmates it effected my freedom of expression. That is why Andrew Wyeth home schooled his children to protect his children’s creativity. So I agree with your philosophy about painting and color mixing rules! Thank you for sharing.👍🎨😊
What a great teacher you are! I'm a painting instructor also and I've just been so refreshed by your Master Class- Thank you for the new things I learned too!
You are an amazing teacher! You compliment Bob Ross who I love... so much to really take in, especially the message of "freedom to make mistakes". Thank you!
Growing up I was in every art class available. Even in high school I took every art class available even getting into advanced art that you had to be selected to. After HS I even attended the now defunct Art Institute of Dallas for 2 years. All that to say I’ve learned more in just over an hour from you than every art class I’ve ever taken. Thank you. I can’t wait to watch all of your posts.
When i started out I didn´t use black because I was told so. I also didn´t know why so I broke the rule and just looked what results I could achieve. I learned to use it sparingly. Using it to mix green is great because most other greens are way too bright for a realistic painting. I also learned to save my darkest and brightest values for the final touches.
Thank you, your demo was very informative. It gives us permission to play and learn more about color mixing. This will be helpful when painting with acrylics.
Great all the historical information on the colours painters used and how they worked. Like the canvas toning/imprimatura technique. I'm a beginner your video is valuable. Thank you.
Thank you so much for doing this. I listen to it as I was painting today. I’ve never taken a formal art class and I really enjoyed listening to the history about the colors and the mixing information. It really helped me! 😊
WOW, you really started speaking my language when you said, "we use expensive pigments to make black, which is an expensive pigment"! I am about to buy some more paint and am out of black. I was hesitating over whether or not I needed it, but YES, I do. 😃
Thank you for the class! I loved it! I love art and have been working on it mostly learning on my own. Color has been the place where I struggle but your class helped me so much! You inspire me to go play tomorrow! Thank you very much! I look forward to learning more from you!
Glad I found your video on making green with Black and Yellow. I am about to start an oil painting of a bridge in Besalu, Spain from a photo I too. There is a lot of greenery in the picture and I plan to paint the greens using this formula in various tones. Thanks.
11:04 I love when I hear that it’s not the tools that make the artist but the skills. Those painters hundreds of years ago had basic things but created masterpieces we still enjoy today.
I love how nerdy he gets about it.... like you can see how he's holding back how excited he is talking about this. It's one of the best color history/theory videos I've ever seen.
This guy should have a channel of his own, he's great at teaching
absolutely! I subscribed thinking this WAS his channel, but now I see it's JerrysArtarama. I guess I'll stay subscribed, but wish it was Wellington's channel.
Agreed
Picasso said, "we must learn the rules like a pro so we can break them like an artist."
Barbossa said, "The code is more what you'd call 'guidelines' than actual rules." 😁
@@JerrysArtarama and @Peteilmagine
both excellent quotes! :D
"What I love about oil painting is the ability to correct your corrected corrections" couldnt have said it better.
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What a “ Happy Accident “ to have stumbled upon this tutorial!
I will definitely follow John Wellington!
We're so glad you enjoyed!
Same here this is a great video! I know color theory very well and still learned today about ivory black and how it’s made
Like you, I just found this video by chance. It's brilliant. I'm only just starting to paint ☺️
@JerrysArtarama I almost subscribed thinking this was your channel. I'm new at painting but had been a hairdresser for 30 yrs taught me about the color wheel and how colors react to natural things like hair. Colors are endless. Thank you for the tutorial, thoroughly enjoyed it.
I stumbled across the video while trying to decide what to paint on my masterbath walls. Perhaps trees would be nice but honestly I live in a forest on Lookout mtn AL so looking out any window i see plenty. But I have to say I love your tree you painted. So sad to in live in the concrete jungle of NYC.
There's nothing better than getting your hands in the dirt to grow your own food. Nothing from any store tastes like nor is nutritious. Walking through the forest with the horses in nature is the best.
Same with me. Hes so understanding ❤@peta-janeditchburn5558
This guy is an example of how attractive confidence is when it comes from knowledge.
@@pjlewisful which guy?
@@anitataraki5512 the man in black...
ok woman
Did you buss?
I was told in my Art classes that I should never use black. Being a new artist at the age of 46, I didn’t challenge the concept. I was told that black conveys the absence of any color and leaves the painting with a void feeling. Thanks for the liberating knowledge!!
I am a digital graphic designer. My painting teacher (since before computer era) taught us using 4 colours: cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Those are also the basic colours used by printing houses (there are also special colors, those have codes and have to be used as a separate printing layer). Long story short: using CMYK can create any colour except neon colours, ofcourse. Black is a must when painting on canvas with these 4 basic colors or creating digital art for print, also using CMYK.
A delicate shade of gray, using about 5-8% black (K) has the elegance of silver. Paint just one delicate object or wrte something using a delicate, elegant caligraphy and it will become a genuine visual jewel.
And yet…masters have used black, lol. And sometimes you want bleak and soulless.
He is calming and not full of it mostly.
To uncondition yourself, just use the apelles pallette for a couple of months and hold your premixes up to the subject yoyr studying before applying.
This is pure gold. Personally I can't draw a straight line, but it made me understand paintings better and notice more things.
I am absorbed. Thank you.
Hopefully this mostly translates into acrylics.
Just so fabulous for information. And your humanity..
I'm reading the comments and......What do you mean he does not have a YT channel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?? you can see the passion he feels right through his eyes, It would be an honour to have such an art teacher.
Playing with color-aid paper to see how dramatically different one color can appear based on its background was my absolute favorite part of art class.
black and cadmium yellow light and medium have always been my go to base for greens in natural greenery. Add umbers and siennas as needed. These greens are so wonderfully delicate. I learned this when I was 11 yrs old…I am now 84. Became a designer and colorist for many years. Still paint a little. Yes, I taste color, too. Just like cooking. Unconsciously. I work instinctively, without really thinking, with one or two brushes. I can match any color.
That's a beautiful approach to color mixing, and it's clear that you've honed your craft over the years!
What a tremendous talent! Hope you enjoyed those years of creativity, and your home is full of fun projects!😂❤
I was in a normal school and our art teacher told us not to use black. We asked the question "why?" and the answer was not too bad, I think. He said, because it doesn`t exist in nature.
But we also learned white and black are NO colours, so your explanation of black being a colour (you make a colour choice) is an eye-opener and very helpful.
Thank you for watching! We're so glad you found this helpful!
White is absent of colour and black is a mixture of all colours 💁🏼 Cosmetology
I’m 23 minutes in and I’m already floored by the huge amount of knowledge I’m gaining from John. He’s spectacular and I adore his character as much as his lesson. He is inspirational in the way Bob Ross was in that he makes the kind point that art is personal and that rules need not apply if it works for you. Thank you so much for this!
The more often I happen upon these art tutorials the more I appreciate that I never went to any art school beyond HS. I have just always always loved the old masters and read about them and their techniques. I could just look at a Vermeer for hours.
I AM happy that I happened upon yours today. Serendipity : )
I haven't attended a class yet, but isn't personal instruction helpful?
Great to hear! Thank you for watching!
❤😊
As a parisian, I can assure you are sophisticated John, in spite of your troubles with french. Great video, merci beaucoup !
In all my travels, often less traveled places, the language I needed most was French. Seemed like almost every country, the people all spoke a local language and French.
🎨 I use the term "play" a lot in painting. It has bothered some artistic people around me. To me, it means experimenting with an open mind and heart. It's a most joyous time and learning time for me 🎨
Love that❤. For me it's easier to play when I purposely buy cheaper paints or canvases so I'm not thinking about how much it cost me to experiment. I bought some of the cheapest acrylic paint that comes in those squeeze bottles in the craft section and made some of the most amazing landscapes and sunsets 🌇 I gave them all away as gifts and people seemed to really enjoy all the paintings I made just from playing around. Now I'm making a series from everything I learned thanks to just letting go and not thinking about everything so much.
It is absolutely play. Play is vital to creativity, just ask Picasso or John Cleese. But just because it’s play, doesn’t mean it is frivolous.
@@spiritwardiaries Have found good canvases at a fraction of the cost at thrift stores.
John Wellington is an excellent instructor… He gives you a memory to mentally retrieve as you reach into your thoughts. THANK YOU
Thank you for watching! We're so glad you enjoyed!
I’m sitting here as a self-taught artist, 45yo, and came across this gem! I took one art class in college. The teacher seemed so judgmental, and the students seemed in competition with each other. It wasn’t the kind of environment I wanted to be in, besides, I was majoring in nursing. However, life still brought me down the artist path. Anyway, I enjoyed the lesson and your philosophy. I’m excited to be a new subscriber.
Thanks for subscribing! We're so happy you've been able to return to your artistic journey! ♥
wow! I am only 20 minutes in, but had to pause to say "wow", such interesting information regarding the origin and names of these pigments, e.g. Raw Sienna vs. Burnt Sienna! Who knew?? and of course, how interesting about black and how it mixes, and also Lamp Black and Ivory Black name origins. I am totally enthralled. I have always been a bit of a nerd when it comes to the detail facts, so I am loving this. And I am realizing just now, how fabulous the presentation is too! I'm sure another teacher might not come across so interesting. Thank you!!
Now eagerly back to the lesson......
P.S. and I don't understand why they would not teach these interesting details in art school??
@@karenm8952exactly
Your explanation for 'don't use black' makes so much sense, thank you
I have never taken any art classes but I have painted with acrylics my entire life. He is by far the best teacher I have ever had and I have learned more in this hour than the last 30 yrs ok 40 something lol
We're so glad you enjoyed!
I have played with acrylics and different water soluble mediums. And here I am enthralled with this video almost more than tutorials for stuff I actually use! Lol. He's a great teacher! I would take up oil painting if I went to his art school.
John, thank you for this very interesting tutorial on color theory. I wish I could take art classes from you. Amazing art instructor. Thank you. Jeanne
This was absolutely fascinating
I didn't think I could sit through an hour about color but wow did I learn and was never bored! I always thought that black+yellow=green was actually a "mistake" and never even considered the range of possibilities! I want to go back through the video again and take notes. Thank you for sharing your deep knowledge!
Oh thank you for your kind words! We're so glad this is a helpful resource to you!
There is also a TRANSCRIPT these days -- above at the bottom of the notes. Just wanted to be sure you knew this.🥳
The blue shade under the lemon looks great ! Many thanks for the tips ..❤from France
I learned more from this tutorial than in years of watching others. Highly recommended if you want a logical grounding in color.
We're so glad you found it helpful!
41:41
Freedom to make mistakes...
What a great day... discovered John Wellington on 3 July 2024! Thank you.
We're so glad you enjoyed!
I have always thought of black as a colour and love seeing how many greens l could mix using black and not blue. I live in Australia therefore our native greens are more towards olive and grey greens. Enjoyed this session. 🙏🏻
Look how ICE GREEN SORBET that lemon on the left looks now with this BEAUTIFUL TREE...
I love teaching colour theory. The colour tint charts begin on day two using a 5-colour pallet, & complimentary mixing charts. These tools help beginners get close to the colour they want to create, and are really great to begin daily practice with. Ohhh the feel of the pallet knife slicing thru a new thick blob of paint, smooshing it into the tempered glass surface. The creamy firmness as you spread it into the canvas (I recommend canvas sheets for easy transport.) I’m going to get me paints out, my dad’s Joseph Albers Colour Theory book and play!
Excellent. Really appreciate the explanations and demo. Congratulations on thr new color!
Oh my gosh! I could listen to your easy listening tutorials for hrs! Thanks for your tips🤗
We're so glad you enjoyed!
one video teaches a lot one of the best color lesson I ever seen on youtube, thank you for this
Thank you for this! A much needed explanation of a misunderstood concept. AND reference to the work of Albers. What a great way to start the morning!
We're so glad you enjoyed it!
This is a fantastic art tutorial. I especially love the bonus references to Jonny Quest and Bob Ross!
I have learned so much here. I just started painted and am very intimidated by oil but one day I will venture into the world of oil. Thanks Mr. Wellington for this lesson.
We're so glad you found this to be a helpful resource! We wish you well on your future oil journeys! 😁
I learned from the color theory explanation but inspired by your words to explore and not be limited by convention.
I can’t believe this is free. Thank you!!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience!
What a wholesome guy, this video was a joy to watch!
We're so glad you enjoyed!
Spectacular lesson. Thank you John and Jerrys for making this video available. I WISH I could afford art lessons with this man. Interesting how he makes the content memorable and interesting. I am going to buy Wellington green right now..
there are so many aspects to this tutorial that you just cannot not watch again & again. it’s crammed with knowledge and instructions and inspiration.
“the freedom of making changes is the freedom to create”
I just said this to my daughter a few hours ago. I taught my student two hours prior, before picking up my daughter.
Create
My student is a perfectionist.
Painting is an expression. Mess up then work it out or ignore it, on the spot or later.
Our emotions flow as deeply or is lit up just the same as our paint achieves the onward experience of playing upon our own joyful brush-strokes journey.
ETA🌹
I have learnt more about painting from this video than my time reading or attending art lessons,now I know where some names and paint,s originated from. Great informative video.
Congrats having a colour named after you. I watched the whole video even though I am not artistic and I am convinced that your beautiful soul literally transfers to your art. Your conversation is enthralling and your teaching top notch. Thank you
John, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, and joy. Jerry's, thank you bringing this wonderful artist to us.
I am "learning" watercolor and the motivational motto for me is 'it's just paper". From here forward it will be " it's just paint and paper". I don't think that the medium makes much difference, whether it's oil, water or pastel, it's all about color and finding the mood that we are trying to convey.
Thanks again, I think I'll go mix some colors now.
What an honor to have a paint color named after yourself!
Obsessed with the dead pan humor about trees in New York. But honestly, I just learned a lot of incredibly useful things to consider as I return to painting and I am so grateful!
So happy to hear it! 😊
I never had the opportunity to take art classes. I studied business since everyone discouraged my creative career. But painting is where my heart is. Thank you for explaining all of this so well. I always questioned where artists originally found their paints and you answered it! Great job.
It's a shame you didn't ignore them.
business sucks; should of ignored what the others say and do what your heart wishes ! !
I learned so much from this excellent John Wellington tutorial! John's teaching style is truly exhilarating, and the clarity he brought about color theory was sorely needed on my part. I am now encouraged, focused and eager to get back to painting. Thank you so much for this video. I am going to watch and rewatch!
That was an excellent class. Thank you! As someone who went to art school and has been a professional artist for over 40 years, I had no clue that I could mix black with yellow to make dark green. So many instructors telling me to stay away from Black. This was very informative and I’m very grateful that you shared your knowledge with me.
We're glad you found it informative! ♥
'every choice is right if it works for you'. This is very true regarding teaching and making our own art and a philsophy worth 'subscribing' to. And yet experience and knowledge helps give us more available choices. The tutorial here is very good because it shows us more options. The thing is, I have mixed black and yellow before to produce green, but did not think too much about it beyond intuitiveness. So to have this demonstrated is really helpful, because then you have this new language to apply and choose from.
Oh my goodness…. Learnt so much in such a short time! Thank you so much!
Congratulations on Wellington Green. It's a beauty. Thank you.
Many thanks! It really is!
I absolutely love your instruction and perspectives! Thank you for generously sharing details including pigment names and their origins. Suddenly, so much makes sense and I think I would like to explore various color making techniques on my own.
So glad you're feeling inspired! Keep experimenting!
Perfect lesson, perfect teacher.Thank you. Best regards.
You are welcome!
Though I play these videos on 2x, I appreciate being able to continuously watch your brush strokes as you teach.
What a fascinating video. Thank you for this analysis of colour, a little of which I have learned from knitting.
Kaffe Fasset - Master knitter and colourist.
Oh interesting! Thanks for sharing!
Oh my gosh, yes! Kaffe Fasset is amazing, and I have had all his books for years. I was always too intimidated and not a skilled enough knitter to actually knit one of his masterpieces, but his work is such a visual inspiration!
Yes, Kaffe is a painter originally, and he is very encouraging to us, who knit, to experiment with combining as many colors as possible to expand our seeing. Very like painting.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Very informative in a kind and professional manner. No stress. For me, that is the whole point.
You're so welcome! We're glad you found it helpful!
“It’s just paint” my new motto in life.
I love the way he explains things.
There are trees in NYC 😂, I grew up there. I use to live 3 blocks away from Riverside Park, and blocks away from Central Park. Yes all the other things, concrete, subways, people, buildings can push out the trees. He explains art way better than how I learned in college.
"I like 'vert noir' because it makes me feel sophisticated." LOL! That's good humor. Outstanding tutorial. :)
Glad you liked it!
Thank you John; Bob Ross would tell you it’s your world when and how you paint. He said, there are no mistakes only happy accidents. Your sharing color mixing but in my childhood crayons is how I learned to mix colors going from 8 to the 48 then 64 crayon colors. I did a portrait of each teacher. Black was my outline color in many childhood pictures. When I was criticized by other classmates it effected my freedom of expression. That is why Andrew Wyeth home schooled his children to protect his children’s creativity. So I agree with your philosophy about painting and color mixing rules! Thank you for sharing.👍🎨😊
What a great teacher you are! I'm a painting instructor also and I've just been so refreshed by your Master Class- Thank you for the new things I learned too!
You are so welcome!
What a great instructor, what a great video class!!!
You are an amazing teacher! You compliment Bob Ross who I love... so much to really take in, especially the message of "freedom to make mistakes". Thank you!
Wow, thank you!
Awesome! I am only 19 min into the lecture and already learned a lot. Thank you!
So glad to hear it! John is a great teacher!
Growing up I was in every art class available. Even in high school I took every art class available even getting into advanced art that you had to be selected to. After HS I even attended the now defunct Art Institute of Dallas for 2 years. All that to say I’ve learned more in just over an hour from you than every art class I’ve ever taken. Thank you. I can’t wait to watch all of your posts.
Oh wow, thanks for your kind words! We're so glad you learned from this video!
When i started out I didn´t use black because I was told so. I also didn´t know why so I broke the rule and just looked what results I could achieve. I learned to use it sparingly. Using it to mix green is great because most other greens are way too bright for a realistic painting. I also learned to save my darkest and brightest values for the final touches.
Excellent! Love your communication style. Thanks to John for setting us free. ✴
We're so glad you enjoyed!
‘It’s just paint’, a memorable take away from a first class artist. Thank you for enlightening me with your knowledge.
thanks for this lesson on black, I was indeed taught to avoid black and appreciate this tutorial. It opens up a new pallet.
We're so glad you found it helpful!
You are a wonderful instructor - kind and gentle and knowledgeable. I wish I had you as my teacher/coach. Thank you so very much.
Excellent explanations and techniques 😊
this was and is fantastic, I add it with my videos on colors and painting development theory and practices. thank you JWellington.
Guys so sophisticated, even his dirt is from europe
You sound like a great teacher a wonderful person who. Encourages people own style of painting so wonderful
He is! Thank you for your kind words!
You are an excellent teacher. Thank you for your lesson and for your insights on color. Very informative!
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I saw a tree in Central Park once. 😊😂. Just ran across the channel. Thanks. I subscribed
Thank you, your demo was very informative. It gives us permission to play and learn more about color mixing. This will be helpful when painting with acrylics.
We're so glad you found it helpful!
Great all the historical information on the colours painters used and how they worked. Like the canvas toning/imprimatura technique. I'm a beginner your video is valuable. Thank you.
Ive never understood why many artist teachers say not to use black - thanks so much for clearing this up.
We're so glad you found this helpful!
Thank you so much for doing this. I listen to it as I was painting today. I’ve never taken a formal art class and I really enjoyed listening to the history about the colors and the mixing information. It really helped me! 😊
The best video on color theory I have seen. Thanks for sharing ❤
You are so welcome!
Merci 😊 excellent course sur la couleur et la relation avec d’autres couleurs.
Very well done. Informative and easy to understand.
Thanks so much!
Super demo. rewatch it! Very encouraging. Freedom.....❤
WOW, you really started speaking my language when you said, "we use expensive pigments to make black, which is an expensive pigment"! I am about to buy some more paint and am out of black. I was hesitating over whether or not I needed it, but YES, I do. 😃
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This was great! I learned a lot and even tried it with my watercolors! Thanks for sharing!
We're so glad you found it helpful!
How inspirational! A BIG THANKS!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I was enjoying while watching your tutorial sir.Your students are so lucky to have you
Thank you for the class! I loved it! I love art and have been working on it mostly learning on my own. Color has been the place where I struggle but your class helped me so much! You inspire me to go play tomorrow! Thank you very much! I look forward to learning more from you!
You are so welcome! Happy creating! 😀
What a calm informational tutorial! I will definitely follow you!
Very informative and encouraging class, thank you. I love that new color.
Thank you so much! We're glad you enjoyed!
I can't get over how shiny the lemon looks. Amazed at how simple it looks when the best do their thing
So good!
Fascinating! Thoroughly enjoying learning from you and reflecting.
We're so glad!
Really learned a lot from this. Thank you
Glad I found your video on making green with Black and Yellow. I am about to start an oil painting of a bridge in Besalu, Spain from a photo I too. There is a lot of greenery in the picture and I plan to paint the greens using this formula in various tones. Thanks.
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What an incredible teacher you are!! Couldn't stop watching and learned so much! I can sense your joy and love in all you do. So inspiring. Thank you!
We're so glad you enjoyed!
Fantastic Artist, thank you..drawing good,mix color good,finaly, superfantastic...I love it...Elisa from California..
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