John Wellington Color Theory Master Class
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Step into the vibrant world of color with our master class led by acclaimed fine artist, John Wellington. Prepare to roll up your sleeves and dive headfirst into a world of experimentation and discovery. Through a series of hands-on exercises, you'll learn to manipulate light, shadow, and pigment to create stunning visual effects that transcend the boundaries of traditional art.
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Bio: John Wellington was born on January 8, 1961 in Santa Monica, California. He has lived in France, Italy, and New York City where he currently resides. John received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1983 and his MFA at The New York Academy of Art in 1990.
John Wellington has taught traditional painting techniques at The New York Academy of Art and privately in his atelier for two decades. He also lectures and teaches painting workshops across the county and runs an en plein air workshop in Paris every summer. His paintings have been in numerous exhibitions and art fairs in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, and Paris. He has shown at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and The Arnot Museum in New York. John has painted alongside of the Prince of Wales and is in his private collection as well as other prominent collections in the US, Asia and Europe.
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It was one of the best oil paniting instructions after watching hundreds of videos !!! Bravo, sir.
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.
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
Excellent. I’m a watercolor painter, but I learned a ton. While I watched, I mixed lamp black with a variety of WC yellow pigments, and they are some of the most beautiful greens I’ve ever experienced! You are so intuitive, genuine and likeable. Thank you for sharing YOU!
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
This is the most valuable presentation I’ve ever seen on color and I’ve been painting for 50+ years!
"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 agree about the childhood pure love of art. Back to the time I just drew or painted whatever and however I wanted it and the feeling of pure excitement whenever I'm doing it. I honestly think going to art school really killed or drained that love. After college instead of art-related work, I went exactly the opposite direction and did corporate jobs. As I grow older, I'm slowly rediscovering my love of art. I do it now during my free time or whenever I feel like doing it, just like when I was a child.
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.
Absolutely!
This is pure gold. Personally I can't draw a straight line, but it made me understand paintings better and notice more things.
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.
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.
How refreshing to encounter a teacher who has such mastery of the medium but who doesn’t think that art began or ended with the French Academy. Also space ghost!
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.
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
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!
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Thank you John, wonderful class
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!
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! ♥
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
Me too, I was taught never to use the black or white. I really wish we had a more thorough explanation and teaching about them. I had the classic lightbulb moment and from now on I'm getting to know my black. I've always been bothered about the red-blue-yellow primaries. A month ago I learned that you could have cyan-magenta-yellow as your primaries and and now all this new knowledge about black...
I think I need to have a cup of coffee and a nap to process this 😅😅 And I think I'll have to start studying art.
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Freedom to make mistakes...
What a great day... discovered John Wellington on 3 July 2024! Thank you.
We're so glad you enjoyed!
I am autistic and I know this is weird but you just helped me understand thousands of conversations and arguments I've had trying to understand what people mean.. I just took a color hue test and apparently my color vision is almost perfect !! Scored 2 and best score is 0. Worst score 8686. I have never felt more relieved because I always knew I felt I understood colors. That I just can't communicate what they mean
Glad you found this out so you feel validated❤
That's incredible! We're so glad you found this meaningful!
How is your autism relevant at all?
If you weren't a moderator you wouldn't have said that, if I'm wrong, so what. But if I'm right, you're an idiot.
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"I like 'vert noir' because it makes me feel sophisticated." LOL! That's good humor. Outstanding tutorial. :)
Glad you liked it!
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.
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.🥳
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 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.
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 ! !
It's never too late to follow your heart!
Please consider having your own channel!!! I enjoyed listening to you! Excellent tutorial!
We hope to have him back many more times! 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. 🙏🏻
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
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!
So Glad to have stumbled on this video. What a great lesson on black.
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!
I’ve just watched your video and you have teached me more in one hour than in 5 years of a course i took in my hometwon. Thank you so much !!!
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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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! 😁
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! ♥
What an honor to have a paint color named after yourself!
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!
Oh my gosh! I could listen to your easy listening tutorials for hrs! Thanks for your tips🤗
We're so glad you enjoyed!
I like to paint my canvases black.... letting them dry completely, before I paint. Colors pop!
The colors would pop off of the black canvas!
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!
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.
Oh definitely!
Thanks John real good video. I have been told by art teachers not to use black also .
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!😂❤
Your explanation for 'don't use black' makes so much sense, thank you
You're so welcome!
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.
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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!
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.
Love all of this! Thanks for watching!
This guy is hilarious! Amazing I discovered Jerrys this year and it puts any other craft store I've been to to shame. That's not a craft store it's an Art Supply! So glad to have stumbled on these videos. Thanks for the tips and I will not eat M&Ms after painting with lead white and cadmium red lol
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.
What a nice teacher! I really like his way of thinking about things and how the ideas are shared
Where can one find more of this man! Would love to have him as an art teacher/mentor.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience!
We're so glad you enjoyed! Thanks for watching!
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!
Thank you so very much John! Can't wait to buy your honorable new Wellington green. ❤
What a wholesome guy, this video was a joy to watch!
We're so glad you enjoyed!
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! 😊
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!
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.
That's Ivory Black, which tends strongly to blue, and creates green when mixed with yellow. Very simple. Even though lemons do have green tones, green is not a particularly good use for shadow versus yellow as there's no complementary play as there would be with a purplish tone. For the record, lamp black is cool and opaque; creates an olive green. ivory black is transparent and warm; creates a spring green. Both are very useful, but composition always need to consider the counterplay of complements - unless you have reason not to. Joseph Albers was doing a massive display of the complementary effects of color; very useful. Very fun exercises, or you can just put it into practice in paintings.
so good explained, thanks
We're so glad you found it helpful! 😊
"i think a tree grew in Brooklyn" 😂 i love your subtly dark sense of humor and way of presenting this priceless info. I don't even paint with oils but I've been obsessing over acrylics lately and most of this translates. Thank you, I'm trying to say thank you lol
You're so welcome! 😁
Thank you informative tutorial. Love the color.
The blue shade under the lemon looks great ! Many thanks for the tips ..❤from France
Thanks for watching!
Great tutorial. Thank you for making it clear and in depth!
Excellent! Love your communication style. Thanks to John for setting us free. ✴
We're so glad you enjoyed!
Fantastic tutorial. Thanks 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!
Excellent. Really appreciate the explanations and demo. Congratulations on thr new color!
Thanks for watching! We're so glad you found it helpful.
Guys so sophisticated, even his dirt is from europe
“It’s just paint” my new motto in life.
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
Thanks, Jeanne! We're so glad you enjoyed it!
Congratulations on Wellington Green. It's a beauty. Thank you.
Many thanks! It really is!
My sincere compliments-bravo!
Many thanks!!
loved the phrase" married my brush" lol so true how we get "glued "to it and don't even realize it .. thanks so much for this wonderful demo and all the tips and info.. Norakag 👍👍
Thanks! We're so glad you enjoyed it!
This lesson is amazing, thank you very much 💕
'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.
Cypresses were traditionally planted in cemetaries. If you visit the 'gold country' of northern California, many of these century old trees are to be found. They were associated with death in the 19th century.
Please continue these wonderful vids. I love the art history, paint history, painting tips, jokes and your wry sense of humor! Your love of all things art oozes off my screen.
A Natural Artist!!
But holds his brush like a pencil !
& that is a limitation of the possibities that Brushes are capable of !! strokes
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!
This is a fantastic art tutorial. I especially love the bonus references to Jonny Quest and Bob Ross!
My Art Teacher told me to avoid using black. back in 1996 :) he used to say, this will make ur colors dirty lol. it dilutes the hue, it wont look fresh anymore etc etc.
im a VFX Artist. CG compositor. till now i use this idea to keep my colors true and fresh in My digital art. thanks for sharing ur thoughts.
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!
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.
Oh we'd love to see the final product! Tag us @jerrysartarama on any social media platform!
Absolutely loaded with good information, thank you! Made me laugh when the dots connected.
Glad you enjoyed it! 😀
You are an excellent teacher. Thank you for your lesson and for your insights on color. Very informative!
Thanks for tuning in!
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 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! 😀
It’s magic, thanks for showing, a tree built up, and tell about mixing paint, Corot, nice !
So glad you enjoyed the demonstration!
Perfect lesson, perfect teacher.Thank you. Best regards.
You are welcome!
Wow this just came on my feed! Wonderful information :))))))❤❤❤❤
This is so helpful!!!
And your sense of humor is hysterical!! 😂 I promise NOT to eat M&M’s right after painting with lead white and Cadmium red. 😅
I really appreciate your approach of sharing methods and the openness to do the styles that work the best for your own art!!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!!!
We're so glad you enjoyed! 😀
Thank you so much for a very enjoyable tutorial. LOVE!!!
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!
I learned from the color theory explanation but inspired by your words to explore and not be limited by convention.
So glad to hear you're feeling inspired! Keep experimenting!
Fascinating! Thoroughly enjoying learning from you and reflecting.
We're so glad!
I stumbled across your video on Color Theory. I had been watching other painting videos hoping to pick up some ideas for a holiday project. I really enjoyed your lecture on color theory and your talk on how you were taught not to use black in painting. Your demonstration on the lemon and how the contour color turned green using the black color. It’s only natural to think that using a darker color like black would add the depth you need to create a deeper color. I learned earlier how color can affect your work. I was giving a class on make-up design and one of my students wanted to use a blue shadow for her finished look. In the process of applying the blue shadow, she stopped me an and asked why the color was turning green instead of blue. At the time she asked me that question, I was already dealing with twenty-four other students needing my help that I did not even think about the color change until after the class. My student had a deep warm yellow undertone which explains why it turned green. I have learned so much from my students and still alot to learn as an artist and instructor. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge as an artist and teacher. I look forward to seeing more of your videos. Thanks again, Dominic
Thank you for your kind words, Dominic! We're so glad you enjoyed this masterclass!
I've known John for something more than forty years (eeeek!) but never seen him teach before now. I just have to say that damn, he's good! This is a GREAT video!
Oh wow, thanks so much for your kind words! 😁