@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 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 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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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 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!
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!
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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. 🙏🏻
'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.
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. 😃
Thanks John, very informative! And yes, I was told not to use black, but I saw that abstract painters use it a lot. Now I can understand better how to use it. And I loved your quote, because I tell it often to myself: It’s just paint! As a general practitioner I know how thrue that is.. Greetings from Lydie, Netherlands
I was always taught that using black to darken shadows in a painting will make it look washed out and there won't be any depth to it. I experimented with using dark blues, reds and browns together but never quite achieved something that I liked. I'm definitely going to try to make green from black and yellow! This is very exciting!
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.
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.
Early on when painting your lemon, instead of creating a shadow on a lemon, instead, you have created a lime by using Black instead of an old technique and used a tonal colour to create your shade. Thank you for taking time out to show this and clarify it for the many uninitiated as far too many othor demonstrators on here wouldn't have shown what happens, they would probably just mention it in passing rather than do the practical which helps us all remember what happens as you basically stated whilst demonstrating that you were never told yourself. Great demo, very informative, thank you very much for being on here. 💯👍🏻❤️
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!
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
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!
Dang! I was always told in school NO BLACK. And that illustration isn't an art form. I work in comics now, it's taken me years to get comfortable using large blocks of black for line work, because I still have in the back of my head someone telling me never to use black. Thanks for this, now I know I'm not the only one!
I was also a HUGE Bob Ross fan growing up and have painted many paintings that just didn’t look right. I’m absolutely sure it was due to the lack of explaining tones and properly mixing colors. He was and is still awesome, but your teachings will make me a better painter no doubt. Thank you sincerely.
Excellent tutorial. May I suggest you take a walk in Central Park? Another suggestion would be a trip north, out of all cities. Take a walk down a country road. I'm sure you will get a lot of fresh, new inspiration from the trees.
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.
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! 😊
Thank you for your lesson. I really enjoyed following you. I am 57 and on my three years of painting, it's strange that I explore colours the same way you do. Thank you so much
Finally!! Someone who teaches color theory. And learned color theory like I did, and I don't follow the rules of black neither. I like using black and don't apply the rules I learned in art school. 😊
Another view to consider.. . If you are studying the Dutch still life, lemons( symbols of sobriety), depending on the type of light.. window or candle or natural lights.. the colors are dependent on that difference. Willem Kalf was the master of the lemon. So true about the next object. And about greens.. Good lesson. Personally I never use burnt sienna nor ultramarine blue. Both are, to me not dependable. Venetian red mixed with pthalo blue is very strong and versatile as a brown or any dark. Pthalo blue can be mixed for any blue, unlike ultramarine blue which is really a hue. My black is 1/3 Prussian blue, 1/3 alizarin crimson, 1/3 lamp black. Ivory black is cheap and cracks later. You have a very solid knowledge of colors and philosophy. So refreshing! Thank you. PS after you put down a thicker area, try blotting it with Scott’s toilet paper. It gives a great finish especially for the varnish later. Lead white is no more. Not since the 70’s. Thank God. I wish I knew you. I live in Ky and I don’t have any masters to discuss true art with.
I been at the University in Santa Maria ,to learn art..the teacher say ,will buy in the store all what you need, I did, when I camback she say 'starded "I said how?.she say mixi the color con oil and star ,people maked horror of paint..she say was beautiful...if I say the true,I could be out of the clase..I did go to the city,buy a books,tape, and starded...that was my learn...teacher are there to supervise paint,no teach nothing,...them with the time I learn for my self be a painter, Thank you , Elisa Finch..I love your class..Master....
@elisafinch1325 Teacher are there not to teach nothing? Just to supervise? Supervise what? Well I don’t agree - if “teacher” are no there to teach why it’s a school or university? If is only to supervise, well… Perhaps is more useful to connect some friends and start a free atelier where to work and teach one with others
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.
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!
Thanks so much for explaining the imprmatura! That you can't make anything brighter than white if you are painting on a white canvas, but if you're painting on a colored canvas, that you can go both directions from the imprimatura colors. Both lighter and darker.
You are a godsend on You-Tube this morning in a sea of MSNBC Trump-bashing! I worked in San Francisco when Kamala's name was on the legal forms I used. I love her. But enuf is enuf! Whew! Once I clicked on YOU, there is a whole line-up of fascinating new stuff for me to check out. Past lives influence taste and inclinations. I am way old with two decades yet to go, a book to write. With "macular REgeneration" diagnosed, no more fine seed beadwork! Simple sewing and the knitting on fatter needles. But I'm not going blind. I think color is one of the Food Groups. Lately, I hunger for a certain glowing light glowing coral, on the tomato side of red, but pinkish coral also. Yes, that color! Or get it in stripes of '70's colors. Turquoise is a daily requirement. If you think you'd like to knit, use Isaku Noro's ecstatic all-wool "Kuryeon" yarn, the color mixed in spinning, not printed! Make big square pillows. I found your website. Thank you for generosity, letting the public (and me) see so much color! Love from a January 12th!
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!!!
I first learned to paint from William Alexander’s online videos many years ago. William is the artist who first called his work happy. ‘ happy little trees, happy little mountain” . Bob Ross was his student. William Alexander is the true artist whose work Bob Ross copied. How many really know this?
An awful lot of Bob's fans know this. Bob himself acknowledge Bill Alexander in a video dedicated to him. So, as excellent as Bill was as a painter and seemingly very sweet, it was Bob who the public took to. He didn't steal anything, he worked long and hard and encouraged thousands to take to painting.
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 👍👍
what a great lesson, little gems of wisdom throughout. I'm not a painter but a fabric artist. This video caught my attention because of the color theory bit... such a great video it makes me feel like i could paint!
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 this brilliant tutorial! ❤ I learned a lot - and you are so inspiring! 😊 Lucky ones, that have you as a teacher at art school! ✨️🙏 Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪
Thank you John. My son David is an artist and we were talking last evening about mixing colour and today your tutorial popped up on my RUclips app and I have saved this so I can replay and learn more. You have Central Park 😊❤
"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
I learned this in art school. They gave a good explanation. Once we learned to get a full range without black, we can use black not just for shadows, but to use it as a color.
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.
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.
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
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.
"What I love about oil painting is the ability to correct your corrected corrections" couldnt have said it better.
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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.
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
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'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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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
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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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 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!
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.🥳
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
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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Freedom to make mistakes...
What a great day... discovered John Wellington on 3 July 2024! Thank you.
We're so glad you enjoyed!
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.
We're so glad you found this to be a helpful resource! We wish you well on your future oil journeys! 😁
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
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! ♥
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. 🙏🏻
'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.
This is a fantastic art tutorial. I especially love the bonus references to Jonny Quest and Bob Ross!
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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Thanks John, very informative! And yes, I was told not to use black, but I saw that abstract painters use it a lot. Now I can understand better how to use it. And I loved your quote, because I tell it often to myself: It’s just paint! As a general practitioner I know how thrue that is.. Greetings from Lydie, Netherlands
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!
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I was always taught that using black to darken shadows in a painting will make it look washed out and there won't be any depth to it. I experimented with using dark blues, reds and browns together but never quite achieved something that I liked. I'm definitely going to try to make green from black and yellow! This is very exciting!
Oh my gosh! I could listen to your easy listening tutorials for hrs! Thanks for your tips🤗
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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
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.
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Early on when painting your lemon, instead of creating a shadow on a lemon, instead, you have created a lime by using Black instead of an old technique and used a tonal colour to create your shade. Thank you for taking time out to show this and clarify it for the many uninitiated as far too many othor demonstrators on here wouldn't have shown what happens, they would probably just mention it in passing rather than do the practical which helps us all remember what happens as you basically stated whilst demonstrating that you were never told yourself. Great demo, very informative, thank you very much for being on here. 💯👍🏻❤️
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Where can one find more of this man! Would love to have him as an art teacher/mentor.
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.👍🎨😊
Ive never understood why many artist teachers say not to use black - thanks so much for clearing this up.
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I'm a dry medium artist, but i still listened to this entire lesson. John is a great teacher. Very engaging and witty.
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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!
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Though I play these videos on 2x, I appreciate being able to continuously watch your brush strokes as you teach.
Excellent! Love your communication style. Thanks to John for setting us free. ✴
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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!
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!
Dang! I was always told in school NO BLACK. And that illustration isn't an art form. I work in comics now, it's taken me years to get comfortable using large blocks of black for line work, because I still have in the back of my head someone telling me never to use black. Thanks for this, now I know I'm not the only one!
What an honor to have a paint color named after yourself!
Oh my goodness…. Learnt so much in such a short time! Thank you so much!
"I like 'vert noir' because it makes me feel sophisticated." LOL! That's good humor. Outstanding tutorial. :)
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Guys so sophisticated, even his dirt is from europe
I was also a HUGE Bob Ross fan growing up and have painted many paintings that just didn’t look right. I’m absolutely sure it was due to the lack of explaining tones and properly mixing colors. He was and is still awesome, but your teachings will make me a better painter no doubt. Thank you sincerely.
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Perfect lesson, perfect teacher.Thank you. Best regards.
You are welcome!
Excellent tutorial. May I suggest you take a walk in Central Park? Another suggestion would be a trip north, out of all cities. Take a walk down a country road. I'm sure you will get a lot of fresh, new inspiration from the trees.
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 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! 😊
Congratulations on Wellington Green. It's a beauty. Thank you.
Many thanks! It really is!
Thank you for your lesson. I really enjoyed following you. I am 57 and on my three years of painting, it's strange that I explore colours the same way you do. Thank you so much
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thanks for this lesson on black, I was indeed taught to avoid black and appreciate this tutorial. It opens up a new pallet.
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You are a wonderful instructor - kind and gentle and knowledgeable. I wish I had you as my teacher/coach. Thank you so very much.
Finally!! Someone who teaches color theory. And learned color theory like I did, and I don't follow the rules of black neither. I like using black and don't apply the rules I learned in art school. 😊
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I can’t believe this is free. Thank you!!
What a wholesome guy, this video was a joy to watch!
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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!
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Another view to consider.. . If you are studying the Dutch still life, lemons( symbols of sobriety), depending on the type of light.. window or candle or natural lights.. the colors are dependent on that difference. Willem Kalf was the master of the lemon.
So true about the next object. And about greens.. Good lesson. Personally I never use burnt sienna nor ultramarine blue. Both are, to me not dependable. Venetian red mixed with pthalo blue is very strong and versatile as a brown or any dark.
Pthalo blue can be mixed for any blue, unlike ultramarine blue which is really a hue.
My black is 1/3 Prussian blue, 1/3 alizarin crimson, 1/3 lamp black. Ivory black is cheap and cracks later.
You have a very solid knowledge of colors and philosophy. So refreshing! Thank you.
PS after you put down a thicker area, try blotting it with Scott’s toilet paper. It gives a great finish especially for the
varnish later.
Lead white is no more. Not since the 70’s. Thank God.
I wish I knew you. I live in Ky and I don’t have any masters to discuss true art with.
Thank you for your kind words!
I often think too about my love for art as a child.
I have learned more from you in one video than I have in all my life.
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“It’s just paint” my new motto in life.
So what you're saying is that art is a conversation between medium(s) and artist. I love that
I been at the University in Santa Maria ,to learn art..the teacher say ,will buy in the store all what you need, I did, when I camback she say 'starded "I said how?.she say mixi the color con oil and star ,people maked horror of paint..she say was beautiful...if I say the true,I could be out of the clase..I did go to the city,buy a books,tape, and starded...that was my learn...teacher are there to supervise paint,no teach nothing,...them with the time I learn for my self be a painter, Thank you , Elisa Finch..I love your class..Master....
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Teacher are there not to teach nothing? Just to supervise? Supervise what? Well I don’t agree - if “teacher” are no there to teach why it’s a school or university? If is only to supervise, well… Perhaps is more useful to connect some friends and start a free atelier where to work and teach one with others
We're so glad you stuck with it!
Super demo. rewatch it! Very encouraging. Freedom.....❤
Omg Jeff Bezos you are amazing, as a new painter I couldn’t understand colors and you make my day thank you thank you 😊 ❤❤
I can't get over how shiny the lemon looks. Amazed at how simple it looks when the best do their thing
So good!
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.
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‘It’s just paint’, a memorable take away from a first class artist. Thank you for enlightening me with your knowledge.
This tutorial is a guide to overcome ones fears of making mistakes and to discover the freedom of expression. Thank you
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I’m happy I found you John Wellington! I very much enjoyed watching and appreciate it being made for me.
You're so very welcome!
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!
The best video on color theory I have seen. Thanks for sharing ❤
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Thanks so much for explaining the imprmatura! That you can't make anything brighter than white if you are painting on a white canvas, but if you're painting on a colored canvas, that you can go both directions from the imprimatura colors. Both lighter and darker.
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You are an excellent teacher. Thank you for your lesson and for your insights on color. Very informative!
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Loved it. Thank you so muchhhh you seem lovely and funny :)) have a nice dayyyy
Fantastic Artist, thank you..drawing good,mix color good,finaly, superfantastic...I love it...Elisa from California..
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You are a godsend on You-Tube this morning in a sea of MSNBC Trump-bashing! I worked in San Francisco when Kamala's name was on the legal forms I used. I love her. But enuf is enuf! Whew! Once I clicked on YOU, there is a whole line-up of fascinating new stuff for me to check out. Past lives influence taste and inclinations. I am way old with two decades yet to go, a book to write. With "macular REgeneration" diagnosed, no more fine seed beadwork! Simple sewing and the knitting on fatter needles. But I'm not going blind. I think color is one of the Food Groups. Lately, I hunger for a certain glowing light glowing coral, on the tomato side of red, but pinkish coral also. Yes, that color! Or get it in stripes of '70's colors. Turquoise is a daily requirement. If you think you'd like to knit, use Isaku Noro's ecstatic all-wool "Kuryeon" yarn, the color mixed in spinning, not printed! Make big square pillows. I found your website. Thank you for generosity, letting the public (and me) see so much color! Love from a January 12th!
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!!!
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I first learned to paint from William Alexander’s online videos many years ago. William is the artist who first called his work happy. ‘ happy little trees, happy little mountain” . Bob Ross was his student.
William Alexander is the true artist whose work Bob Ross copied. How many really know this?
An awful lot of Bob's fans know this. Bob himself acknowledge Bill Alexander in a video dedicated to him. So, as excellent as Bill was as a painter and seemingly very sweet, it was Bob who the public took to. He didn't steal anything, he worked long and hard and encouraged thousands to take to painting.
I so much needed to see an artist using the left hand. ❤
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Yes, us left handers will rule the world! LOL
this was and is fantastic, I add it with my videos on colors and painting development theory and practices. thank you JWellington.
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 👍👍
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what a great lesson, little gems of wisdom throughout. I'm not a painter but a fabric artist. This video caught my attention because of the color theory bit... such a great video it makes me feel like i could paint!
Fascinating! Thoroughly enjoying learning from you and reflecting.
We're so glad!
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 this brilliant tutorial! ❤ I learned a lot - and you are so inspiring! 😊 Lucky ones, that have you as a teacher at art school! ✨️🙏 Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪
Thank you so much!
Thank you John. My son David is an artist and we were talking last evening about mixing colour and today your tutorial popped up on my RUclips app and I have saved this so I can replay and learn more.
You have Central Park 😊❤
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"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
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I learned this in art school. They gave a good explanation. Once we learned to get a full range without black, we can use black not just for shadows, but to use it as a color.
Yes, exactly!
Very informative and encouraging class, thank you. I love that new color.
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I was enjoying while watching your tutorial sir.Your students are so lucky to have you