Thanks so much for all the support on this original run of Color Mixing videos. To see a more updated version with lots of new information, please check out my Skillshare class called Watercolor Mixing Based on Pigment Properties! This link will give you two months free to try it out if you're new to the platform: skl.sh/2BSNKgV
Denise, I haven't watched in forever due to illness, but watching how to mix greens, a pigment I have few tubes of, was a necessity. You are the BEST at explaining things in the simplest way using pigment numbers which is so important. I haven't been around, but you are my go to for watercolor answers and how to's. THANK YOU for your efforts and had work in providing relevant content! ♥️♥️♥️
I love M Graham sap green because it looks exactly like a lot of the foliage in my area. Its a very realistic, true earthy green that we see in Central or Eastern Oregon. Yes, the greens here can be naturally dull but its realistic. We have about every kind of green in Oregon's foliage including that bright spring green that people think is not natural. But this green is totally natural in our Willamette Valley in the spring and summer. I love all greens because you will find it somewhere in nature. You can sometimes even see that PG7 phthalo green in the water on the Southern Oregon coast on a bright sunny day.
I am never sure how much watching older videos helps out my favorite youtubers, I just cannot help myself even when I am pretty sure I retain this particular information on color and mixing. I did take advantage of your SkillShare class while I was subscribed to that service. I hope that helped as well. I know Skillshare does support you better than YT! Well I do hope your enjoying your Day/Evening!
Color mixing is very important to me because it gives me such a variety of choices. I loved the chart at the beginning and I'll have to make one for reference. Also I never thought about using orange too. Thanks so much.
Blues and greens are my favorite colors. I tend to love brights so Phthalo blue and Perm. Yell. are awesome. But on the realistic side Hansa Yell deep and Prussian Blue. I can already tell that I'm going to be loving this new series and it will be oh so helpful.
I watched that Alex Krylow video a couple of years ago on RU-vid and have made similar color mixing chart ever since. What a brilliant idea! btw I love this new series, it gave me information about the mixing of the colors that I don't have/never seen before, so helpful!! I think I need to get that quinacridone gold 😍😍
Elga Benedicta I know, right? I love this chart! And phew! I'm so glad you enjoyed the episode. I spent so long trying to figure out how to present it and was quite nervous. And definitely get that gold while you can! I bought an extra tube myself. Not sure how long their supply will last.
Very informative, thanks! I find that on their own, Viridian and Pthalo Green look like nothing seen in nature, but of all the greens, they seem to mix well with other colors for a more realistic effect. Just received a tube of Winsor Green Yellow Shade about to play with it in a bit here. Again, good stuff here! 👏👏👏👏
Thanks for this. I'm a beginner, so I am making endless scales, and watching everything I can find on mixing. I have gathered that yellows and blues contain more green than it appears, so mixes tend to have a brighter green than expected. Even a warm blue and a warm yellow will produce a green. another dark green that I just bought and quite like is cobalt green (PG26 - mine is QOR and very dark almost like perylene ).
I like linear mixes. It makes the different tones blend together most nicely and also simplifies mixing, because the results are intuitive. From that perspective, I think prussian blue had the best performance of the blues overall. Lots of amazing mixes. Only with hansa yellow deep did it darken too much. I like the cerulean blue too, especially the fact that it neutralizes the yellow ochre quite well. This fits, because both hues are visual complementaries. The greens mixed using Phtalo blue clearly stick out too much in the mixes with the cool yellows, but look much better with the warm yellows. Ultramarine blue tended to darken and gray out too much - I like it the least. I don't want to compare cool and warm yellows, since they are quite different colors and I could not choose a winner for either hue. Depends on the blue you use.
I also liked the mixes with PB27 (prussian blue) the most, however there seem to be issues regarding lightfastness with this pigment. Maybe PB60 (indanthrene blue) would be a better choice. My favorite green was PG8 until I noticed that it is absolutely not lightfast. I’m still searching for a good alternative - Schmincke’s permanent green olive is the closest I found to PG8 but it is a litte cooler and less dark in mass tone.
@@rosawolke2788 Schmincke’s permanent green olive is just phthalo green B.S. mixed with PO63, so isn't it also more intense? It seems like PG17 might get close to PG8.
its really nice to know which colors you can't mix and thus u have to buy them if u want them. it's also really hard to know if you want them! thanks for the very informative video, im enjoying those a lot :D
All the colors are my favorite!! Though I'm a beginner, so maybe that's why I can't isolate which ones I like best. Great video and content! Thank you!
Awesome video! I had actually watched Alek Krylow’s video a while back, but since I didn't subscribe to his chanel, I couldn't find that video anymore. His color mixing technique is genious!
I just watched Alex’s colour mixing video. OMG! Genius. I could never get the water to pigment and pigment to pigment ratio right and he shows it so clearly. He literally showed in step by step. ❤️ I feel so confident now.
I love your Denise’s green & perylene green but what other tube green could I add to my pallet as making Q. gold & then mix w other green but to much mixing for me. Ty for this in depth video on greens as often want different greens when painting has so much foliage.
The Green Apatite Genuine and Serpentine Genuine from Daniel Smith are both absolutely gorgeous colours! Every time I see a Daniel Smith colour being used, I lament that I live in Europe and that they're so incredibly expensive here, particularly the colours made with precious stones like Green Apatite Genuine and Serpentine Genuine! I agree with you as well about Prussian Blue and Hansa Yellow Deep making the nicest greens. I don't have any Hansa Yellow on my palette but similar results can be achieved with any other deep, warm yellow, I think. Indian Yellow from Winsor and Newton or M Graham is my preferred warm yellow. Prussian Blue and Raw Umber make a surprisingly nice green as well actually. Thanks again for another great episode, Denise. Looking forward to seeing more from the colour mixing series. :)
Check out the Daniel Smith sticks especially for the Pimatec line of paints. The pigment to binder load is greater than the tube and so they make a better value and some people cup them up into pans. I am an American living in the UK and I try to wait to buy Daniel Smith when I go home.
you know one of the tube colours ,sap green van Gough has a lovely one that was my starter pallette ohhh so many years ago! and the mixes you've done it did find the yellow ocher the most interesting, I will try Naples yellow for my own amusement to try! great video thankyou Heather
i love all of the quin gold mixes except for the cobalt mix. Great video! i really enjoy your videos all the time and i like your voice very much. Greetings from germany✌
I also have watched Alek Krylow. Your mixing green looks a lot of fun, as I recently ordered Cobalt Turquoise Light PG50 and Azo Green PY129. I wonder what are your thoughts about having PG36 in mixing green?
I have hardly used PG36 at all. When I first picked out my colors years ago, I didn't like how bright it was. I now realize it may have it's place in mixing as its in a lot of great tube mixes I've seen, but I haven't been able to play with it myself.
Thanks for your reply. I noticed different from other brands Mijello uses that pigment than PG7. Maybe not yet for me as well. Is bright green not used much? I went the other way in not picking Perylene green PBk31 to be too dark.
I like the mixes with Prussian Blue, as well. I keep hearing bad things about the lightfastness of Pr'nBl, though - confirmed in JBlundell's own tests. Wondering if you, Denise, have noticed long-term changes in your greens mixed with PB27?
Catalina Garay I think it depends on what blues and yellows you’re getting. If you’re getting a cool toned blue along with a cool yellow, get sap green as it’ll be harder to mix. If you got a warmer blue and yellow, get an emerald green. It all depends on what you have, what you can do with it, and what you think you’ll use.
This was fun to watch! Strange but M Graham's "Hookers green" looks more earthy, dark and sappy than their "Sap Green". Its very dark and rich and hard to mix a sap green and still have it that dark. So, I bought some for myself. LOL.
This is great! I just kind of stumbled upon it and was very happy I did. I have been wondering about this very subject...mixing greens because it seems that I want every single one that D.S. makes, but that can get expensive fast! I am nosy, so I am wondering also, how many colors of paint do you have?
Thank you Bev! Glad to have you here. I keep 30 colors on my main palette, then I also have a couple of travel palettes. My viewers and patrons are also very kind to me so they've sent me samples and tubes of paint to review here on the channel as well. My swatch binder is bursting at the seams these days with over 200 colors I've swatched out, but of course I don't have functional quantities of all of those :)
Nope. I obviously love Da Vinci, but I am not a brand loyalist. You can check out my recent studio palette updates (4 part series) that go over my current favs!
Sylvia Catalano I'm sorry I don't use cobalt blue and up until a few days ago I didn't even own it. I did just get one from Schmincke but I completely forgot I even had one so I used my cobalt teal in its place.
I love indian yellow and prussian blue mixed. it's so beautiful. my 2 blues are prussian blue and french ultramarine. both mixed with indian yellow or green gold is so beautiful.
In Liquid Color for m graham, they make azo green. but other brands call it green gold. it's the same pigment but only m graham make their azo green more yellowish.
On artist quality paint, it will be printed on the tube or be available on their website. Student and craft paints don't always have this information. I actually just released a Skillshare class and we talk about reading labels to better understand pigments if that's something you're interested in! I have two recent videos with links to the class and free trials for non-members.
Thank you so much. For doing these. I've done just basic charts so far, but thank you again, because you've inspired me to do some of these charts, just for my own reference. Thanks for all your amazing video's, I'm relearning so much. Hugs and happiness, Briana C. 🤗💜
Hi Sierra. There are brands at the beginning of the video for the tube paints. For the mixing chart, I think any brand with the same pigment numbers/names would be equivalent. I do have a full transcript/write up for my Patrons with brand names over on www.patreon.com/inliquidcolor :)
lol!!! Oopsies....I didn't see the bottom of your chart with "Cobalt-teal". Sorry, my bad. lol When will I ever learn to finish watching a video completely before commenting. 🤔 lol
Sylvia Catalano no worries! I saw your other comment first and replied. I'm sorry I didn't have the true cobalt blue to use but hope the teal is okay in its place.
I have a very detailed, educational course on Skillshare that discusses color mixing at a beginners level and is also more in depth at the same time. It's linked in the pinned comment.
I still consider myself a “beginner” in my water color journey. Yes, these older videos (showing me & learning what’s in this color) except what I see? At beginning & do acrylic painting had no idea that not all yellows are “cool” and tube paints can have three pigments in one & if try mixing (then just adding more) variables than mixing single ones! Grateful these exist like very old books!
