Exploring Colors - Turquoise - HC 330 

I got the shock of my life when I looked back through my old 5e D&D players handbook and saw your name in the credits! How do you do it Vince? full time job, married, dogs, warhammer weekly, intricate painting tutorials and now with this fancy editing? You're a machine. I love this exploring colours series, turquoise is one of my favourite colours to paint with, but I always feel I have to use it sparingly as otherwise it can look garish.

I want to add to the part of why the orange teal combination is so popular in movies . skin tones often lay in the orange to brown spectrum so color grading the movie to orange and teal automatically makes faces pop more and put more emphasis on the actor without losing the vibrancy of the movie.

Teal/ turquoise and magenta have long been a favourite combination of mine, but I'm fairly certain you have influenced that with many of your works. It's just such a pleasing combination of colors.

I never clicked on a video this fast

I love the palette with the colours expanding off in both directions, great visual aid

Looking forward to the composition video. Making the best use of saturated and desaturated colours together on a miniature is something I find challenging, although very rewarding when I get it right. Still pretty new to the hobby so I think I, like a lot of newer painters, probably lean too much into saturated colours and don't quite know how to use desaturation effectively.

I know I've said it many times, but Vince, you're the best. You sharing your knowledge to us is just amazing.

Perfect timing as this was a colour I’m considering for my next army! Also the production quality of your videos seems much higher than the last I checked (which was admittedly far too long ago, but what can I say… RL gets in the way…) Found this very informative - thanks as always!

Another eye opening video in how to use a colour in my collection that I've really avoided not knowing how to, this has helped thanks so much.

Thanks Vince, Exploring Colors is always amazing and this one gives great information on a fantastic, useful colour. Two things that I feel are important about this color, to integrate what you said. One, Turquoise/Cyan are absolute bastards to find pigments of. There are very few natural pigments in this color, and they're ultra expensive. Miniature and non-higher end color ranges basically 100% use Phtalo Blue + Pthalo Green to make their Teal, and add a ton of Titanium White to that to make Turquoise (if you have the Daler Rowney, you can see it very well, since the white separates if you leave it there a while). So, Teal will tend to be a little less saturated (due to being a mix), very transparent and very intense like the Phtalos -- unless the mix is deliberately altered, and in that case further desaturated. Turquoise, instead, will basically always be very opaque since that's what Titanium White is all about. The other thing, Cyan (which is Turquoise-adjacent, so I think it's relevant) is naturally a "high spot" on the color wheel, like yellow (activates our blue and and green color receptors, like yellow activates our red and green). So, like yellow, it would be a natural highlight of both neighboring colors, except in practice it doesn't work as well because of the aforementioned issue where there isn't a viable pigment (also, it would be a child highlight of green, which is not always very natural looking). It's more relevant to understand that it can't really be highlighted with other colors -- you can only make it lighter by adding white. For instance, your ice yellow will kind of be softened as a highlight, because the white in it is brightening but the yellow is actually darkening it by shifting it towards green, which is naturally darker (I don't mean to imply it's necessarily a bad thing). Sorry about the rant.

Hey Vince, I am making a Warhammer army and my color palette is VMC Dark Sea Green, Turquoise and Blue-Green and even using Glacier Blue to brighten my Blue-Green as needed. So this video made me feel so confident in my choices! I'd love to show it to you as a fellow man of culture who enjoys the turquoise/teal. I'll be using some of these tips for more impact (such as the purple for some variation on shadows) and Ice yellow! Lov your videos

Just coming across this, such a challenging colour to work with and this was exactly what I needed to progress. Thanks!

My goodness Vince, I would in no way be a competent painter without your instruction. There needs to be an international award for services to art and miniature painting, and it needs your name on it.

The exploring colour videos always cause several big clicks in my brain. Super informative. Video is looking crisp and better than ever too.

I love these color exploration videos. You do such a great job going into color theory and making it simple enough that I can understand it. I'm very excited for the color composition video! Thank You for making these.

Much better soundmixing on this one vince! The content itself is as good as ever.

Thanks very much for an excellent survey and explanation of this color range, along with the practical demonstration of how the shadow and highlight colors can be utilized. You’re are an excellent teacher and I really appreciate the time you spend and the knowledge you share in each of your videos!

Yes! If you couldn't tell, turqoise/cyan on red is my favourite contrast pair.

So glad to see another Color series video! One of my favourite HC series, I personally keep coming back to these to remind myself of ways that I can make more interesting my colours. Thanks for this Vince!

I've loved the exploring colours videos so I'm very excited to see it continue. I find the explanation about how people interpret colours in different areas fascinating and also how colours are used in popular culture as well as historically. Absolutely fantastic videos, keep it up Vincey V 😁

Probably my favorite color! The naming conventions with it are definitely confusing though. And I don't even think you mentioned Cyan lol great vid though! Can't wait to put this new knowledge into action when I start doing some rust and verdigris on these plague marines I just started assembling! 😁

Hey Vince! Just wanted to let you know I’m really into the color composition thing now like combining saturated with desaturated and contrasting colors. Really cool video about the color turquoise and teal. I feel like you’re literally pouring out wisdom out of every pore in your body. Cheers and have a wonderful week beautiful people!🌞🙏🏼

Damn Vince. Always bringing the fire to color combinations. 🔥

Your exploring colour videos are some of my favourites. Thanks for your hard work. Cheers

Nice one Vince, the picture quality and sound has really improved, and the content is as informative as always 👍

For a non-artist newbie, the general idea of shading with the complimentary color was a “wow” moment. I can see in retrospect how it works on the color wheel, but I feel like I’m freed from darker to lighter shades of the same color.

This was probably the best "exploring colors". Love that you showed all those ways of using the color.

Also makes my brain scream because of Poison dart frogs, the most iconnic of which to me are teal/orange. This color combo generally screams "Danger" to me, especiallly when they are very bright!

I really love these dives into colors, history, effect on human eye, complimentary colors, how much saturation should be put on. Well done sir.

Awesome video! And pretty fitting, given that i just started to paint my new year's new army tyranid project exactly in this combination: Rusty skin, teal carapace. Love this combination.

Love this series! Thank you!

Loved seeing the highlight and shadows broken down; incredibly helpful!

I loved this vid. Please keep them coming. Informative and fun to watch.

There is a start collecting Ironjawz box on my shelf that will benefit from these here teachings.. thanks Vince!

this is why it papper inserts for transporting/displaying oranges is "blue" or more teal. just to make the oranges pop and look better :)

So good! A genius level succinct explanation of how to choose shadow and highlight colours

This is wonderful! First, well done on the sound, it was a pleasant surprise. Secondly, I am glad to see that my instinct of matching my deep red, gold and cream with teal on my Sacrosanct is the right call. But it makes it very clear to me how much more I need to actively think about complementary colours and how to use them to create fantastic shadows. Thank you so much!

This is great. I really like this style of video. Watching this while im halfway through my AOS Tzeentch army thats using this exact colour combo. I wondered why i liked it so much!

Good Job vince. Its funny since i Start watching your Content, i pay more attention to Colors everyday. Thanks.

Thanks Vince! always love to watch your videos, they're a wealth of information. Keep up the good work brother! :)

First time I come across one of your videos and suscribed instantly, I love your work and this videos are trully a learning gem.

one of the best of this color series. will definitely use this on more minis!

This is a pretty timely video, Vince! Thank you. I just purchased Warcolours Turquoise set and then BAM - this video :)

Vince, I love the new format, so much better to see what you're doing visually!

Great summary of a great colour. Thanks. I'm thinking of painting Nagash using purple/blue contrast.

Vince, I would like to see close-in stills at the ends of your videos so I can pause and take a good look of what the final effect is. With you still holding the mini cocked to paint, it is harder to visualize what the final product looks like, IMO. I also really enjoy teal. It may not be as interesting, but I really like color schemes with teal on black. As a matter of fact, my CSM are painted with black power armor with teal trim and red/orange cloth. I think it looks good together!

Love this series! great stuff

Looking forward to the composition video you talked about. This was great btw! I am definately going to try out highlighting turquise with sunny skintone 👍

I’ve noticed, particularly in some TV shows this year, a shift to the use of a red-brown-green palette be it set decor, costuming or more generally within the spectrum chosen to ‘correct’ the moving image itself. Delightful and insightful, liked and subscribed.

This was awesome, thanks Vince.

Excelent video! My favourite turquoise is Adriatic blue (Scale 75). Please keep doing exploring colors videos, they are fantastic! I suggest you to do a cyan video, talking about the primary color of the CMYK system, and also a magenta video would be nice too!

Woah! Huge improvement in the camera quality in the painting segment. Seems much sharper and easier to see the finer details.

Also one of my fav colors. Love a diluted Akhelian Green (very slightly greenish) contrast blue over warm white as well!

The teal orange color treatment in films is also due to skin tones having an orange base, and teal allowing for the faces to “pop” with contrast, if you want that character to pop out of the scene, make them in a teal shifted environment, want them to feel a part of the environment? Make it shifted orange.

I love these color explorations. Thanks!

On point as always, thank you !

The most highly valued turquoise mineral color is "robin's egg blue" - so actually much more on the blue side. It is rarely like this however (darn impurities), and usually ends up paler, and more green. So even comparing "turquoise" to the namesake is a bit of a mixed bag!

My favorite colors too, thanx Vince!

Happy to see the exploring colors series continue!

I was just debating on using these colors in a new sisters army! Like the format and presentation!!!

Very helpful, thanks. I recently painted a mini from GW Deepkin range and the end result felt a bit too cold and blue while I wanted a more "tropical" tone. I see now that I could have been bolder with my choices for shadows and highlights :-)

I'm working on my Stormhost and teal/turquoise is the color that makes the army pop. This video was super helpful.

YEESSSS you're back! Love this series!

very much looking forward to the video about working with de/saturation.

Awesome as usual ! Thanks a lot again ;)

Thanks again, Vince!

great video. appreciate the mixing combo suggestions

Can't believe it took you that long to get to teal..... As usual, great serie!

Another great video! This is making me want to paint a miniature with that turquoise/orange color scheme. Can't wait for the video on color compositions, I really struggle with that. I usually go for a realistic look based on the box art (zombicide), but very often my miniatures end up looking pretty dull and dark

Love this series!

Great tip about mixing orange red for shadows. Production quality seems improved already dude.

Alpharius(es) salute you for this video!

Great video as always I have been wanting to play with some of my favorite colors (this being one of them) but I need to figure out what to put it on lol

Awesome video :)! Thank you

That was quick !

I have a suggestion for a video. Earthy/muted colour pallette. I've found I tend to paint in muted colours, even up to highlighting and want to know how I can make it work more with how I see colour.

Fascinating

The next great video. I like your colour-series.

Great stuff friend 👏 👍

Amazing video!

I just think you're wonderful Vince.

The new 40k Drukhari codex cover is a good example of the religious use - hehe ;)

Another awesome video. I've been wanting to experiment a bit with these colours for awhile as I've seen so many beautiful models using it. I always seem to shy away from though currently for more conservative colours, which I'm not sure is due mostly to the subject of my current projects (typically Cursed City etc) or me simply not being bold enough 😅

Thank you!

Liked it a lot ! would have loved a little more into special stuff like turquoise OSL (greenish cyan ?). Btw teal blue is my favourite color and i understand better why now ^^

Turquoise aka the most beautiful color on the planet!

Great video! I think you forgot to put the magenta exploring colors into the playlist btw.

Turquoise is one of my favorite colors too, and I even ordered several Warcolours based around their Turquoise set to paint Eowyn. (which I still need to paint...). As much as I love this color, I honestly do not know what else to use them on beside a single mini, but been thinking about ideas...maybe as part of my necrons?

I can't believe it's taken this long to see this one as Vince bleeds teal.

Nice video! :) On the topic of colors. Have you done any video about Color wheel? It could be cool if you made a video about the scientific Color wheel, (not the 1800's faulty one that primery schools keep teaching) and how you can use that? Where you have Cyan, Yellow And Magenta as your 3 Subtractive primery colors, and red green blue as your primery addative colors. ____________________________ Subtractive focused color wheel is of more importance when painting :) Addative meaning casting light on something, like a TV works with RBG, Subtractive is reflected light, like from paints, or with a printer CMY-K (K is the black) Anyway have a great day!

Been pairing Teal with Magenta a lot lately. Really like the color combo on tentacles.

Yes! These series on the colors are the absolute best. Thanks again vince, turqoise really is a favorite. In the previous episodes of exploring colors you always mentioned the undercoat (skin color for yellow was an eye-opener for me), but you didn't here. Is the coverage over black always this good? Is it preferred over white or gray undercoats? Also, I would've loved to see the orange-red on the mini you are painting to really get a feel for how far you can drag this out before it not longer looks right.

I love how despite being in the very general blue range (so cooler) turquoise and teal work really nice as warm and cold colours because of the intensity of them.

Huh, I was fussing a lot about what exact colour of teal/turquoise I should be using for my verdigris effects. Turns out I was worrying a lot over nothing! Thanks! :D

And again on the new 40k T'au cover. Teal orange/red scheme. 😜

Both teal and turquoise colors tend to mixed by using white which makes them opaque, so not great for glazing. Deep versions of turquoise artist paints usually don't have white in them though (like the Liquitex ink (PB15+PG7) for example. The new Cobalt Green (PB36) from Kimera Kolors is a single pigment paint that also doesn't have any white in it, but is a lighter color than the before mentioned Turquoise Deep from Liquitex (which should be named teal, but yeah...). Will give glazing Cobalt Green a go in my current project. Also a 50/50 mix of Vallejo blue and green ink makes a beautiful teal; its a little lighter than the premixed Liquitex ink.

Another superb and informative video, thank you, Vince. Could you possibly make a video focussing on drying retarder? I know you've covered it along with other additives in the past, but I'm struggling with my Vallejo bottle, as it makes the paint too thick and streaky. Many thanks!

Steggadon scale green is one of my favorite colors, sadly I don’t uses it as much as I would like to.

Omg i love these videos

my fav color, nice