Good work, your art is absolutely amazing. Keep it up, it's very inspiring. Makes me want to get my paintbrushes and acrylics out and splash some colour on some cavanses. Keep up the good work. Love you xx. 😘😘
Great demo, takes me time to get my head around 2 colour mixing, this demo was good to get insight into degrees of white which is particularly challenging, especially for some one who loves colour. Thank you Ian, as always.
Hi Ian, I have really been enjoying your videos. I think I've learned more from your demonstrations than I did in 4 years of art college. In particular, the idea of doing colour studies has really inspired me. It's remarkable what you can learn from doing a quick copy like this, and not worrying about the details. I completed a colour study before starting the painting I'm currently working on (a seated portrait), and it was very helpful in reducing that anxiety I get between the drawing and painting stages. Thank you so much for these videos. Perhaps at some point you could do a demonstration of how you would approach a still-life using two-colour mixing, which would incorporate some of the decision making around colour choices when painting from life. Thanks again and take care :) Tere (from Nova Scotia)
Hi Jo, I am so glad you like my Videos and extremely pleased I set this up last September as it is great to be in some contact with you and all at a time when we all need to be in contact with each other in any way that is possible.
Hello Ian, I was wondering whether you might be interested in giving some paint brand guidance. Do you stick to one paint brand for ease or do you research each colour you use, its pigment intensity, its colourfastness, its base medium, etc. and choose brands per colour, accordingly?
I look for paints that are intense . The brand I use for the mixing are student quality paints. Most of these are the Georgian paints by Daler Rowney. For better quality more expensive paints I think Windsor and Newton artists standard paints are fine.
Hi Ian, yet another interesting mix of colours, i have been practicing and miss the class, but i am having trouble with stopping my skin colours going to orange and my grays being to blue. HELP! hope you and yours are all safe Carole .
Hi Carole, Two colour mixing with a big palette used by the modern painters like Monet and Hopper is good for getting the light of a general scene but not so easy for getting skin colours for portraiture as, like you said, colours can drift over to blue so easily. The old master palette of vermilion red, yellow ochre and black and white avoids blue so is easier for getting a range of convincing skin colours.
