How To Mix Color | A Beginners Guide

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In this video I discuss and demonstrate color mixing in its most simplest form. I give a quick over view of the color wheel and how it should influence your color mixing instincts. Then I demonstrate how I like to mix colors on my palette so I stay organized and create color harmony in my painting.
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Hi, I am the son of two artists and began painting in my hometown of Richmond, Virginia before I could walk. I was a rare combination of artist and athlete so I moved to Los Angeles in 2008 to play football for USC. I left the team my sophomore year to focus on painting and filmmaking, applying the same focus and discipline from my football career to my art. I primarily work in oils, and spend most free days painting "en plein air" around Los Angeles.
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Website: www.chrisfornataro.com
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@p.k.carlson6646 3 года назад

Chris, you are very generous for sharing these painting instruction with others, mostly for free. Years ago I went to art school and paid good money to learn next to nothing in terms of art painting technique. And I’ve never been very comfortable painting in oils because of that experience. Thanks for sharing.

@hognado4075 Месяц назад

great place to get glass: All glass business' have cast off glass... offer to buy a chunk... they gave it to me for free. Perfect pieces of impact resistant heavy glass makes a fantastic palette. They even offered to grind the edges down for me and cut it to the size i thought best for my needs. They were great. Hey Chris, enjoy the channel. Commercial artist here (3d animation, 2d animation, motion graphics, graphic design), but just getting back into painting. Trying to do it every day but a few days a week at least. Watching your channel a bit recently and have to say it really has helped me get motivated (after the 8 hour day of sitting at a computer) to put loaded brush to canvas.... Thank you. 'Preciate it. Keep 'em coming.

@mj-jondiznazareno 11 месяцев назад

I'm a beginner painter and really frustrated with color mixing. This video is helping me a lot. Thank you

@martakrasuska2483 Год назад

The way you make oil painting so much less intimidating is just next level, im so grateful 😭

@fereshmahta6113 2 года назад

colors are the key for creating a great painting. you had explained it very well. thank you!

@apequestrian2066 Год назад

This is SO helpful! Thank you for taking the time to do this video!

@dr.maxiegivner1117 2 года назад

Chris! Thank you so much for your willingness to teach. I have truly gained a great deal of knowledge of how to mix and match colours. Again thank you!

@KFrogLLC95 2 года назад

I’ve watched sooo many videos on value and color and this video has been one of the most helpful.

@joantozer9255 2 года назад

Thanks so much Chris! I appreciate your generosity in sharing the wonderful knowledge you have with us all! I am committed to watching one or two of your videos every day - and then to practice what you teach! Thanks again!

@charonmariegraham6216 3 года назад

Thank you for your teachings. You’re a great painter. You love painting. I love that.

@mmdishman1 Год назад

So awesome of you to do free lessons. You're a great teacher.

@HealthiaMedica 3 года назад

Bro! You are an amazing tutor! God bless you

@grantveebeejay535 2 года назад

Coming from a music composing back ground I find your videos really helpful and inspiring. Thank you so much.

@TakomaChris Год назад

I really appreciate your work - I’ve been painting a long time (self taught mostly) and you’re really helping me - I’ll check some longer videos and maybe explore lessons with you

@lindafeeley6452 8 месяцев назад

Chris.... I LOVE your tutorials, and this is a fantastical intro to color mixing I am trying to move toward a limited pallette and this has helped me. Thanks!

@parthverma9608 2 года назад

I think this video is amazing. You're a really good teacher. Thanks man ❣️

@Mimmimok Год назад

I admire colors you are using in your pictures. They are looks much better then real landscape. Thank you very much for your lessons.

@cherylynnferrari8468 Год назад

Just found your videos a werk ago and have been watching a lot, specifically for portrait help. I'm working on one of my granddaughter and did the underpainting in burnt umber so i kept it on the palette. Then i pushed my 2 huge piles of oil color tubes aside and did my palette with your blue, red, yellow, white minimalist approach. How unstressing it is! The painting is coming along nicely and I'm having fun instead of overthinking and getting grumpy about it. Keep teaching. I will keep watching. Thank you.

@AwesomeAndrew 2 года назад

Thank you for this video. You have demonstrated to me the value of mixing our own colours. I can see how mixing your own colours can be a signature if how you see and feel things when painting, unique to one's self.

@pastuh 2 года назад

Took shelf from fridge and sprayed one side with gray color, amazing palette for sure :X

@margaretcrosby8804 2 года назад

A great video. The best paint coach ever.

@anglu5494 Год назад

Your teachings is excellent!

@leonylopez4604 3 года назад

Hello! It is my first experience, I am sure it´ll be quite good. Thank you so much!

@kmdhuri8664 Год назад

Very nice exercise. It is very useful for beginners. No one told the quantity of colour for mixing and obtaining next colour. Thanks..

@elesewest2498 2 года назад

Thank you for this tutorial. It is amazingly helpful!

@davo-ju6er 7 месяцев назад

great info ,mainly the stuff you say in between like what to not worry about etc . Great vid 👍👍

@CactusCrypt 3 года назад

Very helpful! Video Saved for future reference. Thank you!

@yeshonestly4268 3 года назад

Great learning !!!! Thank you, you are the best. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@anatorres8349 2 года назад

Thank u for this video. I paint in acrylics the mixing is the same. I am trying to get better in my Portraits thank you for this. And your video on shapes. It all makes sense.

@alliesartsandcrafts Год назад

This color theory video has taught me more in the first 5 minutes than my color theory course in art school

@joannie271 Год назад

Thanks so much, Chris! This is excellent!

@carmendolores9508 2 года назад

Thank you Chris, you are amazing…👏

@therealjessicashow Год назад

I'm learning so much!

@lauraparker7961 2 года назад

Good instructions for producing colors! Thank you for expanding on the default skin tone you produced to include other skin tones. Awesome tutorial.

@derektemple9581 Год назад

Very helpful. Thank you

@enginkemal7398 5 дней назад

Very useful tutorial, thank you

@yematosan8837 3 года назад

This is very important and helpful video

@juliabroadley8411 8 месяцев назад

Great tutorial thankyou that is super helpful

@yolandalobban3015 3 года назад

Thanks for sharing!

@ejej1964 2 месяца назад

Wow!! Thank you so much.

@caseypowell9030 8 месяцев назад

This was informative and helpful

@fishisnotfishfish2267 3 года назад

How to tell color from value and value from color. Not sure If I'm explaining this well, but I mean the color can make it hard to tell the value of that color. If there are some useful exercises to train the eye on seeing the value of a color. It be neat to see video about that one. Thank you

@paintcoach 3 года назад

That's a good idea!

@cashoomilk 3 года назад

i second this

@jessabear1988 2 года назад

Definitely know where your coming from! I have the same issue as well.

@dhirajshetty483 3 года назад

Love the MUDMASTER !

@dt5413 3 года назад

Making colors lighter is usually pretty easy. I think people get stuck when they want to make a color Darker.

@SeanMahoneyfitnessandart Год назад

Purple, dark blue... not black

@veronicapagelaflin 2 года назад

Yay!!! Thank you!!

@brendahicks4701 3 месяца назад

Thank you very helpful

@karenschlansky3230 3 года назад

Excellent!

@girlbythebeach 2 года назад

I rewatch this any time I find colour mixing overwhelming

@blackblue0613 Год назад

nice guide

@anzaborrego399 Год назад

Thank you!

@bellindj 2 года назад

very helpful thx

@katytemple6493 2 года назад

Do you have experience with water soluble oils? I'd like to see a video of you painting using this medium.I am learning a lot from you

@user-rh3bd6hh9j Год назад

thank you so much

@violetviverson8340 2 года назад

My color mixing philosophy was always if you need something to be dulled down or muted I just added white then added black and would hope it worked. To a certain extent it did, but this way is 20x better

@kimbakerpaints 3 года назад

You are a terrific teacher!

@twins2936 2 года назад

What

@manveersinghgill9124 2 года назад

hey Chris, is there a video on what you're using as a palette here? is that just a slab of wood or some particular material that doesn't absorb oil paints?

@alinamirancea620 3 года назад

at 5:32 it looks like there is a face in the skin color :))))) great video btw it Helped me a lot

@RapidBlindfolds 3 месяца назад

Chris can I ask do you have a background as a personal trainer? I went to art school and then supported myself as a personal trainer - and a lot of your painting cues and structure remind me of how you program exercise. I really identify with the way you coach painting. Full time personal training sort of killed my art practice, but it also taught me so many lessons when I came back to art. Getting enough reps in before you do something big, periodising things in blocks, developing complimentary skills like hypertrophy training alongside a power training program, and so on. Physical heuristics for the body definitely map onto the mental heuristics needed to learn art.

@jacobthomas9364 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing knowledge 👍 Could i ask you, whether I need to give time to dry each layer? Coz I use stand oil n I get my layers dried sooner n workable in a day or so however not completely dried though. So can I paint my next layer as it becomes workable. Or do I have to wait for it to completely dry? Please help. Thanks. 🎨

@Disirablepossessions 2 года назад

Hi Chris What are you using to clean your brush? I have a problem with fumes.

@tahiranawaz2987 Год назад

Hello Chris, what could be the prize of glass palatte? Keep up yout good works.

@robinmonroe4828 3 года назад

Loving your instruction. Thank you so much. What is the product you are using to cleanse your brush in between colors. Thank you!

@Cheddrrr 3 года назад

Since he’s using oil paints, I think it’s a solvent like turpentine

@richarddunn7017 2 года назад

Probably a turpentine. But be warned, all solvents should be used in a well ventilated area!!!

@selwynbriones1958 Год назад

Sir, are you using water to clean your brush in this demo?

@shirleyyell7564 Год назад

Hi Chris. Thank you for your helpful videos. I need to ask you..in a landscape, how do you go about choosing what is to be the focal point?

@thewrinklingbrothers Год назад

Check out his video list on his channel, he has a lot on this subject.

@krissiasyling1110 3 года назад

THIS IS SO LIT!!

@callmejackaroo4723 3 года назад

Krissia, you're so lit!

@challenge9456 3 года назад

when you do a portrait, do you first mix all these colors on your plate before you even start? my colors always dry out so quick, I cannot use the, when I finally get to them, maybe I should start with oils instead of acryl or is there a good way to keep the acryl mixtures wet while you paint?

@reemalhosani3862 2 года назад

maybe your using acrylic if thats the case you can get a medium from winsor and newton i think thats how they write it but its a slow drying meduim that will extent the drying time. if your using oil paint it shouldn't dry fast but you can add linseed oil. hope it helps!!

@TheArthouseOasis 2 года назад

I am loving your videos, I have a question. If you use a really big pallet, how do you store your pallet so that the paints don’t dry out? Currently I work on an A4 size pallet which I can fit in my freezer but anything bigger wouldn’t work.

@elisabethherzog9369 Год назад

I’m sure this is way too late and you’ve already figured it out but if not for me I find it really helpful to have a few little containers like little jars. Something that will be air tight when you close it. You can just take the paint off of your pallet with your pallet knife and put it into the container and then next time you go to paint just open up the container and put it right back on your pallet. I don’t know how helpful this is for you but its saved me a lot of paint.

@kavya914 2 года назад

How does the thinner ( I'm guessing ) not get muddy with all the colours?...

@ZuleykaK 9 месяцев назад

Can you try another mixing videos on darker skin?

@jamiecuba 2 года назад

Does anybody know what he uses t clean his brush? because that is not lsited in his materials. thank you

@kris6040 3 года назад

Seems as though I never have the exact colors. Could I use a cad yellow light or medium and a cad red medium or alizarin crimson?

@richiejourney1840 3 года назад

Yes

@nancychandler7289 Год назад

New subs here….are you painting in oil or acrylics?

@numanibrahim6254 9 месяцев назад

From where do u have the palette?

@senorstronk 3 года назад

nice vid

@julissimo1 3 года назад

Thank you so much for these lessons, Chris. Do you always wear gloves when you paint, and if so, is it because of the toxicity of oil paint? Thank you.

@jdbee1802 2 года назад

I'm not sure about Mr. Chris, but I usually wear them because no matter how careful I am I always seem to get paint on my hands and some of the pigments are super hard to wash off.

@lisaferrell8934 2 года назад

I would say yes because that is what I was told in Art school, especially the colors with cadmium in it. Very toxic.

@alesiaaird3575 3 года назад

How so you do dark skin tones?

@ajifadave5890 10 месяцев назад

What are you dipping your brush in to clean it after grabbing a new color ? Really new to painting here

@simonejackson4494 20 дней назад

Paint thinner

@robertocatrone715 2 года назад

which is better to mix oil paints on, Plexiglas or glass? I've been using Plexiglas to mix my oils on. I rough sanded the back of my palette so I have a background to see my paint tones better. I've only been using oils for a couple months now. I came over from watercolors to oils. BTW. I love your tutorials, very well done.

@edkaempf906 Год назад

The Oregon Ducks colors are green and yellow. You know, because of all the rain in Oregon (think, cool blue water) got mixed with the yellow that they really wanted.

@enderjacket6384 7 месяцев назад

The fumes of solvent are really steering me away from oil paint. I can inly paint in my bedroom, and sources for learning solventless standard oil paint are limited.

@Spinoftusk 2 года назад

Is that water in the jar? Or a liquid for cleaning the brush?

@geejhaymariano6651 2 года назад

That is paint thinner from what i can see

@jobishop.thecoachingcabin2274 3 года назад

What are you using to wet those oils please? It doesn’t seem to change colour!.

@manaralmousawi3032 3 года назад

I'm pretty sure it's paint thinner, it can also be used to clean out oil paint.

@jobishop.thecoachingcabin2274 3 года назад

@@manaralmousawi3032 thanks, yea I’m trying to work out which one, linseed doesn’t work like that. Can we DM this chap?

@manaralmousawi3032 3 года назад

@@jobishop.thecoachingcabin2274 well I’m not really an expert myself so you should talk to someone else haha sorry

@joez6235 3 года назад

@@jobishop.thecoachingcabin2274 Turpentine

@percussion44 Год назад

Is that Anthony Bourdain in the portrait behind you? Why?

@collinday4191 Год назад

Have you ever mistaken your solivent cup for your coffee? Luckily I was working ink and water color when took a drink of wash cup lol

@allenvoss7977 3 года назад

Can you help me learn how to paint water ?

@jefftarsenault Год назад

Is that paint thinner or water to wash off brush?

@simonejackson4494 20 дней назад

Paint thinner

@jefftarsenault 19 дней назад

Chris this video made me a better painter quickly making it huge fun!! Great tutorials!!!

@jrmontarbo6555 6 месяцев назад

Hi! Aspiring painter here....are those just regular paper towels 😳

@darshanabalakrishnan2190 2 года назад

is the medium he is using turpentine or some other solvent?

@austinstubblefield9907 2 года назад

Per another video, he uses Gamsol

@TheFeralcatz 3 года назад

If you piss in a toilet that has blue toilet bowl cleaner, it turns green.

@yarddog5440 3 года назад

I'll be damned🤯

@Medic1647 2 года назад

Chris, I have asked you this several times you have not addressed it: What do you do with left over paint on your pallet especially if you are on a budget and can not afford to waste paint. For instance, I sat down in my basement to pain, got everything set up and paint on my pallet when, within 30 minutes, my wife is dragging me out of town for three days cuz her mom (who is wide as she is tall) fell and broke her hip. I didn't even have time to pack my stuff up we just had to go. Now I wasted all that paint, however sir, what could I have done to preserve it and not toss it out?