How to harmonize your colors

Today I am sharing how I create color when I start my paintings.
From the beginning, I heavily harmonize them. Even though the painting is still very raw and unfinished, the harmonized color makes the work look cohesive.
Check this out.
This practice of creating beautiful colors keeps me excited in the early, and sometimes ugly stages of my art-making. It also makes the colors that are not harmonized stand out. How do you create colors in the early stages of your art? Let us know in the comments!
I hope you have a great day today.
Nicholas
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[@stephaniefindlay120]

This was the best video on colour I've ever seen. How simple and how effective. Thank you!

[@nancyburk451]

Wonderful demo. I was very enthused and wanted to go right away and make harmony with my new colors.

[@ginger451]

This was so helpful! It kind of took the fear of color mixing away! Thank you for sharing!

[@robinbrewer5073]

I love learning visually and you are so generous in sharing your experience and I am grateful!!! Ty!

[@lailaelzeindaher8463]

Beautiful and a mazing bravo 👏

[@emiliemartin9999]

You are so right and you have shown me a way to to coulors in a much richer way. Thank you so much. My best lesson in coulor is your way to inrich coulor. I´m not so good in english, but I hope you understand the inpact you have had on my way of mixing coulors. Thank you so much for sharing. I love it and I realy enjoy watching yoy paint

[@maryannvogt9742]

Your talk and demonstration on color has made me understand the whole concept on color better and puts a lot of excitement in the whole process. Love learning from you, thank you.

[@adeledallasorr4736]

This is very good reminder that all colours have harmony ! Thanks for a very good demo. All your UTube presentations all derived from your memorry, Your Artists Soul.

[@britagustavsen7357]

It’s so helpful, Thank you!🤩

[@Audion]

My friend just watched this and was amazed! Thanks for making these videos. 🖌️🎨🌎

[@sparkofinterest81]

I sure appreciate your process :). Sorry, No Facebook so.I am grateful that you use other platforms to share.

[@CasparisHelena]

What a precious way of thinking color harmony. It brought me a complete new sense about mixing colors once for a long time I’ve been learning n o t. to mix colors to avoid having them dirty. You Nick, turned it 180 degrees and I would like to thank you for being an amazing teacher and an open heart person for sharing your “secrets”.😘

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@Juelz Zander Yea, I've been using InstaFlixxer for since december myself :D

[@caroletalktings]

Watching again in 2023, before the new Art2Life mini course starts. Great inspiration to put into practice.

[@mountainsno]

Thank you this is very helpful. Im going to get OFF the computer and give this a try. Awesome.

[@babbsromero3471]

Thank you Nicholas, this was one of the best color combinations videos I’ve seen! Helped me tremendously!

[@marieafram1528]

Thanks for explaining in a calm and easy manner. . I listen to you from time to time according to my time and circumstances.

[@bonetascholz999]

Thank you for that demonstration it was very interesting to me as I am a beginner

[@glenpos]

I used your method of colour harmony and loved the outcome. The feeling I experienced was harmonious as you mixed the colours.

[@allisonjames2923]

I love that you took all the colour “rules” & smothered them in paint 🎨

[@susanneengel-schuster]

Thanx from Germany, I learned a lot, so precious!

[@Kayfeathers]

Thank you Nick, super helpful especially when you added the unrelated red! Love it

[@klartistic]

Thank you Nick, I love mixing colours and sometimes the colour palette ends up looking just as good, if not better than my painting. I find this form of painting very relaxing. Thank you

[@sharonputman3633]

Wow Nick that was brilliant mini lesson! Thank you for sharing 😊

[@user-hj6bp5sw3x]

Fabulous! So soft and cohesive like a symphony.

[@carolinecollins4012]

Thank you so much for this. Hadn't thought of this before.

[@adrianekelly2966]

Wow. I’m so delighted as I head for my paints with tea, grateful for one of the loveliest lessons I’ve ever received. I know all this, of course, have done for about five decades…but a fresh presentation by just the right teacher at the perfect moment - wow. I feel a shift in these minutes that leaves me liberated from every past painting. I feel forever changed…happier, like I could never again imagine ‘wasting paint’ or ‘messing up’, ‘ruining’ a piece. Here in central Pennsylvania, on a drizzly Sunday morning, I’m absorbing the energy gifts you’ve so generously shared here. Can’t thank you enough in words. I’m off to spend my day immersed in ‘living color’. Ha, are you old enough to remember that, when our ‘black-and-white’ viewing switched to color, and NBC hit on a way of describing it that had us riveted, glued to the rug on the floor, as close as we could get to The Wonderful World of Disney?

[@barbaraoconnell2208]

I love this.

[@DuckyEggwood]

so cool

[@thunderriser]

I like how playful this is, and how you take pleasure in each color you create! It might seem obvious but I'd like to add one thing. In order for this to work well, the used colors have to have the same color temperature, which means either all cool or all the warm, like in this demo. The blue is ultramarine which is warm, and also the yellow is really deep and warm, as is the light red. The light blue is cool because it leans towards green, but this doesn't really matter because it is very light and almost like a white. Sometimes a cool color mixed with a warm one creates a nice new color, but more often it results in the colors becoming muddy and rather dull.

[@maureenknight3863]

brilliant ty

[@artofvchannel9430]

I love it, thanks so much..

[@joykumar7332]

Great information...

[@CS-pu4ti]

What a valuable lesson on color! Thank you so much Nick!!!🙏🏽

[@artofvchannel9430]

Great... Big​ thanks​ again

[@Tawadeb]

Helpful thanks

[@judyhyland682]

I love your videos

[@emmiejackson7554]

Thanks, Nick --- I just came across this video and it inspired me so much since I have been struggling with color harmony! Best wishes!!

[@simpleartofhealing286]

cool. Thanks!

[@michaelbone5177]

Thanks, I totally do this too! Always get excited when the tube color fits the scheme well later on

[@juliebabb3365]

what w wonderfully simple way to harmonize a palette

[@nozhaomar198]

Thank you so much 🌹🌹

[@grazynaurbanek6802]

I loved your video about harmonizing colors. Thank you for sharing your process with us.

[@daveanderson8776]

Wow! This something I’ve been going to do for a while and keep forgetting. Experimental painting is exploring ideas color,composition and tonalities. Love it ,thanks for sharing

[@arlenealbanese8764]

Nick I appreciate these videos. I get so much out of watching u mix your paints. I feel I am learning about saturated vs non. It makes so much sense now. Now I have to practice. Thank u.

[@mai-brittsevel9121]

Thanks Nick for sharing and sending out so much inspiration both here and in CVP2021 🙏🏼

[@sherrillpearson7140]

Huge game changer for me. Can't wait to use this info.

[@deborahhoch2662]

Luscious

[@glenpos]

Thanks Nick. I have used harmonious colours and love the feeling it evokes in me. 💜💙

[@deborahwolff5651]

Thank you for sharing. I love the feeling of mixing colors! It's interesting how you can mix tints and shades while using harmony

[@dianesorota838]

Fabulous demonstration.Thanks much.

[@mirtaxiomelyssandin2001]

Thanks for the great content on this video blog about colour and colour combination.

[@veena747]

This is a super useful demo and teaching video. Thank you very much for sharing.

[@brandythompson6544]

Yes--- this is how I mix my colors, too!! Super fun to create new color and play, play, play!!

[@fcruz2012]

How amazing! It's so exciting! Thanks!

[@ArtFlyer01]

Excellently helpful as ever, we never stop learning, thank you.

[@janekizner3678]

Thank you so much for sharing this technique. I’ve been afraid to mix different colors expecting a yucky result, and yet I love the harmony of vibrant colors. I’m going to experiment with this way of creating color. Now I’m excited.

[@nicolabishop996]

Thank you for all that you share. It's very helpful.

[@monicastella9149]

Thank you, I learned some more about color and it was inspiring.

[@mariaroca5762]

Thank you. I love that is intuitive and spontaneous .

[@vanessa1474]

I love mixing colours but after I’ve mixed & used, how do I ensure that when I mix the next lot that it will be the same? I’ll forget which colours I used & how much of each I used. This question plagues me ☺️

[@hughferguson5393]

REALLY ENJOYED THIS,,,CAN'T WAIT TO DO SOME,,,,THANKS, NICK!

[@belindaroca4577]

Thx Nick.. ur an awesome teacher.. will definitely try it😊

[@cristinamallol5413]

I learned harmony from you Tks Nice seeing you again

[@jocelyneblanchard5948]

Great to see!!! Thanks!!!

[@fatimagrocki386]

Love this! Thank you Nick!

[@artofvchannel9430]

Love​ ​it​ thanks​ so​ much

[@yokemelissant9098]

Very good lesson. I learned so much

[@boxerdogmum583]

Aha!

[@bonniegarson80]

Very cool👍

[@tonyandrea7613]

I like this video. It helps.

[@monicastella9149]

Thank you again!

[@Abi_ness_art]

That red just raised my eye brow......

[@harpreetsingh2005]

Yes i sometimnes watch ur stuff...and well this video is really nice and informativ

[@duriduri2823]

Very good.thanks

[@donnaschafer2565]

Thanks! Very interesting and affective way to harmonize a painting. In paintings like this how do you bring in a focal point and not muddy up or over do a painting?

[@vickyrafael1]

Thank you Nick. A question, on what do you put your paint? It seems sort of wet?

[@monaolofsson3555]

Thank You,

[@dianneloftstaylor]

Hi Nick. Please tell me what you are using fir your palette - wet sponge and paper?

[@joannavandeneijnden5437]

Love the info but how does vocal point work?

[@robfuzz]

what kind of acrylics do you use? Soft body? Fluid?

[@sonchenpatton8268]

How do you deal with mixing like this if you have a larger painting? Even the 12 x 12’s?

[@cliffdariff74]

Does anyone know what acrylic brand Nick uses for his large commissions and paintings?

[@jeanneshamji7852]

Can this technique be used with watercolor?

[@robfuzz]

At what point does it become mud?

[@randirosanikolajsen6372]

Do I understand it right... You don't need ALL the colors in every single colormix? Just some of them? They will harmonise anyway, even though they just share some colors? And one more... The pure color I put on the painting to stand out, could it be a totally different one? Or should it be one of the colors already used?

[@daledanby6831]

How does it not turn to mud?

[@frappedelimon4351]

That's not pure red nor that second color looks blue 😳😳