Artist Problems: Color Mixing

[@JerrysArtarama]

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[@kristenflorey6087]

I don't comment on KZbin videos but I do comment on people that say COULD CARE LESS!!! Thank you. I now respect you. Please continue :)

[@ronhochhalter3491]

There's definitely an Art to mixing colors. I've probably spent more time mixing than actually painting. Painting in Grey scale has helped me tremendously when trying to learn tones. Now if I could just learn how to merge the two, good tone and good color, I believe that would be more happy with my paintings.

[@aprilamerio7419]

I agree.. painting monochrome paintings helped me a lot w learning several aspects... Mixing color is tough lol

[@Highlikeheaven89]

Ive been doing black and white which is helping because color mixing is so tough lol. Then Ill do maybe blue and white. Red and white. Then pick 2 colors and white, etc. Im starting to get the hang of it by doing that 😂

[@kimt2au]

The one that annoys me is when someone says something is really unique. No, it is unique or it is not unique. The definition of unique is that it is different to anything else so there cannot be degrees of uniqueness. Great video. Thanks.

[@janisvogt1079]

Maybe you should lay off the hooch in the red sippy cup on the shelf behind you :) I love your Artist Problems videos! You are very welcoming and educational. We all make mistakes, but some of us have a hard time laughing at ourselves. Thank you for what you do. Please do more Artist Problems!

[@BrazenSpirituality]

I agree! I am rewatching most of these now, and get stuff I forgot about every time!

[@Wendid1]

I was just watching and noticed you called Ultramarine a cool blue. In my experience and research, Ultramarine Blue leans toward purple (red) with means that it has more red..thus warm. When you mixed lemon yellow with Ultramarine you got a very dull earthy green. The complement of green is red so since ultramarine leans red, it tones or dulls the green. Phthalo blue leans towards green which means it has more yellow in it. Since phthalo blue is greening leaning it is cool. When you mix a phthalo (15.3 is green leaning) and a bright lemon yellow since it is already leaning toward green it will give you a bright green. In the same respect Ultramarine Blue and a cool red like a magenta you will get a nice bright purple . That is because both colors lean toward cool on the color wheel. If you were to mix ultramarine which leans red so a warm color and with a warm red that leans toward yellow like a cad red which is also warm you will get a dull gray color. The blue and red want to make a purple but since the red has so much yellow in it, it grays out the purple. I hope this makes sense. Golden's Just Paint had a great article explaining this. Defining Warm and Cool Colors: It’s All Relative www.justpaint.org/defining-warm-and-cool-colors-its-all-relative/ At the bottom of the article there is a pdf file that you can download. The pdf contains a full listing of all the GOLDEN Heavy Body Colors, arranged from Cool to Warm by color families. I found it really helpful.

[@Wendid1]

PS Mike not Jerry... Love your artist problem series they are my favorite. I have learned so much from all the Jerry's videos

[@JerrysArtarama]

Hi Wendi, yes I goofed! Ultramarine Blue biases red (which is why it mixes nice purples) making it a warm tone. I seem to have gotten myself turned around! Sorry for the confusion.

[@hmichael228]

interesting fact - ultramarine blue green shade is actually a cool blue but the ultramarine blue red shade is red biased and warm, so it can be cool or warm depending on the shade.... color can be so confusing!

[@Wendid1]

Hi @@hmichael228 Golden doesn't make the green shade but I have tried it in Liquitex. Liquitex ultramarine (Green shade) was cooler than the normal ultramarine but when compared to Liquitex phthalo blue green shade it looked warmer. But like they say...It's all relative to what it is next to. I have a Perm Alizarin Crimson watercolor that I know is supposed to be a cool shade but it looks warm to me. It makes fantastic oranges and crappy purples. I lay my palette out by color family then by temperature ... I can't figure out where to stick it lol

[@richiejourney1840]

Yes temperature is “relative” to many things which makes it confusing. In my opinion, we should not use it when talking about pigment HUE BIAS. Hue Bias and Temperature are two different things. In my experience Ultramarine is blue and cool period and many people “feel” that it is cooler than Phalo. Most people with no art experience think the same and is also why designers also say Ultramarine is cooler. In our actual theory we say blue is the coolest. Since we do not have a true neutral blue-which would be the coolest-any departure from this-in any direction-actually WARMS a pigment. Many people “feel” Yellow to be the warmest color and for them the Phalo’s are the “warm” blue’s and Ultramarines the “cooler” ones. So once again, color temperature can be relative to many things but Hue Bias is really what you are talking about and is more “relatively specific” to the issue of mixing color.

[@aoutsky]

I thought the skeleton in the background was giving the middle finger. 😂

[@tumblingrosesstudio]

I have so many blues, just going to explore making greens with them!

[@TheRealMythril]

I thought Lemon yellow was a cool bias yellow not warm as stated. I also though Ultra Blue was a warm blue rather than a cool blue? Maybe I’m wrong, I’m not the most experienced artist in the world? 🤨I’m confused.

[@Wendid1]

In my research most lemon yellow lean toward green so is a cool color. Golden list their cad yellow light as a cooler color. The article I mentioned in my first post is super informative. There is also a couple other websites that are amazing...handprint and Color of Art Pigment Database. I am by no means an expert but have been studying color theory for the last few years

[@JerrysArtarama]

Hi Mythril, You're right, I goofed it up. Ultramarine Blue biases red (which is why it mixes nice purples) making it a warm tone. I seem to have gotten myself turned around! Sorry for the confusion.

[@hmichael228]

@@JerrysArtarama interesting fact - ultramarine blue green shade is actually a cool blue but the ultramarine blue red shade is red biased and warm, so it can be cool or warm depending on the shade

[@richiejourney1840]

As I have mentioned elsewhere-Hue Temperature and Hue Bias are NOT the same thing because “temperature” is completely relative to many things and different to many people where as the “bias” is strictly talking about the influence of a third “primary” and the effects of saturation costs in chroma. A Temperature problem examples: In general many people hold Yellow to be the warmest where as other’s believe Red is and still others Orange. Most believe Blue is the coolest yet argue as to which blue actually feels the coolest (some even argue that the Hue of the hottest temperature in the universe is Blue) while other’s say Violet is the coolest hence, this is why you find many dividing the “temperature” issue straight through Yellow and Violet-which is my own simple philosophy because it seems psychologically correct to me-and hold Ultramarine to be the coolest Blue. You can see that we do not have a universal hard starting and stopping point. In fact every Hue can be “warm” and “cool” without shifting into another Hue at all with simple neutral value/chroma changes. But let’s just say that Yellow is our warmest and Blue our coolest. ANY DEVIATION from it’s theoretical neutral position would actually be WARMING the color because it’s heading TOWARD warm Yellow. It would be the same for deviations from neutral Yellow except it gets a COOLING down effect. With all that said, certainly a Hue’s “temperature” could be considered “biased” in one direction or the other yet that does not mean that if you and I were placed in the same temperature that we will “feel” it to be the same even though it is the same. And so we run into these “temperature bias” communication issue’s.

[@ibkristykat]

my color mixing technique is called "IDK WTF I'M DOING" :)

[@hasumatichandra6387]

Thank you for this painting knowledge

[@jamiegossett]

I consider ultramarine blue warm. since it has a red (red is considered a warm color). lemon is cool since it has a green undertone. green is cool. crimson is a cool red but is red. so compared to red light, it is cool but compared to yellow it is warm. lemon yellow has green undertone. cadmium yellow medium is warm undertone. right? so, Pthalo blue green shade should (green is cool undertone) should be a cool blue and ultramarine (red undertone=red=warm color) should be a warm blue. how can ultramarine be a cool blue if it has a warm undertone and Pthalo Blue (Green Shade) be a warm blue?

[@ruthieminers8689]

Lo..l I do love watching you!! lol Great personality along with knowledge makes for a great teacher. You have made me laugh but I certainly came away with a few questions answered and some basics of color mixing. Great Video

[@tracylj5128]

This is the first Jerry’s video I’ve watched. I love 💕 this guy! Great entertainment and wish you’d do an out takes at the end. Who is the guy in the video??

[@ibkristykat]

Mike (not Jerry) - it's Jerry's son or grandson, 1 or the other. (Jerry is THE Jerry of Jerry's Artarama)

[@hasumatichandra6387]

Valuable information for me thanks

[@57ar]

Nice stack!!! Keep it coming❤

[@TheGrandMother]

You ought to have your own KZbin channel. 👏👏👏

[@YashaHika]

Subscribed for the color red incident XD 😆

[@begginerwitcherknitter1838]

I never know what colors I'm gonna use before hand so I don't really have a palette lol and when it comes to mixing I tend to use black and white but also blues and reds

[@lizzywurmann]

How do you know which is the Bias" of a color?

[@muhammadowais3314]

Can you please tell me how can I mix colors correctly as my reference image if was painting landscape there are thousand of colors and values.#HELP

[@douggoldengolden72]

I remember in college I bought a tube of utrect manganese violet 25 dollars for 8ounce tube

[@richiejourney1840]

Hue “temperature” is relative to many things and is different for many of us. Hue Temperature should not be used here. You are really talking about Hue Bias which is specific and better related to the mixing issue. Better to say-in general-that the farther apart two mixed hues are the lower the Chroma or “Hue Intensity” and the closer they are to each other the higher the Chroma provided that they are not Direct Compliments. I invite you to treat yourself to an in depth look into color theory by a Color Theorist in collaboration with 2 or 3 other great paint companies at handprint.com

[@Wendid1]

I literally have 13 different tabs from handprint open in my browser right now. lol Shortly after I started my color theory journey I stumbled across Handprint. Truly an invaluable source of information. I have never thought of Biased being different than temperature. In my head they have been one and the same. But perhaps separating them in my mind will help me understand this pesky blue biased Perm Alizarin Crimson that definitely reads warm to my eye. Thanks for the insight Richie,

[@douggoldengolden72]

You add the white then the color looks chalky

[@aprilamerio7419]

Because it takes away saturation

[@bastet469]

Why don't you re-record the video to correct your mistake in identifying the warm and cool colors? Perhaps you think it's not worth addressing. But you did spend part of the video hyper-focued on the correct use of a couple of random idioms. C'mon man. Real talk, I'm not trying to give you a hard time or insult you. You know that correctly identifying warm and cool colors is fundemental to learning color theory yet you're arming beginners out there with bad information. I'm just concerned that if you leave this video as is, your credibility could take a big hit.

[@danielsandoval5034]

I agree. I am new and literally take notes on these shows and luckily I watched one with Amy today on yellows so I happen to realize soon after he was incorrect. I am also dyslexic so this video was extremely confusing and really should be taken down. I commend you on admitting your mistakes but that is only if someone takes the time to open the section up and look. This video also didn't do a good job in identifying what colors were even out. Bad all around and for the sake of learning should be taken down. Its prob only still up bc he's reminiscing about some girl he would Netflix and chill with back in the day

[@aprilamerio7419]

That bothers me as well. In fact, "I could (not) care less" as a whole, is bothersome really because when someone uses that phrase, they're trying to portray the fact that they don't care. However, when u say that u could not care less... It actually implies the opposite... That u really care alot. So much, that u "could not care any less"... Just sayin

[@roxanner8]

who is this guy? LOL

[@christopherjames3451]

Right?! found him 2 years ago or so and still keep coming back, if you haven’t seen his Bob Ross painting tutorial geese it’s funny. He’s funny. Mike, not jerry. Ha ha

[@waltercarter6163]

Who the Jew?