How to Mix Vivid Colors

[@darthkek1953]

I like the honesty of this guy, "we sell them but really you don't need to buy them".

[@Ryderbgoode]

I can’t tell you how thankful I am to you for putting out all these free content. You are very enjoyable to watch, and you seem to have a knack for talking to other artists. A perfect recipe for a phenomenal instructor.

[@isabellopez5107]

Honestly, I agree. It's very hard to find an informative and experienced artist who gives very great example and advice. Straight to the point and explains exactly why things work or don't.

[@josephcross1882]

The fact that channels like this exist is what gives me the confidence to try and learn painting. I'm so thankful for the work you've put in to teaching these skills. Subbed!

[@TheStepsen]

Never be afraid to atempt creative hobbies, theyll make u happy. stick to it!

[@harshadk4264]

No.1 Channel on KZbin for learning colour mixing!

[@g123golf]

I have learned so much from ur painting techniques that I would have never learn if I hadn't found you on Utube love Your techniques and they work every time! Thank you

[@Ryan-hr3tv]

I feel the same.

[@abeerjehan7039]

Same here

[@rhondagrajewski7582]

Mark, I am so very thankful for your willingness to share your knowledge of color and techniques in creating art. I’ve learned more in watching your videos in two weeks than learning when I attended 3 1/2 years of college 40 years ago....

[@mona2242]

@@rhondagrajewski7582 absolutely, Wondering if you would know what type of brush he’s using to mix here. I can’t seem to be able to mix with a flat bright.

[@doctorshawzy6477]

@@mona2242 ur?

[@dmart7777]

This may be the best lecture on color I’ve ever seen! So clearly presented and interesting! Well done!

[@Hoawesom3]

Please make a video on how to mix skin tones and the essential colors for mixing skin tones! Thank you for passing down your knowledge 🙏🏽

[@joshelguapo5563]

I would practice by making a spectrum of skin tones. You usually want a neutral brown (Brown and green), black, white, red and yellow. I go light to dark when i practice but you can do the opposite, if you want. I mix mostly white, brown, and just a bit of green for lighter skin tones, I mix a little bit of red green and blue together to get a reddish black and then darken it up. If you want it more red, go for more red, if you want some yellow in there, add some yellow. Most skin tone paints are a little too yellow or red I'd say. Unless you're going for specific ethnicities, I'd mute out some of those colors. But you can use those colors to get some shades or highlights.

[@waltwalt3282]

you are so generous mark please never stop uploading these very informative videos

[@surbhidhama59]

walt walt How to make yellow

[@cynthiaward1539]

Hope that you are still 'with us' - I agree, you are THE best teacher. I watched you many years ago when I was still painting with oils, then switched to soft pastels, 3 yrs now back to oils and really ! Needed to see and hear you to help get me back into oil painting . Best I learned was to dump the solvent. GREAT !!! will watch all you have filmed. Bless you !

[@timothynewkirk2654]

I attended the Art Acadmey of Cincinnati in 1969. So I've got 50 years of painting under my belt! Your reiteration of these basic "truths" send the message home, and are indeed quite powerful rules! TY ...Newk from Kentucky

[@Alisa_allusia]

Dear Mark, your channel is the BEST!! Hi from Russia!! I'm pretty sure you make lots of people really improve and go to the new level of understanding!! Thank you for your marvelous works!!

[@biffy18]

This is great advise to a newbie and even those who have been painting for decades...Im a newbie (one year) and saves myself and others from exposure especially if your living in an apartment in wintertime with no ventilation and want to eradicate exposure...also saves money and time...And tine is a veryvaluable commodity...

[@glennTinylionUK]

great to see you back again. another cool video. i had to laugh though, you will never make a salesman :-) "here's our new colours but i ,almost never need them' you made the point really well though joking aside. its so rare to hear someone being honest. lovely mate. warmest regards, Glenn (from rainy England)

[@astoyan4645]

This is definitely the most informative art channel on KZbin. Thank you!

[@vincemazo341]

OMG, I was trying to mix vibrant colors with a limited pallet to flowers and foliage in my backyard. I used your other paint mixing video, that's kind of my go to so far. I got really close with just a few colors but this video is SO helpful for the really virbrant colors. In particular, there was this really vibrant purple flower. I could mix some of the colors there, but I think I will go back and try again.

[@kkuugglleesskkooeerr]

Thank you very much for the very clear and sympathic way you explain this useful technique. And what a relief - you even do it without background music!

[@sinditta]

I love how informative your videos are. I binge watch them at work and get really excited to apply my newfound knowledge in my studio at home. I am pretty inexperienced when it comes to mixing colors. I pick up a blue tube of paint (not really knowing the value or hue it) and attempt to mix the color I am looking for. Eventually I find the right tone, but knowing that Pthalo blue is stronger than Ultramarine really helps to avoid making the wrong color. I would love if you made a video explaining the chemistry of oil paint. For example, go further in depth into the fat over lean rule. Maybe explain why not use certain combinations of color, technical things like that.

[@TheWaveydee]

Is the palette knife a suitable mixer as opposed to a brush....less waste? Is your preference just personal choice?

[@autumnj2159]

You just don't really need it. Especially since, as you're painting, you'll want to constantly go back and modify the color you're working with-- much easier to just do that with the brush than adding a palette knife to the process

[@hardstyle3196]

Maybe if your doing an impasto🤔

[@thenoble5169]

Its quicker to use palette knife and alot cleaner. You can also keep your brush in value order ie light or dark. Paper towel one wipe and its clean. However each to their own.😁

[@maxjcr4414]

You loose color if you mix it with the brush

[@BigHenFor]

Also, measurement is more accurate, and you waste less paint. I use a palette knife with acrylics, and it makes building colour gradients much, much easier.

[@nickb863]

I've started painting plein air for the first time -using the Carder color palette and color checker. But I had a really hard time matching the color (even though I could get the value). So this gives me indication that I probably need to supplement my palette with some vivid colors. Mark would you ever consider doing a plein air paint demonstration?

[@pianistasurrealista]

It would be great if Mark is encouraged at some point to do a demonstration of outdoor painting, in slow motion, thanks Mark for your advice, they really are of great help and of great interest, the questions you ask can solve our doubts

[@robinwang5297]

I can simply watch you mixing color all day.

[@blessedandbiwithahintofmagic]

That's quite an idea, having a supplemental palette just for mixing the most difficult, saturated colors. I have not yet come across this - nicely thought out, good development!

[@eleanorcm7033]

Cyan (pthalo blue), cad yellow and magenta are all you really need to mix clean, vibrant oranges and violets because they're true primaries. In fact, with the addition of white, all other colours can be mixed from true primaries including ultramine and crimson hues.

[@berika2018]

Eleanor he he

[@LTeyler]

Mark, I like your older Primary Color Wheel where you show Burnt Amber outside your ‘three colors radius wheel’, as this represents your three basic colors (somewhat more distinctly); of which your Burnt Amber and White are not colors from the Primary Colors. Too, please consider adding an outer radius circle showing your three Vivid Colors. Represent these three colors, in a smaller color portion, as your Primary Color Wheel should stand out stronger.

[@classiccartoons1246]

Hi, Many thanks for this informative video. As per my understanding, seascapes demand a vivid turquoise colour, which is almost impossible to match the tone with Ultramarine blue and Cadmium Lemon, Pthalo turquoise acts as a great solution especially for seascapes. But Cobalt Teal is an expensive pigment which is acts as a primary in blending turquoise colours. Also, Magenta seems to be more useful in blending violets and purple as it is more inclined towards the true red. Quadriquinone magenta is a really versatile pigment and unlike Cadmium Red meduim, it has no yellow bias.

[@marcelawise2937]

I love the brush cleaning tip using paint instead of MO's what a clever idea! Thank you! I just discovered your awesome instructions here! Easy to follow and understand! Again, thank you!

[@MickyplaysProgressiveHouse]

If i could choose a master to teach me, i would definitely choose You sir! Highly professional, i enjoy listening how You explain things.

[@mariakellner2221]

Is there a need for a warm yellow,to complete a cool and warm of the primary colors,very informative tfs.

[@amitchkrabarty05]

Hi, I love to paint seascapes. It's really necessary to get a tube of turquoise for this purpose because the bright turquoise is most challenging to mix. Of course this is a really necessary power color for realistic water scapes.

[@Kavukamari]

I suppose this mixing style is strictly for realism purposes, if one wants to paint from their imagination, they might want to buy a tube of cyan, magenta, orange, etc for especially vivid secondary/tertiary colors

[@MyManDan]

Kavukamari thats good advice, thanks

[@andreavocado]

Yeah I like to paint a lot of dreamscapes and extraterrestrial stuff, this paint layout isn't for everyone unless they're doing realism.

[@lisengel2498]

Lovely cad red scarlet - I would love to paint with that e.g. in abstract compositions just to enjoy the strong and beautifull vibration

[@court19]

Thank you for this!!! I am doing a painting with a very bright intense orange buoy and I was having trouble getting the correct tone. I kept adding white to lighten it but after watching this I realize I should have added more yellow

[@lucaslopes3256]

This is the best channel for painting out there, also your site is amaizng!

[@EulogyfortheAngels]

I can understand why the palette works the way it does. My question when researching your pigment choices was: can these produce high key tints and shades? Pyrrole and Titanium definitely. Cad Yellow and Ultramarine are the mild suspects but work well enough. I wonder if Cad Yellow could be replaced by Hansa (though that can lean too cool). It makes perfect sense why Pthalo and Cad Red are power colors in your palette: Pthalo for insane tinting strength, and Cad Red for high key mid values.

[@b_rayme]

Are the orange and purple available for purchase anywhere?

[@nickyhomann9071]

Thank you- I really enjoy yr colour lessons even though I use acrylics I'm curious... do your limited colour teachings apply to other brands & what would be the alternative colours if we can't find colours like Pyrrole Rubine for example

[@flaviolopes5440]

Hi my friend, recently I started painting and discovered about the toxic about phtalo blue and lead chromate yellow. And I realized a sad conclusion, my father died about 12 years ago with cancer, he was chemistry and the pigments he developed were exactly phtalo blue and lead chromate yellow. I'm almost sure he developed his disease due to continuous contact with these pigments. Using the phtalo blue in paint format do we run the same risk? I mean only the skin contact of this paint is dangerous?

[@NicolasConnault]

Phthalo blue isn't toxic, why is this false information going around?

[@hayleyhawkins]

WOW. the cleaning paint by using the next color is so amazing. I really hate having to use so much gamsol when I'm painting so this is a game changer, can't wait to try it out

[@paulwhite760]

If you want decent seascapes it is very handy to have phthalocyanine blue on board. You can also mix a cerulean blue for skies quite easily and aqua and cyan are easy to mix. Phthalocyanine blue and burnt umber can make a good black as well....Q...why did you choose the manganese purple over a dioxazine ? Is the dioxazine too powerful ? Cheers.

[@zacharytatom283]

Glazing is a great way to get vibrant, intense colors with a limited palette. You could easily have created the blue-green with only the blue and yellow paint if you used a glazing medium to layer them over white.

[@Believe30]

I am new to your channel and am an acrylic/mixed media artist. Why don't you paint portraits any more or paint things in your videos? You said Phalo blue is very toxic, but what about all the cadmiums? Also, can you mix paints into magenta?

[@JennyGSS]

Thank you VERY much for all the knowledge I have acquired about colors and techniques through your videos. I am so intrigued about painting now, it's untrue. You are simply a fantastic teacher!

[@MariaRevArt]

Great colour mixing advice. You really hit that vivid blue that I was hoping for and even that purple was good to know about. I'm starting with a limited palette for oil painting and mixing should be easier now that I've watched your colour mixing videos. Thank you.

[@HattoriHanzoVol1]

hi, do you have an alternative for the yellow color for Michael Harding and Old Holland

[@ish-ma-el4125]

Great video! Love your products and all the information you give to aspiring painters. Can't wait to use your new pigments.

[@maldoori238]

Thank you very much for your instructions and demo. I found it very useful and I must say I do like your new colours. They look very vibrant and I am sure I will be buying them.

[@lizeduplessis6546]

I paint acrylic and oil. Will this principle also apply to acrylic?

[@1974gladiateur]

Thanks very much Mark. I have a question for you. Can you use the purple as your colour opposite in the colour wheel. Like orange, purple and green.

[@margiepetersen181]

I don't know if you check comments from videos that were shown years ago, but I hope you do. I have a photo with a bright, brilliant magenta pink. I've tried and tried and just to seem to achieve the right color. Would you suggest another power color for magenta. Thank you so much for your lessons. I am a retired kindergarten teacher and you are doing a fabulous job teaching.

[@robertbowers7098]

you've really helped me see the reality of drawing even thought you probably haven't had many video on it. you said something along the lines of drawing what you see from a photograph or in still life is a easy as breaking it up into shapes and i was wondering if you could give me more useful advice like that.

[@ninasue5948]

Yay!!!! I've been waiting for these!!!!!!! YESSS!!!!!!!!!!! So excited!!! I love painting underwater scenes and I think I need these in my life ❤❤❤

[@sheralync5854]

Hi. The orange and other colors not on essential palette...i don't seem to see it on your site?

[@АзаматАбаев-н6я]

Hi Mark. I have a question. Why did you start with yellow and ultramarin when mixing green blue? I think you could start with white and ultramarin to reach the value and then correct tone with yellow

[@btsbangtan3747]

Because he wants to overshoot it then he will worry about value and color.

[@Silkymud]

This is most definitely the best video for me to have watched on mixing paints! Thank you for sharing your insight!

[@ragequitredux]

I've had a difficult time mixing a nice sky color without phthalo blue. With Ultramarine, my skies end up looking too dull. The Ultramarine behaves as though it has some red, such that when I add some green, the color ends up a bit desaturated; looks worse when I lighten it near the horizon with white.

[@royalecrafts6252]

same for painting gold? or gold reflections?

[@janjacobs375]

On all three, when you put the color on to match, there was a glare, and it was impossible to see if the colors actually matched. They looked more like whitish spots on the photos.

[@PrincessAloeVera]

I used the link provided for the website. I didn't see your new purple. and i'm wondering if this orange (cadmium red scarlet) is the same as the red orange (cadmium red). Where are you selling these new colors please?

[@Isen502]

The right varnish or topcoat is a good additional way to make light and color pop with depth.

[@robbiej2070]

Hi Mark. Thanks for the grit video again. Can you tell me when the new colours will be available in your online store. Thanks again Robin Mitchell

[@Rachaelshaw7]

Mark, thank you so much for uploading this video! you did mention briefly that phthalo blue is toxic would you mind going into that further?

[@patrickfosterstudio]

Wondering that myself. I don't think he's correct on that

[@Handles-R-Lame]

I believe he meant toxic as in it gets into every color after you've mixed some of it. It has a nasty habit of staying on the brush, I don't believe he necessarily meant toxic in the terms of toxicity.

[@NicolasConnault]

@@Handles-R-Lame that's not the meaning of toxic though, especially when other colours like cobalt blue are actually toxic to humans

[@TheSpiralLab]

did they decide not to do the purple, or is it still coming?

[@clarapablo]

Much appreciated Mark, I am thinking of buying the geneva thalo blue in addition to my geneva essential palette 🎨 🙏

[@CweenOfTheMark]

What brand of paint are you using here? It appears to be very fluid.

[@Hari_Therapy]

Sorry to hear you had a fire, hope you're ok and it's not too much damage. Fantastic vidoes, thank you.

[@Hari_Therapy]

And I really need a colour checker when they're back. x

[@Teratogenetics]

I would recommend cobalt green, cobalt blue, cobalt violet, cadmium red and cadmium yellow light to make a complete palette. Plus titanium white and burnt umber. You can mix 99,9% of natural colors with them. The rest can be achieved with pure cadmium orange and carbon black, but the difference is almost impossible to notice.

[@Teratogenetics]

I would not recommend phtalo colors because they have astronomical tinting strengths. Cobalt and cadmium colors have similar tinting strenghts which makes them ideal partners. Phtalo blue also changes hue significantly when mixed with titanium white.

[@losangulos]

Can you mix a winter sunset pink sky with that scarlet?

[@MichaelRpdx]

Would you at some time show mixing Cyan and Magenta? Magenta is especially difficult for me.

[@DrachenPrime]

Same!

[@TomlinsTE]

I realize this comment is quite old, but in case it's helpful; Since paint is a subtractive color process, I'm pretty sure Cyan and Magenta can not be created using a RGB palette. It seems like a CMY palette should reach all colors though.

[@MrApolloTom]

@@TomlinsTE It's always a trade off when it comes to the most highly saturated colours. CMYK palettes can't reach intense ultramarine and violet blues.

[@anthonycummings1652]

@@TomlinsTE cyan magenta and yellow true primary colors as it makes all colors except white black. look at magazine back page the color swatches are on last page to make all colors

[@fernmof]

In addiction to the oil and pigment do you also add paint filler to the oil paint tubes that you sell online to the public?

[@JoAnnaLynne]

What is the reason for mixing on that color board? Is it on purpose?

[@76irodriguez]

1:13 What do you mean by phthalo blue being "toxic"? Do you mean that it is harmful to your health or that it overwhelms other colors?

[@lesslycepeda5247]

Overwhelming

[@Fenrir214]

@@lesslycepeda5247 I thought it was toxic when in dust form, many of the stronger colours with a basis from metallic ingredients are toxic to the body when inhaled.

[@mariapilargomezarias2610]

Donde se puede comprar oleos de GENEVA tungo mucho interes.

[@caileanparis9998]

Both honestly

[@MrApolloTom]

I think it's less toxic than cadmium, health-wise.

[@stig]

Great Set of Videos! I really needed this one after painting 30+ years I've finally been enlightened about how to mix colors! Thank You Thank you. where was youtube 30 years ago?

[@MrTuffbull]

30 ago (1988), PC computers (for public) only had a monochrome monitor, and there was only 640 Kbytes (not mega, kilo) memory. Actually 1Mbyte but only 640Kb was available as RAM for software, as the rest was reserved and used by the system functionality. The cpu was between 4 to 8 mgHertz. The windows technology was still Right Protected for Apple computer so only DOS for IBM type PC. All that means nothing even possible for a real photo nevermind a video.

[@TODOMATIO]

I would love to buy all these colors but they have been discontinued? No longer available.

[@julioalarcon7092]

He is a wonderful teacher!

[@philippecolin151]

as always thank you for being so generous word your recommendations

[@1974gladiateur]

What will be your mix to reach a rust colour on a old car. I'm painting that old rust car but tough to reach the rust colour of the car, can you help me.

[@Paula19482]

I wanted to order youjr "Color Checker" but your website says it's out of stock, when will it be in, and I also didn't find how to order your paints, thanks

[@SnkobArts]

Thalo isnt highly toxic, is it?? That's the first Ive heard of thalo being toxic, ive only heard of cobalt being toxic where blues are concerned. Do you mean the loose pigment is more toxic from a manufacturing standpoint?

[@michaelmorgenstern5544]

what is color hex for the Geneva Manganese?

[@fili37tm40]

buon pomeriggio Mark, e' possibile avere sottotitoli in italiano? grazie

[@mikederby9055]

When will the new paint be available?

[@TM-bw6zi]

Awesome videos! Thanks very much! Just bought my first set of Geneva colors and color checker!

[@Engelhafen]

What about reds - are there reds that need to be bumped up?

[@zcg9211]

I have so many videos on color mixing but I only got it when I saw you.

[@joseluisrojasmontiel1468]

Un your palette , the yellow is lemon or medium?

[@1sacoyle]

A video on color bias in paints would make an informative videos that many artist are confused about

[@PrincessAloeVera]

Are you selling that Manganese purple color?? thanks. ps I didn't see it when I went to your website in the link.

[@michaelparry1383]

Mark, very good information. You are a master indeed. Great video. Thanks for creating these.

[@diapollockal8962]

Hardest part of high school art is when we're assigned to paint. Us being inexperienced, I've tried to get brighter colors by adding White and missing the color I'm shooting for. This'll be a good reminder that not every color needs to be blended with White or Black.

[@samyong5593]

Hey Mark, love your videos! Any chance of you shipping to Australia any time soon? would love to try the geneva set.

[@williamheimdal436]

Hi. Could you make a tutorial on how to mix colors with the apelles palette?

[@castellcutino]

hello I have a question, to buy oil, do you send to Mexico?

[@nupursodanisurjan8419]

Cudnt make neon pink with this technique. Any tips

[@joanwitteartist]

Thanks for recommending this approach. Definitely enlightening!

[@loislane5001]

Thank you so much. Love your paint, and all your products.

[@SeanKroner]

Thanks for another great video, I love using Geneva Paint. I will certainly be buying your new power colors when they become available.

[@christopherdanang2531]

hai, could you give some suggestion substitute colours for those 5 colours, if i use acrylic paint windsor & newton? btw love ur works! thank you!

[@nubiasista9709]

Very helpful and informative. Thank you. The only thing is for the blue on the glass it would have been easier to just use the pthalo blue.

[@khaddoodles798]

Brilliant! Would love to see more!

[@amysaurhuish300]

You are an amazing teacher!

[@andrissima3799]

Absolutely great explanation! Thank you so much