How to use the Apelles Palette | The Basics Explained by Jan-Ove Tuv

A brief introduction to the palette that has been used by masters such as Velázquez, Rembrandt, Anders Zorn, Odd Nerdrum, and Sebastian Salvo.
You do not need blue to make blue with the Apelles Palette, as Jan-Ove Tuv demonstrates further out in the video (PREMIUM VERSION).
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[@miric6224]

Hi, yellow, red, black and white are the four basic colors used by the Fsyum mummmy portrait paonter frrm the first century AD. Other colors were incidententally added like blue and gold, etc. now-a-days it’s called the Zorn, limited palette. Y Ochre, cad red, white, ivory black. Fayum portraits are incredible and were done in encaustic. Just a nutshell summery.

[@agustinacaruso]

SO great Jan! Thanks!

[@cccccc1]

This has probably been the most helpful video I've seen on this topic. Thank you very much!

[@sodapopbrosky]

Thank you for sharing this. Pretty informative and helped me to understand easily.

[@Finding_Arcadia]

I have been STRUGGLING with ny color mixing, no experience with paints whatsoever so i thought zorn/apelles would be good so i dont need to think of complementary or color theory yet, and can just focus on mixing and application. But my palette would get IMMEDIATELY messy no matter what, your explanation of palette hygiene helps a lot, thank you!

[@cvail38625]

Hello, what exactly are the color names on your palette and what is the brand? If you make your own paint, what the color names as wells as their scientific names? When looking at red ochre colorsI found that there's different hues for iron red oxide, do you use vermillion, venetian red, transparent red iron oxide, or terra rosa? Also, for yellow ochre do you use plain yellow ochre, yellow ochre light mars yellow/mars orange, or yellow ochre pale. For the black, do you use ivory black? And for the white do you use flake white, titanium white, or flemish white? Thanks

[@ameliamitchell2642]

mars black

[@vianeypinedar6954]

Is like Zorn palette? Or is the same?

[@jan-ovetuv3836]

Basically the same

[@questartstudio9526]

he said zorn used it, im guessing zorn popularized it.

[@user-qg1eq7ju2h]

Да. Только это "переоткрытие". Если тебе интересно, почитай "Естественную историю" Плиния, книга XXXV.

[@manuel3100]

Muchas Gracias por esos consejos le agradezco

[@andrewtozerfineart9623]

Just wondered what you use to dilute your paint? Turpentine or linseed oil or something else?

[@thomascleveland]

Do you use Cadmium red? Wouldn't want to sand that... Naphthol red? Or pyrrole?

[@johnnyblaze373]

So this is palette more about mixing correct values than focusing on warm/cool colours on a chromatic palette?

[@ulfb5467]

Hi. What is the white color for type of white, titanium white?

[@AlexYorim]

I wonder if we nowadays call it the Zorn palette because he used oil paint while Apelles and the other ancients used encaustic/beeswax as a binder?

[@Iwanttodrawachicken]

Zorn is easier to spell and say for a population that no longer learns the classic languages in basic education.

[@tablacordia]

I have a silly question, I'm clueless on the subject: what if we used pure yellow instead of the ochre one? How could be the final result? 😮

[@johnnyblaze373]

You could use it, it would just look slightly less 'earthy'

[@kozy15x]

Yeah don't do dat

[@franceskavalec350]

` YOU CAN, BUT IF YOU WANT THAT GREENISH BROWN LOOK TO YOU SKINE YOU SHOULD USE YELLOW OCHRE, TRIAL AND ERRER HAS TAOUGHT ME , ALSO NAPPLES YELLOW MAKE A REAL NICE SKINE TONE. YELLOW OCHRE ,VERMILLION, OR TERRA ROSA FOR THE RED, MARES BLACK AND TITAIUM OR ZINC WHITE, .FROM THE YELLOW OCHRE AND MARES BLACK YOU CAN MAKE GREEN FOR SKINE TONES, GO AND EXSPERIMENT YOU WILL SEE THAT IT WORKES , HAVE FUN! REMEMBER BLACK IS BLUE.

[@thomascleveland]

You would die immediately

[@Iwanttodrawachicken]

Try a sample painting with both and see what happens.

[@samriddhabanerjee2712]

wheres green?

[@RJD1308]

Yellow ochre and ivory black will make a green.

[@samriddhabanerjee2712]

@@RJD1308 nah til make some foking umber

[@RJD1308]

@@samriddhabanerjee2712 Ivory black has blue in it, use a yellow like cad yellow light if you want it more green.

[@Joel-ml5bg]

This palette becomes tedious to look at very quickly.

[@israeldiegoriveragenius2th164]

Odd Nerdrum has no understanding of colour at all.