Watercolor Beginner Series Episode 2 - Color Theory

[@cruisepaige]

Hello! I've been dabbling in watercolors after a lifetime of abandoning my artistic aspirations to pursue a career in law and business in my 20s and have realized I had no training in watercolors. I was kind of winging it and doing OK, but I found the octopus of which I am very proud and decided to do the whole class. Thank you for doing what you do in such a perfect way.

[@marytufts1163]

Absolutely excellent! This is the lesson block that I WISH I had listened to in high school. I'm taking notes like I have an exam tomorrow--and it is great. I may actually REMEMBER these lessons. Best learning environment for shy people as well--where I'm not bothered by adolescent angst, rejection, and I can repeat this video over and over. THANK YOU! This goes a long way to the time when I just might try to venture out on my own with painting....but not for a long, long time because I'm enjoying LMA waaayyyy too much! NOW I can not only paint--I can understand how and why it affects myself and everyone else. I bought a "pocket" color wheel which illustrates a lot of this but your explanation really helped me understand it.

[@40_countriesldeschenes67]

Thank you! This was really insightful as to what colours can go well together!

[@LetsMakeArt]

So happy to help!

[@GeminiDolly52951]

This reminded me of back when I was in grade school many, many moons ago - The teacher taught about the primary and secondary colors - I never forgot those - but now I know about analogous colors - Never too old to learn something new - Thanks for showing this

[@LetsMakeArt]

Well said!

[@supawaza]

I took Color Theory back at college, you summed it all up in a 10 mins video of a 3 months long class that I had to take!! Great refresher! Please keep the awesome videos going! And I also love your subscription box!

[@TheRealPhases]

I love water color!

[@Stephpope19]

I loved this!! Learned something new!! Would love a paint along to make our own color wheel like your the secondary one. Great series!! Blazing thru them!! 🙌🤗

[@Ane-kh3yp]

Really helpful. Just enough information for me to absorb as a reative beginner. Thank you. :)

[@nikiwelch7385]

This was exactly what I needed. I took notes I’m sure will help me as I continue my journey. Thank you!

[@connieolson8497]

You really explained the color wheel nicely, I think this video is a keeper. Thanks so much.

[@LetsMakeArt]

We're so happy it helped!

[@SimplyOrganizedLLCMadison]

Thank you for this explanation. I get it now.

[@ritawilkerson2340]

Thank you for this.. I always have a hard time trying to figure out which colors are cool and which ones are warm. This helps!

[@mariakellner2221]

Colors have a bias to create many hues having a cool yellow,cool red,cool blue ,next is a warm yellow ,red ,blue,to find this is compare what colour one has in there supplies, colour wheels are great ,they can be found to download,most have a bias of color with the primaries, once I saw this it took the mystery away,tfs

[@jennarogers8646]

Loved this! You made it super easy to understand!

[@johnytwo]

lovely and lively, and intelligent. subscribed.

[@LetsMakeArt]

Wow, thank you!

[@pattymiddlebrooks6975]

Hello!! Thanks for the great info! There are so many different names for blue, red and yellow paint... what are the names of the blue, red and yellow you use as your primaries?

[@cindytaylor6657]

Learned so much

[@TheRealPhases]

Cool!

[@stephanieheiler2327]

Maybe you should have mentioned the split-primarys. In school we've learned blue and red makes purple and blue and yellow makes green. But with a warm red you never get a vibrant purple and with a warm blue you never get a vibrant green, you only get a muddy reddisch brown or some army greens. It can be very frustrating not being able to mix the right color because of not knowing things like that. ☺

[@meri8746]

Great tutorial! Thanks!

[@LetsMakeArt]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@andip862]

To help you remember warm colors vs cool colors, just think of fire and water. Fire is warm; fire is red, yellow, orange. Water is cool; water is blue, green, purple.

[@ziggiezag938]

I have often wondered what "temp" green and purple are. Now I know! I am surprised because my inclination was that purple was a warm color. So far in my painting, I've used acrylics, I have a painting I can't finish because the main object in the painting is just too bold, stark flat . . . Could watercolor be used over the acrylic to tone it down? Thank you for this series. I'm always anxious and eager to learn new subjects, even if I'm not good at them, I like to try. "Stop learning, start dying." as Regina Fujan always says.

[@galen8291]

Do you have a copy of this secondary wheel anywhere that can be downloaded?

[@lupitaperez345]

Is there a particular colors you use to make your color wheel out of the colors you sell? Can we use any kind of blue, yellow, red? You mention about looking at it to see it it's a warm.....you know what I need to make the color wheel.😊

[@lalitaandi5595]

Thanks a lot!

[@kathryndittamore9355]

I'm curious about why you use red yellow and blue as primary colors. My art teachers taught that the true primary colors are magenta, yellow, and cyan, given that you can mix red using magenta and yellow, and the blue can be mixed by adding magenta to cyan.

[@north2r]

magenta, yellow and Cyan are ink colors, or colors used in print, I'm an oil painter and it's red yellow blue

[@kcbirder]

You cannot mix a nice purple using red. Your purple will be muddy. There is no red ink in a printer. It's magenta.

[@hollyzessin2886]

You might mention that there is more than one yellow, blue and red. Depending on the yellow and blue chosen you will get different greens and continue on.

[@moonmona4888]

You explain a super old complementary color 'theory' from Itten that has been falsified. What's actually right are the complementary colors by CIELAB 💕

[@bradenvester4308]

I like your brick wall. Edit: Ohhh. So that is why green and orange banana look so bad.

[@alessandrasmota]

You can make blue by mixing cyan and magenta, so technically not a primary color. Same for magenta and yellow creating red.