How to Avoid Muddy Colors when Painting - Color Mixing Secrets Demystified for Beginners

[@Makoccino]

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[@christianebehr138]

Very informative showing and explaining how to mix colours thank you many greetings Christiane 😊😊

[@raukonazgul3419]

I wonder why none of the art teachers at school have never shown this when we drew with watercolor or any other paint. Maybe if they did, there would be more people interested in art. Honestly, this vid is so cool and informative that i want to paint smth right now )

[@josefschiltz2192]

Unfortunately, for the students, they are still trying to teach the old primary notion that there is such a thing as three pure primaries, red, blue and yellow, which don't exist. There they stick and the students adhering to this inaccurate notion have continual problems with accurate colour mixing.

[@ddnava96]

@@josefschiltz2192. Unfortunately, for the students, they are still trying to teach that the primaries are red, blue and yellow, which are not. The primaries are cyan, magenta and yellow. There they stick and the students adhering to this inaccurate notion have continual problems with accurate colour mixing.

[@josefschiltz2192]

@@ddnava96 Mm. Always a problem. But then you learn the complexities within the paint mix, how the sub-network of colours carried within the mix influence the final colour and that piece of knowledge simplifies when it comes to achieving it. Thank goodness, because it saves paint, therefore money.

[@ddnava96]

@@josefschiltz2192. Yeah, I know it's more complicated than that, but this video actually shows the problem. At one point she mixed a blue with a yellow and it turned into gray, because they're complementary colors. Then she mixed a blue that leans a bit towards cyan and a yellow that leans a bit towards green and she got green. That's not because of "impure primaries". That's because one pair of colors were pure complementaries and the blue on the other pair was actually closer to the real primary

[@josefschiltz2192]

@@ddnava96 Very important to know the exact nature of the colours by doing a chart to see which way on the spectrum the colour is leaning - violet-blue, green-blue. orange-yellow, green-yellow. orange-red, violet-red, etc. and then behavioural mixes and how they interrelate with other colours, on the surface or in the palette. Otherwise it's difficult to guage whether you make the novice mistakes of mud and Christmas or a 'masterpiece'!

[@lindas.martin2806]

This is THE BEST explanation of basic color theory for watercolors that I have seen in over thirty years of teaching. Congratulations! I will certainly refer your KZbin page to my students. At some point it would be great to be able to have a transcript or voiceover in Spanish. And thank you!!

[@dr.ducttape2161]

would love to see that!

[@lisevadeboncoeur2565]

Hands down the BEST, CLEAREST, SIMPLEST COLOR THEORY I have ever seen! Thank you so much! I will spread the word.

[@dianawatercolor]

If @makoccino wants, I could translate it to Spanish, in order to add subtitles to this video. ✨

[@magdalenaairi2260]

This is honestly one of the best watercolor painting advice videos i ever seen if not the best its just so informative thank you very much for creating it can't wait for more

[@personanongrata9289]

I was thinking the same!

[@begrateful9836]

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[@ddnava96]

To be honest, it's false information. The muddy colors are a result of mixing the secondary colors blue and red. The real primary colors are yellow, cyan and magenta and you can even see them on any printer because those are the colors printers use

[@stephanijeopdevelt5600]

dd nava How can it be „false“ when the results speak for themselves. I think most of us don’t care about WHICH way is the RIGHT way to reach the goal of not having muddy colors, right?

[@ddnava96]

@@stephanijeopdevelt5600. Precisely, and the green that she got in this video is still muddy. You can get a more vibrant green if you mix yellow with cyan instead of yellow with blue

[@StrawberryNova]

Ohhhhh my goodness, this is the video that FINALLY made me actually UNDERSTAND color mixing for watercolor!

[@georginatoland]

This is the first time the whole “warm vs cool” has made sense to me. You are a treasure trove of information! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

[@thetea4171]

Is it just me or does the warm red look orange already?? Like it looks orange already to me- Edit: to people saying "it's vermilion" or "blood orange" I know that, I was just pointing out that colour isn't the best to use as a 'red' for this video since it's not really a red in the sense and would likely be used as an orange in some artwork. There are more red toned warm reds that could be used rather than this one that appears more orange.

[@hongmaudon]

Crystal Edlin yeah that one is pretty orange to be considered red. Well, maybe it is more red in real life than on camera I’m not sure, still I see it as orange.

[@luckycat2010]

Everyone sees colours different, for me its Orange and vor my brother its Red. Same Story as the dress, i think

[@lucynguyen4390]

I think it has to do with that "red-orange"/"scarlet" thing

[@ciraxa]

My eyes and 10bit IPS panel tell me its closest to the dark orange in this color cycle. It does lean towards red tho.

[@unpredictablehuman1001]

Crystal Edlin probs it’s vermillion a red-orange color while the other one is crimson a reddish purple :)

[@Wolf-E-Romeo]

I've had various people try to explain why colors get muddy. I know that if you add the opposite color it dulls it out. But the one thing people never told me or maybe they tried but didn't know how to explain to me at the time, was that even the primary colors lean a certain way. To me, primary was primary. that's that. Thats what ive been told. You have blown my mind by this video for something so simple. Maybe its just something people overlook, Maybe im just slow and never caught on. Maybe others do it subconsciously while i need to be shown it, like you did in this video. Thank you! (I just stumbled upon this video, im so happy I did. :) It has helped a lot.)

[@Dollectable_Dreams]

This is so informative!!!!! I watched a million color mixing and color theory videos on KZbin but only today, with this video, I finally understood how they work when mixing either a cool or warm color!! Thank you so much!!!!!

[@Makoccino]

Yayy so glad it helped!

[@maddyv5948]

"Green is a cool colour" Yes it is, it's the coolest of them all 😄

[@Maddie-sn7yt]

Makoccino: Green is a cool color! Green: B)

[@waynelast1685]

Blue is the coolest color. Green has some yellow in it.

[@DoodleDrawArt]

I love this video! I've been working on learning water colors and this video makes things so very clear. Well done!

[@prachetachaturvedi3618]

I started today 😊

[@krishnasingh9120]

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[@krishnasingh9120]

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[@purpledoorable]

I was literally painting today and all my colours were so muddy! I stopped painting for a little and as was getting my paints out I got a notification because I'm part of #makoificationsquad, so I got to finish my painting strong! The only problem is that half of it looks muddy and the other perfect...

[@Makoccino]

Aww now you know more about color mixing and can use muddy colors whenever you want and whenever they fit in your artwork :)

[@zuhraahmed4353]

Oh well, at least now you know what to do and what not to do. 🙂

[@Makoccino]

Happy Saturday! I'm finally sharing some color theory secrets almost no art teacher is talking about! I really hope this video will be super helpful for you guys! After all the research and learning my mind is still blown away! Let me know if you would like to learn more color theory secrets!! *Edit:* I just realized I forgot to fix the divider when I was talking about warm/cool colors in the beginning after changing something while editing! Of course Yellow 💛 belongs to warm colors and the other Purple 💜 to cool colors! Please make sure you remember it correctly!

[@sajimonjoseph6398]

makoccino your all videos are very creative and helpful

[@kathleenagera7416]

makoccino really helpful video , thanks for the information

[@sajimonjoseph6398]

And i had tried your art tips and tricks that was wonderful👌

[@katepaget4910]

#makoficationsquad

[@urvigupta9899]

Yes please do make more videos about colour theory.... This was very helpful

[@shre9]

No art school would've taught this in such a great way! Thank you Makooooo! Love you to the moon and back! ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡ #makoficationsquad

[@Makoccino]

aww

[@PeachyKeenify]

4 years of art school and I'm learning more from one youtube video. Thank you!

[@auntchristineandvalentino3122]

Only just stumbled across this video and as someone who has studied color and color theory in college, I’ve got to say APPLAUSE! Brilliantly succinctly and clearly demonstrated and explained. And as a painter, I appreciate this method of learning about our paints and how they work with water and with each other. Thank you for this.

[@shannarafryer3111]

If I knew how to paint, this could be useful to me

[@shannarafryer3111]

Hey, past me. Guess what, You just recently bought watercolor paint. I think it be useful to you soon

[@arielle2733]

shannara fryer LMAO WHY DID I FIND THIS SO AMUSINF

[@shannarafryer3111]

arielle m Oh, I do that whenever I watch a video and notice that I watched it before when I see my old comment

[@shannarafryer3111]

@@hiii._.01 It wasn't... well not yet at least. I'll start using my watercolor this weekend

[@shannarafryer3111]

@@hiii._.01 Useful

[@sumaiyahaltaf660]

This literally should be shown in schools

[@ddnava96]

No. Schools should teach that the real primary colors are cyan, magenta and yellow

[@lylac.]

@@ddnava96 umm maybe i could be wrong but there is no "real" primary colors both could ge used and both are ok The true primary colors are green, red, and blue when speaking of light, or red, yellow, and blue when speaking of pigments. There is also a printer ink scheme that uses magenta, yellow, and cyan as its primary colors, but IMO that's just a modified version of red/yellow/blue. This was a search result but they could be wrong also but idk i think they should teach both of them for varieties and they could choose which want they want to use so yeah but as i said i could be totally wrong

[@ddnava96]

@@lylac.. I mean, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying it's not valid to use red, blue and yellow for your paintings, but don't expect to be able to mix all the colors you want from those three, because it results in a limited color palette, but in that regard you can even use green, orange and purple to make your own palette if you so desire. BUT if you want to be able to mix any color you want, you absolutely need to use CMY

[@eman5369]

@@lylac. red yellow and blue are the primarys only because they're found in natural pigments, however magenta and yellow make red so red isn't a true primary

[@lylac.]

@@eman5369 welp maybe youre right maybe im wrong maybe everyone is wrong XD but i dont if im right soo😅

[@sugoiiininjadesuu7262]

Why does this girl have only 1.8 million subscribers??? She deserves much much more!!

[@IslandLady76]

Just found your video and this explains so much I will need to replay several times. I always heard about warm and cool and never really understood because I could see some as being both. This explains so much. Thank you

[@Oinkoinkmurderorsmth]

I use complementary colors to also tone shades down as well! If I feel a red is too poppin', just add a tiny bit of green, and it makes the red a lot more neutral!!

[@JLPrice-kc2uy]

You are a blessing to the ears... For years I struggled with color mixing; only because I listen to good artist, but they themselves didn't have a clean understanding, just like their work and it showed. Through researching of my own, I found where the old masters, had three different yellows; pure yellow, lime yellow and lastly Limon yellow. The reason? One has blue(Cool) the other, Red(warm) It is as you say, there's a difference between gray-ing down a color in the shadows vs mud; giving the student artist great disappointment. You're a treat ... Thanks!

[@bruh-tu1sr]

This video really taught me a lot! Thank you for uploading a video like this. 😊💕

[@monjastock]

Thank you, this is so helpful! I had a basic idea of color theory but still didn't get why some colors mix well while others don't. I've recently started watercolor painting and it's so much more fun when I understand what's going on :D

[@nourmasalkhi9004]

This video is a great help, I just hadn't considered that the primary colours I had been using weren't capable of mixing certain colors. I'm surprised I haven't seen it explained the way you did anywhere else. Thanks

[@aniluniyalRaj]

I love your channel and your water colours painting . Beautiful

[@yourduolingoreminder9969]

This will change my life for ever :o all this time I thought it was just because my paint was bad quality

[@studiouiri]

It bothered me a little when the yellow wasn't a part of the warm colour side

[@Makoccino]

Oh no, you are right, I accidentally put the divider in the wrong spot! I still hope people will understand what I meant!

[@tempestuouslenora2746]

Oh, I'm slightly confused. So yellow and red are both warm, but blue and yellows or reds mixed with blue are cool?

[@studiouiri]

Tempestuous Lenora what? Yellow is a warm colour. Yellow, red, and orange are warms. , blue or Indigo green and violet are cool colors

[@GingerKat23]

Tempestuous Lenora Red and yellow are warm, blue is cool. If you add blue to another color, it turns it cool. So warm colors are: red, orange, yellow. Cool colors are: green, blue, purple.

[@justtheletterV274]

GingerCat23 but cool blues are the one with some purple in them and warm blues are the one with some green in them

[@saffcat101]

another way to avoid muddy colors is to use CMY(K) instead of RBY for your primary colors :)

[@saffcat101]

nope, cmyk can be used used in the real world :) printers run on cmyk, and that's why they have vibrant colors. the same principals in this video also apply to CMYK

[@eqqies3196]

gouache often come in cmyk, as does printer ink. Screens and digital art use rgb when youre drawing it but will print with cmyk. so cmyk for true primary colours and rgb is for light!

[@user-to4fo2xb8v]

Claire, RGB is for light (screens). CMY(K) is for the physical world (pigments, printer ink, paints). I don't know if you mixed up. Why? Try to create yellow with RGB paints, you simply can not, the same goes for magenta and cyan. But you CAN create Red, mixing Magenta and a bit of Yellow, you can create a dark blue with Cyan and a bit of red, and Green with Yellow and Cyan. You can get great results with the 'primary' colors used in this video (RYB) like makoccino's, if you use her method, but you'll get better with a palette that is closer to CMY. In my experience, the best you can use/get in watercolor paints is RYB + Magenta. It's been easier for me to get the colors that I wanted since I got a Magenta liquid watercolor before I couldn't get a nice bright pink or purple with Cadmium red, but now I can, mixing Magenta & Blue.

[@SilverishKitten]

@rainy wednesday Nope. CMY is the actual primary colors of the pigment world.... All that RYB is a myth from when people didnt know about CMY and the light spectrum. There is only one true primary color wheel and that is CMY. RYB can be made from CMY, so if you only have RYB colors, then you essentially have "impure" colors that are not primaries since those were mixed from CMY.

[@kjalight]

I actually love the look of the muddier colors because they appear more nature oriented, which is what I enjoy painting. It’s so fascinating how different pigments interact together when mixing and you really have to be aware of that to get the desired color you want.

[@SK-gk3tx]

Decent explanation & wonderful demo of color mixing. I'm definitely gonna watch a lot more of this artist's videos!! One "critique" I'll make is the repeated use of the word 'muddy'. I prefer the alternative 'neutralized'. Muddy implies a negative result, which it is when it's not the result "you" are attempting to achieve. However, a neutralized color is positive when that's the desired result. Neutralized colors are very useful & necessary for objects in shade, to create shadow, depth, etc. Another excellent source for understanding color theory, with a lil more precise/technical info, is the book by Michael Wilcox, BLUE & YELLOW DON'T MAKE GREEN, which I highly recommend. He goes into a bit of detail & uses a lot of illustrations with what he considers (if I'm recalling correctly) 12 fundamental waterecolor colors. The huge advantage of this is one isn't spending a small fortune on a huge variety of watercolor paints.

[@rayisweird]

This video was soooo helpful. I’ve been having this problem for a while now and I couldn’t figure out why my colours , that I was mixing, were coming out muddy. Thank you 😊

[@maggiemarie02]

#makoficationsquad Thank you so much for this video! I never understood what people were talking about before when they refered to warm and cool colors. And the color bias was so informative! I get so excited when I see that I have a notification that you've uploaded a new video for us!

[@Makoccino]

Aww! I'm glad I could help! I've seen lots of people talking about this topic but I never understood why it's important and all the reasons behind it. So I'm happy I could make a video about it after gaining all the knowledge and finally understanding it!

[@KINGKOON777]

I’m new to this channel and IM BINGE WATCHING;;;;;;--;;;;;

[@Makoccino]

awww

[@ALLOU1521]

Please don't think it was a repetition for everyone, it was new and very useful for me! I'm a bit blind color, which is rare for a woman, but I love painting and sometimes I didn't understand why it was not as nice as I wanted it to be. Thanks a thousand times!

[@GardeniaZ3]

I was frustrated bec of the muddy mixed colors & didn’t know the reason. You save my life. Thank u so much.

[@रश्मीभार्थ]

1:17 I literally thought is was buffering😂

[@taesthetic7289]

It's very helpful. I was finally able to make the perfect purple

[@carolinagirlcreationz7049]

I LOVE this video! I feel pretty comfortable with mixing colors but this explains way more in depth why you would mix certain colors together depending on what you are doing with them. Thank you so much!

[@user-cd9vc3pd2c]

I cannot even begin to describe how much you have helped me with all of your videos. You are so warm, and help boost my confidence. You have given me technical knowledge like this. I am discovering that I am a creative person and you have been instrumental in that! I love you so much!!!

[@Makoccino]

Awww yayy!!

[@graaceie]

I actually really like working in muddy and dull colors, as I draw a lot of forests and things like that. This helped me a ton because it told me what not to do😂

[@taeilgropingass2401]

You,intelectual: *opens mouth* Me: *instant subscibe*

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[@unpredictablehuman1001]

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[@Makoccino]

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[@deirdreginley]

I like to use three cups of water ...one dirty for warm colors and one dirty for cool colors and a clean water

[@SusanVilar]

I've worked with a lot of color wheels, and want to start making my own. Your video of ALL the color wheel videos I've watched, was the most helpful! Thank you so much.

[@ei3577]

I have read many watercolor books and videos on this subject. This is by far the clearest and the best. Thank you.

[@billhansen2008]

Very nice, simple, clear tutorial on color mixing. Thanks for posting this. Now those of us who are inexperienced need to "put in the hours" becoming really familiar with various hues of the primary colors. For me, that's not easy so far. But it's wonderful to know which direction to take.

[@MissMelindas]

This was immensely helpful!

[@mubsi.y]

#makoficationsquad !!!! All of your hacks are awesome and they always help.

[@dishashinde1804]

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[@bessiesegal5885]

I have read lots about, and watched videos about mixing colours but have not really understood them and they were no help to me in W/C painting. But your video, Makoccino, is clear and understandable. I just hope I am able to identify the warm and cool bias in each of my colours. Thank you for this gem!

[@dubdub141]

Thanks a lot for sharing this video! As a self-learner in watercolor, I found it really helpful. I've watched quite a few tutorials, but this KZbinr is the only one who explained how to avoid muddy colors. These theories actually seem simple when explained, but I wonder why others don't teach them?

[@Makoccino]

Glad it was helpful!

[@joy0953]

hey could you please make a video for Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow? because there are 2 types of basic color which is RYB (Red, Yellow & Blue) and CMY (Cyan, Magenta & Yellow)

[@xandercorp6175]

Don't forget RGB.

[@MajikkaniHand]

xandercorp, if you can figure out how to make paint from light itself, I'll be very impressed. :)

[@xandercorp6175]

@@MajikkaniHand It's necessary sometimes for work to be projected on a screen. :)

[@nzusmanov]

@@Croisanne You can mix them. Thats how our colour printers work.

[@arriannasanguine8335]

Nadya Zusmanov hello. I worked in a professional print shop. Printers use CYM. (I never get the order right, but it doesn’t matter anyways) By not mixing we don’t mean they cannot mix together, we mean there is no way to create cyan with any other pigment set up. Cyan is just cyan. It reflects a spectrum, that when mixed with Magenta (which reflects a different spectrum) they subtract what they do not have in common, leaving you with something between them, blue, and purple. It depends on how much of each you add. Purple requires more magenta, since magenta’s reflective spectrum includes purple. The cyan is used to cancel out exes red light, but not too much, or it would become blue.

[@theamymartini]

THIS IS SO IMPORTANT!! And no one has ever taught me this. THANK YOU.

[@aleeshacampbell129]

🤯This video changed my life.......... And you just got a new subscriber!😛😘

[@frostiessodaproduction]

I struggled with understanding color theory when I was younger because my art teacher never explained it to us. When I was watching this video it made so much sense!

[@nishisharma9869]

I feel there is so so much to explore and invent in watercolors.. And I think that's why I starve for it.. Thank you to make watercolor even more interesting and easy to me... Watercolor is a medium which is uncontrolable , I think this quality of watercolor makes it special and colors also act their way , they have their own character and specialities which we should admire and observe... Thanks for this video Mako ... Really helpful...

[@neenasanjay3399]

one of the most useful videos EVER #makoficationsquad

[@Makoccino]

I'm happy to help!

[@nonchalantelle]

This was nice because im still starting to know how to paint and itss gonna be my hobby for this coming vacation💕 i love it

[@nashelpedes8763]

First "makoficationsquadddddd Edit:ilove your videooossss very muchh im from phillipinesss

[@TiredMomma]

Now I finally get it! You know that moment when something finally clicks in your brain, that moment just happened. Now I feel more confident in starting myself back into painting and now I know what I was doing wrong before. Watercolors act different than my acrylics and I always wondered why mixing the colors behaved differently. Now I get it. Thank you. Glad I found this video.

[@aletheap8032]

Thanks!

[@grant575mixmaster]

wow my brain is ready to explode!!!

[@chaigaii]

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[@jeanniemcd0321]

Maria Abdullah omgggggg #jazZasquaddd

[@cheesymator2838]

Hell ya B)

[@Makoccino]

There are different color methods and they create different results, so working with both gives you more options :)

[@hidilley]

This. When I learned CYM it changed my watercoloring life!

[@madiiix7383]

That’s for ink?

[@jhameizarose]

You are the best Mako you're so good at this 😟🔥❤❤❤ #makoficationsquad 🌻

[@heavanaart4049]

This is the clearest explanation I have seen for avoiding muddy colours, thank you.

[@alliev8701]

This video is so amazing for beginners. I have done acrylic and oil painting before, yet I still learned some new things on color theory. Awesome video!

[@D.Nies_]

Damn, I'm 30 and never figured this out by myself! 😂 That was so helpful, thanks! #makoficationsquad

[@Makoccino]

I wish I knew this sooner as well!

[@ImperfectlyLaura]

Wow. Thank you so much for making this video!! I love how simply and clearly you explained the difference in primary colors being more warm or cool. I've been struggling to understand that recently and I LOVED seeing the examples. Playing with the primary color set of paint I recently got is going to be a lot more fun now, thank you!! #makoficationsquad

[@Makoccino]

Aww it should be! Usually watercolor sets come with 2 colors of each color exactly out of the same reason I was talking about but sadly no one actually said how to use them properly when you just starting out with color theory!

[@ImperfectlyLaura]

Exactly! I've seen one other video where the artist mentioned the color could be more warm or cool, but she didn't show with examples like you did and that really helps with understanding it. I work in acrylics right now but want to get a small set of watercolors really soon. And color theory is good to learn for ANY medium!

[@nsavar5864]

I agree with Imperfectly Laura. This is the best explanation I've seen so far on how to determine if a primary leans warm or cool. The Best. Turns out (because I'm new to painting) that I misunderstood how to identify the 2 blues I have and as a result my purples have been muddy. I am 2 minutes from correcting this and creating a purple that rocks. Mako, You Rock!!!!! --nina.

[@shigure_natsu]

This is going to save my life! Thank you so much Mako

[@robynfisher4455]

As a total newbie I have watched what seems like hundreds of videos. That was a lightbulb moment! Thanks for your great explanations which simplify rather than confuse.

[@LazyFluff]

Very clear and easy to follow explanation. Thank you for your very user-friendly explanation and examples.

[@pragyabiswas6745]

#makoficationsquad I was honestly waiting soooooo eagerly I also had commented about this problem of colours not turning vibrant..... and here you are this is so helpful....❤❤❤❤

[@Makoccino]

I'm glad I could help!

[@pragyabiswas6745]

OMG!!!! You are the best....❤❤❤✌✌

[@Penguinchubb0]

5:02, when she's actually breaking down compatibility in relationships between humans.

[@ivetakratka]

I love your videos ❤

[@Insidekimsworld]

The is the quickest, easiest, most concise color mixing tutorial I have ever seen. I am saving this to watch a thousand times as it is my Achilles Heel.

[@msclark024]

A new reason swatching the colors is very important. This is a very easy and straightforward explanation. Thank you so much

[@prettyrepulsive7423]

I've taken college level painting, and color theory, and we never talked about this. ._. why did I even give them money.

[@Makoccino]

Awww

[@NellyLuong]

Thank you for these awesome tips😍❤️ #makoficationsquad

[@maartendegroote5727]

And what if you used the actual primary colours? Cyan, magenta, and yellow.

[@yanchan967]

It hurts that so many people don't know these are the ACTUAL primary colours. Hence why printers use these colours! because they can make any other colour

[@dersedreamer3178]

yeah like!! this would be so much better explained with the actual primary colors. like, that yellow and that blue that made that really dull green color? thats because theyre opposites!!!!! and yeah, i understand that while what she's saying isnt _technically_ wrong, you can still get even better and brighter colors with the actual primaries. i know she isnt ill-intentioned with this video, but i just wished people at least _knew_ what the right colors were, and used them rather than one primary color and two secondaries.

[@literally-no-one9587]

Ik i'm learning colour theory at school even my teacher said red, blue and yellow are the primaries

[@NidraxGaming]

@goblinking they are not primary. It's just the way people have been taught throughout the years. Old-school artists used those colors, cause they didn't have access to magenta or cyan pigments back in their time, but the fact art schools are willingly opposing to adapt their theory to scientific and economic advancements is baffling…

[@PeterHoogerbrugge]

@@NidraxGaming Totally wrong! CMYK (Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black) belongs to the substractive color model, used in printing. In the additive color model (which is used by painters) red, yellow and blue are the primary colors. Instead of spouting nonsense take the test yourself. Mix two (professional single pigment) watercolors of magenta en yellow and your result will be a beautiful warmish brown with a greenish tint, which is a tertiary color, exactly as the additive color model predicts, and not bright red as the CMYK model predicts. It has nothing to do with 'art schools willingly opposing...'. It has everything to do with you talking about something without knowing anything. Stop doing that!

[@bleupapillons]

you know what, this explains so much..... i though that the reason why i could not make purple sometimes, was because i had crap supplies, but now i understand, thank you so much !

[@cylenadee]

Your hopes have been realized! What a wonderful, helpful video and the unique and simple way you explain color mixing has turned on a light for me! I’ve never taken a watercolor class just videos and very good artists too! But I’m not one who could just pick up a brush with paint on it and create the same beautiful pictures, and so I just got discouraged and put everything away. ( 6 years ago! ) I’ve watched several videos on KZbin in recent days and they were all pretty much the same old thing, how to make a color chart etc. but then I came across your video today. You have shown me the importance of color charting, exploration and how simple and uncomplicated it is, and especially how it’s just plain FUN!!! Thank you so much for sharing your easy to follow video and your talented gift!

[@adrijazaltauskaite6522]

1:30 why is yellow on the cool side and purple on the warm side?

[@itzaki6151]

she messed and she also said sorry

[@lolii6103]

❤❤❤you're awesome

[@AndersWatches]

Or you could make life much easier and use cyan, magenta and yellow...

[@IsisJarib]

TJACWatch I was looking for this comment lol

[@elliewilson7603]

@@IsisJarib So was I :D

[@ragerteenager968]

what I've been thinking the whole video hakfkx

[@TheNighthorn]

Exactly

[@RememberTheTrees]

CMY are good, but this is actually really helpful advice for when you _want_ those "muddy" colours. It helps you understand what's going into the mix, how different undertones interact.

[@Gureiify]

I went to university for art, and i've always struggled with color theory. I understand more after watching this video then I did in all 4 years of schooling. amazing! Thanks so much for making this

[@carolevilleneuve7411]

Fantastic. It's the first time someone explains the mix of different temperatures of colour!

[@rysprjct]

"Do you see more green in the yellow or more orange?" Me: "Well.. can't see the difference.. I'm a colourblind artist :')"

[@29-arnavsamant97]

I think you mean colourblind

[@rysprjct]

@@29-arnavsamant97 yea I mean colour blind

[@CinereousDove]

@@rysprjct you´re not colorblind, there´s just not actually much green in the "cold" yellow - it mixes very well with magenta or almost magenta (what she calls cool red) into red, so it has to be / be very close to primary yellow /citron yellow. In her theory this should be muddy - but it isn´t, because there's not much cyan in either color.

[@rysprjct]

@@CinereousDove Thank you for explaining that! But to be honest, I'm colourblind :) that's why I said that I can't see the difference but I got your point ^^

[@YourMajesty143]

Color is correctly spelled if you're American, Colour if you're British.

[@مانيولالي]

so good

[@hardcorejerking]

Actually the primary colors are magenta,cyan,and yellow

[@E05_Mabashi]

Actually that is not always the case. Cyan, magenta and yellow are indeed primary colors in printing or more importantly in how the light reflects off the base. In painting the primary colors are indeed red, blue and yellow just like the author of the video said and the point of that has already been explained in the video: because they create secondary colors and from that you can get any combination of colors. Every pigment in paints is created with the use of at least two primary colors. Then you also have the primary colors you view on any kind of monitors and these colors are red, blue and green. So yeah, there are different kinds of primary colors depending on what you're dealing with.

[@hardcorejerking]

E05_Mabashi thank u for explaining it to me

[@hannah5083]

E05_Mabashi Well technically cyan, magenta, and yellow are the primary colors, no matter what you are doing. Sure, you use red, blue, and yellow to make most of the colors you use, but they are still not primaries because you can mix colors to get them. You are technically correct though, in that you primarily use red, blue, and yellow, they just aren’t the primary colors.

[@reignrain4042]

@@E05_Mabashi red, and blue aren't primary colors because you can mix them with cyan, magenta, and yellow. If they were true primary colors you would NOT be able to mix them. It's not just printers, you can even test it out. Or watch a youtube video about this by Echo

[@Indrea13]

@@reignrain4042 No one's denying that. We're just saying that's irrelevant in this video, which is about the basics of mixing watercolours

[@filmsnotdead]

By far the most helpful guide to color mixing I have seen or read. Now to try it with my set.

[@laeyeenaing8719]

You're my one of teachers from youtube. The first tutorial I had watched is DIY watercolor bookmarks last two years. Then, I gave it a try. It worked well. But I stopped painting since I got a job last year. But now I'm persuing painting again with my home art teacher, I keep watching your tutorials again like negative painiting, etc. Since I have been watching your tutorials daily, it improves a lot. And I even promote your channel to my teacher and cousin, they also like your tutorials. All I want to say is Thanks for your tutorials.Lots of love from Myanmar ❤

[@dougsundseth6904]

There's some talk below about process colors (cyan, magenta, and yellow) that rather misses reality. So let's talk about color spaces. The gamut of the CMYK color space (the standard in printing in color) is very narrow, which is especially noticeable in reds. Note that you _can_ get a wider gamut in print by using inks other than the standard process inks, but this tends to be much more expensive, since five and six color process printers are both more expensive and harder to find, the inks are more expensive, and printer setup costs are noticeably higher, too. sRGB, which is an additive space and is the standard for online use, is a bit wider, particularly in saturated colors. Pigments have a wider gamut than can be captured in either of those spaces, which is one of the reasons that seeing artwork live can be a very different experience than looking at it in print or online. And while mixing colors is an important skill, there are colors that you can't really get to by mixing. Which is why artists still use cadmium red (a single pigment color) rather than cadmium red hue (which is made by mixing other pigments) and many other pigments. (For me, no mixed color approaches Dioxazine Purple, for instance.) Which is a long way to say, mix when it makes sense, but don't forget that there are other pigments out there, and some of them are gorgeous. ps. As others have noted below, your "warm red" here is reading as almost a pure orange on video, which harms your presentation a bit. This might be down to it being a color that doesn't record well with the Bayesian sensor array in your camera or reproduce well in sRGB. pps. For more on this, take a look at Michael Wilcox's _Blue & Yellow Don't Make Green_, which is the standard presentation of the matter. I have some problems with details of his thesis and presentation, but it's very useful nonetheless.

[@NiCocoKay]

You actually said the actual primary colors.

[@ruchiagarwal6212]

Thank you for sharing 😉😋 #makoficationsquad

[@aesthetuna1014]

makoccino: share this with anyone that needs help mixing colours me: hOw Do YoU sHaRe WiTh YoUrSeLf

[@JosieLewisArt]

Clearly explained and easy to apply, thanks for the straight forward examples!

[@eatfruitsalad345]

this blew my mind, never knew there was this much depth to color theory!

[@icelchmocha6377]

Echo should watch this Echo:THOSE ARE NOT THE THE PRIMARY COLORS!!

[@noopnoop2666]

Aren't the primary colors magenta, cyan, and yellow?

[@razzvyberry4694]

Yea, for subtractive they are.

[@noopnoop2666]

The additive primary colors are red, green, and blue. They’re what’s used in digital art.

[@razzvyberry4694]

@@noopnoop2666 I welcome you to compare getting colours out of RBY versus CMY.

[@SilverishKitten]

@H A R L O T You are so wrong, it's not even funny. CMY are primary colors, and RYB is actually mixed from CMY.... for some reason people keep saying that RYB are primary colors which they are not. (except yellow).

[@SilverishKitten]

Yes they are. RYB is a perpetuated myth, and its really hard to correct this misinformation since its so widespread. You can mix RYB from CMY, so get colors as close to CMY as possible if you want the most vibrant result when mixing.

[@Riyakaur.x]

The Primary colours are cyan magenta and yellow

[@ReadWriteSki]

My mind is blown. This all seems so obvious now that you say it, but wow that is so helpful! You're a great teacher!

[@lemzulueta3274]

I need to digest this science of colors.. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Highly appreciated.