Not Mixing Enough Paint (Watercolour Mistake 2)

[@CharleyWang]

这些人物画的好生动，喜欢你的钢笔淡彩，线条很准确，颜色透亮干净，看起来很简单，讲解清楚，会吸引观众去模仿。These characters are vivid and vivid, like your pen is light, the lines are very accurate, the colors are translucent and clean, the looks are very simple, and the explanations are clear, which will attract the audience to imitate.

[@EstrafaDC]

Because I often sketch people I have a base transparent fleshtone blend in my palette premixed from my own 3 pigment combination. I can lighten or darken this (with burnt umber--also in my palette). That way I can easily get a fleshtone but also have variety. I came up with the 3 pigment blend after a lot of experimentation. I wasn't happy with these orange faced skintones and wanted to create a base for getting various results.

[@red_enid]

I also do mistakes sometimes. I run out of mixed paint. And I struggle to mix colors I want like the first mixture. This video is very helpful. Thank you!

[@geckonia]

I love your random sketches. 🕺🏼 you’re right on about thirsty paper that’s what happens to me I’m always underestimating that!

[@cindyhorton6980]

I have had that problem! You paint and learn from your mistakes! Great video! Thanks!❤

[@Eneterriaga]

Love how you draw people.

[@teohyc]

Thanks 😀

[@AlphaGeekgirl]

Whilst painting I was watching this video. Coincidentally, though I thought I'd finished a section, wiped my palette clean and then realised I'd missed a spot. Dang! Now to go back and mix some more ;)

[@RachaelFirth1992]

I have done too much glazing before to try make the colour darker so it became shiny instead. I should have just used a neutral tint or complementary colour to make it darker or else chosen a darker colour to begin with

[@angie-nd8hu]

Thank you so much for that video, it is to helpful. This is a mistake I make almost all the time. Biggest problem for me is that watercolour becomes lighter when it dries. I never seem to get the tone right. Thanks for the hint about the thirsty paper, i never considered that fact. Your channel is really helpful and i learn so much from you!

[@mightyboy527]

Yes very helpful Teoh-that's why I like to have a large palette with plenty of squares so I can fill them up with certain colors-and an area for mixing. If they dry up I just add water-but first I try to get ALL the areas of same color first.

[@midnightdreams8136]

Thanks! This series is amazing, I've already learned so much! :) Looking forward for more!

[@LadyVashj86woa]

Hi Teoh, your sketches are very nice, I really enjoy your style. Thank you so much for sharing!

[@androandro7179]

This series is awesome, don’t stop it :D

[@colorcrazy2944]

I like your comment that the new color looks like socks, maybe when we do that we could consider it one of those opportunities for creativity, maybe add a pattern so it's even more sock like lol I will probably make this mistake a lot so I think I might also try finishing 1 person at a time, if the next person is a different shade that would look natural, instead of the legs being different to the rest of the person. There is a comment asking for help making shadow colors look natural. That's sounds like something I could learn from too. I really like this series idea & look forward to more of it. Thanks!

[@robl9767]

I used to do this all the time with acrylics and I was like rats there goes that painting so now I over mix colors a bit and I transferred that to watercolors. Great advise and tips Teoh as usual you da man!!

[@kaeltv]

This is really cool! ✌️ thanks for sharing your tips! 🤓

[@prodigypotato]

Hi teoh! Thanks the video, as you said ill comment bellow one of my most mistakes into the watercolor word. After the first layer of paint, when I want to make the shadows, I allways end adding wrong color, I try to explain. I paint in ocre a wall, and try to make the shadow mixing ocre and ultramarine blue, for example, but at the end it doesnt looks like a shadow in the sketch, it looks kinda just other color. That was just an example with the ocre, but I do this mistake a lot with any color. Id like to know more about shadows because that is triggering me. Sorry about my english tho. Thanks your videos are allways helpful.

[@JoyDiPaola]

Journey Ways try mixing with the complimentary color for the shadow. Mix a purple with your yellow ochre instead of blue.

[@prodigypotato]

@@JoyDiPaola I will try purple then, thanks for the tip!! :)

[@adinaschisler3930]

I have a beginner tip. Use Daniel Smith shadow violet. The color is a muted TRANSPARENT neutral with granulating shades of blue, orange (PB29+PG18+PO73 ). Just painting this over any color makes the perfect shadow. I know it's the lazy way, but in a hurry this works!

[@prodigypotato]

@@adinaschisler3930 Thank you so much for the tip much, I will try for sure.

[@slipthetrap]

Interesting series with nice sketches and colors too ... thanks! ☮️

[@judithsopher4711]

I am using Dan Smith and Windsor-Newton in tube paints. And Van Gogh and Sennelier in pans. (I have others but it is difficult to find good quality in half pan sets) I bought the later two as I have seen you use them with great results. Using paint freshly poured from a tube is no problem. It is the other.

[@Luna_and_Oshi]

I LOVE your videos!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience 😊

[@kindle7191]

My best newbie mistake is not using watercolour safe ink with my sketching pens! However, sometimes the smudging looks interesting. I now test out my pens and inks first.

[@NafiulIslam]

The initial skin-tone color is really spot on.

[@DavidLorellHoskins]

*_Thanks Teoh_*

[@harshvardhanmankotia6492]

I always find his videos to be very good. Very good explanations and tips. Subbed to you sir

[@teohyc]

Thanks :-)

[@ichirofakename]

I'm a 90/200 guy: I either mix 90% of the color I need, or 200%. I have so many palettes (in the studio) that I never have to throw away anything, so I purposefully aim for 200%, which I hit about 50% of the time.

[@elainemagliacane]

Sounds like how I do it too :-)

[@judithsopher4711]

I have trouble mixing that large amount with the half pans or even whole pans. When I add more water, it seems to only thin it out. Any hints on picking up more saturated color? Perhaps I should press even harder. Seems like a small thing but I do have trouble. Thanks.

[@teohyc]

What brand of paint are you using?

[@dees3179]

Are you prewetting the pans?

[@teohyc]

@@dees3179 ​ Yes, prewetting the pans will make it easier to mix. Sometimes it depends on the paint and also the quality. It can be difficult to get the intensity of some student brand paint

[@Kangarootan]

Hi Teoh! KZbin randomly recommended you to me today and I couldn’t be happier it did, because I fell in love with your style instantly. I like how you pay attention to little details that I as a beginner often neglect. Really, I can’t believe you don’t have more subscribers! Just one question: do you have a tutorial on how to mix skin tones? It’s been a real struggle of mine. Thank you for making quality content, you are amazing ❤️

[@teohyc]

For skin tones just use warm yellows and warm/cool reds. Add some blue for darker shades. Be careful when adding blue because it changes colours very quickly

[@Kangarootan]

Teoh Yi Chie I just tried that, and it worked wonders 😍 thank you, Teoh!

[@adinaschisler3930]

Great tip! For some reason I have a knack for mixing, if I mix less I can reproduce the mix pretty much, so this is not an issue. My main problems now seem to revolve around paper drying time: either it dries too fast & I don't want that, or ... 100% cotton seems to stay wet too long & evenly spread my followup washes, effectively rendering my "shadows" to nothing. I took to using a hairdryer home, not sure how this is gonna "work" on location. You never mentioned waiting for washes to dry, also, I don't see my problem happening to you in your videos. What's your secret? :D

[@teohyc]

When outdoors, I try to wait for the paint to dry. But sometimes I still paint over wet areas accidentally and colour spreads

[@adinaschisler3930]

@@teohyc Thank you!

[@zig_zagcrafts]

Great video! A question from a beginner here : what do you do when you mix too much paint? You put the excess on an empty pan or palette for later? What if it's not a lot of paint that you have left, but just a little bit? You throw it away? This question is on my head from 2 years now. I don't know what to do with the mix i didn't use. Thank you!

[@teohyc]

At home, you can let the mixture dry, and reuse that next time by wetting it again. For outdoors, I would usually just pour the excess away. Anyway, after painting for years, you would probably have a good idea of how much to mix.

[@zig_zagcrafts]

@@teohyc thank you very much for your answer! I love your channel, I learn a lot! I love your accent too! Thank you again!

[@PuppetMaster8707]

I did this the other day didn't mix enough paint and I got close to my original color and just tried to blend it all together it seemed to work because so far no one noticed my mistake

[@PaulaBean]

How about a series of 'watercolour success stories' ?

[@astrog8tr]

I've heard this problem given, but I don't know but have never cared about this. If I don't mix the exact shade-- there is a lot of variation in life (even architecture). If you look at things you see a lot of variation color. I might even do this intentionally-- add variation of colors.

[@MrJairo3259]

I guess mixing has a better efect👍👍👍

[@MrPangahas]

I have a question, so I recently got my first artist grade watercolor, the Daniel Smith essentials set. I still have the student grade Reeves tube paints and I was wondering if its a good idea to mix those with the DS ones?

[@teohyc]

You can mix different brands, no problem

[@MrPangahas]

@@teohyc Thanks guess Id just have to double the amount of Reeves I mix in since it has less pigment to get the colors I like.

[@MrPangahas]

@@teohyc Is it ok to blow dry paints before storing, after using them. Would that heat affect it in any way?

[@teohyc]

@@MrPangahas It's fine. I do that sometimes by putting the pans at the heat exhaust of my computer. Another way to dry it is to close your box but leave a gap and put it under the sun.

[@theartyone]

What about making too much that you have to waste it as you clean your pallet?

[@teohyc]

There's always some sort of waste

[@judithsopher4711]

Since I can't seem to reply elsewhere, I will do so here. Yes, I pre-wet the pans. But perhaps not enough. So that is my next step. Thanks.

[@judial-abdah3210]

Hi

[@fijaystudio]

Story of my life

[@mrvic9395]

You could say they are wearing white socks... which you did. So before commenting watch the whole video 😁