WATERCOLOUR WEEK Episode 6: Colour Mixing & Colour Theory

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Mixing Muddy Colours? Why does this happen?: • Mixing Muddy Colours -...
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How To Make A Colour Wheel: • How To Make A Colour W...
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Episode 3: • WATERCOLOUR WEEK Episo...
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[@sandijordan2155]

I decided to try and learn watercolor painting . I was told about your videos and have really enjoyed my week. I have done each lesson and dated my papers. I am enjoying the relaxing time of painting. At 72, I am still learning.

[@cindylouwhobohl6983]

Very good explanation of color theory for beginners! I have the same Paul Rubens pallet. The colors are: permanent lemon, cadmium yellow medium, Indian yellow, cadmium red light, scarlet, madder red, violet, permanent violet, cobalt blue, French ultramarine, sky blue, sea blue. Other side: Prussian blue, payne’s grey, yellow green, tree green, hookers green brilliant, emerald green brilliant, yellow ochre, red ochre, umber, burnt Sienna, burned brown and coal black.

[@dekota011]

You know your video is good when you go to drink your coffee while watching the muting of colours and the paint brush pokes you in the nose because you didnt notice it was the brush water you were about to drink.

[@ritasmith6991]

Thank you so much! I have really enjoyed watching your videos. Your voice and style of painting is so calming. I have started my watercolor journey and enjoy sharing time with my grandchildren. Ages 4 through 16! We have sat together painting, talking, and listening to music. I treasure it all!

[@24get24give]

lucky kids, you are giving them life long memories! good job

[@arteaquarela]

Hi Emma. Really loved this tutorial. Last Christmas I gave some watercolour supplies to a friend as a gift. She is really enjoying it. Thus, I shared your watercolour week with her. It's very well done and clear explanations. I hope she will like it as much as I did. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Have a great 2023!

[@cilene2805]

Thank you, Emma. This Watercolour Week is fantastic. I am learning a lot.

[@ChantelleArts]

colour theory is scary, you did a great job simplifying it 😄

[@lindsayface4750]

This is easily one of, if not the, best video on basic color theory that I’ve seen. And I’ve seen a *lot*. Idk if you ever made a part two to talk about mixing the same temperature colors, but if not, I would love to hear your take on that. You explain concepts so beautifully and clearly. You have the soul of a teacher.

[@lindsayface4750]

I just realized that you linked to a temperature video in your sidebar. Heck yes!

[@CHARUL814]

Thank you so much. It has made so easy to understand it all. I looked af the biggest pallette with lots of colours to get but now looking at this video it feels like the fewer colours in a pallette the better it is. Thank you

[@trinawilliams1395]

I've watched SOOOO many videos about warm/cool colors and color wheels and color mixing. It's a lot to take in. This series has really helped clarify and organize my thoughts. Excellent job. You've turned on the light. Now I feel ready to move forward and learn so much more!!! Thanks dear Emma!

[@helenh2817]

Love this got carried away 😂 thanks Emma it’s been a lovely relaxing enlightening week xx😍

[@love2create62]

You're a fantastic teacher, I will miss this series! Thank you! See you tomorrow! 🎨🖌️

[@pennywheeler2598]

Jenna Rainey had a beginner watercolor class today, which was very good. I personally thought it was a bit much for a beginner. Jenna is an excellent watercolor artist and I appreciate all her work and videos. I think your week long beginner series has been outstanding for beginners and very easy to understand. Again I adore Jenna Rainey. But I think this is a little bit more beginner friendly. By the way I'm not a beginner but I know what I went through when I first started.🎨

[@24get24give]

yes, and it's very kind of her to do so many, I think another is Kristy Rice

[@raewynduffy4183]

Loved the freehand colour wheel instead of drawing out a circle etc which is a mathematical pain Have had a break from playing with my paints as I am a card maker too ,ready to step back and pick up my paintbrushes and paint after having watched your week of water colouring Bless you Emma

[@carolkramer2664]

I have gotten more great information that's easy to understand than any other KZbin channel. Thank you so much!

[@sshelton4611]

Thank you so much for sharing your talent and knowledge with us beginners. It really helps me know where to begin and encourages me to try.

[@debreena2888]

One day while playing around with mixing colors, I found adding a little payne's gray to reds, purples, greens & blues give a rich, darker muted color that is lovely. ;D

[@janacoufalova6660]

Today, I learned so much!!!! Thank you very much, Emma, for this beautiful, practical lesson !!!! THANKS !!!!

[@sharondaussin142]

I am finally starting to understand color theory!! Thank you! This series has taught me so much, I simply didn’t know how much I didn’t know!

[@maryleeodell8466]

I am a new beginner who has had ALOT of years between what I used to know and what I want to "relearn"? Your week of videos has helped me to stop panicking and have some confidence in putting brush to paper. THANK YOU so much.

[@sharonrussell7933]

Sometimes I just need to dust off the theory cobwebs from my old brain. Kudos to your vids.

[@peterdowse5816]

Great tutorial, for the first time I am starting to understand the colour wheel and colour theory. Thank you.

[@RichardMeagher]

I love watching your videos. I have watched 7 of them and love how clear and easy to follow they are. I am an older engineer just starting a new adventure

[@stephanie62088]

Thank you so much for all of your videos. I have only started painting 3 weeks ago, because of you I have learned so much and my painting have got so much better!

[@AmericanaStar]

I am a card maker. I started water coloring about a year ago. I have a lot to learn and need a lot more practice, but I find watercoloring to be fascinating and just so much fun. I love your classes!!! I can do this.

[@akelley.73]

This was so fun! I've never really understood color mixing. Thank you!

[@denisewilscam9584]

I’d forget what colors I used. Lol. Great video

[@susiemejia7917]

This was the best color theory lesson for me.

[@nancypyter1511]

This was great Emma, very informative!

[@yvonneyorkshades7274]

This was much more challenging than I thought it would be but was so interesting and I learnt such a lot. Thank you.

[@elizabethbellit8676]

You present this so well! I can sit and mess around with color mixing for HOURS ...

[@patti3447]

Excellent information I have enjoyed everyday thank you

[@mihaela-petronelagafitescu7450]

Thanks a lot for this series - Watercolor Week! 🤗 I have followed along every day and enjoyed all the episodes and I have to say this episode was fantastic! ❤️ You brought a big amount of very useful info and managed to explain it so nicely. A world of possibilities and colors opens before me from now on thanks to this video!

[@markdunlap250]

Wow just wow!! No one has ever been able to break it down as great as you. Thank you! Color mixing is fun again 😂

[@helenamedeiros1461]

New subscriber from Portugal! Absolutely love the way you express yourself and explain all the mixes of colors. Wish you all the best. Have a great year!

[@msfrehel8758]

I‘m really into colour mixing and colour theory lately and discover the world of pigments. It‘s so fascinating! I‘m really angry with myself as I‘ve got no clue what my old colours really are - no labels on my little cubesto solve the riddle. 😩 But all my new colours are swatched and labelled and noted down exactly! 😂 So thank you for introducing the viewers to the importance of that topic! ❤

[@tappingyourpurpose6330]

You're such a great teacher, Emma, making this complicated topic crystal clear, thanks. 😃

[@juliehunt5622]

I just found you in the last couple weeks! You are fantastic! I'm new to everything and your videos have helped me so much! I

[@annettesilveira4374]

I love how you emphasize fun. I’m totally going to do this, primarily because I don’t like the purple I have in my palette. I can’t wait to mix one I like better.

[@CherylHDavis]

Awesome video simplifying color mixing and theory! Thank you for making it so easy to understand!!

[@rosesommers6227]

I just loved this training and it will most certainly help with mixing colors. Thank you so much.

[@Ms1lonewolf]

Thank you Emma 😊 even though I'm a watercolor artist it's good to go back to basics once in awhile just to refresh your mind on color's. I'm glad you did these videos. I have a hard time with shadows and what color I should use for those shadows on objects. I can blend very good. Some shadows are hard to figure out. Glazing and shadows like your glazing over a objects plus you have a shadow? It's hard for me to explain 😕. Anyway thank you again. 😊 Have a blessed day. FLORIDA

[@kathyhales5109]

This was great! I love the way you presented it. Thanks for the links to other videos.

[@elizabethmello9490]

This is fun . Also very helpful. I have swatched and mixed colors in a grid. But this way seems more helpful . Maybe just the way my brain works.

[@elainelee6741]

❤ this vas a very educational tutorial. Thank you so much. I enjoyed all your weekly series.

[@cordulapieper3858]

You explained it great. Really easy to understand for beginners. It doesn't compare because you really explain from the ground up. Thanks so much.

[@tonivergara5725]

✨This was well done Emma!🎨 Thank you!✨

[@salomef260]

thank you so much for this week's videos!

[@eithnecourtney4854]

Thanks so much Emma. You are wonderful ❤

[@Mimi.lettersandmore]

Love it! Let's have fun!! 🖌

[@lynnewilliams3472]

Thankyou Emma for your great little series. I have learned a lot...

[@KarenRivkaKaufmannTzuriel]

You gave me so much order i needed!!! Thank you😘

[@gloriaportillo2536]

I enjoy your videos.. I can wait to start watercolor !!! Thank you…

[@ingaharms7841]

This is so easy and i finally understood it and looking forward to try and go throu my pallett ! Thank you a lot ❤😊

[@NancyLewisvideos]

This was so very interesting and I did learn a lot. Now I need to practice this in order to remember it all.

[@lauriegentry246]

So helpful!!

[@24get24give]

you did an excellent job of making color theory more relatable, doesn't the result of your mix also depend on what's in your colors [if the pigment is pure or not]?

[@katemccarthy2463]

This was such a great tutorial. I really need to know more about colour mixing, in fact everything to do with colour. So I can mix and get the colours I want. I would love to get your book but not sure if I can, if they deliver here. I'm in South Africa

[@24get24give]

I hve it, it's quite good

[@joycehuff9769]

I love this and it’s very well explained. I’m curious on one thing though. Isn’t it very difficult to recreate a blended color again? Let’s say I mix a yellow and green. There are a few variables in this. So if I wanted the same shade another time, isn’t it hard to do?

[@EmmaLefebvre]

Not really when you know the colours you mixed. If you’ve tried to re-create the mix and it seems like it’s not exactly the same try adding different amounts of one colour to try and match it the best you can. It’s all about playing around and getting to know your colors.

[@julietacabrera6498]

What happen if I don't have primary colors in my pallet? I'm just starting and my pallet was a gift to start, but the colours are not primary colors (just the yellow) but red and blue are not

[@pamipoo2]

I love watching your very informative videos! I have a kind of weird question - I see your color swatches behind you. Is each one on a separate piece of paper? If so, what is the logic? Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!

[@24get24give]

my guess is one for each palette She owns

[@patricialong2717]

Emma, I'm trying to get caught up on watching all these tutorials and it just ocured to me that you're not wearing your wedding rings???

[@jacquelinehardouin9771]

Hello