Bookmark this page so you can come back and learn more about color mixing! Click here to order your color mixing chart or click the red button below. The printing is handled by Redbubble and they ship to almost anywhere in the world. They have a generous return policy. You can choose from prints, canvas prints, framed prints, and more. Color mixing can be confusing, even for experienced painters. I created this chart to help make color mixing easier for you.
There are multiple formulas for mixing the same color so that you can mix the color you want, from the colors you already have on your palette. There are plenty of other color mixtures that you can mix from acrylics, but my goal was to keep it simple.
I only include mixtures of two colors to make it easier for beginners. As you learn more about mixing colors, you can create more complex mixtures by using more colors. You may find some of the mixtures surprising. Another fun color mixing fact is that you can create green by mixing yellow with black.
I find that experience is the best teacher, so the most dramatic way to improve your understanding of color is to mix colors and make paintings. Most experienced painters have all of this color mixing theory burned into their memory from working on paintings. Download the chart and start experimenting with mixing colors. If you need more guidance, I have more information about how to mix each color below.
I hope this color chart will help to make color mixing easier for you. I went to college and came away with a degree in Nursing- a decision made more for others than myself, but my heart always longed for the fine arts department. Hey Will, I am a watercolor artist and just a couple weeks ago decided to play around with acrylics.
Any ways, just wanted to jot you a note to say thanks! Thanks for the dedication. Let me know if you have any questions about experimenting with acrylics, thanks again, Will. Of course, the more of the normal acrylics you add Liquitex Basics , the quicker the drying time. What I would recommend using is a gel because it will help to keep the thickness of the paint and slightly increase drying time.
The main benefits of the OPEN thinner are to be able to thin out acrylics for more watercolour type techniques that still have a longer working time, The thinner can also be added to the Liquidex Basics I would mix it in directly with the paint and will act the same as a slow drying medium acrylic retarder just have a thinner consistency. So really, thinner is designed for thinner use of paints, gels are designed for thicker use.
I also show you what mediums I use, so that might interest you with your paintings. Great instruction. Thank you. I am so happy to come across your website yesterday and since then I am watching all your acrylic painting videos. You are an amazing painter and teacher.
I can really follow your instructions very easily. I am currently taking an acrylic beginners art class and I am totally lost and cannot follow the instructor. I am determined to learn proper techniques in painting with following your website. Please let me know on the proper start for an acrylic painting for a beginner like me who has no clue on painting or mixing colors.
I really want to do this landscape painting following the instructions given. Appreciate your response. Hi Lakshmi, Thanks for your kind message, so pleased to hear you have been learning from the painting videos. To start with this landscape painting tutorial or the Cherry painting tutorial are a great starting point. Thanks for your encouraging words. If I were to use canvas paper for painting does it still require a coating of ground paint?
Hi Lakshmi, I always prefer to work on a coloured ground as it becomes easier to judge tones and establish the darkest darks and lightest lights to your painting. Thanks, Will. Is it permissible to mail you a cashiers check instead? So many know their craft totally, some profs I had in college but were purely inadequate at conveying that knowledge to anyone but a fellow academician. Kudos to you my man! Your approach suggests hints to your life philosophy, if I may….
Cornwall is so beautiful, a real inspiration. Really pleased the videos communicate the techniques clearly, I do believe that keeping it simple provides the greatest progress in the shortest amount of time. Click this link to watch my how to pay with a debit card video without a paypal account. Also, the Art of Acrylics course is run on a separate website to my art school — which needs a username and password. The answer is Yes in about 1 weeks time! I am going to offer this course as a download which might be of interest to you?
Thanks for the comment. You can paint on paper, canvas, board. Hope you find the articles helpful,. Hi Will, thank you for this.. I painted this landscape using soft pastels. You have a great website. Anyway, last night I tried my hand at this one.
Last night I was convinced it was complete crap and in no way looked like anything. This morning I am happier. Thanks for these tutorials and the information in this website. I truly appreciate it and am enjoying myself. I especially found the color mixing sections very helpful and need to go back and watch those videos again. Now I know what a palette knife is for!
Thanks so much for your message, so pleased you are finding time for your paintng. And the best thing to hear is you are enjoying yourself! I was planning to try colored pencils next, but my mother let me play with her oils awhile back and gave me a set of acrylics for Christmas. I just completed the steps in this video and so far so good. My first attempt at creating the yellow ochre background turned out much too dark.
The second go turned out great. I also started out with the filbert brush and then realized you were using the round one. Will, I am getting so much from just watching you work! I never seem to have enough of JUST the right color. Once I get the right mix, am I just supposed to repeat the ratio of colors in a larger amount for more to work with on the canvas? Thanks for any help! Regarding mixing colours, your approach can vary depending on the subject matter, however, when first starting it can be very helpful to mix a larger amount that you think you need I often keep these mixes in a stay-wet palette.
So it might take a bit longer to mix the colours but your actual painting time will be much quicker. It is often handy for more neutral softer colours as to achieve a bright vivid colour is very easy straight from the tube.
However, getting it together, slowly. I still marvel at your ability, but even moreso the concise quality of your unique instructional approach!! Awhile ago I took a two hour class on composition, and while none of my work has ever been criticized from that aspect, I still felt weak there. He was difficult to follow, and I did rather miserably about it when it was done.
Should you have a class on this I would like to be tipped. Again, many kudos on your approach and method of instruction. You are super. Warm regards, rod. Composition can tricky sometimes, one of the simplest things to do is vary the shapes and spaces between objects and never keep any two things the same.
The secret of good composition. Are you unwittingly committing a compositional cardinal sin? How to draw perspective for beginners. Thank you, Jeff. It did help. Thank you Will for getting back to me so quick. I was able to save it. Have a good day! I was wondering if you had any videos that would help me understand how to do an Impressionist still life painting? I saw that you had a landscape and seascape video option, but are there any ways of incorporating impressionist techniques into a simple still life?
Hi Laura, you can combine the techniques of the impressionistic landscape with the approach to the cherry still life and get some great results. I will def be coming back for more instruction! Several questions, Do you recommend doing the mixing on the stay wet palette or a hard one and then transfer to the stay wet.
I paint along with the video and by the time I apply the clouds and try to blend into the sky, the sky has dried, how do I keep the paints wet long enough. Are you using an extender or open paints? Do you recommend doing the mixing on the stay wet palette or a hard one and then transfer to the stay wet? Because of the nature of a stay-wet palette the water is always slowly seeping through into the paints so will water them down slightly. If you are using student quality paints they will be thinner in consistency so will water down quicker than the artist quality heavy body paints I demonstrate with.
How do I keep the paints wet long enough. You can extend the drying times slightly with mediums, but not a great deal. Thanks for the very quick response. It makes a little more sense now. Will be signing up for some of your online course early summer. Need to get the hang of acrylics first.
If you have the ground colour with Acrylics, then you can use Oils on top and it will work really well. What would I need to buy to start landscape painting? Im kind of confused like where would I get a canvas and that yellow paper you were drawing on?
Hi Jason, all the materials for this painting are at the start of the article. The yellow paper, is yellow ochre paint that has been applied to create a coloured ground onto the canvas. A 3B pencil is just a artist pencil that has a medium soft graphite. Hello there, I absolutly love your website, i have never painted ever before and am well only 15 so i am new to all these techniques and am frankly a little overwelmed.
Also i live in Germany so i cant buy the exact paint you use plus i have a small budget. But i have time of so i decided why not try it. But i am having serious problems with my paint drying on the canvas before i can blend it into m other colors.
For example on my first try i did the clouds and then the sky and i wanted them to blend more but my clouds were already completely dry… Any tips? Thanks for charing your knowledge to all of us… Your site is much easier to understand than any school art class. If you do premix your colours, blending on the canvas does become easier as everything is wet at the same time.
Sometimes paintings have many layers before they achieve the perfect finish you are after, so have patience and no need to start from scratch, have another go by adding to your painting with fresh paint. As you mention in your other video you are preparing the colors on stay-wet pallet first, but later as I noticed on the landscape lesson video, you are keeping the prepared colors at the side of the canvas.
Can you tell me what background is that where you keep your current pallet? Is it just a paper or something else? On the landscape video I paint onto a tear-off palette. Hello Will I notice on your video that you seem to be able to blend the paint easily on the canvas when you go back to it.
Acrylics dry so fast. Just wondering if you are using open acrylics? The fast drying time is a big problem for me with painting with acrylics. Thanks Elinor. Hi Elinor, on all the demonstrations I use standard heavy body acrylics, I just add a touch of water to the mix to improve flow but do tend to work quickly. What can I do? Can I start afresh? Just try mixing the 3 main colours I use, matching to the reference photo, and then build the painting from there. Just take things one step at a time — remember, it is estimated Picasso produced between a total of 20, and 50, works in his lifetime, so the odd repaint is all part of the learning process.
Cheers, Will. I just came across this site today. I love painting but I never had any formal lessons. I am learning a lot from watching the video. Thank you so much for sharing. Hi Marietta, really pleased you stumbled upon the site and are enjoying the tutorials. Hi Krittaya, great to hear from you. Read More. View on YouTube. The store will not work correctly in the case when cookies are disabled.
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