4. Mixing Your Watercolours - An Introduction for Beginners

I've painted alot with acrylics , so knew about warm and cool colours, but it's great to see how watercolours mix.
Do you always go for colour harmony in your paintings?

Why was I never taught how to mix colours like this at school and university, thank you.

New to watercolor and I’m so glad I found you, this is the best explanation of color mixing I have found, thank you 😊

HI M. PYLE,
Ten times I tried to find the green between "Artist" raw sienna and Ultramarine without ever getting it, I found a grey ! I confess not to understand.

Hy Oliver, wonderful mixtures! When i take french ultramarine from schmincke, it granulates very much. Sometimes it is fine, but sometimes, mainly in the sky, I don’t like it. Is the French Ultramarine from Dayler Rawney less granulating than the one from Schmincke? Do you know another brand, who makes less granulating French ultramarine, which I get in Germany?

Hi Oliver, it's a great tutorial. To understand all your great tips and secrets you have to watch the video several times and take good notes. Then, as suggested by you, to practically copy everything you have seen. Thank you very much.

Wow! This is by far the best demonstration ever. I love your paintings. Your colors are so spot on . After watching this I know why. Thank you for sharing this. An 86 year old from Canada

I’m sure everyone’s told you that you’re brilliant. I just found you because I just resurrected my desire to sketch and paint again. I’ve tried my hand on oil and acrylic (daubbled) and I love oil pastels but I’m just getting into watercolor and I can’t get enough of your videos. One day I dream of visiting the Lake District and doing my sketches and watercolors. Right now I use my photos from my travels to Sonoma and Ireland and later those of Austria and Greece. Thank you for inspiring me.

It would be incredible if you could do a texture tutorial. The way you rendered the cracks in the rocks in the seascape is incredible, I'm trying to "reverse engineer" it but not having much luck.

So many people paint with watercolour like they do acrylics or oil. You are a true watercolourist. I love your paintings and will try these exercises.

You are an amazing teacher. I love your painting too.

Sir, I’ve taken many painting classes and you are the first instructor to illustrate to me, the nature of cool and warm as it applies to the primary colors this explicitly and succinctly! Thank you very much.

Yes very, very helpful.
Sound common sense mixing expertise.
Thank you so much Oliver.

Very beautiful colors in the painting

I have learned so much from this tutorial and love practicing and seeing how colors mix. I have pages and pages of samples and yes, it is helpful to make notes on these practice pieces.

Thanks so much for this !

This is amazing information- best color mixing demonstration I’ve seen so far. Thank you so much!!

I can’t get over how beautiful the rocks are! Thank you so much for this demonstration. If you don’t mind me asking, did you reserve the highlights with masking fluid? They look so precise! ❤

Motivating and informative demonstration. Can't wait to begin practical application now. Thank you!

Wonderful video. I am a newcomer and not much idea till watch this brilliant presentation. I adore the sea and I really want to have a go a little seaside paintings. Now I can practice knowing what to do and what to look for, Thank you so very much (and I simply love your style of painting, the paintings are subtle and beautiful)

“That does not lead to better painting, it just leads to confusion” Brilliant!!

Oliver, thank you!. I believe it's the first video that I've seen from your channel, ...and it is priceless! I began dabbling in watercolors about 3 months ago. The content in this video came at the perfect time for me in my journey.
Thank you so much for showing your step by step technique, explanations and application. I just subscribed & liked, and will be recreating your charts today.
I appreciate your skills in art and in teaching!

Спасибо за полезные советы! 🥰 Я тоже очень люблю ультрамарин

Very nice video as well as the other of the series. There is one thing that I don't understand though. The substractive colors as used in painting are yellow (red+green), magenta (red+blue) and cyan (blue + green). Why do you call them yellow, red and blue? Of course you are not the first to do this, but this naming has been the origin of lots of misunderstanding since times past.

This has been the best tutorial to demystify colour mixing . I'm going to do the primary colour charts which will be very useful. Bless your Spirit . Jaz

Thank you so much for sharing your deep knowledge. You are so inspiring 🙏🏻

Brilliant video! Did anyone catch the name of the cool primary Red? It sounded like he said “rose matta”? Looking for the correct name as I cannot find that color.

I loved this lesson and have subscribed. Thank you ❤

Excellent!!!

You didn’t detail which cool, yellow and cool red you were using?

Wish I would have found this video before buying all my DS tubes. So many I really didn’t need. Looks like really a core set of 12 would have been a better route.

You are just fabulous teacher! I’ll keep tuning in. 🙏

it’s really as enjoyable to watch as is useful. Thank you 🙏

I love to mix colors, but still learning. Very nice video on mixing.

Another wonderful video, and I had to pause it to laugh out loud over the comment "my most profound insight to date...!"

Oh this does look like fun (the exercises mixing primaries). Thank you for taking so much care, time, and effort to explain colours so thoroughly.
That painting is crazy fantastic. I could just sit and stare at it for an extraordinary amount of time,..... repeatedly

😂 Never occurred to me to move my colors originally on the pallet. Other influence would just close to 18 trays to make all those colors. Just to make the samples you made. ❤ Harmony is a perfect word to discribe your color mixes.

What a great Tutorial!!, Many Thanks

I'll tray playing with colors!!🎉thankyou!!

What a superb tutorial this is! Thank you!!!

Im a retired art teacher and have enjoyed your videos. Watercolours are a medium I've always struggled with so appreciate your demos. Do you use the more affordable Cotman pans for your demos?

I watched Dr. Oto Kanos video series about colour theory. Which contains an incredible wealth of information. But your video here tied it all up for me. In a practical, usable way. Everything makes so much sense now. Thank you for providing this. It's very, very helpful. You are a very good teacher.

A fantastic lesson I wish I had had this years ago!

Hi - erst mal Danke, für Deine großartigen Videos. Immer aufs Neue ein echtes Abenteuer! Was ich hier aber überhaupt nicht verstehe - du hältst deine Farben nicht sauber!? Du gehst mit dem blauen Pinsel direkt ins Gelb - wenn du danach aber reines Gelb brauchst, musst du doch SEHR viel Gelb auswaschen? Dieses Problem beschäftigt mich, seit ich zum ersen Mal einen Pinsel in der Hand hatte. Machst du das immer so? Oder nur hier? LG aus Deutschland, Thomas.

Thanks - so enlightening

This is incredibly helpful! Thank you so much!

Lightbulb moment..after 25 years of painting this was a eye opener for me and loved how you broke down the process without all the noise and confusion..thank you sooooo much 💕💕