Color mixing: 4 Secrets Revealed Free Tutorial

In this video I share with you my view on colour mixing and reveal 4 of my biggest secrets! First, I give a short explanation about the colour wheel. The three colours you can't mix are yellow, blue and red; the primary colours. For orange, purple and green you need two of the primary colours. They are called the secondary colours. And for the tertiary colours you need one primary and one of the secondary, or two or three secondary colours. So, basically you just need primary yellow, red and blue and white to brighten and black to darken your colours. My secret number 1: Use a lot of neutral and brown (tertiary) colours I use a lot of brown in my work to get it cohesive. Also, I don't use all primary colours in a painting or art journal spread. That, instead of using all colours - makes my work feel cohesive. My secret number 2: Choose a ground colour In my work I often work with a ground colour or dominant colour. This colour will take the main role in the painting. I had green periods, rusty brown periods and now I am still in blue and pink. My seascape paintings are overly blue: Also in parts where the colour isn't dominantly blue, there's a little blue visible. And the other way around, in the blue parts there's a tiny bit of the other colours I used for the paining. This gives the painting a balanced look. My secret number 3: Don't clean your brushes often To get all kind of in-between colours, I don't clean my brushes often. My secret number 4: Create the mud or mother colour See 'colour mixing exercise 2'. Colour mixing exercise 1: Secondary colours Take the primary colours red, yellow and blue. You can also go for 'strange' colours instead of the primary colours. For example: use a light blue as blue, use red ochre or magenta for red, use ochre as yellow. Now, create your secondary colours: orange, green and purple. Then, create a lighter variant by adding some white to your first colours. Colour mixing exercise 2: Mud (or mother) colour Now, create your mud or mother colour. This will be your DNA colour that will be integrated into all your colours, your secret ingredient to get everything created! Again, create a lighter variant by adding some white to your first colours. Colour mixing exercise 3: Make colour swatches from one colour to another You choose two colours; these can be colors that are far apart or that you wouldn't initially mix together. Start with the lightest colour and add a little of the other colour at a time. Now you get a colour swatch where one color slowly blends into the other, and you have an overview of all the colors in between. ☕ If you like my videos and find them inspirational and/or helpful, consider buying me a coffee! Visit my page on Buy me A Coffee, thanks for your support! https://buymeacoffee.com/luzartworks OR via Paypal: https://paypal.me/luzartworks ❤️ THANK YOU! ❤️ My Websites: My Paintings: https://www.luzartworks.com/luz-conte... My Online classes: https://braveart.academy/painting-cla... For Dutchies (in person workshops & courses): https://toverzicht.nl Instagram: Paintings: @marloes.bloedjes Facebook:   / luzartworkss