Watercolor Color Mixing Tutorial (6 EASY Recipes!)

I’ve just been blessed with the discovery of your channel! You are my new guru. Thank you so much for sharing your experience and talents with us. I look so forward to learning and growing under your guidance. You have given me back my desire to paint again. Artist to artist, I know you know how much that means to my heart and soul. I can only move forward in my art to fully honour your gift to me, and with your guidance I hope to make both our hearts sing. Your name and gift will always be spoken of with gratitude. ❤️🙏

Enjoying your videos

Thanks for mixing on the video. I struggle to get the standard tube color believe I am using too much water.

Love this vifeo, unfortunately i have the winsor and newton cotman fieldset, but no yellow ocre but sienna, thx 4 all your amazing videos

This will be my weekend practice. Thanks

thank you very much for very useful tutorial , may be you have some suggestion how to remember colors name? thanks

Your videos make so much sense, and make watercolor much less intimidating!

Your info was great, But If you can write in the colors in you demo over each it would be clear as your accent makes it hard to know the color your mixing.

Thank you Michelle 👍🏼❤️🌹🙏

Excellent instructions for mixing colors. We want more!!

Questions popped in mind - can I substitute payne's gray with indigo? Thank you.

I wonder why and how the colors are mixed. I'm clueless about all that

I have a question. I watched your video on making a colour chart 101. Did you ever follow through with making the kind of colour chart that shows the various shades obtainable by mixing two colours in varying amounts? I have tried to do it on my own but the results are not very satisfactory.
Your colour videos are always such an interesting mix of science and personal experience. That’s what makes them eminently watchable.

what a good exercise - When I started with watercolor last year I did this exercise.- on sketch book paper. This year I did this exercise on Bockingford 300gsm - What a big difference!

Excellent video with practical info! I going to save this video for reference. Thank you, Michele!

Thank you! I’ll try these today.

The "concrete" mix is perfect and I can't wait to try it out.

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Thanks for sharing these 6 color mixes. I am still working at my mixing colors. I have started out with being lazy and sticking with my favorite colors in tubes to make my own palette. I was surprised by the 2 colors that made the concrete shade.

Hi Michele! Love your tutorial. I’ve learned so much! I have so much to learn about mixing colours abd you have helped me so much! Thank you!

You probably already know that but I realized that is you should out like the Roomba or burnt number that you're using there That you reveal the A tent of what other color is in it like it reveals that it has yellow in ITIT's leaning towards the yellow and then the pains gray as it shades out it leans towards the blue

I don't know what you mean buy a 'standard' beginner set' but I don't have the ochre or payne's gray etc. It's a $17.00 (don't know how that translates in England) set from a craft store but I will try to match. Thank you

Love! Helps being more creative w the colors I have.

I find your videos so helpful, I find it difficult to retain information but I just keep going back to them. Thank you Michele for sharing your knowledge

Thank you for these recipes. Very, very helpful.

Thank you so much Michelle. Just one thing, I would love for you to identify each of you colours used and produced as warm or cool. I get so confused... xx great video.

I watch your postings several times, you pack so much information into your tutorials.

Thank you Michele for such concise and clear mixing instructions. I've struggled with apple green for years! Obviously using the "wrong" yellows and blues. My next stop is your video on getting more natural greens from greens in the paint box. Your description of strong and weak colours was very helpful, and will save me gallons of paint. Thank you for your wonderful tutorials.

Thank you so much!!

For absolute beginners, I picked up a set of about 12 or so, watercolour tubes from The Works at the weekend for just £3. It is great just to have a bit of a play around before you let lose on the super quality paints. They do have the dodgy white and black though, but I think they have sap green not viridian.

Off topic: Another thing I would like to learn is how to do shiny puddles on roads. I was inspired by walking up Old Bond Street at night the other day, and the road was sparkly with the rain and the lights and the old buildings and jewellery shops sparking as well. Just the sparkle on the roads with the lights was fantastic, it was like walking on glitter.

So well explained

Off topic: I would like to learn how to paint weatherboarding on houses. Where I am we have a lot of houses with white and black weatherboarding.

Off topic: Can you do a video for beginners on nightscenes.I'd like to learn how to do nighttime 'darks' and different forms of lighting ie lamp lights, moonlight, car lights lights over city scenes in the distance. Now I love colour mixing, I would love the learn the night time colour mixtures. The oranges and yellows are gorgeous against the dark sky, and an interesting contrast to man made lighting. Maybe a Halloween special where you can add a variety of things.

Very helpful! I am looking forward to putting these mixtures in my swatch book. Since I love to paint trees, the browns were especially helpful. I am going to watch your video on greens too. BTW, do you know what the name of your nail polish is? That is a beautiful green! Thanks!

Diarylide - I looked up the pronunciation of this word from Cemistry online and found it being mispronounced and you even misspelt it. You had it as Dairylide. It is DYE ARRY LYDE in otherwords two arylides. Stress the second syllable.

You keep on calling it Cobbolt the word is pronounced Co bawlt with emphasis on the first syllable and that is a round o.

Is there a discount code for the paints?

I'm still having trouble keeping the green out of the sky when I add yellow

Thanks once again for a great tutorial...my favourite is Sepia recipe

I'm a beginner and just want to have fun. There are times I wish I had more color choices. I'll have to check out more of your videos. I like the grey. Thank you!

Love your hair style.

Delightful recipes and my long weekend is just made. Two favourites Apple Green and Concrete 😁 thanks a ton!

Michele, Great information. Would it be helpful to add an extra swatch as a reference eg SAP Green. I will makes some cards for future use myself. ps your audio has an echo since you moved home. You may not have notices. Floor covering, curtains or wall hanging might help if you are so inclined.

Cat approved ❤️❤️❤️

Love your color mixing videos. I always see something new to try!

As a chemist, cant let the pronunciation go by. It’s di-aryl-ide. Not Dairy-lide. There are no cows here. Also not pronounced like a journal that you write in.

Pronounced more or less like dye-AIR-ul-eyed, it describes the chemical structure - 2 (di) aryl amides connected into a symmetrical structure. TMI, I know...

What I found most useful was the bit about which color was stronger. It will definitely help in the future not to waste so much color when mixing. Thank you.

Thanks Michele. My favorite brown is raw umber. It mixes to many browns so nicely. But I cannot live without burnt sienna. Adjusting the yellow ochre and a good granular ultramarine can get a result very close to Daniel Smith Undersea Green without the hefty price tag. I still mostly work from a split primary pallet with a couple earth tones and Paynes grey. Since I don't do a lot of botanicals 😉😆💜