Choosing Paint And Colours
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Choosing Paint And Colours
This is a film showing you how to choose paint and colours when creating a watercolour painting. Choosing paint and colours is so important when painting, so this video shows you how best to manipulate colour when creating your artwork.
Start with the basic colour theory a color circle in the centre, first there are the 3 primary colours red, blue and yellow.
From the primary colours can be mixed the secondary colours green, purple and orange.
In the circle yellow touches every other colour except one purple. There are 3 complementary colours red and green, blue and orange, and yellow and purple.
Use this as a starting point to explore all the ways to manipulate and exploit colour and its various characteristics.
Mixing complementary colours together will arrive at chromatic neutrals, colourful greys that are very useful when mixing different shades from various colours.
One way to test colour capacity, paint black Indian ink onto paper and paint the colours across the top and this will show if the colours are opaque or transparent.
Keep a record of the colours this is an index of how the colours have been mixed.
Begin by having 2 sets of primary colours and earth colours so as to mix more colours as needed.
As an exercise work with colour opposites e.g. red on green background using the same limited colours to create tones and shades.