Creating a Burnt Sienna Hue String
In this video lesson, you will learn how to create a Hue string with Burnt Sienna. You’ll also get to see first hand how the mixes start off dull and as you go around the colour wheel, how warm the colours become.
Buy or DIY Transparent Red Iron Oxide
In this video lesson, you will learn how to make something close to Transparent Red Iron Oxide if you’re not able to find it at the art store. It’s an amazing colour for glazing and creating vintage/steampunk art.
Shifting Burnt Sienna on the Colour Wheel
In this video lesson, you will learn how to shift Burnt Sienna on the colour wheel by looking at where it sits on the colour wheel and then working with similar base colours and compliments in your palette.
How to Brighten and Dull Burnt Sienna
In this video lesson, you’ll learn a few ways to brighten up and dull Burnt Sienna. It would be so much easier going with Burnt Umber or Raw Umber, but nah… you’re not there YET 😆
All About Burnt Sienna and TRIO – Value Study
In this lesson, you will learn about Burnt Sienna and Transparent Red Iron Oxide, the differences, the similarities and you’ll create a value study to see the true underlying colours.
How to Analyze if a Colour Brightens or Dulls
In this video, you will learn how to analyze why a colour would brighten or dull a mixture down, but knowing what the pigments are and where it sits on the colour wheel.
How to: Quick Fix an Issue with Current DecoArt Traditions Paint Tubes
If you own DecoArt Traditions paint tubes, you may have experience splattering when opening the tubes. This video will show you how I get around the splattering issue.
Shifting Raw Sienna on the Colour Wheel
In this video lesson, you will learn how to change up Raw Sienna based on where it sits on the colour wheel with yellows and reds.
How to Brighten and Dull Raw Sienna
In this video, you will learn how to brighten and dull raw sienna by looking at your colour wheel.
All About Raw Sienna and Value Strings
In this video lesson, you will explore Raw Sienna, compare it to Yellow Oxide and create value strings for each.
Yellow Oxide Hue String
In this lesson, you will learn how to create a hue string with Yellow Oxide and your limited palette as it is right now.
Buy or DIY – Yellow Oxide vs TYIO
In this video, you will learn how to do an experiment so you can decide if you’d rather buy tube Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide or mix it up yourself. You’ll learn to use water, medium and pigments to try and colour match the lovely TYIO.
How to Brighten and Dull Yellow Oxide
In the last video, you learned how to shift Yellow Oxide on the colour wheel. In this video, you’ll use what you learned in that lesson and then use the power of colour compliments to dull and shifting colours to brighten even further.
Shifting Yellow Oxide on the Colour Wheel
Learning how to shift a neutral like Yellow Oxide on the colour wheel will come in handy when you need to lighten and brighten or darken and dull the hue.
All About Neutrals – Yellow Oxide and Value Strings
In this video lesson, you will learn about Yellow Oxide and Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide and create value strings to see the true underlying colour and compare transparencies.
Colour Matching and Mixing a Violet Sunset
In this video lesson, you will take what you’ve learned so far to create swatches of colour mixes from a photo of a violet sunset.
Colour Matching Violet Challenge
In this video lesson, you will learn how to make colour swatches when matching.
How to Brighten and Dull Down Violet
In this video lesson, you will learn more about how to dull down violet including 2 new paints from a limited palette to experiment with.
How to Shift Violet on the Colour Wheel
In this video lesson, you will learn how to shift various violet mixtures using your limited palette and comparing to Dioxazine Purple.
How to Mix Violets with a Limited Palette
In this video lesson, you will learn how to create violet mixtures using your limited palette. But there are times where you may want to pick from an extended palette, depending on what you’re painting.
All About Violets and Values
In this video lesson, you will learn about two ways to choose which violet to keep in your limited palette, plus extended violets that might make your mixing easier and how important the value scale helps you see the true underlying colours.
Challenge 2: Colour Mixing for a Basic Water Scene from a Photo
In this video lesson, you will choose a photo from unsplash and create various mixes from the photo. I’ll be choosing a difficult photo that has blue greens, blue violets and I’ll work up to the crimson lower sky and gradates to a blue-violet upper sky. Go...
Challenge 1: Colour Mixing for a Basic Sky from a Photo
In this video lesson, you will choose a photo from Unsplash and create colour mixing from various parts of the photo. I’ll be demonstrating this by actually painting on my phone case (yes I got in trouble) Tip: choose your own photo from Pixabay.com or...
How to Colour Match a Mixed Blue
In this video lesson, you will learn how to take any blue colour and create a mix that’s as close as possible. I’ll demonstrate mixing when you know what’s in the paint and without knowing what’s in the paint....
How to Brighten Up and Dull Down Blue Mixes
In this video lesson, you will learn how to brighten up and dull down various mixes of blue. From maroons to teals, this lesson can be expanded to create so many colours....
How to Shift Blue on the Colour Wheel
In this video lesson, you will learn how to shift Phthalo Blue and Ultramarine Blue on the colour wheel and see the huge differences with those shifts....
All About Blue
In this video lesson, you will learn which blues to keep in your limited palette, plus extended blues and how to read them on the colour...
How to Shift and Dull Basic Green Mixtures
Learn how to shift green over more to blue and yellow and how to dull and brighten them as well. I’ll also be attempting to make a neutral green in this video....
Believe in Magic: Challenge – Stencil Study Using Greens
An experiment in how to could use greens for a background and testing out some kraft stencils from...