Video · YouTube
5 Essential Colors Every Beginner Painter Needs
By Chris Breier
- Type
- Video
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- 13 min
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2024
About this lesson
A small-channel color-mixing primer built on a five-color acrylic palette, with live demos for greens, dull greens, purple, orange, browns and tans, a shortcut black, and a note on what 'hue' paints are.
Chapters
- 0:00Color mixing intro
- 0:27The 5 essential colors
- 1:31A common beginner mistake
- 2:23BASIC COLOR MIXING DEMOS
- 2:36How to mix green
- 3:39How to mix dull green
- 4:36How to mix purple
- 6:44How to mix orange
- 7:24A note about "Hue Colors"
- 8:22How to mix brown, tan, beige
- 10:18The two most common browns used in painting
- 10:50A shortcut for mixing black
- 11:22Shortcut for mixing olive green
- 11:45Why you should learn color mixing
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