Do you have these 10 colors, and have they caused you any issues? Try this video next: How to Mix Watercolors (THIS colour is essential) kzread.info/dash/bejne/dmSYmLGyiaSviJc.html

I remember you saying that Winsor and Newton Naples Yellow was the the only colour and brand that didn't go green in a gradated sky wash. A touch of black in yellow makes olive green. It took me hours to make notes on this video. So few people share their knowledge. So many display their skills. Thank you

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

I have heard that said but it wasn't me, unless I was mentioning that other artists had said it. I believe it's because of the pinkish hue, but I have always been skeptical that it wouldn't go green under any circumstances 🐱

@morgenmachen2400

Жыл бұрын

Any warm yellow won't go green. Learn color theory and you won't need to spend hours writing notes! It's quite easy, I promise.

Thanks Michele. There's so much more to painting than just grabbing some colours and slapping them on, but how many people actually explain that to a beginner? There is so much trial and error and mainly expensive error and a long road trying to find out why things don't work. You help us all avoid the pitfalls and explain it in an easy to understand manner with clear demonstrations. This is a great video!😃

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Susan!

I really love alizarin crimson, I know it’s not super bright but it can be really useful for skin tones as it is a little more muted 😊

Oh yes, all of my favorites colors that I have used in the past at one point or another in the wrong way. I learned the hard way before finding out exactly what you have stated here in this very valuable informational video. So glad you’re explaining this to beginners so they can up their painting skills. I really appreciate you explaining this! Thanks for sharing this one! As always your content is well done & easily explained with wonderful examples! 🎨💕😉

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

We learn the hard way, at least I did! Thanks for watching Colleen :-)

@colleenmcchesney1482

Жыл бұрын

@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Yes we did, I did until I started watching your channel over 2 years ago.

🥰 I love mixing with watercolors! 😍

I remember my first watercolor set with 48 colors. The set had about 10 greens none of which were usable. Great video!

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow!

Thank you Michele for your time and dedication. You are so knowledgeable and I just love watching and learning from your videos

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

As a professional watercolorist of 35 years, this is the most useful video on color I'v ever watched. thanks so much!

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

7 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

My Daniel Smith raw umber is much darker and one of my favorites!

When I first visited the UK, because I have spent my life in a dry country where yellows and ochres abound, your grass looked blueish to me. I eventually adjusted but that phthalo green reminded me of how I first thought your grass was coloured.

Thank you for this. I learned a lot and am saving this one to come back to! I hope you put together a watercolor pencil color mixing tutorial sometime.

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Great suggestion!

I learned SO much in this video. I can;t find the words to express my appreciation (so I sent a small sum). Thank you for sharing your knowledge, passion and creativity.

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much 🙏 I appreciate it 😊

Thank you so much for all this information! I'll be watching it a few more times!!! And then a few more!

I thought about getting Phtalo Green PG7 but I swatched it for the incredibly beautiful Viridian PG18 and never regretted it.

"Direct them to Mr. Turner's watercolors"! Perfect!!!

I was told that phthalo green was a modern vibrant color and encouraged to use it in a class. It almost ruined 2 paintings. Thanks for discussing it.

Michelle, I've been watching you ever since I started with watercolours and you're amazing in your generosity with your knowledge. I always look forward to your videos ❤

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Definitely saving this video for reference. I don’t have many of these paints but for the ones I do, this is a crying saver! “Why won’t it do what I want it to do???” Now I know.

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

So glad it helped!

Great tutorial. I'm going to save this one for future reference. Thank you.

As always, a most enjoyable and informative video explaining not just why but how. Thankyou very much for sharing your expertise

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Most welcome :-)

Omg I loved this! Bloody skin tone, I remember that in my childhood art sets. When I first started watercolour, I had SO many issues with raw umber, but now I treat it as a cousin who just pops in now and then. The granulation in so many colours is a gripe I have too…yes ultramarine I’m looking at you! I find it a beautiful colour but it doesn’t sing to me like Prussian blue or Pthalo blue. This video will save a lot of migraines for a LOT of people. Thank you Michele!

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

You are most welcome!

@DeidreL9

Жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

Thanks so much for this very informative tutorial, Michele - very much appreciated! As another of your students has said, we have heard some of these points already from your previous tutorials, but it's great to have them all in one, together with great tips about other colours too. You describe everything in such a practical way and this means we can remember more of the important information whilst painting. So much to learn, and so little time to practice! But every little helps...!

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

I like the comparison & explanation of various colours. As always interesting! Thanks

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Thank you, Michele.

I love Antwerp blue for skies.

Alizarin crimson is very useful to add shadow and form to pink flowers, instead of using gray. However alizarin does make a perfect gray when mixed with viridian-it’s the true neutral gray. You didn’t mention the number one use for ultramarine: making a rich dark when mixed with burnt sienna (without using black).

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Yes, lots of uses for all colours :-)

@morgenmachen2400

Жыл бұрын

Love both of those combinations! Also, quin Rose and viridian are lovely together.

Great teaching as always

Thank you Michelle Very helpful to a newbie!

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Great idea to mix ultramarine with that’ll.

@lynneboll4259

9 ай бұрын

Thalo that is.

For my first art class the teacher had me buy 10 WN colors. 6 of the colors you talked about were in the set. I never knew why I couldn’t produce what I wanted until I bought some different colors in Daniel Smith then I started producing some decent colors. Thanks.

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

No problem!

Great info. I'm just beginning water colors. Thank you

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

21 күн бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

I have to say, this video was VERY helpful!

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

This video is so helpful! Thank you!

So much incredibly valuable information. What an amazing treasure.

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks so much, Michele. Some of this I kind of knew, but I need to hear this several times to get to the point where I know and can apply the information while painting. Also, I just bought Daniel Smith's Naples Yellow, knowing it was opaque, but wasn't sure how I was going to use it. The colors in your paintings are always so beautiful!

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Love your descriptions and explanations ❤Your voice is great btw😊

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

So nice of you

Nickel Azo Yellow? I stick it in everything! 🤪

I learn so much from you! T H A N K Y O U !

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Ah, my pleasure!

Thank you for helping me with this video, I thought it was me.. with ultra marine blue. Etc. I love your teachings ❤️🎨

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Not just you, it's a main colour in beginners' sets so many naturally use it for skies!

First, you are an awesome teacher, I’ve learned so much from your free videos. 12:49 You are so generous with good information. Perhaps I missed it, but what is granular? Thank you again for you wonderful videos.

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

I was speaking about granulation, a natural property of some pigments that leave a little speckle or texture on the paper. It's not a bad thing, just something to be aware of.

This video has excellent tips Michele. Thx as always. 🥰

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

:-)

Thank you Michelle 🙏🌷 great tutorial as usual 👏👏👏

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much 😊

Thank you for your helpful video

Thanks again for your knowledge about watercolour paints. I've probably done everything wrong at one time or another!!! Your videos are really useful and I learn something new every time. Thanks

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

No problem!

I love naples yellow too, the first time I tried it, I thought 'Oh, I need to find something that will look good painted in this colour!' Great video, thanks!

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thank you 🥰

Thank you so much.

As always, great tips.

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thanks!

So helpful! Thank you!

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

Excellent and so helpful tutorial for me Michele. Thank you.

Such valuable information! Thank you!

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

Enjoyed video found it interesting and informative im still enjoying your color posters for mixing and still refer to them often..mikelle art mom👩‍🎨🎨✍🇨🇦🇺🇸💛

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

Very workable VDO !

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

9 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

This was such a helpful video. I am going to watch it again and take notes.

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it Tina!

what a highly informative and most excellent video. i knew some of this but i tend to forget things so will be keeping this in my tips Playlist!!

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

thanks for your explanations. slowly I understand the difference between warm and cold colores in using them. and as some wrote it has to be watched a few times. but the picture, the painting, your swatching helps a lot to get it into my brain. 😊

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

I've learned such a lot from this video Michele, as like you, I love colour and have all of these! It's nice to know that I'm using at least some in the right way😂 Thank you😊

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Great video about color. So helpful. Thank you so much.

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

Thank you Michele. I really enjoyed this video.

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you Michele, a great video and very helpful😊

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Your videos are so informative. I find myself taking notes all the time. This one will be especially useful because I have used these colors in the wrong way. Thank you!

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

I do love your color videos. As a newb, I'm making every mistake you call out.. Before I catch a video on it, of course! I bought an artist curated Daniel Smith set at the start, wanting to have some professional quality paints. I didn't really know what the heck I was doing, so the choice was rather random.. Clearly I need some other yellows.

So much helpful information...Thank you🥰

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Joyce!

Thanks Michele. Ultramarine is still one of my favorite colors. Depending on the time of year it is the sky color in my neck of the woods. Usually winter clear days and spring. Summer is more cobalt mixed with sennelier cinnerous blue which I think is a phthalo mixed with white. It's dead on for hot summer skies. Though talens Rembrandt cerulean is one of my favorite blue's.

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

I love that cerulean and even more than the DS one!

I haven’t looked through all your videos, so not sure if you’ve already done one on the Daniel Smith ones that granulated into different colours,like Undersea Green and Cascade Green, as well as the ones that end in “-ite”. I get so lost in the dreaminess of them but I’m not always sure how to use them to their greatest effect. The definitely DO force me to be looser in my paintings. I painted a frog last night with them and a bit of Cad Yellow and Aussie Gold to create highlights and shadows (and I have some, gasp, gouache white, that i was going to use for highlighting his eyes and some black (double gasp) for the darkest areas, but you’ve terrified me😜.

Thank you

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome :-)

Thank you for the informative video. Woul love to know more about mixing Naples Yellow with other colours, especially blues and paynes grey

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Great suggestion!

Thank you for this concise information. I feel like I've been slowly figuring this all out by trial and error, but you have put it all in one place where I can get comfortable with it. Is French Ultramarine different from just plain Ultramarine?

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

8 ай бұрын

French Ultramarine usually tends more towards the purple (it's slight though and may vary from brand to brand)

This is such an awesome video. It's so educational and it's made me so, so glad I don't even try to paint realistically.😂❤

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!!

Thanks 💖

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome 😊

Very useful video

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Very informative

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it

Thank you! I keep trying to use Alizarin Crimson and every time I do, I just get irritated. I prefer perm. rose and quin pink. Thanks to you, I will put this in my neutral palette and forget about it, lol. I feel so much better. I literally tried using it again last night, and it was discouraging because I mix on the page. I thought it was me, not the paint. I feel so much better. Thank you! 🥰

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

It can be useful alone for roses and such, or sometimes you can make a moody purple with it.

I began by not having a black in my palette, and it is fairly useless for nature painting. But for natural environments where people have been, and for more urban environments, it can be essential. Humans just like to make black things! Sometimes they can be a red-black, blue-black, etc, but mostly they're just black. I always have lamp black with me, just in case. I've now added nickel titanate yellow to my list. I do a surprising amount of florals (it surprises me!), but I don't think I've ever seen it swatched out so clearly before. Thanks. Anyone starting out shouldn't be afraid of having at least a couple of opaque colours (you can take my buff titanium when I'm dead 😄)

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Oh I love buff titanium!!

At my local art shop a few weeks ago I stuck up a conversation with an older gentleman who had taken up painting. (and was actually very good for someone only a year or so in) He showed me a few of his works he had on him... he loves painting trains. In a shadowed area of one of his trains he had used some zinc white to represent some metal work. I actually asked him what paint he used. You know sometimes you have to love beginners and fresh eyes.... he gave me such a innocent WHY? look when I told him I hadn't ever used a white watercolor. It does have some uses no doubt and I felt a little bad sounding like some sort of paint snob. lol Agreed though zinc white should never be in a beginner set... to many new water color painters use it to mix, as that is a pretty standard use for white in basically every other painting medium.

I got a Cotman set a while back (mainly for the box, but I won't be throwing out the colours). It includes 6 single-pigment colours: Ultramarine, Viridan Hue (read: pthalo green), Alizarin Crimson Hue (read: quin maroon), Burnt Sienna, Chinese White and Yellow ochre. Three Cadmium hues (mixed), a mixed(!) burnt umber, a sap green and then the one colour I might throw out: Cobalt Blue Hue. Why do I loathe the Cobalt Blue Hue? because it's a mix between Chinese White (in palette) and Ultramarine (also in palette). Couldn't they have given me another, more useful blue rather than one that i can pretty much mix myself? >. (also, I don't disagree with you on your points--some I knew was coming in fact--but I do find it funny that most of these colours are ones that I have and love to use =) Main exception being paynes Gray, which I never got around to get)

I sometimes use a tiny speck of Chinese white (i think that's zinc?) to mix in a color.......it can give the color a little more presence, or body, or make the color a bit more vibrant, without being opaque. It's hardly even semi-transparent, but that little change can make a difference. I have a half pan of Cotman that just sits open on my desk for when a color might need a bit of something.

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Yes Chinese white is zinc white :-)

I wish I'd learned about UMB's challenges much sooner than I did. ... great to hear confirmation .... I am kind of realizing that many DSmith colors granulate more than other brands for better and for worse... I only buy them if I want that amount of texture..... W&N Neutral Tint is useful because it contains their Windsor Blue instead of UMBlue - so much less granulation. Look nearly identical to me.

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Yes DS have a lot of granulating colours

Hi Michelle, I very much enjoyed your video and learned a great deal, However, there was something you said that saddened me quite a bit. You were talking about White and Black and to please not comment about them not being colors, and you said, “This is the only thing I’m good at”. You put yourself down and this saddens me. You are talented with your art. You do a wonderful job of teaching it to us AND your video, which I know take a great deal of time, are put together quite well. These are just 3 areas that I can say that you ARE very good at! Gaining confidence in ourselves can be difficult, especially if we’ve had someone or “others” that have taken delight in tearing us down. I can tell you, as a follower of Jesus, that He must think you are very special…so SPECIAL that He suffered and died for you and that’s pretty spectacular! I think you are probably very good in a number of ways, because I know you are really good in the three areas I mentioned. Blessings to you Michele Webber and thank you for blessing me with your teaching on watercolors!❤️

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Janice, I guess there's a few things I am good at, they are all creative things, I am very bad at stuff like maths. It's hard to assess your own skills, I appreciate you taking the time out to write such a lovely message :-)

I tried mixing a skin tone out of potter’s pink and gold ochre in my latest portrait - big mistake! It wasn't a flattering skin color at all, and layering shadows over it didn't make it any better. I'm going back to my tried & true ochre + quin. magenta mix for light skin. I don't know yet how to make use of potter's pink in portraits since it's not a realistic hue, but it has a nice texture.

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure Potters pink is great for portraits, I can't put links here but if you put it in the search bar I have a video on mixing skin tones.

@NelaDunato

Жыл бұрын

@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber The weird thing is some folks do recommend it for skin tones because supposedly the granulation can imitate pores and freckles and thus provide a more naturalistic appearance, but I'm not impressed! Thanks, I'll look it up. I have some favorite skin tone formulas, but I'm always open to learning new ones.

Nickel Titanate is a new colour to me, I've not heard of it before. Can you say which brands do it? I hope it's not just Daniel Smith's - I can't afford him.

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

4 ай бұрын

Most brands do a version, including Jackmans Art Materials in the UK who I work with. The name may vary sometimes, for instance it might be called Titanium lemon, Or yellow titanate etc. You are looking for pigment PY53

What do you use to darken colors if not black? I’m a newbie.

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Check the video description, there's a link to a video I made showing you the options. I can't put links here, or search my name and darken watercolors.

❤

Would you considering doing a watercolor tutorial of a WHITE BIRD OF PARADISE

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Great idea, I didn't know such a thing existed!

@pamelahubbell-gl7gr

Жыл бұрын

@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber The colors seem to be creams, beige, purples, blues.

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You say you are using Payne's Grey, yet in my Daniel Smith colour palette I bought it calls it Jane's Grey. Is this a typo in my palette colour chart?

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Jane's Grey is a different colour, invented by Jane Blundell I believe in collaboration with Daniel Smith. I assume they carry both in their range.

@OhJodi69

Жыл бұрын

Jane's Grey is a custom mix by artist Jane Blundell (google her and see her amazing color mixing and swatches), and it is different than Payne's Grey (which itself is different between brands) Her mix ix Ultramarine Blue, and Burnt Sienna. Daniel Smith has many, many greys created by today's artists, and I don't think any other brand does this. So, that's not a typo :-)

@caroles5258

Жыл бұрын

@@OhJodi69 Thank you

@caroles5258

Жыл бұрын

@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Thank you

I’m asking myself why I didn’t know this information 5 years ago? My go to sky color is usually UM blue. 🙈

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Try cerulean, watered down phthalo, or daniel smith does a lovely manganese blue hue. Sometimes a little payne's grey or prussian can work too :-)

😂 banana beaches

I find your videos interesting, but I often also find them difficult to watch due to the angle at which you film yourself painting. It’s not a natural angle and it feels unpleasant. Many people may not care, but I am not the only one who almost can’t bear it.

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

Sorry Sylvia, there are no easy solutions. A directly overhead camera means my head gets in the way.

@sylviaanna

Жыл бұрын

@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber I see, but how do others do it? Fortunately for me most drawing and painting videos on yt don’t have this issue. Maybe they film a bit from the side? The problem is, if I watch this for too long it causes nausea or dizziness. And as far as I have learned, I am not the only one.

Thanks!

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber

Жыл бұрын

No problem! Thanks I appreciate it!