Mixing Greys in Watercolour
This is a fun exercise that is great for exploring colour mixing, AND you have a pretty little painting at the end. In this video, I used a different two-colour mix for each stone. I also added a highlight in Raw Umber to each stone to tie them all together. You can mix an infinite amount of interesting greys by using colours that are complementary, or are close to being complementary, to each other on the colour wheel. Thank you for watching!
MATERIALS USED
***Paints:
Mix 1 - Payne's Grey ( by Art Spectrum) + Sepia (by Daniel Smith)
MIx 2 - French Ultramarine (by Winsor&Newton) + Burnt Umber (by Daniel Smith)
Mix 3 - Sodalite Genuine (by Daniel Smith) + Burnt Sienna (by Winsor&Newton)
Mix 4 - Indigo (by Art Spectrum) + Transparent Red Oxide (by Daniel Smith)
Mix 5 - Indanthrone Blue (by Daniel Smith) + Lunar Earth (by Daniel Smith)
Mix 6 - Lunar Blue (by Daniel Smith) + Pyrrol Orange (by Daniel Smith)
Mix 7 - Mayan Blue (by Daniel Smith) + Burnt Tigers Eye Genuine (by Daniel Smith)
Mix 8 - Carbazole Violet (by Daniel Smith) + Aussie Red Gold (by Daniel Smith)
White Gouache by Art Spectrum
***Paper:
Canson Heritage 300gsm Cold Press
***Brushes
NEEF Australia Master Artist Thomas W Schaller Mop Size 0
Princeton Select Script Liner Size 10/0
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Beautiful Zen. What a great way to do color swatching.
@AnastasiaMily
5 ай бұрын
It is such a relaxing way to learn about colour theory! A lovely and easy subject to warm up with before a painting session too... Thank you!
Just watched your video again. So soothing. I could,not turn it off.😂 totally inspiring me again to just go have some fun instead of fussing with details today. 🎉good day for celebrations! Thank you again.
@AnastasiaMily
6 күн бұрын
I am glad you enjoyed this one, and that is inspired you to have fun with your watercolours! Thank you for watching my videos 😊
Brilliant. I have the hardest time creating gray. thus makes it easier.
@AnastasiaMily
11 ай бұрын
Thank you! So glad to know you find this helpful. Mixing greys is amazing fun, and you can create endless shades and tones of it, it is fascinating.
Quel exercice formateur! Le mélange des couleurs, les fusions, les ombres. J’ai adoré le faire. Merci pour cette belle leçon
@AnastasiaMily
3 ай бұрын
I am so glad you enjoyed playing along! It is such a fun little exercise to do in watercolour, one of my favourites for sure. Thank you for watching!
What perfect timing! I was struggling to mix neutrals yesterday during my paint session and this exercise is such a perfect opportunity to slow down and experiment. I’m going to give it a go, but with a focus on neutral, desaturated greens and blues. Thank you!
@AnastasiaMily
2 жыл бұрын
So glad you find my video useful! Mixing greys and neutrals is so much fun - enjoy 😊
so much fun to color mix this way.
@AnastasiaMily
4 ай бұрын
Yes, such a fun way to discover new colour mixes! Thank you for watching!
Total magic! I love stone stacks and you’ve done a stunning job at making these look so real. Gorgeous. 👍😃
@AnastasiaMily
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! They are such fun to build, and to paint too!
Wow I am so blown away by the depth, detail & variety of colors you were able to produce. In just this short video you’ve taught me so much. If only my drawing looked even a third as nice as yours does. For some reason as soon as I pick up a pencil, my hand turns into a club! My fine motor skills when drawing are atrocious so I’ve embraced “abstract “ as my genre 😂. Thank you for the color lesson, I can’t wait to try these out. With much respect & appreciation from Austin, Tx.
@AnastasiaMily
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your beautiful comment. I am so glad you have learned a lot from this video. And as for drawing skills, they come if we just keep on going. Have fun!
Brilliant! and soothing and excellent exercise for mixing on the paper. And you don’t even need to pile real rocks and take a photo! Thank you! Will share with my students and friends.
@AnastasiaMily
4 ай бұрын
Thank you! It is such a fun exercise! And we can be creative with the shapes of the rocks too.
I have a premonition that this will reach millions of subscribers...... What a wonderful wonderful demonstration..... So glad to catch you early❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@AnastasiaMily
2 жыл бұрын
That is very kind of you to say - thank you! So glad you are enjoying my videos 😊
I love watching swatching on any occasion. Your style made it even better!
@AnastasiaMily
4 ай бұрын
Oh thank you! Swatching is such fun 🤩 Glad you enjoyed this video!
What a nice idea to make a stonemanderl for mixing grays Greatings from good old Germany to Down Under
@AnastasiaMily
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much Ariane, it was such a fun exercise! Sending good wishes back to good old Germany from across the world :)
Excellent, will give it a go ❤️
@AnastasiaMily
Ай бұрын
Thank you for watching! Have fun!!
This is an excellent way to practice mixing and painting greys. Thanks so much 😃
@AnastasiaMily
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching 😊 Glad you enjoyed it!
Such a brilliant exercise. The outcome is superb. Such a beautiful piece of art
@AnastasiaMily
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much Lorraine! It is such a fun exercise too.
What beautiful stones! Thank you for this demo!
@AnastasiaMily
7 ай бұрын
Thank you for watching 😊 Glad you enjoyed the video!
I love this ...art work...its very inspiring ..😊
@AnastasiaMily
3 ай бұрын
Thank you so much 😊
Great presentation !
@AnastasiaMily
11 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!
I love the granulating colors....thank you🧡
@AnastasiaMily
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching! Granulating colours are amazing to paint with
Nice. Looks like fun. I'll have to try it. Thank you.
@AnastasiaMily
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching 😊
Beautiful
@AnastasiaMily
7 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!
Muy lindo, los colores son preciosos y me encantó la textura de las piedras ❤️😍 muchísimas gracias por enseñar magistralmente!! ❤️🙏🏻😊
@AnastasiaMily
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much 😊 Glad you enjoyed it!
What a great idea!!
@AnastasiaMily
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! It is so much fun too!
I am so glad that I found your channel, these are super helpful,❤❤
@AnastasiaMily
Жыл бұрын
So glad you find my videos helpful! Thank you for watching
Love the leaf palette
@AnastasiaMily
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, I love using it 😊
Molto bello 👏👏👏
@AnastasiaMily
2 ай бұрын
Thank you so much 😊
Just found your channel and subscribed, great to see a fellow Aussie, blessings from Canberra
@AnastasiaMily
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much Michelle 😊 Hello from NSW!
돌들이 사랑스럽네요 살아있는듯한 색감 영롱합니다
@AnastasiaMily
8 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!
This is a fantastic little exercise. I'm gonna do it today. I don't have many colors, but I'm gonna try with what I have.
@AnastasiaMily
Жыл бұрын
Glad you find it useful! It can be done with any complementary colour - have fun! 😊
@carolineguf2711
Жыл бұрын
@@AnastasiaMily Thanks! Did it. It was definitely out of my comfort zone. I’d post a pic here if I could. V. fun.
Great..thank you
@AnastasiaMily
2 ай бұрын
Thank you for watching!
Yaaay! That was fun. Loved it! 🥰 I adore muted tones, so mixing grays is one of my favourite meditations. 😁 Bl+br is number one combination, and also love violet undertone of cool greens and cool reds mixtures. Btw, Mayan blue is wonderful, but it has problems with light fastness. 🙄
@AnastasiaMily
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you Maria 😊 It is, indeed, a way to meditate!! Thank you for mentioning the lightfastness of Mayan Blue. Funnily enough, I haven’t used it much since I bought a long time ago it as I somehow never connected with it the way I have connected with other blues…
Thank you.
@AnastasiaMily
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching!
👍👍👍🥰
@AnastasiaMily
2 ай бұрын
✨🙏🏻✨
un grand merci (:
@AnastasiaMily
3 ай бұрын
Thank you for watching 😊
Very cool! I actually have a picture of a stack of rocks on a beach. You've given me the perfect way to paint them. Thank you for the tutorial! BTW, what brand of Payne's Grey are you using? Yours seems more blue than mine.
@AnastasiaMily
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much Denise😊 I use Art Spectrum which is an Australian brand. I do find that Payne’s Grey pigment mixes vary between brands… Have fun painting the stone stacks!
Thank you so much for this, I don’t have half the colors you used but I have ideas to tryout seeing your mixes. Great tutorial.
@AnastasiaMily
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching Karen, and I am glad you have found it useful. You can mix beautiful greys with so many different colour combinations, and it is so much fun to explore the colours we already have :)
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@AnastasiaMily
3 ай бұрын
Thanks!
Lovely and lifelike. Seeing these in the wild saddens me, though. People moving a lot of stones around to make these must not realize they're disturbing the environment. The creatures they displace are as vital to the ecosystem as everything else and after any festival, there will be many of these stacked by so-called helpers/protectors of the environment. Shame. Nice video, anyway, as I use a cell phone to view and comment...not too hypocritical.
@AnastasiaMily
Жыл бұрын
It’s an interesting point of view, and one I haven’t encountered before - thank you for sharing. Stone cairns have been used for a very long time to mark the way, a signpost of sorts. In the times of GPS navigation being available at our fingertips, those cairns obviously do not carry that purpose anymore. And yet, everything we do leaves a mark. Picking up shells at the beach, rearranging stones… having a burger for dinner, driving a car, mining minerals to make screens we watch KZread on. The list is endless.