Colour Theory & Mixing – The Basics

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1. i m using camel students oil colour. which medium should i use???

2. actually i have started learning painting few weeks ago. so can u suggest any good medium for oil colour?

3. Just a couple of errors regarding the bias tendencies….. slips of the tongue I assume.

4. Wow! it is really good explanation. Thank you very much. This theory can apply to my glass color too.

5. Thank You Jeanette. This video is very useful!

6. Hi Jeanette… I don't know how you feel about this but the colour names drive me crazy. The industry needs to simply the colour system. In a sense I think it allows paint manufacturers (especially high end) to create new colours based on more rare pigments but without knowing the pigment index number the same colour can have upwards of ten or more names.

   Some manufacturers just have a four or five digit number which most others don't use. I think with experience you learn to look at the colour (as you say in your videos) but it's a shame the industry can't stick to the same names for the pigments. For example Lemon Yellow I have seen as Hansa Yellow, cadmium yellow pale etc. Another example I learned Prussian Blue was being replaced by Phylo Blue.

7. Mixing shades of green has always been problematic for me. Thanks for your input Jeanette.

8. thank you. a great instructor. number 1

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10. I really like ur video

11. thankyou

12. Very informative…thanx

13. This was an amazing video! Thank you. Very helpful specially if you are just starting off and want to get only a few basic colors.

14. nice brush what is it,

15. permanent rose and Alizarin crimson are both magenta which is one of the real pigment primary colors witch are Magenta, Yellow and Cyan (I apologise if i spelled Alizarin wrong I am not even able to spell apologise right now) and are you crazy. You shold be using Magenta, Cyan, and Yellow like me.

16. Dear Jeanette…I love your demo very much, Thanks a lot for it !! I have a small question…On the list there is "phthalo blue" colour but you call it tailor blur, is it the same

17. cmy

18. Great video. What brand of paint you use?

19. Great video…very informative

20. THANK YOU! Ive not been able to understand why and how i get the mud until now. I love the way you show each color mix with like colors to make like colors. Now Im gonna have to write down color mixes and which not to mix.

21. Great video.( From India)

22. Great vidio

23. Why not just add green, violet and orange instead of 3 of those primaries?

24. Grate video,I was just thinking it was short,missing end…also would like to know how you get magenta out of them?

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26. very nice video.

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