Let’s Make Art
Welcome to beginner series for Let’s Make Art! In this series we go over the basics and this second episode is learning about color theory. Come learn with us! And don’t forget to ask questions or make suggestions!
Timestamps and Chapters
00:00 – Hello & Welcome
00:52 – Color Wheel
01:22 – Primary Colors
01:29 – Secondary Colors
02:07 – Tertiary Colors
03:02 – Temperature
03:52 – Warm Colors
04:16 – Cool Colors
04:26 – Choosing Colors
05:03 – Complimentary Colors
06:47 – Analogous Colors
07:58 – Monochrome and Value
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Thanks a lot!
You can make blue by mixing cyan and magenta, so technically not a primary color. Same for magenta and yellow creating red.
Loved this! You made it super easy to understand!
You really explained the color wheel nicely, I think this video is a keeper. Thanks so much.
Do you have a copy of this secondary wheel anywhere that can be downloaded?
To help you remember warm colors vs cool colors, just think of fire and water. Fire is warm; fire is red, yellow, orange. Water is cool; water is blue, green, purple.
I like your brick wall.
Edit: Ohhh. So that is why green and orange banana look so bad.
I have often wondered what "temp" green and purple are. Now I know! I am surprised because my inclination was that purple was a warm color. So far in my painting, I've used acrylics, I have a painting I can't finish because the main object in the painting is just too bold, stark flat . . . Could watercolor be used over the acrylic to tone it down? Thank you for this series. I'm always anxious and eager to learn new subjects, even if I'm not good at them, I like to try. "Stop learning, start dying." as Regina Fujan always says.
I took Color Theory back at college, you summed it all up in a 10 mins video of a 3 months long class that I had to take!! Great refresher! Please keep the awesome videos going! And I also love your subscription box!
Very helpful, especially the explanation of the use of water (as opposed to white) to adjust hue
I'm curious about why you use red yellow and blue as primary colors. My art teachers taught that the true primary colors are magenta, yellow, and cyan, given that you can mix red using magenta and yellow, and the blue can be mixed by adding magenta to cyan.
Really helpful. Just enough information for me to absorb as a reative beginner. Thank you. š
Is there a particular colors you use to make your color wheel out of the colors you sell? Can we use any kind of blue, yellow, red? You mention about looking at it to see it it's a warm…..you know what I need to make the color wheel.š
This was exactly what I needed. I took notes Iām sure will help me as I continue my journey. Thank you!
I loved this!! Learned something new!! Would love a paint along to make our own color wheel like your the secondary one. Great series!! Blazing thru them!! šš¤
Absolutely excellent! This is the lesson block that I WISH I had listened to in high school. I'm taking notes like I have an exam tomorrow–and it is great. I may actually REMEMBER these lessons. Best learning environment for shy people as well–where I'm not bothered by adolescent angst, rejection, and I can repeat this video over and over. THANK YOU! This goes a long way to the time when I just might try to venture out on my own with painting….but not for a long, long time because I'm enjoying LMA waaayyyy too much! NOW I can not only paint–I can understand how and why it affects myself and everyone else. I bought a "pocket" color wheel which illustrates a lot of this but your explanation really helped me understand it.
Colors have a bias to create many hues having a cool yellow,cool red,cool blue ,next is a warm yellow ,red ,blue,to find this is compare what colour one has in there supplies, colour wheels are great ,they can be found to download,most have a bias of color with the primaries, once I saw this it took the mystery away,tfs
You might mention that there is more than one yellow, blue and red. Depending on the yellow and blue chosen you will get different greens and continue on.
Thank you for this.. I always have a hard time trying to figure out which colors are cool and which ones are warm. This helps!
Maybe you should have mentioned the split-primarys. In school we've learned blue and red makes purple and blue and yellow makes green. But with a warm red you never get a vibrant purple and with a warm blue you never get a vibrant green, you only get a muddy reddisch brown or some army greens. It can be very frustrating not being able to mix the right color because of not knowing things like that. āŗ