Oil Color Mixing for Beginners

[New Masters Academy]

Color theory is a complex and often intimidating subject for artists. Without a clear road map, it’s easy to become lost and for your work to suffer as a result. Thankfully world-renowned artist Joseph Todorovitch will teach you the most essential information you need to paint figures and portraits. You will learn how to mix colors to achieve proper value and temperature as well as the famous Anders Zorn palette, which is a useful palette for painting people. This lesson includes a downloadable PDF file that you can print out at home as a handy studio reference.

[Nancy Alain]

Tremendously helpful lesson. Very clear and well presented. Thanks so much!  I love the color wheel concept rather than just a lot of blobs and mixes.

 

One question:  I am assuming the red is cad red light. Am I correct?

[Betty Ng]

The labellings of secondary and tertiary on the color wheel of the pdf file should be interchanged.

Best regards,

Betty

[Daniel Daigle]

Thank you Betty, I forwarded this to my team to be fixed

[nome edonna]

That ‘LEMON YELLOW’ is a bit misleading!  At least for beginners…   It’s so light, almost closer to a ‘Nickel Titanate’ yellow…..

Pretty much every other ‘Lemon Yellow’ I’ve ever come across has a super intense chroma, similar to Cad Yellow, but leaning cool/green…

Perhaps this was mentioned and I missed it, but just wanted to make note of it, for other students here..

Otherwise, enjoying the lessons!

Thanks!

[Nancy Alain]

Need clarification on Lemon Yellow (is that Cadmium?) and also the Cad Red looks very light so not sure if it is light or medium.  Thank you.

[Daniel Daigle]

Hi Nancy, He is using Michael Harding Lemon Yellow which is a little more subtle than other brands. and the Cad red could be considered a medium but Michael Harding lists it as plain cad red.

Hope this helps B)

[Claire]

Cad red contains brown pigment, so that’s why it produces a muted purple when mixed with cobalt. Alizarin mixed with cobalt will give a brighter, more intense purple.

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