Three triads
A combination of three colors, that forms an equilateral triangle on the color wheel, is usually called a color triad. These colors are thus all always the same distance from each other, but can…
Category: Mixing colors
Color mixing chart
Do an image search on ”mixing watercolors” or similar, and you will get results that look like the image above. Diagrams of different watercolors mixed in a grid, which I’m sure takes a long…
Use the entire mixing cup
Almost all beginners in watercolor painting lack the ability to mix paint in a sensible way. The vast majority of people mix too little color, then when they discover that it is not enough,…
Mixing red and green color
When you ask Google what color you get when red and green are mixed, several of the answers are that the color turns brown. This is only true if a certain red and green…
Color mixing in theory
A color wheel is a theoretical construction in which you have taken the spectrum of white light, from red to warm blue, bent this into a circle and filled in the colors that are…
Mix blue and yellow
Mixing green color seems to cause problems for many. Maybe it’s because mixing color is generally difficult or it’s just that green colors are difficult to get right. When a blue color is mixed…
Beginner’s guide to mixing colors – Technique
Mixing colors seems easy, but for the inexperienced artist it can still be a challenge. I have understood this, after many years of teaching. I will therefore describe how to mix colors. These are…
Beginner’s guide to mixing colors – Material
This is the first post about color mixing, it will be followed by others. Colors It is important to have the right colors as a starting point for mixtures. All colors that consist of…
How I mix neutral colors
Gray color occurs in all kinds of paintings, it is important to master mixtures of gray color so you are not dependent on black or ready-mixed gray. In this text I will describe how…
