Watercolor Greens: Mastering Premixed Greens for Vibrant Landscape Paintings

Let’s mix different shades of greens using a premixed or convenient pigment like Hooker’s Green, Sap Green, Permanent Green, etc.

We'll mix it with these groups to achieve various shades such as yellow greens, blue greens, muted greens, dark greens , etc.

• Primary colors - red, yellow and blue or magenta yellow and cyan
• Secondary colors - orange and purple to desaturate or darken the base color
• Neutral colors - to tone down or create darker greens

What will we do in this class?

In another short class, we learned how to mix various shades of green using primary colors and black.

This time, let’s use convenient or premixed green pigments and combine them with with other pigments and learn that:

1. You don't need to buy new paint tubes if you need a new shade of green;
2. You can adjust a convenient green mix and produce shades you'll need for your watercolor projects;
3. Checking the color wheel is a great place to start to know which colors to mix and why; and
4. Color mixing can be fun as long as you know the basic principles of color theory.

Who is this class for?

This is a short and sweet class open to all students from different levels. 

• Beginner students would benefit from being exposed to the art of color mixing early on their art journey.
• Intermediate students will have opportunities to play with pigments and with this specific combination for their watercolor landscapes.
• Advanced students will find this as a useful way to quickly review color mixing theories and immediately apply them on future art projects.

Everyone who completes this class, shares their project and review can claim their FREE copy of my latest eBook where I adjusted premixed green pigments by combining it with other colors. 

What do we need to get started?

Before you start watching the lessons, I suggest you do the following:

1. Download the Class Guide which contains alternative pigments you can use, color mixing ratio, mini landscape studies, reference photos and a little homework.
2. Watercolor brush and paper. Preferably a small flat brush to create organic shapes for the different landscape elements and 100% cotton watercolor paper.
3. Watercolor paints - premixed green, primary, secondary and neutral colors. 
4. Your passion to learn and growth mindset to embrace the new discoveries and failed experiments as part of the learning experience.

Music: Purple Planet Music