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Autumn Color Trends: Mixing Inspiring Color Palettes in Watercolor

teacher avatar Irina Trzaskos, Watercolor Artist & Illustrator

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      0:49

    • 2.

      Supplies

      2:45

    • 3.

      Autumn Color Story 1

      9:08

    • 4.

      Autumn Color Story 2

      8:15

    • 5.

      Autumn Color Story 3

      7:42

    • 6.

      Autumn Color Story 4

      9:17

    • 7.

      Autumn Color Story 5

      6:55

    • 8.

      Thank you and see you soon!

      0:39

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Welcome to the class! I am so excited to share with you Autumn color trends for the next few years and I can't wait to see what you will create with them

During the class we will explore five trendy Autumn Color stories, and I will teach you how to mix them in watercolor. Mixing colors is a great practice, it trains your eyes and makes you more familiar with the colors you have in your paint palettes.

If you have a different paint set than me, createa color wheel with your own paints and try to match the colors as close as you can.  If you are using some other media feel free to replicate this color palettes in the media you are using. In the Project and Resources of the class you can find a link to my Color Mixing Basics class and other helpful resources.

In the Project and Resources of the class you will find some helpful materials.

Happy Color mixing!

xo Irina.

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Irina Trzaskos

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Hello, I'm Irina Trzaskos, a watercolor artist, illustrator, and educator passionate about capturing whimsy, beauty, and storytelling through vibrant, dreamy paintings. Originally from Moldova, a small and beautiful country in Eastern Europe, I now call Coventry, Connecticut home.

I've been painting and drawing since I can remember--so much so that as a child, I often found myself in trouble for sketching on anything I could find, from books and photo albums to furniture! That early passion never faded, and today, I bring my love for artistic storytelling and watercolor magic to students worldwide.

On Skillshare, I am teaching watercolor techniques that help artists of all levels create captivating illustrations, dreamy landscapes, and enchanting compositions infused with ... See full profile

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1. Introduction: Hi, class because watercolor artist and illustrator. Welcome to my watercolor channel. Here you'll find a big collection of glasses for beginners. In today's class. I'm so excited to share with your other color threads for this year and how to excel in watercolor. Here. Miss Jenna, thank you for joining and welcome to follow bucket on top. Let's get started. 2. Supplies: So for this class we will need the following supplies. First of all, we'll need watercolor paints. I'll be using this set, which is artist from water cones, 48 colors. However, you can use any set it. And it's good to create a color circle if you have a different set. So better understand which colors to use instead. How to create a color wheel. You can find in my basics of color mixing class, if you didn't take it yet, I highly recommend it. However here I'll be giving you ready formulas to go. Folder called mix. So besides gold paint will need water, of course, I usually use three jars to keep my brush clean every time I go into the paint and change the water as needed. Also, the paint palette, except colors in. After every car story, we'll wash it. Only a paper towel will need one brush, whichever one you like and you're most comfortable with, just use that one. If you're taking notes, you'll need a pencil or a band. Also need a watercolor paper. So I usually recommend you to use with paper you use in your work. I use this kind of paper. It's called pres. It's a constant. It's not too expensive and it's good for beginners. However, when researching the colors, I would find her formulas. I did also same kind of paper and they're the experiment until I find the right mixes. And after I do that, transfer brown mixes into my color journal, which is made of the same paper. So I highly recommend you to make her own car journal. And these are the formulas for every mix. I show it in my every utterance class. But if you're watching this first one hand, highly recommend you to make a god journal. And these are like the formulas for every shape. Every color in the palette has a number and I put them right here. In the class. I'll be showing you how to mix them on these small pieces of paper, which are made the same paper. So you'll need to paint paper, brushes. You can get started. 3. Autumn Color Story 1: This autumn color story will have six columns and they're so warm and beautiful. I think I'll make beautiful color palette for your illustration. So for the first color, we'll be mixing orange round here at number Glenn. Been missing an x and get to a simple orange. I think we need more orange-red. We want to warm it up with simple orange to it because it's so bright, we need to balance, add some violet. Just number 34, just be careful. Take just a drop. Editor mix. This is our first color for this color story. So here we have orange-red. Strong ones, were warmed it up with some orange, added a drop of violet. Next, I'll mix a warmer shade of orange that we'll be using. Lemon yellow. Mix it with orange. Just simple Orange. Think we need more yellow because it's too dark. So what I'm doing, I'm washing my brush and when I'm dragging it in paper towel, and then I bring it back to the paint. And to make it a little more muted, we'll be adding a drop of violet to this mix. To like this. We have a little softer and a warmer shade of orange yellow here. So for weeks mix we use lemon yellow, orange and violet. Just to drop. Next thing is they're very soft color because it's good to have like software and stronger and medium colors in your palette when you create a color stories. So we'll be mixing flesh. Flesh. So take some flash, which looks like orange mixed with some white mixed flash with a little bit of a lemony yellow. And they can to make it more muted for autumn color palette, we'll add a little bit of gray, which is number 16. It's a warm like French gray. Okay. Way to shop. Gray. So we'll be adding some more flesh to the mix. Some more yellow, lemon yellow. And the column we get wider. The soft, beautiful yellow. Like an autumn day. You can see the real code. So you don't have Flash, lemon, yellow, and gray. So we check some of these jars so I can keep my brush clean. Next we need to make some greens and prefers soft green will be mixed and glide green, flash and adding water to it. So I have light green, which is a very bride. It's way too bright for autumn. We need to balance it with a drop of Rush. Challenge fresh. Tried to take a softer brush for this fixed moral color. So again, we have light green, little bit of flash, more green roof flush. The cytosol to get his luck gone. Muted me into color. You can see how beautiful it works with the oranges and yellow we have. So here we have mostly light green and flesh. The next color we have a medium. And again, it's going to be muted one, because it's autumn color palette. And her battle take on grass green, number 44. At some flash sheet or a warm. Some more green because it's got all. This is a beautiful green. It's grass green with some flush. Grass green. And we're warming it up with a drop-off flash. We need a very strong green. So we'll take blackish green. It looks like grass green mixed with black or gray are some very dark like this. It will add a leaf green. Just soften it. And to the same mix, we'll add a little bit of olive green. Mixing three rooms for this strong, beautiful dark green color. It's very complex and has so much depth. So here we have blackish green and tilt it a little bit so you can see it's not black. It's like your screen like this. I'm going to have light green and the olive green in the same mix. This is our autumn color story. 4. Autumn Color Story 2: So this autumn colored study is pastels and creamy colors and they're so warm and beautiful and they like it so much. I hope you like it to. So for the first color, we'll be creating a beautiful gray. And pyruvate will take some ultramarine, which is number 31. So you first start out like dreamy, a light colors. We know they have chat a lot of water to each other after they're mixed. So we're taking some ultramarine blue. And then we'll add some flesh to get too much flash content, some remote jump right into it. Next we'll add some cobalt blue. And the citizen could get his dreamy, beautiful warm gray. So here we have ultramarine blue flash. Like this. Next column will be mixed or using burnt sienna. And we'll drop of cobalt blue and lots of water, of course. Teeny tiny marble is just add a second color and this color story. And they see how beautiful they work together. Probably because both of them have cobbled blue mismatch just to drop, but still enough to balance it with another one. Say here we have burnt sienna. And if you see how loud it is, you have Chad, water. Next little movie mixing brilliant blue. My chest number 30 here with orange. Number ten. And we need to have more orange, the ban. But it still has to have a bit of cold shade into. And again, we'll add plenty of wire. Gets his beautiful, beautiful color. A very complex pull up Deb, sophistication. So here we have brilliant blue. Just two colors. Is beauty and water, of course. Next color we'll be using orange. Orange really interact, which is next to orange. So I sent this out to give this bright orange-red. So we need to soften it, to mute it a little bit. And for that we'll be using a dropper. And water, of course. Beautiful because see how nice it works, like cray and other colors. So here we have orange terracotta color for a second job of Tableau. It's like this greenish deep. So next I need blue. So far that I'll be using cobalt blue. And again, it's too bright for autumn. So we need to mute it a little bit with its complimentary. Orange. Too much orange is turned into brown gray. So let's add some more commonly blue and diluted with water, of course. And we've got this orange, honestly needs more water when you'll be mixing it too dark. But it's okay. Just try to mix it with more water with me. So here we have cobalt blue and a little bit of orange. Until the last color will be creating ads for like axons, like branches. So it's going to be darker colors. And for that we'll be using a Van **** brown number 57. Ms. Bennett. I would just use whichever closest shade you have. And we'll be mixing it with brilliant blue. And the citizens out there, little marble. Get this beautiful brown, grayish brown. It don't worry. So here we have a Van **** until after the water. So you can see the brilliant blue. Services are another allied quiet items story. 5. Autumn Color Story 3: This autumn colors story is more bright and cheerful like a sunny autumn day. And I hope you like it as much as I do. So for my first color, we'll be mixing orange red, which is number 11. And we'll be mixing it with flesh. Number nine. And it gets more complex, beautiful, orange. Orange with flesh. Like these. Next color we'll be mixing flesh. So technically we need to flash a little bit muted, so I'll be mixing it with a little bit of brilliant the balloon, Joseph, drop too much. But let's look. Yes. It's too much blue. Add some more flesh color. He says, Our next, again, warm and beautiful. So here we have flush drop of brilliant double. Next vignette, some blues, like a blue sky in autumn. So for Global Tech, cobalt blue, it's too bright for autumn, so a drop of flushed it too. I'm Mia suggesting it till it didn't wash my brush. Done. Here is just a matter of cobbled blower and some just a drop of flush and water of course, but you can make it brighter. It will work. Now have Chad so much water. For the next color will be mixed cell got some took wives. Way of cobalt blue for a darker blue. Caltech turquoise cobbled loan balance, and yet it's edited, it will take a drop of orange. This is our second blue. Anyway. See how beautiful it works with time. Color story. So far, I have cobbled blue. Again. To watch a drop of orange. Now I need a green for the grass green, which is number 44. And so these grandmas, a little bit of cobalt blue, I think we need more paint. So it's good to ask green, which is like a classic, classic green, edging some cobalt blue shade to cool it down and it gets a little bit. Our cobalt services linux of grass green. Number 44 in this palette. Next to a beautiful yellow for this autumn colors story that we'll be using. It's the PLO and we'll mix it. Came as well, had so much water. So again, I'll just add some more paint. And actually it a little bit of grass green we just used. And then add some orange. I set this out, we get this beautiful mustard. Yellow. Have less water than mine. I had water in a world of my palettes. Make it more watery, but it's okay. You can use fiscal year two. It's the same color, It's just a different shade of it. So I have deep yellow, we have grass green here, and orange for the access for that dark, beautiful blue. Forbad. We'll be using tallow blue to soften it a little bit, adding a drop of flesh. He says, the strong darker blue, which works very well with yellow, orange, blue, dire, autumn colors story. So here we have to tell a blue and a warm did with a little bit of flesh. So this is our colorful Autumn color story. 6. Autumn Color Story 4: This autumn color palette, we will be mixing red, orange reds, pinks, and greens. And you'll see how beautiful the variety of colors could be. So for the first color will be mixed. Orange-red color is pretty opaque colors, so make sure you don't put too much water. So to our orange red, we'll add some cherry set, which is number 22, and it looks like a very bright magenta. And to add even more depth to this color, add some patella bloated, not too much, just enough to add. So I sit assault when it should gather is like burgundy. Beautiful. Here. Isn't his gorgeous. Most like a cranberry. So here we have orange-red looked like these. Make some cherries centered, which looks like carried on a wire like a Magento. And then we added some patella blue to adapt to have a deep orange. And for that we'll be using again Orange arrived. Number 11. And once again, to add more depth to it, to add a complimentary which is blue. So I picked brilliant blue for this one. Which seemed to work perfectly to create a right triangle shaped. So you can see here we have a colder shade of Balkans and here we have an orange which got for depth from brilliant a puddle. So those are two strong colors behave in this story. So this is orange. Some brilliant blue. And drop off. Bring it. Next. We add some more water so it can save a shade. So next we'll be mixing with soft colors. And for that, I think a lot of water to them. Soft, I mean, like pastel. And perverse. First color we'll be using flash with water. Add a little bit permanent tried to it, which is a cold shade of red. And again, we'll add water. And this result, we get this beautiful beach common. So here we have flash and permanent red, which looks like Garmin. If you don't have permanent red color, this one will be cherries sad to get our new shade. A little colder, pink, peach. So here we have flesh. Feminine triad. When one shade colder and edit chairs, they serve God thinks and that's makes some gradients. Sulfur first green will be used, so cobalt blue. Okay, so now it looks like blue or to Turnitin, so green. But at first it and we get this grayish green. See how gorgeous it looks safe, other colors we already mixed. So here we have turquoise, cobalt, blue, and Flash. Make. So add some clean water and life is good enough to play it. Our next color. This one. Again, you can see how beautiful it looks with other colors. So here we have turquoise, blue one, plush, and the green. Next vignette. Darker color for our accents. For fat will be USL, grass green mixed with colored blue. And again, I supposed to be a dark colors, so make sure you don't add too much water. So it has grass green. That'll be adding some cobalt blue. It's already beautiful color however wanted even darker. So for that, we'll be using Payne's gray. Added to the same mix. I said it's out. You get dark, very elegant greens, which you can see works great with pinks and oranges and Burgundy. Here we have grass, green, cobalt blue, Payne's gray. This is our another autumn color story. At Sun doesn't have too many colors and just a few shades, but so much sophistication. And it should be enough for beautiful illustration or a heart. 7. Autumn Color Story 5: Item color story is so warm and mustaches because it has blonde colors, like orange and yellow. It's just gorgeous. For first color, we'll be mixing burnt sienna, orange hue. It's almost like brown, but see how beautiful it is. So we'll have burnt sienna and we'll mix some deep yellow tube. And to mute it a little bit, we'll add some violet just to drop sometimes a violet or overpower. So be careful about this result. We get this orangey brown color. Just beautiful for pastry too. If you're painting pastry. This is a color. Here we have burnt sienna and deep yellow and violet. Just to drop. Next color, we'll have yellow and we'll take a deep yellow. And to add even more depth will add its complimentary to it, which is violet. Just enough. Power is just add some more water to your house or make it more opaque, but it made him more paint than water. But this works too. So we have deep yellow here and you see how fresh it is. So we mute it a little bit with next color we need a more. So again, I'll take a more stretch straight from a repaint. And we need to balancing and mute it a little bit. So we'll be adding lemon, yellow and some water. So Citadel togetherness or sophisticated muted, more suitable for autumn color. So here we have morph. Looks like our violet, with a little bit of magenta and a little bit of white in it. And they added some lemon yellow. Next we'll have two valid and plum cars. Base color palette is very limited, but you can create a lot of things. So if it's colors, for first color, we'll be mixing violet. So we'll do pretty much opposite which we did with yellow. We'll add a drop of yellow to this violet. Yellow, It's violets. Complimentary colors are complimentary colors. So to create a mutated version, we need to add just a drop them to each other. It could be he could paint and I'm not a big shade or leg, which is also beautiful. So here we have five. Let you see how bright it is without the yellow and the edit depth and richness and auto filter it by eating the PLO, just interrupt. Next, we need a plum color. So for that we'll be using a chair. Just so very bright magenta with violet. When you ignore terracing here. Very nice. So as a result, regard this bright, bright violet, but we need the plot. So I'll be adding some Payne's gray base mix. And they think it needs a little more Chair says so it has more red and even a little more Payne's gray because it's still way too bright or odd. Now we've got this beautiful color. Eggplant or something like that. So this is our another limited color palette here. How far terrorists and Payne's gray? This is our autumn color story. 8. Thank you and see you soon!: Thank you for joining me in this class. I hope over there just to make some colors of me, if you like the class, please leave a review and the blood project, your project section of a class. And if you're sharing your project on Instagram, please tag me seconds here, beautiful artwork. And I'll see you in the next class. Bye.