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1. Introduction: Hi, I'm Irina Trzaskos, watercolor artist and illustrator. Also I like to teach watercolor classes. In today's class, I will show the latest brink color trends and we will be mixing them in watercolor. If you are new to this channel welcome and thank you for joining. Press the follow button on top, and let's get started.
2. Class Project : For this class, I did the research of spring color trends and during the class I will show you how to mix every color and the color schemes you can form with them. What I usually do when I have ready-to-go color pallets, which I like, I would attach them next to the sketches over the project I would like to use them for. It always helps you to keep a cohesive color poet through entire project. For example, if you're illustrating a book, you would attach all the colors next to it and when you are creating multiple illustrations, you are making sure that the book looks very easy during the entire project. The same thing with some illustration for stationary for other products. Your project is to mix all the colors with the pigments you have in your own paint palette.
3. Supplies : So in this class, we will be using very little of [inaudible]. It's a set of watercolor paint and paper. I cut mine in this size. But you can cut it small in case you want to glue it into your sketchbook or attach it to your sketchbook. Or you can just use your sketchbook instead of paper if it's thick enough to paint in it. Also need water, paint palette, a medium watercolor brush, a round one, the one you are comfortable with, and a pencil if you want to take some notes. Also be using paper towel because I'm just so used to it. If you made that color circle in my other mixing class, then you can use it, and if you don't have it, I will be just explaining with mine what we are doing.
4. Palette 1: We'll start with more simple, limited spring color palettes. The first palette is very simple, and of course we'll start with pink. To create our pink, I want to mix some carmine red. It's red situated between red and violet red on the pigment colors. We'll mix some carmine red, and I wanted to have a warmer hue tending to the peach. I'm mixing a little bit of cadmium orange shade. Now we'll dilute it with a lot of water because we want to have a Ilia light and soft pink. This is our first color. What we have here is carmine red, which is a colder shade of red and cadmium orange. By mixing these two colors with a lot of water we get this beautiful, very nice pink. The second color we'll need for this color palette is a very bright blue, and to get a very bright blue, we'll mix ultramarine blue with a bright blue, which is a warmer shade of blue and you'll see in a second how beautiful the shade turns. I have ultramarine blue with bright blue and as a result, our ultramarine blue becomes even brighter. It's deep enough because of ultramarine, and it's bright enough because of bright blue. For this mix, we have ultramarine blue, and the bright blue. Mixing these two, we get this beautiful, bright, and deep shade of blue. Next color we need for this beautiful spring cardboard, is a cold shade of green. We already have mixed two kinds of blue, and by mixing some classic green into it, we will get exactly the green we need. I mixed too much green so I'll add some more blue. [inaudible] ultramarine blue and bright blue and classic green. I need a more blue. You can see how beautifully this green works with blue and with pink. What we have here is ultramarine blue, bright blue, and classic green and as a result we get this cold shade of green. Also this beautiful spring colored palette can be complemented with black and white design elements. This is our first trending spring color palette, soft pink, bright blue, cold green and black and white.
5. Palette 2 : Next color blend is also a very limited one. We have three colors and black and white again, but it's a very beautiful trend to use pink color palette. For first color, we need a simple pink, and then mixing magenta with a lot of water. In the project section of the class you can find all the colors I have in my palette. If you don't have these colors, don't worry, just try to match them with whatever you have in your palette. Magenta with some red palette, bright color. I just mixed it with water and I got this color which we need. Next one is a Payne's Gray, and again I'm just mixing it with a lot of water. You can already see how beautiful it looks together with our soft pink, so we have soft pink and soft gray. Next, we need a stronger color to compliment this palette. We'll go with bold orange, but this is too bright, so we'll mix some blue to it. Here we have Payne's Gray, some golden. Let's mix a drop of ultramarine. Just a little bit, so it's not as bright, but it's still beautiful. We have our three main colors. Two soft, or we have soft pink and neutral gray; a strong color, golden orange. Here we mixed golden orange. If you don't have golden orange, you can mix cadmium orange with cadmium yellow and you'll get a color, and ends at one drop of ultramarine Blue. This color palette is trendy and it looks great again with black and white elements. I hope you'll try it.
6. Palette 3 : Next color palette it is more complex than previous two. For our first color we'll need blue, which turns to go to gray. For that, we'll take some ultramarine blue and we'll mix it with its complimentary, cadmium orange. Just one drop of orange into ultramarine blue. In this way, our blue starts looking more neutral and it's turning to gray. This is the first color, blue gray, because we added orange to our ultramarine blue. So here's ultramarine blue and a little bit of cadmium orange. Next color is the color of the year. I picked the transient color schemes with color of the year because it's important to have artwork which reflects this color. So to mix the color of the year, I said it in other classes too, we need cadmium orange and magenta and we get this beautiful leading color, orange pink color it's beautiful. So here we mixed cadmium orange and magenta. Next color for this color pallet is a bright blue, but also we need to neutralize it a little bit, so it's not too bright. So add a little bit of cadmium orange [inaudible]. This is too much and we'll dilute it with quite a bit of water, so it's lighter. So you'd remember if you want the color to be darker, you add more pigment and if you want it to be lighter just add more water. This way it keeps its transparency but it's still lighter and colorful and beautiful. The next one is mustard yellow and we'll take golden orange and a little bit of yellow green to it. More orange and we get this beautiful mustard yellow here. So here we have bright blue, we've a little bit of cadmium orange and here we have golden orange. We have a little bit of yellow green. So this is our third trending spring color palette
7. Palette 4 : The next color palette is a large one in case you have a more complex illustration, and you'll need a lot of colors. Here is one of the ideas on which colors you can use, to be on trend and to have a balanced color palette. We'll start with color over here, and mix some cogent orange with magenta. It has to have more orange than magenta or close to proportions. That's our first strong color. The next color, which looks good next to it, this is orange, magenta. Next color which looks good next to it, is some dark blue. To get a beautiful dark blue, we'll take indigo, and put ultramarine blue. Those two colors mixed together with not a lot of water will give us a beautiful dark blue to complement and give you a coral color. If you want more pigment, it'll be almost dark. Here we have indigo and ultramarine blue. Next we need a soft pink to compliment these two colors. For soft pink, I'll take camel red, and we'll dilute it with a lot of water. As a result you get this beautiful soft, pink. Next we need a gold green and again we'll be mixing classic green, with ultramarine blue. This time we won't be adding bright blue tent. It's classic green with ultramarine blue. Each marching equal proportions will give us a beautiful gold, dark green. You can see how nicely pink and dark green look together. Almost like in our first, trendy color palette. Next in this color palette we can use some lavender. I'm mixing violet with a little bit of magenta. This is too much magenta. Add a lot of water. As a result we get this beautiful lavender color. So here we have classic green and ultramarine blue, and here we have only camel red. We mix the violet with magenta. Next we need a olive green for this color skin, and at some point we'll take some golden orange, and we mix it with yellow green. This time we'll have more green than golden orange. Remember for mastered we had more golden orange, and this is exactly the same mix, just of different proportions. Here's our nice soft really warm green, perfect for a beautiful spring. You can see how nicely this two look together and this entire course can look nice together, if you have complex illustration you want to use it for. Next we have brown blue. We'll take brown blue and we'll mix it with water. If it's too bright you can neutralize it with some cameron orange. Mine mix a little bit with this green that's why it's looking so bright. Next, we will need mastered. We'll take some golden orange and we'll mix it in this olive green, because it's the same mix. We get this honey, yellow, beautiful, strong color. Here we have yellowish-green, we've got an orange. Here we have bright blue. Which basically mixed with green will make brown so it looks almost like turquoise. Here we have golden, orange with yellow green. This has the entire color scheme, you can use separate colors or you can use it altogether, and it'll look very trendy and beautiful.
8. Palette 5 : For the last darker skin will be working on the wave called hues, so we can create a cohesive called trendy spring color scheme. The main and strongest color will be magenta and little bit of bright blue in it. It will take quite a bit of pigment, so it's going to be pretty bright. We want to rotate it with a lot of water so as to challenge blue. This is our first color, magenta with bright blue. Next one would be just a light blue diluted with a lot of water. Next color will be emerald green with a little bit of violet, add some ultramarine blue. This is the I get, this beautiful green blue dark color. Next we'll need the lavender and finally, it will mix some violet with magenta and we'll dilute it with a lot of water to be beautiful lavender color. Here we have only bright blue. Here we have emerald, violet and ultramarine blue. Next color we need a cold shade of violet so we'll take purple or violet and we'll mix some ultramarine blue to it. You can see to get a colder shade of violet we need to mix blue to it. This is our next color. For our last color, we'll need some neutral violet. We'll take purple and we'll mix some rosiena paint. If you don't have rosiena you can make some yellow ocher or naples yellow, or because to neutralize violet we need yellow. Rosiena is a beautiful yellow, and the last result we have this deep beautiful violet. Here we had magenta with purple, then we had purple with ultramarine blue. Here we had rosiena, a little bit purple again. These are called trendy spring color plant.
9. Thank you!: Thank you for watching my class. I hope you had a chance to mix some beautiful color schemes. If you like this class please leave a review and upload a project on the project section of the class. If you are sharing your art on Instagram, please tag me so I can see your beautiful results, and see you in my next class. Bye.
Irina Trzaskos, Watercolor Artist & Illustrator
