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1. Introduction: [MUSIC] Hi, I'm Irina Trzaskos, Watercolor
Artist and Illustrator. Welcome to my
Watercolor Channel. Here you will find
a big collection of classes for beginners. [MUSIC] In today's class, I will share with your
spring colored trends and how to mix them
in watercolor. All my classes are filmed in real time so you
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2. Supplies: [MUSIC] In this class will
be using following supplies. Because it's a
color mixing class, we won't have a lot of supplies. First, what we'll need, we'll need watercolor paper, and I suggest you to
use for color mixing, the same paper you're usually
using for your artwork so to make sure the mix
feels right on that paper. I'll be using Canson paper. You can also make yourself a color journal also
out of the same paper. I have a color journal for
specific watercolors I use. This is my color journal, but I wanted to show you. First I research the colors, so then I try to mix them on another piece of paper and when I'm happy
with the results, I would transfer it neatly
into a color journal, so it's easy to use when I need a color story
for my artwork. However, in this class, I'll be showing you how
to mix these colors on small pieces of paper
and I'll be showing you each color which
we'll be using. That's about paper. For watercolor paint, I'll be using
artistro watercolors. This is a travel set, and we have a regular set or I'll just use any
watercolors you have. Before using watercolors, I like spraying them from
spray bottle like this so it's easier to use. Also, of course, we'll need a paint palette with paint now, but we'll use, of
course, a clean one. We'll need a paper
towel and will be washing paint palette
after every color story. I won't be showing it, but it'll be cleaned every time. Also I need three jars
of water to ensure my brush is clean every time I go into watercolor
to get a new color. Also for my paints, I made this chart, you suggest you do the same so it's exactly
where the paint is situated each paint in
this set has number. You can see them here, so besides the name, it has a number. When I transfer my
pallets into my book, I just write the
formula for each color. It's very convenient and fun. Also we need any brush
you like for mixing. When experimenting those
using a round brush, in the class I was using this flat brush it
doesn't matter. If you'll be taking
notes on numbers of the colors or names of the colors you'll
need a pen or pencil. If you are using a different paints than
I do in this class, I suggest you also to create a color circle to
better understand how to substitute the colors which I'm using or find
very similar colors. To understand that the color
theory I suggest you to make your own color circle
with the paints you have. How to do so you can find in my color mixing class basics, where I teach you how to mix
any color you can think of. This is all what you'll need in this class. Let's get started.
3. Spring Color Story #1: [MUSIC] This spring
color palette is very gentle and we'll be
mixing other colors with a lot of water and just one color will be
more solid than others. Let's get started. There
are seven colors in this palette and I
hope you enjoy it. Let's take some water and
we'll start our first color, which is a mix of brilliant blue and orange, just
a drop of orange, a teeny-tiny, don't
overdo it with orange. Now let's add a lot of water
to our mix, clean water. I hope you have a few jars
with water on your table. We get this gentle
purplish-gray. You can write the numbers under the color itself or you can
put little smudges of color. This is brilliant blue and
a tiny bit of orange to it. I usually put a number
spot so you can see better the colors I'm
putting the colors on. For next one, we'll have a warm
shade of peach. [NOISE] We'll take some flesh. I sprayed my paint with water, so it's very wet. It's important to bring
it to paint palette. To our flesh color, we'll add a drop of charissa where it's like
a very bright magenta. Again, mix it with a lot of water and this is
our next color. Beautiful. Make sure
you wash your brush, dry it in a paper towel and
let's put our colors here. Flesh and a little bit
of this bright magenta, which is called charissa, I think here it's number
22 in this palette. For the next color, we'll be mixing three
types of green. We'll be mixing leaf green, make sure you wash
your brush very well, olive green, and pink green. For this complex, beautiful shade of green. I think we have enough
water here. All right. But if your color is too
dark, add more water. This is our beautiful
green color. Here we have three
types of green; leaf green, olive green, and pink green. If you don't have these colors, try to find something
similar to mix this color. Next, we'll get into pink. For our pink we'll mix
our permanent red, which is number 16
in this palette. Oh no, number 16, I think it's permanent red. Mix permanent red
with number 12, which is vermilion, well, whatever your
palette is saying. We have permanent red
and vermilion here, what a beautiful pink color. We mix it with a lot of water. Very nice, brush and you'll see how wonderful it
is when it dries. If you want it to
be a little warmer, you'll add more vermilion and if you want it
a little colder, you'll mix more permanent red, which in this palette
looks pretty much like carmine or any cold red. Here we have this cold red, which is called permanent red here and a vermillion
which is right next to it, which is a warmer shade of red. For the next color, let's
mix some dark green. For that, I'll take
a blackish green, which is number 49 here. Now we won't be adding
a lot of water, so let's take more paint. That's called
blackish-green here, [NOISE] it's very dark. We'll mix it with cobalt
blue. It is beautiful. [NOISE] Wonderful. Let's see, very nice rich green. We have blackish-green
here and cobalt blue. Next color, we'll mix some
violet with lots of water. It's number 34 here. In my color journal
I usually just put the number center onto the dots of a color because they
seem to be a little distracting when I want
to see just the colors. Mix some violet with
brilliant blue. Make sure you have more
violet than blue in this one and we'll add
water, [NOISE] clean water. Let's see the color,
don't run away. Nice. Here we have violet
and brilliant blue and water, of course. In the last color, we'll be mixing
mauve with water, [NOISE] clean water, of course. Add it from cherissa or
this brightest cordon pink. Make sure you have more
mauve than cherissa. [NOISE] Again, lots
of clean water. We want to have a very pale, more of color for our
gentle flowers of spring. Here we have mauve and cherissa. I hope I pronounce it right. This is our spring color story. [MUSIC]
4. Spring Color Story #2: [MUSIC] This spring color story doesn't have a lot of colors, but they're all
beautiful and strong and will make an impact in
your illustration or artwork. First column we'll
be mixing is deep yellow with some violet. Deep yellow is number
5 in this palette, and violet is 34, is next to. Be careful with violet, just put one little drop because it tends to
overpower any color. Stick some more deep yellow, just in case we need more
colors or more paint. Let's try again a drop of
violet and deep yellow. Add a little more yellow, so it's not too brown and
sunnier, very nice color. Here, we have deep yellow mostly and a little
bit of violet. Next color is another yellow, and for this yellow we'll mix lemon yellow with a
little bit of orange. Orange is number 10 here. This is too much orange, let's add some more yellow. Beautiful. This is
the second yellow and you can see how beautifully they complement each other. For example, if you
are painting a flower, you could use both
in the same flower. Here we have lemon yellow, add a little bit of orange. Next, we need to make some pink, and for that we'll
use brilliant red, which is a warmer shade
of red with some cerise, which is like a very
bright magenta. Make sure the proportion
is more equal. Now let's add lots of water and have a
beautiful, beautiful pink. Here, we mixed a very
warm red with cerise, which is a very bright magenta. Next, we'll have
two types of blue, so if you make greenery blue, then you'll have two
variations of blues. For our first one, we'll mix
ultramarine with turquoise. There's a lot of
water in that one. Let's pick another one. Let's take some ultramarine and some turquoise. For this one, we
need to have more ultramarine than turquoise, but still almost
equal proportions. Let's mix some more
color so you can see this beautiful,
beautiful blue. You see how rich
it is? Very nice. Here, we have turquoise
and ultramarine. Now, to the same mix, let's add a little
bit of violet. Not too much because if we remember, it
overpowers everything. We'll get our second blue
just a little colder, and depending on how much
water you add, it's darker. You'll have two variations of blues in your artwork
for this one. Here, we have turquoise, ultramarine, and
little bit of violet. The last color is so beautiful, I love it, it's orange red. It's earthy, so it will complement nicely with
blues and gentle pink, so it's orange red, which is number 11 here, and to this orange red, we'll add just a drop of
ultramarine to balance. This is too much. Let's add some more orange red. Perfect. This is our last color in the spring color story. Here, we have orange red. We have a tiny drop of
ultramarine, like this. [MUSIC]
5. Spring Color Story #3: This spring color palette
is very cheerful and happy. I hope you'll enjoy
it as much as I do. For my first color, we'll mix lemon yellow
with some gray. [MUSIC] It may sound weird, but it looks so
beautiful and it makes total sense when you paint
spring illustrations. Gray gives this settle
greenish color. I'll have a little
bit of gray and a lot of lemon yellow [MUSIC]. Here we have lemon yellow
and a little bit of gray, which is number 60
in this palette. The next color is
another shade of yellow. But for this one, we'll be
using a deep yellow with gray. We'll be diluting
with a lot of water. [MUSIC] We get another very
gentle yellow. Here, we have deep yellow
with gray and water. Next, we'll get into the green. The green will be
mixing cobalt blue and a little bit of
gray and lemon yellow. Let's add a little
bit more cobalt blue. We get this beautiful,
almost glowing green. Here, we have
mostly cobalt blue, lemon yellow, and
little bit of gray. Next to the same mixture, let's add some turquoise. [NOISE] I think I took
too much turquoise, so let's add some
more cobalt blue, more lemon yellow, more turquoise again; all trial and error, and a little bit of gray. Here is our spring
beautiful blue. Pretty much it's the same
mixture just turquoise in it. Nice and fresh. What do we have? Cobalt blue, lemon yellow, gray a little bit,
and turquoise. Beautiful. For the next
color, we need more. We've lots of water. Add a drop of [inaudible] or a bright magenta,
whichever you have. [MUSIC] I get this beautiful
lavender color. I have morph and a bright
magenta and water, of course. Now let's get into
[inaudible] colors. I'll take permanent red, which is code a shade
of red in this palate. If you don't have it, you can use Carmen or any
code shade of red you have and flesh which a
good [inaudible] here. Mix those together. And we don't dilute it with
a lot of water this time. I get this rich
beautiful orange red. [MUSIC] We have our shade of red, which is called permanent
red here, and flesh. For the next color, I
just use patala blue, which works very
well in this part. If you don't have patala blue, just straight from the palette, you can mix a violet
with viridian. [MUSIC] If you don't have this color right
into your palette, which is number 42 in this one, you can use a violet
with a viridian. This one. Those two colors
will give you this color. The last color is
another deep yellow. I'll take deep yellow and
to make it even deeper, we'll add complimentary
color to it, which is a violet. Just a drop. [MUSIC] Too much of violet [inaudible]. Let's take more yellow. The last color is this
deep beautiful yellow. This is another
spring color study. For the last color, I used deep yellow and
a little bit of violet. Beautiful. [MUSIC].
6. Spring Color Story #4: [MUSIC] This spring color study will have everything:
will have gentle colors, will have deeper colors, bright, and few shades of green. It's a very fun and a rich color palette and
I hope you'll enjoy it. First color I want
to mix is yellow, orange and for that
we'll be mixing lemon yellow with orange. This time we'll keep it
more on the orange side, like this. Looks like
a beautiful apricot. Here we have a
yellow and orange. Next color is gentle
blush and that we'll mix Teresa with orange and water. Remember that watercolor
gets lighter after it dries. It looks darker now
but after it dries, it will be lighter. We have Teresa and we have
orange and water of course. Next one is a strong color. Its orange, red color and for that we'll be mixing permanent
red with orange. We are taking cold shade of red, we'll add some orange to it, and a little bit of lemon
yellow for brightness. I think it needs a little
more permanent red, whichever you feel like,
follow your intuition. Now I think it needs
a little more orange. This looks brilliant. Next let's dive
into cooler colors and for our first green we'll be mixing grass green
with peak green. Grass green is this
one Number 44. If you have a classic green that's the grass
green in this part. You can see it's very serious, way too serious for spring. That's why we'll be mixing it with some pink green. Here it is. Then notice I forgot to put the colors here so we have permanent red, we have orange, and we have a little bit of lemon yellow and here
we have grass green. Just put it down, so
we're going to do it with some pick green which
is very bright. Next to this mix which
already have our greens, we'll add also another green
which is a leaf green, very bright and cheerful. This is another green we'll
have in this palette. Somehow I have three ingredients
in one mix grass green, peak green and leaf
green, like this. We'll have yet another
shade of green, which we'll mix some grass
green which is colder. I mean the green
which we'll obtain is colder so I will take some grass green and mix
it with cobalt blue, unusual, and we get this beautiful almost
sage complex color. It's grass green
with cobalt blue. Next we need a couple
neutrals for this palette and we need one neutral and also I want to
add a neutral yellow. For neutral, I want
to mix brown and for that I won't be taking a
brown from the palette, I'll be using deep yellow. This is our deep yellow and I will be mixing
it with deep purple. Now I need more yellow. It's always a balancing. This is our brown, it's like raw sienna. If you want to make it
darker you would put more deep purple and raw sienna. We have deep yellow
and deep purple which looks like this. Now in this mix we'll
add some lemon yellow. We'll get our
neutral yellow shade which works with other colors. For this color, we
have a deep yellow, deep purple, and lemon yellow. This is our spring color study which is rich and
colorful [MUSIC]
7. Spring Color Story #5: [MUSIC] This pink color story is pretty 80 and little
cool like a spring morning. I'll start with the pink for that will mix brilliant red, which has some Number 16. [NOISE] I will mix it with
some two reds here. Mix two reds pretty
much rhythm magenta. I will mix it a lot of
clean water, of course. We'll get our first color
which is a very gentle pink. We have brilliant red
here and [inaudible], which is a bright magenta
and water, of course. Then we need to make some first blue for better and for that
we'll be using aqua blue. [NOISE] These beautiful color. We'll mix it with
some light green, which looks like it
requires mixed with white. Here we have blue
and light green mix. For the first yellow
will be mixing lemon yellow with deep yellow. Again, we're keeping it on the cooler side of lemon yellow. [NOISE] You can see how these colors
work well together. So fresh. We have lemon yellow and deep
yellow in the same mix. However, we want to add a
little bit of earthiness, such as this mix. I imagine a little
bit of violet. I don't have much yellows left, so let's add some more
paint to this mix. I have deep yellow,
lemon yellow, [NOISE] and a drop of violet. These are some earthiness
to our color palette. Just a little bit we could do it even a little
darker. Let's try. Just a tad darker could
be branches of these was to just and darker
shades to this yellow depending
on your artwork. I have lemon yellow, deep yellow and a little
bit of violet here. [NOISE] Then we'll have a series of blues,
this one is blue. It's going to be a mix of blue. We have some teal blue [NOISE] Beautiful,
nice and rich. I have blue which
already used here. Let's add some water to
this mixture and we'll add, have another hue
of the same color. Like this very
gentle, beautiful. It's the same mixture
just of water. Also in yet I reach
a dark colors for the accents and provide will
be mixing some pastel blue, not lots of water. Pastel blue and to make it even richer and darker we'll
add some violet to it. [MUSIC] We get this dark, beautiful a little bit
violet pastel blue color. I have to pastel blue
here and some violet. Also for this paint palette, very nice at look to
leave some white space. It says white show white. This is another
string color story. [MUSIC]
8. Thank you!: Thank you for joining
me in this class. I hope I encourage you to
mix some colors with me. If you like the class, please leave a review and upload the project to your project
section section on a class. If you're sharing your
beautiful color palettes in the Instagram please tag me so I can see your beautiful artwork. I'll see you in my
next class. Bye.
Irina Trzaskos, Watercolor Artist & Illustrator
