It’s All About Color Mixing: Essential Watercolor Techniques

It’s All About Color Mixing: Essential Watercolor Techniques free download

Learn to mix any color using a limited palette, create a color chart for mastering color mixing, and read paint labels

If you've ever felt stuck trying to mix the right shade or unsure how to combine colors without making mud — this class is for you!

This class will help you:

• Learn to mix any color confidently

• Understand professional watercolor materials and techniques

• Save money by making informed paint purchases

• Develop your personal color palette

• Master both vibrant and subtle color combinations

This comprehensive color mixing class covers 11 essential lessons:

1. Color Theory - Fundamental concepts, importance of color theory, and different color models (RYB, RGB, CMYK)

2. Color Wheel and Watercolor Consistency - Understanding primary, secondary, and tertiary colors, plus practical color wheel applications

3. Understanding Watercolor Labels - Deep dive into watercolor forms, how to read labels, and choosing quality brands

4. Creating Color Swatches - Practical techniques for creating and maintaining color reference cards

5. Mixing Techniques - Various watercolor application methods including wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, glazing, and gradient washes

6. Muted Colors and Neutrals - Creating and using neutral tones, grays, and subtle color variations

7. Recreate a Missing Color - Learn how to mix any missing color from your palette by analyzing pigment codes and combining single-pigment paints to create custom shades.

8. Exploring Limited Palettes - Discover the benefits of using a limited palette of carefully chosen colors to simplify painting, improve mixing skills, and create harmonious artworks.

9. Creating a Color Chart - Create a color chart to explore all the possible mixes from a limited palette, helping you understand your colors and choose the right combinations for paintings.

10. My Favorite Mixes - Get inspired with my favorite color mixes—combinations I use often in my art—that you can try and adapt to your own palette.

11. Painting with a Limited Palette - Put your color mixing skills into practice by painting simple objects using only a limited palette, and learn how to find the perfect shades through experimentation. In this lesson I will show you how to mix a skin color with a limited palette.

Class Project: You will create a color chart using your limited palette to see all the possible mixes you can get from your colors!

In the attachments to this class, you will find my Color Charts, PDF with my favorite color mixes and links to the colors I used, and my Art Supplies Guide.