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Learn to Mix Earth Colors for Beginners
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Learn to Mix Earth Colors for Beginners

3 easy steps mixing your own colors
Created byViktoria Majestic
Last updated 5/2023
English
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What you'll learn

  • How to mix natural earth tone
  • in oil, acrylics and other mediums
  • no previous knowledge necessary
  • for beginner and intermediate painters and artists

Course content

2 sections • 8 lectures • 29m total length

  • Introduction2:05

    Learn to mix basic earth tones from the three primary colors, yellow, red, and blue, with optional white, using a color wheel and Payne's gray, ochre, and burnt sienna.

  • Earth Colors Tools2:04

    Identify essential earth color tools—palette knife, brushes, and solvent or water—and mix yellow, red, blue, and white to adjust value on canvas or palette; clean brushes with paper towels.

  • Mixing Ochre4:56

    Mix ochre by starting with yellow ochre and identifying the dominant color. Add small amounts of red and ultramarine blue, then brighten with more yellow and optional white.

  • Mixing Sienna4:27

    Begin with red as the dominant color, add yellow and blue to form a brownish sienna earth tone, and use white as a modifier to adjust lightness and saturation.

  • Mixing Payne's Grey4:02

    Learn to mix Payne's gray from blue, yellow, and red with white to create earth tones, and choose professional grade paints for best true color.

Requirements

  • no requirements

Description

In this short session I will show you how easy it is to mix your own earth colors. All you will need is the three primary colors, and white as the additional color to make some modification to values.

It doesn't matter what painting medium you prefer, oil, acrylics or something else, you'll be able to use these mixtures.

There is no need to previous experience in painting or color mixing. It is a very simple, straightforward process, which can save you money. The less colors you need to buy and the more you can mix, the cheaper it will be for you to paint.

The only important factor is to buy quality paints for your mixtures. Cheap but inferior quality paints will make it very difficult if not impossible to mix pure colors. Most of the time by mixing them you'd get muddy, brownish, greyish colors.

Viktoria is a classically trained artist, she studied art both in Europe and in the United States, in schools like the prestigious Art Students League of New York and the Ridgewood Art Institute. All you need is three basic colors red, blue and yellow, Viktoria will teach you the rest.

If you are interested in learning more about color mixing or painting in general, be sure to check out her other courses, as well.

Who this course is for:

  • beginner and intermediate painters, artists

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