 So here's the dreaded task. This is what I like least about pastel painting, is putting the pastels away once you've worked on a piece or two. And these are just my little tray system that I use. I have a few of them, but if I end up filling up more than four of them, I typically know, okay I really need to put these away. I have a pretty decent supply of pastels still in my my working pastel palette or workshop pastel palette, but I really do need to get some of these put away and cleaned. Okay, I don't I don't always focus on cleaning them because I sort of clean them if you've watched my videos on the side as I work if I have a dirty one, but sometimes I just get a little too dirty and I need to clean them. So what I'm going to do, I thought this would be a neat opportunity, why not maximize my dreaded time and spend some time with you guys, hopefully helping you with a lesson that that will help you guys out. I have a video where I have talked about the color wheel and what is warm versus cool. This is something that I discovered in one of my past videos. I wanted to really be able to just describe the color wheel and warm versus cool colors. So I found an appetizer tray, as you can see I've moved them out of here for now, but it was the perfect way for me to arrange the colors families in this appetizer tray. But what I'm going to do today is use the color wheel just to kind of have a little test. So let's get ready and have some fun with trying to let you guys guess what is warm versus cool while we put away some of these pastels. So let's get started. So what I typically do instead of taking for example like this little palette of colors here and walking over to my collection of pastels and going okay let's see I've actually I've cheated here I've actually already I've got a habit of arranging them in color families so that when I go to put them away it's just a lot easier than here let me find one that's mixed up. This one here is a little bit more random instead of going oh let me go to my yellow and oh let me go because my pallets are kind of far apart. So it's a lot easier for me if I just go ahead and gather up pastels of a particular color family such as these here and I'll kind of work with them arrange them I put them back in the tray and then I go to just the green section it's a lot faster for me than going back and forth from one end of my pastel palette to the other. So again this is a great opportunity for us to determine cool versus warm colors and yes you can have cool greens and warm greens you can have cool blues and warm blues I know that sounds crazy you can have cool purples and warm purples so what is that and how do we determine what is what well it's not all that hard with our color wheel we can kind of see the fact that it's arranged in a circle is really beneficial let me see if I can zoom out here just a little bit all right I got my little kitty cat down below me she's about to knock my easel over or my tripod over okay so let's divide this color wheel into two sides all right if you were to cover up this side these are going to be more of your warm colors okay the reds oranges and yellows most people know that that's pretty easy right this side over here is typically I'm going to even cover it up even more it's typically more of your cool colors blues and now we can see where we got greens and purples even on that side too so how do we know which we're working with greens now so let's just stick with that which greens are warmer and which greens are cooler well if we think about our divided color wheel here's here we are on the red orange yellow side if the greens are real close or closer if you thought of this like a choo choo train if they're closer to the the cars on this train okay they're going to be warmer as they start getting further away from the warm side they're going to get cooler okay so that's what we mean when we say cooler greens all right and while we're at it we can do the same thing with the purples we're on the warm side here you go with these little train cars here these are closer to the reds and the yellows the warm side so these are going to be more like warmer purples and these will be your cooler purples okay that's really not all that hard is it so if you can make your mind think about a color wheel and how far or close is it to the warm side then that's going to help you a whole lot in determining what colors are cool and what colors are warm all right so let's get started on dividing these out and I want you to study this real quick all right if you were to instantly look at what you thought were warm greens okay once again closer to the yellow side okay these are going to be your warmer greens so let's take a look okay that's pretty easy to tell right we've got some warmer ones here here over here I'm looking through my glasses and through my camera so it's a little harder and I'm also going to go ahead and throw in here not just warm versus cool but warm or high chroma versus neutral okay and all that means is a high chroma color would be something I don't have a ton of them on here but these have more color to them see how they're brighter this one's a little brighter here it's not super bright let me find one that's really bright here is a high you can identify that little baby easily right that's pretty high intensity in color and that's going to be more of a cool cool green or you could say a warm blue all right so let's not get too crazy with that but the neutrals in here are the ones that look a little bit more dead I have a palette of mine where I just keep my neutrals because neutrals in a painting really are going to make your color stand out more you don't want all high chroma intense colors in your painting if you had all of that it's just going to be too busy and nothing's going to make a statement okay so but let's go ahead and get started with this so pretty quickly I'm going to divide these up and you see if you can agree with me on these I'm going to go warm cool for greens and neutrals okay so let's get started here all right we got a little bit of an idea going here some of them are so dirty you can't really tell what color they are oh no look at that I did have one that was more of a high intensity or high chroma color in there man what a difference it makes when you clean these little babies off but obviously this one is more of a warm green because it leans more towards this yellow side of the color wheel or the warm side of the color wheel right so now we can see that some of these a lot of these are darker greens down in here and you can see that they're cooler and darker this one I actually should have put this one kind of up in here these are kind of more of my neutrals you see how they're kind of like dead looking this one's actually a really dark dark dark green it almost looks black that I like to keep in there these are I mean they lean a little neutral but they still have a little bit of color to them that was just a little dead looking but this is still a nice it's got a nice color to it and I don't know how these are coming out on the filming but um so yeah again I need to clean these off so you can actually see these colors better let me do that real quick so you can see them better okay and the way I typically work is I I like to arrange my palette according to value so I usually go with my lighter values I just I'm in a habit of doing that up to my darker values alright so that's kind of how I do that so now we've got our our neutrals I'll do those kind of in the middle these are the same this one's a little different yeah see how that's darker you can't really tell until you put it down there well actually this one's lighter I should have put this one down further in here right in here it's about the same as that one we've got this one look at what a pretty color that is I like these neutrals alright so we've got kind of our our neutrals in here in the middle there's my dark and now again I've got a whole lot of these dark teal cool blue colors going on over here that I grabbed from various palettes and they're so dirty I'm having a hard time figuring out what colors what but this one's actually a lighter value here darker here this one's probably about the same yeah and this one's probably gonna lean more down a little bit lighter than those okay so we've got our our worms our cools and these are all mostly darks and kind of our neutrals this one's not a super neutral this one kind of leans over in here a little bit it's a little cooler this one's a little cooler than for example that can you look how much you can tell the difference when you sit it right next to each other I mean that is very obvious that this green is cooler than this green alright but this green is warmer than this green okay because it's got more yellow in it and that's all color is one thing that does help you as a past dollars even though we don't mix colors a lot together like an oil or acrylic or watercolor mixing colors helps you understand this warm and cool principle better because you know that if you've got a cool green and you add some yellow to it it's gonna make it warmer alright so so hopefully this helped a little bit I'll I'm gonna give as much instructions with the other ones that I do but I'll speed it up and you can kind of see me arrange them now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna just put these back in an empty tray take them over to my working pastel set and put them all away after I kind of clean them off and everything alright so now I'm gonna do the other colors for you to see me dividing them okay wow look at how many blues I collected over my past few paintings and I wanted to allow you to see a little bit of the other palette that I had down here or palette this other set of pastels that I'm working with to put away so that you can kind of see how the warm and cool works with the next color family of the blues now you can see that actually some of these are falling in over here they're kind of those cooler greens you can call them a warm blue or a cool green okay cool green because it's further away from say the yellow would be way down that way and these over here you can't see what I'm pointing at these over here are closer to yellow the further you get away these are becoming more of a cool green okay but the blue would be on the opposite side of the color wheel the closer you get to the worms the yellows you're gonna have a warm blue so you could call these I haven't finished arranging these but these in this family like these could be either cool blues I'm sorry cool greens or warm blues okay so I'm hoping that's making sense to some of you guys it all has to do with the relation of where it is to the warm side or the cool side of the color wheel so I'm gonna arrange these real quickly and hopefully you start figuring this out okay so now you can hopefully see how the blues whether you want to call this a teal blue or turquoise type of colors are closer to the warm side where the yellows are okay so they're gonna be well they're gonna be cool a warmer blues but they're going to be cooler greens I really hope this is clicking for somebody you know what I'm gonna do when I'm done with this I'm gonna put them in my divider tray and you'll be able to see easily what I'm talking about here all right so now the blues this is the set of blues okay the blues that are getting further away from the yellows okay they're getting even cooler okay so these blues in here are cooler than these turquoisey blues okay they're further away from the yellow and now these are getting even cooler now what happens is because the color wheel makes a circle okay that went all the way around these colors are going to start leaning more towards purple because what do you get when you mix blue and red you get purple okay so these blues are getting more red in them okay they're getting closer to that red side of the color wheel so these are going to be your warmer blues I happen to love one of my favorite color is a like a prim rosy type of a blue it's like just that neat little cross section between a blue and a purple it's so beautiful to me so so hopefully these little laying these out this way is helping you understand the difference between warm and cool I know the last video I did it's been a lot of videos back but when I used this appetizer tray color wheel I had a lot of people so my goodness I finally get it but I still have a few of you commenting on now on trying to understand the warm versus the cool okay so now we've pretty much got our blues I mean typically we think of blue was a like a blue like this you know or maybe like this just like a pure blue I always have a hard time finding like a pure blue because I I always tend to see what other colors are in it but um but now you kind of see where is it leaning towards on the color wheel and you can understand warm versus cool all right let's do another one okay so here I have the purples that would be if you were looking at the color wheel we just did the blues my color wheel is backwards we just did the blues if you add more red you get to purple ignore how I should have this going the other way okay so we still got which one of these has more red and which one has more blue okay so see if you can look at these and see it's pretty easy to see that these will dark ones I love these dark darks these obviously have more red in them okay this one has more blue in it than this one let me let me make a mark let me do one with a little closer and value actually don't have one just the same value but let me make a mark of this one and then mark this one this is still a purple a lavender but it has more red in it than this one so this one's more weighted to the blue I think this one actually is a blue it's a dark dark it's kind of like a dark green that needs to go wherever there again you can't tell till you this is a dark I think it's the eggplant Terry Ludwig eggplant it's very dirty you can't see it but it's like a it's almost like a black and it's going to be probably a little more like in here all right so let me go ahead and just arrange the okay are you kind of seeing how these in here are closer to the blue and these would be closer to the the reds first before we get to the reds we're going to get a little bit more of a pinkish tones in here so hopefully that's helping a little bit I actually had more purples in another tray so maybe this would be a great chance for you to kind of see where you think they go how about this one here this one is one more it's more neutral than some of the others okay so it's it's a little blue but it's it's still got some red in it too okay so it's it's kind of in here maybe all right how about this one it might be hard for you to see these where does it fall let's move them it's not quite as blue this one actually needs to move over a little bit over here it's probably kind of like right in here somewhere it's got still got some blue in it you can see it's not compare that one to that one you know this is definitely got more blue and this has got more red okay how about some of these are kind of the same this one yeah I got a lot that are kind of this one's in the more reddish this one's more blueish okay a little darker in value right in here another one you get the idea I'll just start putting these away now whoops can you see here these two it's on the wrong side it's pretty easy to see this has more blue this has more red okay so this one is more over in this side okay and this one here it's a this is a nice purple it's kind of a nice in between purple okay it's not really red and it's not really blue alright I think that's it in these except for this really dark dark one I have okay so now let's move on to the pinks all right so here's most of the pinks I have I had in my leftover pastels from painting so I'm gonna scoot it again a little closer here to the Alexa I wasn't talking to you Alexa what's your name sorry let me ask your question Alexa what's your favorite type of art there's nothing better than depression is nice she's got my vote of approval okay now I'm going to arrange these now what are we doing here we've got purples over here or blues that have more red okay and so which way we're going closer to red but we still got the blue the ones in this section of pinks they're gonna be closer this side are gonna be the ones that have more purple in them purplish blue the ones that move this way are gonna have more red in them still moving away from the blue to the red okay so let's see here I would say let's identify them pretty quickly here I can see that this one has more red in it here this one right away I can see has it's a dark dark kind of reddish this one too but still a little purplish oh that's really dark okay see this one has more red can you see it in it and this one too all right so they're going to be more over here we'll still try to do them according to value I hope I have my who these are these some of those little neon colors that I really like these by the way are tricky when it comes to value take a picture of them they're usually darker than you think take a picture of them with your camera with next to some other pastels convert it to black and white and you'll be amazed at how how much darker they are or darker than you think okay this is getting a pink that has some more reds in it we love that color so that's salmon color in that pretty now let's compare this one to this one you can easily see how much we clean it this one lanes probably of all of these this one lanes closer to the red okay that's a red all right orangey red kind of okay see it next to that one whoo you can see all right so what would these be would they be warmer reds or cooler reds I'll let you think about that for a while I love this color oh look at that I'm running out of it and I can't remember which pastel company made it think this is the same yeah I tend to grab that one a lot this is a lighter value but darker than that it would fall in between those that one would be there these would be here this one would be here sort of getting the idea it's tough for me too sometimes so general idea there okay can we see how these reds lean more towards the blue they these are starting to get to where they have more red in them you can just see it you know more red less red okay and how it can be tricky sometimes but hopefully this is helping it just became pretty obvious that I don't use red as much as I use other colors because I don't have as many to put away but I'm gonna add them right here real quick but I just want to show you how we've been working here we were at we started with the greens the warm greens we moved through the greens we've got cooler cooler greens got to blue started to get our blues getting a little warmer warmer warmer because the blues are going this way and now we're starting to get into our we got into our purples that have more red in them now we gradually got into our pinks and what that division we just saw there was kind of between the pink and the red here so that's where we're moving now we got out of the pinks okay because all of these lighter values of these are all going to be in the pinks okay so now we're going to get into the reds and the oranges all right so let's get started on those okay so what have we got here we know that the yellows instantly are going to be further this way okay so let's go ahead and move these yellows again they're dirty I can't even tell what they are so that's one hard time placing them it's a little lighter value this is a darker value than that okay so we got our lighter value here darker one here here's the lightest yellow for sure it's down here let me move this up a little okay lightest yellow okay look at that buttery yet lemony yellow that's so pretty okay then we've got more of these see how that one's darker okay we got this one's lighter I think just just these are close but think this one's more like in here and that one's there yeah okay now this one is like it's got a little more orangey so it's a little closer can't get it even come off yeah this is orangey this is similar to this one here and it's so dirty I can't get it cleaned off but it's more orangey okay so and this is more like a mustardy kind of a yellow I like that that's a nice nice pretty yellow I love that okay and then just so you know what is a dark yellow hmm what is dark yellow it's a brown that's really what dark yellow is this is brown okay so here's our more of our yellows and these lean a little more orange what would be the oh my goodness how did this is even hard for me sometimes the coolest yellow would be moving the yellow that moves furthest away from the worms okay so these are going to be warmer yellows because they're closer to the reds the cooler yellows are going to move more towards this area they don't have as much red in them so of all of these this would be their coolest yellow okay it's not as orangey as say for example this one right here you can see a little more orange in that one right there okay alright so now we get these are the funky ones these little peachy ones these are just kind of a paled out oranges okay so we've got those this one we can see is really one of the only true reds that I had you see that red there if I pulled these back over here okay this one is more like if I had a whole bunch of reds if I'd have been painting a whole bunch of poppies this is where they would have ended up in this red section right here okay but I don't have a lot of those this one is a red but um it's uh it's not as bright red as that one okay so it's kind of in here and these are all kind of like brick reds okay so they don't have quite as much yellow in them as some of the other ones this is like a really really nice orange here we're going to go over here with this one so that's pretty much it I do have some more neutrals left over right here these are just some kind of um they're almost like a taupey color I had used for something they see how they just kind of are dead in color this one right here and you can't tell this actually has a little bit of a lavender shade to it even your neutrals have a color family base to them they're just really doled out or grayed down or whatever okay so anyway so let's go ahead I think it's a neat idea if I put these in the appetizer tray color palette for us to kind of see how it works it really is easier to see in a circle okay so I apologize that I have these little paper towels in each section that I had used before that you know they're already kind of color coated huh might be messed up if they came out but um this one was missing so I just added one so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to put our color wheel right here in the middle oh and these are opposite of the color wheel so we're just going to ignore actually let me just switch them got my red got my filets I've got my blues I've got my greens got my yellows okay that's all I needed to switch right there okay so let's get started all right let's go ahead since we're we started out talking with the warm colors I'm going to go ahead and add my yellows here I'm going to do my yellows from light to dark going from the inside to the outside these are kind of yellowy oranges okay okay so what's going to be over here we've already got our oranges are kind of like right in there okay and then it even kind of got more to these so these are more we don't have a lot of the reds here look at that but I'm going to go ahead and put my my pinks in this one okay see how these pinks are closer to red and the pinks that I'm going to be doing now are getting closer to the purples normally I had my pinks in this one you can see we got those in there now these normally would have been in here I don't have enough to spread them out so now I'm going to go ahead and go to my purples just look at all that beautiful color wasn't this fun I have fun any time I work with color and learning more about color and color theory is only going to make your art better and more professional looking so I hope this lesson really helped you get stronger in that respect and please subscribe to this channel if you like this video and you want to get 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