 Morning class I'm Will Kemp from Will Kemp Art School and today I'm going to show you how to mix and match colors for a landscape painting. Here it is let's get going. So the first thing I do is to try and assess the tones that we're looking at to try and decide which colors are going to be best to start off the mix. So for this example video I'm just going to show you how to mix the sky blue, this cloud which is a muted purple and this area here where the sun is just you know coming through and really bursting making this nice warm feel onto the painting. So we're going to try and match these three colors I'm going to show you how to do it. So when I'm assessing the blue you just got to find what color on the color wheel is closest to the color you're trying to match. So this one obviously is the blue so let's put out some blue and some white. When I'm trying to judge this blue I'm looking at his value value is just how light or how dark something is on a gray scale. So here when I look at this blue it is closer to the white than it is to the black so to try and match it I'm going to start with some of the white. Blue is always a lot higher tinting strength than the white so you can just add a small amount see how I just scrape a bit and then mix that in okay that's still too light we still need to add a bit more of the blue to it. Okay we're getting closer in tone but this blue is too blue I mean we have a bit more blue there but it's too purpley when we look at it. So to try and knock that back we're going to have to add something to the blue to make it not as bright. So now I've added some burnt umber now this looks very dark but is in fact very useful color because burnt umber has got an orange base to it. The complementary color of blue is orange so to mute it down we need to add a bit of its complement but instead of using the bright orange I'm just going to add a touch of the burnt umber. You see how that has grayed that tone down so now that's a lot closer it might need a bit more of the blue back in it but if we're getting it quite close that's a perfect color to start with. So the next color we've got down is on this area of the cloud here clouds can be tricky to paint because your brain will often tell you that they have to be light and bright and all the colors of the rainbow mostly towards gray but when we look at a sunset to really get that contrast to make this white here of the sun coming through really look bright you've got to make sure that you go dark enough onto this area of the cloud. So if we look at the local color of the cloud we can see that it's a purple hue in comparison to this blue so we're going to need something to make a purple we won't be able to do it with these three colors so we're going to have to introduce a red. To mix this purple I'm going to start with a bit of the blue a bit of this red and then some white okay in terms of its hue as in its color it's quite close to part of this you'll see parts of that area there on the cloud maybe part here is it's quite close especially over in that side this is quite a useful useful color to have for this painting. So what I'll often do if I mix this and it wasn't absolutely the color I was after but it's still quite useful I'll make a little pile of it there drag some of the paint off and just add some more to this one knowing that I'll be able to use that color in the rest of the painting. So now with that darker tone that kind of blends in pretty well that's good to go. So now for this final color down here this quite muted orange we're going to use red and a yellow to mix that but of course with these we can't so we're going to have to add a yellow and we're going to use some cad yellow light. So because it's lighter we can start with the white again well I've got a bit of yellow on there that's okay okay definitely definitely too yellow so we need to make it more towards orange so we add some of the red to some parts of this that's quite nice quite a good color to have as a base again I might need to go a bit lighter for it so I'll keep this a lot of this color add some more white to this pile and this is starting to call what's called color strings color strings of when you have one mass tone of color and then you add slightly more slightly more white so you get a tonal range of colors which is called a tonal string you notice how that when you add white to a color it brings out the purple hues and knocks back the warmer yellows and the reds so now when we look at that we'll see that that is quite close there it might need to be toned down a bit so to tone down this color here I'll add a bit of the burnt umber to it only a small amount and what that's just done is just mute it down if you want to learn more about color mixing and painting have a look at my website at wilkemartschool.com