 Hey guys, how are you? It's our first tutorial for 2020 and yes, we're starting off with an image of the color wheel hang on Let me zoom in now. If you don't have a color wheel and you probably will oh, there's an overhead glare hang on Let's turn that light off Ooh, that's better. Okay, you probably will find one helpful this year You don't have to go out and buy one you can usually find color wheel downloads like all over the internet Just Google color wheel and you should find something that you can print. I have a number of them This is my small one You will notice if you pay any attention to the color wheel and you look at the color wheel There's a definite theme to the sides of the color wheel So one side of the color wheel appears to be more warm colors Suggesting lightness brightness warmth bright sunshine if you will the other side seems to suggest Coldness dark icy colors if you will this month We are going to focus on Push things up a little bit This side of the color wheel. So you'll notice if you cover up half of the color wheel this side appears to be Warmer right later brighter warmer. You will also notice it's something besides your reds your oranges and your yellows So your yellow greens could go either way. They could be warm or cool as can your yet Your red purples they could be warm or cool this comes in handy when you're Creating art wanting to suggest lightness and brightness and you're wanting to experiment more with your colors and Stretch your wings if you will a little bit with what you're creating Okay, you will notice. Let's zoom out just a little bit I just grabbed a journal that I had laying around. So you will notice in this watercolor Quick sketch of the Eiffel Tower that the majority of the painting is done in the cooler colors The cooler side of the color wheel, but I added a pop of orange neon orange in this case To suggest lightness where the light is hitting the metal of the Eiffel Tower And it really just made the painting pop a lot This painting of this monkey is done in an abstract manner Primarily with warm colors. There are a few cool colors in here for shadow and shading But look how much sunlight is suggested by the use of all those warm colors And of course the little pop of white gel pen doesn't hurt either. Here's another one So this is a good use of Again the warm color palette. I've used a few of the cooler colors or even the red violets from the warm Coolish warm. Let's see. Coolish warm side of the color wheel down here Right, and a few of the blues and darker ones to suggest the shadows and really make the painting pop But look at all these warm colors that have really really brightened it up and suggested sunlight This is what I'm talking about. So today I'm going to work with watercolor. You don't have to I have this journal. I need to I need to finish Here's a cute one. It's just this is just all warm colors. It's nothing, you know Crazy, you don't have to get insane about it All right, let's Find a blank page. Shall we here we go? I need a clip Hold this open I'm gonna leave this here where it's handy I can keep my eye on what I'm supposed to be doing We are going to get our watercolor palettes wet. I'm gonna use watercolors. You could use acrylic paints You could do this with anything. I have two palettes here. One is a floral claw ball palette, which is primarily Least half of it is warm colors, but I also have just a plain This is your a plain watercolor palette. This is a Windsor Newton cotton in an expensive watercolor palette your standard 12 colors So we're gonna play with and I actually think I'm gonna use this one just something basic If you're gonna use acrylic paint, I want you to get a yellow an orange and a red Yeah, you can if you have them get a yellow green and sort of a red violet If you have them All right, I Need to get my brushes wet. I need to get my watercolors wet and I need to get a mixing palette I'll be right back. The first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna take our colors and I'm going to use the warmer I have two yellows here. One is a cooler yellow. One is a warmer yellow Just for this purposes of this experiment just pick one doesn't matter and we're gonna just swatch the straight color there's a Cadmium red in here, which is an orangey red So we'll use that in place of our orange and then we have a lizard crimson, which is a blue red Which is a cooler red still red so we're gonna mix a Purple I'm gonna take a little bit of the lizard crimson a little bit of the cadmium red and A little tiny bit of ultramarine blue made it to blue. We want it to be on the warm red side of purple, right? Okay, so here's a here's a I just did this really quick in this Windsor Newton set isn't the most well pigmented set But it'll work Okay, and then we're gonna take Sap green which is a warmer yellowy green of the two greens that are in here You could of course add more yellow to it and make it even warmer One is a fun things to do is to figure out just using your warm color palette. What other colors can I get from these, right? So what happens if you mix, you know, the purple and the green You're gonna get a neutral. So that's how you would get your neutral color Or a a neutral color if you put a little more green in it It's gonna become more green but a darker green See if we can darken these up just a little bit and see it's a little better So with watercolor less water more pigment makes a darker color and Then if we move these together and because these are transparent watercolors You can also layer them. So that make made a nice dark sort of reddish warm brown Also, if you take the purple color and you add the orangey color to it that nice dark gray So the first thing I want you to do is I want you to experiment with mixing your colors Together and seeing what you can come up with now you of course can just do them with the three the red orange And yellow you can of course But it's a little bit more interesting if you add your warmer purple and your warmer yellow into the mix You can get a wider range of colors and probably get something that's a lot more interesting Once you have that Then I just want you to experiment With making a little flower Start with your lighter colors and work your way darker If you don't want your colors to blend then you want that first color to dry completely Before you go in with the second one You'll notice I keep putting my brush over here I want it wet, but I don't want it soaking wet So I am just dapping it off on a rag and before anybody asks. I'm just doing an abstract flower shape I'm not doing a Particularly realistic flower although if I have to say it's some kind of mum sort of shape We can take one of these other colors That we created To add some depth and texture to the piece Again, we're really we're working wet on wet. Everything's very wet If you don't like the way the colors are blending, then you want to work dry, but Yeah, yeah, that didn't make sense today. You want to let your colors dry before you start doing this In between each color or take a heat tool to the piece and just you know with watercolor Well, at least the way I watercolor I Stay light With the pigment load and the colors No matter what theme of colors I'm working with and I work my way darker As I go More pigment darker colors This first piece I want you to just experiment and play with your colors Get an idea of what you can and can't do with this very limited color palette Okay, we're gonna dry that off. I'll be right back as you're doing this I want you to remember that we're mixed media artists primarily, right? So that means that when you're done experimenting with your little watercolor painting or acrylic painting That doesn't mean you can't add other things to it So this is just a fine-tipped black Disposable fountain pen. This is a pilot varsity fountain pen. It's just Something that I had here in the art room that has the fine tip to it and this is a white gel pen So fun fact gel pens don't always want to write over watercolor Pigments very easily They will do it, but they don't always like doing it So you add a few marks and you get something cute and interesting like that. Yes Okay, I also want to share with you some work in Single-color themes that I've done in the past. So here's a piece. This is actually a reprint This is in my business card. The original is packed away in a place. I can't really get to it right now But this face was done on a piece of board with black gesso And only cool colors, but what if you did something like that with only warm colors? How cool would that be? your red would be your darker shadow color and the Closer you got to yellow those colors would be your highlight colors. How cool would that be? I Also have done a number of sketches in my creative year sketchbooks in the past And there are sketches that start out with black ink and Then I use my either cool or warm colors to highlight the shapes and bring out the shapes Looking for a good example To bring out the shapes In the drawing this one is done all and just the cool the purple the cool To bring out the shadows and the white paper is the highlight. I think a good example of cool I mean warm colors in this one. Let's see Yes here look So I drew the pair of mittens and then I used the pink which is a warm color To bring out the highlights and the mittens to accent the drawing So I want you to go out this month. I want you to practice. Here's another one I want you to practice with your warm colors. You can do a sketch. These are done with highlighter markers In my sketchbook, but you would only choose the warm ones. I'm yeah the warm ones You could do it with watercolor paint You could do it with acrylic paint. I want you to play with mixing I want you to play with doing just some little drawings. They can be blobs They can be flowers they whatever you want, but I want you to play with your warm colors this month And I want to see what you do Please share in the group if you're not a member of the my creative year Facebook group and you'd like to be There's a link in the description below Don't forget to like share and subscribe If you have any questions comments or concerns, you can leave them over in the Facebook group or here on the video down below I Will answer most of them over in the Facebook group just FYI That's it for today. Don't forget to go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys