 Morning class today. We're going to have a look at black. This is a Mars black. This is a pre-mix black And it's very opaque you can see here on the color swatch that it's Completely covered over the lines that are usually under a paint tube so you can judge its opacity If you look here, you can see The black lines are showing through but on the pre-mix Mars black is completely obliterates them to give you a quick Idea of its undertone. We'll add a little bit of white And when you're mixing black you only a very small amount Compared to the other color that you're using or the other paint you're using Okay, we can see that's quite a nice neutral quite a nice neutral gray on that This could be very useful to tone down your paintings daily scale them going too muddy It only goes too muddy if you start to add in too much black as in if you started to add in too much of Any dark color to your mixes You could also make blacks by mixing other colors. So we'll start with ultramarine blue and burnt umber When you're mixing the black between these two you always need more of the blue than you do of the burnt umber so we start with say Now what's that two to one? That's a bit more like two to one So when I compare those two I can still see that the underlying blue in this one compared to The black black of that so I'll add a bit more of the burnt umber and that's about as black as we can go with these pre-mix colors Just to show you its undertone Insularly see that that one's a lot bluer Of course What's nice about this is that you could use warm and cool colors which are often very effective in your paintings So if I add some more of the burnt umber into this and then a bit of the white You see it has more of a a neutral tone to it. In fact, it's even warmer than that initial black. So you can Yeah, maybe add a bit more of that if you want, you know to try and get a Tone that's very very close to this one above if you want to still just use a blue and a brown You can go one stage further and use Prussian blue Prussian blue is a pre-mix blue and it's actually made from a combination of like sorrow blue and Black in it if you look on the label of the of the color If you can see that there on here It says it's got carbonized bones in it and it's got the real thing to look out for is PB If anything says PB it means that it's got the pigment of black in the paint It's definitely closer in terms of its blackness in comparison to this one You see how much more blue and undertone this has compared to this black here, which is a lot more neutral Again, you can try to neutralize it when you're mixing by just putting a bit more of the burnt umber into it You see how that is? Definitely closer to this color here. It's a bit greenier though than this one You can also mix Prussian blue with other earth colors such as burnt sienna burnt umber or umber And you'll also get you know a color pretty close to black. So this is some Prussian blue with a bit of burnt sienna So the neutralizing effects of having the blue and the orange, you know because they're complementary colors That's what helps to get you this dark color I mean considering how warm this is and it still looks quite a brownie base It's quite surprising how blue the undertone is