 with another video for my creative year for February 2020. So this month we are experimenting with using a limited color palette and the choices for colors were taken from some of my favorite colors and honestly this selection of colors and this particular brand of paint fun fact is the one I started with when I started Mixmedia. To be honest I didn't really know what I was doing I just knew these were pretty colors and I got these four colors and then I got black and white and yeah so we're gonna go back to my old days and we're gonna play with these colors and in this first video we are going to play with some color mixing and see what you can do with a limited color palette and try these colors if you have them or have something similar you don't have to. I'm gonna tell you what colors they are real quick here in just a minute. I would recommend limiting your color palette to three or four colors plus black and white you can use any colors that you have in your stash of stuff that you want to use but for the purpose of this video and my experiment we're gonna use my old color palette which is Amsterdam yellowish green also Amsterdam this one is ultra quinacridone rose I think that's what this has this one is turquoise green and this one is Naples yellow this is still my favorite Naples yellow color by the way the Amsterdam one it's just a little bit different than some of the other ones in in tone and it's yes still a favorite and then we also have just a titanium white and a Mars black use what you have that's close to these but give it a try so basically in this palette we have a green a blue a red and a yellow right they're just kind of pastely grayish tones but anyway I'm also going to use some watercolor postcards when I was cleaning out things and doing some purging I found three or four books of these postcards I forgot I had so we're going to use that for our paper and I've got a piece of parchment paper here up to my right I'm going to use my palette let me get a flat brush or a filbert or something filbert or work okay so what I'm going to do to start with an experimenting on how the colors will mix we're going to do a basic color mixing chart on that postcard so I'm going to put out some blobs of each color onto this piece of parchment including the black and white you hear any noise in the background it's either my computer or one of the kids everybody's working at home today and then we're going to put some white and then some black I remember when I bought some of my first acrylic paints I walked into a little stationary store in Santa Cruz California and they had a big selection of Amsterdam paints and I loved the color selection of what they had and yeah so I bought a few tubes it was great alright so I'm going to start with putting swatches of the original colors going down and across including the black and white yeah including the black and white and then we are going to mix the colors adjacent to each other together to see what kind of color range we can get I know you're like what so you'll see so I'm going to take start with the yellow and I'm going to leave the very corner empty but then I'm going to swatches like this we'll do the blue yeah dirty brush let's clean that a little bit shall we get some of that off okay white now I could have drawn out squares I would have not run kind of run out of room here at the end but you know if you want it to be more precise dress squares okay so now the idea is to start here with the yellow and obviously if you mix the yellow with the yellow you're going to just get yellow because it's the same color right we'll put that here then if you mix the yellow with the blue and you can see that kind of grade that down a little bit made it less bright then if you mix the yellow with the pink you can see the change the color difference you have there then the yellow with the green and then the yellow with the white and then the yellow with the black now that was unexpected look at that pretty gray color so I want you to go across and I want you to do that for all the colors on the card all the way down I'm going to do that I'm going to speed forward through the process and I'll be right back okay now you've made yourself sorry for shaky camera now you've made yourself a color mixing chart and you can use this as a guide to create artwork from just these limited colors which is what we're going to do next I want you to work on your color mixing chart maybe start out with these colors but maybe go forward using other colors and see experiment and play and see how far you get with that I would love to see what you all do so we are going to create a little piece of artwork on this watercolor postcard we did a sort of a color key seeing what would happen and what kind of color variation week we would get mixing these colors together which was interesting so I'm going to use that as a guide to create the painting I'm going to speed forward through my process and I'll be right back okay I know what some of you are saying that's all great now but I can't paint like that so it's not about the composition this is a still life inspired by something I saw on the internet and I am not going to do a talk through tutorial because it's not my the idea is inspired by somebody else but that being said you can do you can do anything you can do random backgrounds I'm going to insert here some pictures some digital of some old random backgrounds I did with the same colors and I did these years ago when I first got started there's still some of my favorite backgrounds so the point is I want you to play with color I want you to play with the combination of colors but I want you to limit your palette I want you to do some mixing and figure out what you can do and experiment with maybe trying some new things this month and let's share and don't forget to like share and support the free content here on YouTube and this video of course but also share your work over in the Facebook group I would love to see what you do and if you have any questions comments or concerns please leave them down below also though if you have any questions you can that's what the Facebook group is for so if it's if you have a question tag me or one of the other teachers in the post and we will get back to you promptly and yeah have fun with it play with your colors and have a good time I hope that this gives you some ideas of what you can do don't forget to check out the video description for relevant links including the link to the Facebook group for my creative year and ways to support the free content here on YouTube and over in the Facebook art groups and I'm not the only one who has ways to support all the teachers here on YouTube do and in the Facebook art groups so check out their video descriptions and or message them and ask them if you have an Amazon store Amazon affiliate link or an Etsy store or something anyway that's it for now 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