Watercolor: Mixing Basics, Primary Colors, how to get vibrant colors

Let's take a look at primary colors and how understanding them gets you better mixing results.

Colors in painting are an important tool - they're not actually the most important for getting a painting to look right (that would be value), but the versatility of mixing different hues with each other to get new ones is fascinating. Yet, sometimes color mixing can seem difficult or it will not result in the colors you'd like to get.

Learn more about mixing and setting up your palette in my video tutorial:


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