Color Mixing & Palettes

For when your colors feel muddy, flat, too bright, or just not quite right. Explore lessons on mixing greens and browns, using warm and cool colors, creating muted palettes, matching colors, and choosing color schemes that suit your paintings.

Best Place to Start

Want to feel more confident with color? These lessons are a good place to begin if your mixes feel muddy, flat, too bright, or not quite what you were hoping for.

Winsor & Newton Mixing Set

This is a great little set of paints that I turn to often. In this video I'll show you how to make a color chart with your paints and you'll see some of the mixing possibilities of this set.

Warm Vs Cool Color Mixing

This is a replay of a live class that covers how choosing warm or cool colors will affect the results we get, and how to make sure we're starting with the correct colors.

Matching Colors

Working from photographs, let's have a go at creating the colors that we see.

Go Deeper

Explore more focused lessons on warm and cool colors, mixing greens and browns, building palettes, matching colors, and choosing color schemes that support the mood of your painting.

Warm vs Cool Primary Colors

Let's take a look at warm and cool primary colors and how this affects the colors that we can create.

Lively Browns

Lets look at how to mix a basic brown and how we can make them more dynamic when we use them in landscapes.

Browns with CMYK

Mixing browns with cyan, magenta and yellow instead of the regular primaries is a little different. Here I'll go over the things you need to know.

Mixing Greens

There's a lot of possibilities when it comes to green, so lets take a look at how the colors we choose can affect the greens we create.

Painting a Muted Color Wheel

Not all color wheels need to be made from primary colors. Here we'll use alternative colors to create a muted color wheel- perfect for moody autumn landscapes.

Fall Colors

Let's explore all the beautiful colors we can use for autumn scenes!

Forest Slices

There's so many different flavors of green! In this video I'll show you how I like to explore new combinations.

Sunset Swatches

Have a go at mixing some sunset colors using the paints that you currently have. You'll be amazed at the variety!

Landscape Slices

Loosen up with some abstract landscapes, focusing on color and simple layers to capture a scene.

Forest Magic - Color Palette

Explore a range of colors with me as we choose a palette for the Forest Magic projects.

Color Menu

In this live class, you'll learn how to extract a color palette you love from a painting to use in another scene.