Watercolor Paint Color Wheel

Video Transcript

"We are going to do a little bit of color theory. The very basics. We are going to do a color wheel. We are going to create a color wheel from the three primary colors to show you how you can get a lot more colors from three colors. What we want to do is clean the brush if there is any paint on it. Let's start with blue. It doesn't really matter but cobalt blue is a primary color. So we are going to paint blue in right here. Then we are going use a primary red. Naphthol is a primary red. Somewhere between naphthol and permanent rose is primary red. You can use a combination of them if you like. A little of each and put in red. Just draw a circle on your paper. Three, three and a half inches. Then we are going to need a yellow. So we are going to use, in this case, aureolin. Or you can use lemon yellow. It works even better for this project. This sort of looks pretty dull compared to bright, lemon yellow. Now we want to accomplish orange. So, basically, without using orange, you are going to mix red with yellow and form an orange. Now it's not a very bright orange. That is why I suggested earlier to use cadmium orange is a much brighter orange for that purpose. Let's create a violet using cobalt blue and red. Forms a pretty good violet. This may be a little too blue so we will add a little more red to it. Now, we are going to do green which is going to be yellow and blue. Mix those two together and form a green."