How to Use a Color Wheel for Watercolor Painting

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Marcia Matcham and I'm here speaking on behalf of Expert Village and I'm going to talk about my water color methods. Something that I like to use as kind of a help as I am painting and deciding on color is a color wheel. If you want to help in making decisions about color this is a very helpful little dill and it has all the basic colors around and it helps you come up with complementary colors or elanigist colors. Which it is one of the things that I do in almost in every painting that I do is to somewhere in the painting and usually 2-3 place try to put color that are opposite to each other on a color wheel. If I have red flowers and I'm going to paint green leaves around it I always add just a touch of turquoise in my green and it doesn't have to be real obvious. But it is jsut enough to give you that pop, that the red and the turquoise next to each other could accomplish. "