Hi, I'm Sue Rose with Expert Village and we've already talked about mixing the complimentary colors red and green, now we're going to mix the complimentary colors blue and orange. So, I'm going to put a little dab of blue on my leftover pie plate here, just a little dab 'cause you don't want to do too much. And, as I mentioned before, you can always put a piece of saran wrap on top. But the blue and the orange are two other complimentary colors. So, the first thing I'm going to do is wet my brush and I'm going to put just a little, like I did on the red and the green, a little dab of my blue, right up here and then I'm going to put a little dab of my orange right next to it. So, these are the colors in there, the pure colors, Now I begin to alter the character of my blue. So, I'm going to put a little bit of my blue over here, going to rinse my brush and I'm going to add just a speck, just a little dot of that orange to it. I'm going to add a little bit more blue, and here is the next color in my blue that I come up with, it's a much softer and warmer blue. Now I'm going to rinse my brush out, I'm going to take a little more of my blue, this time over here, rinse my brush, and I'm going to add a little more orange this time. That came up way too orange so I'm going to have to add more blue to this, and this is beginning to get an almost a blue-green so I'm going to add my third blue color here, and you can see it's almost a blue-green. But, what happens if I add my orange to this blue-green so that I have half orange and half blue? I'll show you what happens there. The same thing comes up that you did when you mixed your red and your green in that you get kind of a mud. Not a very pretty color, not a very pretty color. So, that is how you mix your blues. You should have at least three shades of your blue in every painting if it's going to be one of the colors that you use the most. So, be sure and use at least three and stay tuned to the next segment on how to use your orange.
