Summary: Warm colors for painting include reds, yellows, and oranges. Learn about specific warm colors with tips from a professional artist in this free painting video.
Anna Greene-Smith is a freelance illustrator. She graduated from MassArt in Boston in 2006 and spent some time studying at the Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow, Scotland. She is...read more
"So we'll start by talking about warm colors. And a good way to remember the warm colors is thinking of warmth, heat, fire, fire colors. Red, orange, yellow, a mixture of any of those are going to be the warm colors. On this palette we have; red, this is an orange that was used by mixing this Cadmium Red which is actually a yellower red, and this yellow. All of the pigments have a different kind of, a little bit of different colors in them, so you want kind of just remember the names of your different colors. But the warm colors, once again, think of fire, think of warmth, and all of the colors that are kind of involved with that and you'll be able to remember the warm colors."