Video: Painting Cool Colors

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Cool colors for painting include blues, greens, and violets. Learn about specific cool colors with tips from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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So the cool colors, a kind of tip way to remember the cool colors is I always think of the sky, like cool blue or water. Most of the colors that you're going to find like when you think of water are going to be blue, like bluish green, are going to be cool, sorry. Bluish greens, dark blues, light blues, so green and blue are the cool colors, and any mixture of those are going to be cool. And white, usually when it comes out of a tube has more of the tendency of the cool side. It's usually kind of more of like a blue tint, than say a reddish or yellower tint. But that depends. Usually, when it comes out of the tube, a white will have a more cool tone. So the cool colors would be, a lot of the times, more of the kind of colors that you would find in nature like the sky and the water. So cool, blue and green.

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Painting Cool Colors

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