Video: Mixing Warm & Cool Colors

Mixing warm and cool colors together will create muddy muted colors. Learn how to mix colors properly with tips from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Something to remember when you are using warm and cool colors, when you're mixing them on your color palette, when you mix them together, the warm and cool colors, if you mix cool colors with cool colors and warm colors with warm colors, it's hard to go around but when you start mixing the two together, it's easy to get muddy colors. Muddy colors would be something that wouldn't really be definable as any certain color. You really want to have colors that are really going to be definable as something you know like a bluish green or a light-pinky purple or something like even if they're not real words of anything, you want to be able to like have it as like a real color and not like a muddy area on your painting because it does make a difference. Like when you're looking at your composition as a whole, you can spot the places that have the muddy colors and that's, you really, really want to try and avoid that because it does make a difference so just try and be careful when you are mixing warm and cool colors.

Mixing Warm & Cool Colors

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