Perhaps one of the most confusing thing for beginners (and for more experienced painters too), is how to use their palette of colors. This is particularly tricky if you like to use more than the three colors of a very simple primary palette. So how do you start to learn about how to use your pigments?

The first thing you need to know about every pigment on your palette is its "bias". What color does it learn towards? When you know this, you can now control much better the saturation of your colors as you are mixing. And with better control of saturation on your palette, you will have a much better chance of being able to match colors accurately.

In this lecture I will also show you my warm/cool primary palette. This is the palette I take with me on all my painting expeditions because it is very compact, but it has a great deal of flexibility for mixing almost any color you want. Its a really great palette to know about.

Length of video: 4 minutes

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