From the course: Painting Foundations: Creating Palettes for the Landscape
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Mixing and balancing green
From the course: Painting Foundations: Creating Palettes for the Landscape
Mixing and balancing green
(peaceful piano music) - [Voiceover] If winter was all about muted tones, then spring is all about balancing your greens. So we're just gonna take each step of this scene one color at a time to show you how you can acheive a good range of muted greens and brighter greens just using three colors. The base pigments I'll be using are Titanium White, Cadmium Yellow Light, Ultramarine Blue and Permanent Alizarin Crimson. So using the lighter hue of Cadmium Yellow Light gives us a wider tonal range in comparison to the more muted Yellow Ochre that we used in winter. So because these greens aren't super, super vivid, having the Cadmium Yellow and the Ultramarine Blue can make a really good range of mid tone greens. Usually when I'm mixing vivid greens, I always start with the yellow and the blue, rather than adding any white. White will always cool down your colors, bring out the pink tones, and take down some of that green saturation. If we have a look at these leaves here, you can start to…
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