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hi everyone welcome back to another video here on my channel this week i wanted to show my process
for creating a very spontaneous watercolor palette and also how i mix the colors that are going
in that palette and i say spontaneous because i literally just started creating the palette
as soon as i thought of it there was no planning for this at all i decided to film it as well and
you are seeing a little bit of a diy happening right now and i am using air dry clay which
i've owned for years and i haven't used in such a long time but i thought it would be very fitting
for the color palette that i wanted to create um it's just going to be a simple
palette maybe five or six um in this case six but um that depends i guess on the
amount of air dry clay that i have with me so this one in particular ended up having six compartments
meaning i ended up creating six custom colors that all went in each compartment and how i created
those compartments is literally um pressing down an eraser which i thought was the perfect size
for each compartment and then kind of just molding the palette or the clay to the shape that i
wanted and it's very easy to do this it requires literally just the clay and also an eraser that
is a size that you're happy with and then kind of just playing around with it until you're happy
with the shape i didn't even really try to make it look very um good it looks very handmade but it
serves the purpose that i have intended for it and once that is done all i have to do is let it dry
once that is dry i then start my mixing process and i grab all of my watercolor paints which are
basically the holbein um artists watercolor set i believe that i bought a set of 12 and i still have
a majority of the tubes except maybe for the crimson which i believe i ran out in this
video so i used another brand which is eraldo de paulo and those are pretty much the two brands
that i used for mixing the colors in my very own palette but you might have seen other brands in my
very small stash as well for mixing the colors you might have seen my video
on how to use watercolors to color in skin and if you haven't watched that i will link it in
the card section of this video as well as in the description box i do recommend that you watch it
if you are interested in learning how i mix colors when it comes to coloring skin both light and dark
for this method it is quite similar and i will be speeding through the mixing process in this video
because first of all i'm not really happy with the colors that i ended up mixing so this is only a
draft version this is version one um once i figure out what colors and the mixing ratio i really
want for the colors that i want to include in my palette then i may potentially share the actual
ratio of it but for now this is more of just the process of how i created the um air dry clay
palette and how i am mixing colors as more of a vague idea that if you want to do this yourself
there's enough information in this video that you can do it yourself but i wouldn't want you
to be copying what i'm doing because what i'm doing isn't entirely um up to my standard so
watch out for a future video of this with like a revised mixing ratio of my very own
watercolor palette but for now this is a draft version so like i said i'm speeding through
the process and the method is slightly different because well because this was spontaneous i didn't
plan out any ratios for the paints that i was going to use i didn't plan out what specific paint
or paint color i was going to use and i didn't test them out as well a lot of things weren't
included in this method that i think would have made the palette much better and much more
accurate to what i had in mind so a few things is first of all when you're mixing the colors
i would actually suggest potentially mixing them somewhere else other than the paint pot and maybe
transferring them onto the paint pot because when i was mixing it with a skewer the colors
weren't really blending properly so the colors at the bottom weren't the same as the colors that
was appearing on top and so when i was testing it the color that i was getting on paper was not the
same color that i was seeing on the palette the second thing that i would recommend is to test
the colors that you are mixing as you are mixing them and by test i mean grab a paint brush and
some water dab it onto the paint that you just mixed and then test it out on paper
if you are happy with the results that you are getting then you're done you're done mixing
and then if you're obviously not then you can make adjustments to your mixture i did not do that with
this process i did not even think to do that i kind of just went with the color that i was seeing
on the mixing pot and i just let it dry so when i decided to test it out the next day
i wasn't happy with the colors that i got and i still worked with it as you see i am creating
a painting with it as i'm trying it out and the painting in my opinion doesn't look that bad but
it's not really the colors that i had envisioned in my head and i would like to actually recreate
this color palette using um a method that i think is an improvement from the method that you
saw in this video the third tip when you want to mix your own colors like what you just saw me do
is of course test all of the colors that you are going to use if they are of different brands but
they have the same paint name um test them out because for example the crimson that i used from
holbein and the crimson that i ended up using as a substitute because i ran out of the holbein brand
is quite different the geraldo de paulo is a lot brighter and cooler than the holbein crimson
paint so the mixture that i ended up getting was something that i wasn't really familiar with
and because i used it for all my other mixtures such as the purple and the dark purpley brown as
well as the terracotta it was not the colors that i expected so definitely test it out and i guess
from all of the tips that i have mentioned all it means basically is to have a trial
run first or to practice first before committing to the paint palette that
you have created or that you have if you decide to purchase it rather than make it from scratch
just a tip so that's pretty much how i created my own watercolor palette even though like i
said this is only a draft version please stay tuned for a much more refined version of this
what went wrong with this palette as well is i wanted to create a color palette that i feel like
i would be able to use for both light skin and also for a darker skin color but i just think and
i realize now that i don't think i will be able to do that because when it comes to coloring with
a darker skin the undertones that i want for it is sometimes different from the colors that i used in
a lighter skin color for example the purple that i mixed that purple is too dull when it comes to
coloring a darker skin color like it'll just make the skin look gray which isn't what i want i want
it to be more of a vibrant purple however when i'm using a purple like that for a lighter skin
color i want that purple to be more muted and less vibrant or else it'll look kind of fluorescent so
by creating a color that was like an in-between of like a dark version of it and a light version
of it and trying to kind of make an all-in-one color i think it just did not work i did the same
with the brown um where i was thinking that if i just created like an in-between color then i can
build up on it when i want to create a dark skin color or i can dilute it down
if i want to create a light skin color but it just looks really dull when i build up on it
trying to create a dark skin color like it doesn't look as vibrant as i want it to be
and it looks really pale as well when i try to dilute it like it's a really good medium
color if i just use it as the color that it is but as i try to build it up into a darker shade
or a lighter shade by diluting it it just kind of loses the effect that i wanted to achieve
with it so i think that's something that i will be doing as i recreate this
is i might be building two different palettes or maybe even three with one in between color um so
i think that's what i'm going to do moving forward but for now i might use this color palette as well
just to kind of try and practice or to just play around because as of now i may have run out of the
colors that i use a lot trying to build this palette so it'll have to wait until i restock
on some more paint and with that said i think i'm going to end this video i don't have much to say
about the artwork that i've created it was more to test out the colors that i had which isn't too
bad i think i'm able to make it work i definitely liked the very dark brown that i ended up creating
however i think i would like it to have more of a purple undertone to it rather than just
looking red or like a reddish brown to it so lots of work will need to be done to this color palette
but i think it's moving into the right direction and these are definitely the colors that i am
gravitating more towards especially with my art and even with my clothes as well so i'm really
happy with um kind of the colors that i have in my head it's just a matter of having them
be mixed into a color palette and then having them onto my art so stay tuned for that
update video and hopefully you enjoyed this even though i wasn't able to create the color palette
that i really wanted but hopefully you learn from my mistakes and try to do it a different way from
how i did it know what not to do and hopefully the tips helped that is it for this video thank you so
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