Fresh Florals Pre-Class
Introduction
Welcome to the PreClass session for this class! This lesson includes information about supplies both needed and recommended for class.
If you can’t see the video below, click HERE.
Note that you can likely try out the supplies you already have for this class. You can also use whatever colors you desire – you can make your flowers whatever colors you desire. A little about the colors used in this class:
Daniel Smith Watercolor tubes are what I use. Here’s a bit on the colors in my palette, but you can use what colors YOU like:
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- Dot Card —- has dot-sized samples of my favorite colors you can test out.
- 6 Essentials Set — two reds, two yellows, two blues, can mix lots of hues
- Yellows: Lemon Yellow, Permanent Yellow Deep
- Reds: Transparent Pyrrol Orange, Quinacridone Coral
- Pink: Quinacridone Pink
- Greens: Green Apatite (has texture), Sap Green (a nice olive), Phthalo Green – Blue Shade (brighter)
- Blues: Ultramarine Turquoise, Indanthrone Blue (navy), Phthalo Blue – Red Shade (similar to Green Shade which is in the 6 Essentials set), Manganese (sky)
- Purple: Carbazole Violet
- Pearlescent Shimmer (can be added to anything)
- Natural colors: Quinacridone Burnt Orange, Quinacridone Gold, Sepia, Lunar Black
- Note there’s places to use blacks and browns in this class but you can mix your own using suggested colors in the lessons.
- If you wish to create a palette, the palette and pans are listed below; scroll to the bottom of this lesson to see the video on how to create a palette like I did.
Supplies
Palette
If you’d like to create a palette like mine, here’s more on how I set it up (see the blog post HERE) – pdf is HERE.
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2 Comments
Hi all,
I am liking the DS Essentials and have been making color wheels from them. But I am now wanting to compare the colors I can make using other three primary colors.
I have quite a selection of DS paints and wonder if there are other good ones to try.
Anyone have any other suggestions of good pairings for mixing a wide variety of colors.
I’m thinking of making tiny little Altoid color boxes to take in my purse.
Thanks, Karen
You can certainly make charts of any three colors – but only red yellow and blue are primaries. If you use a green, it contains yellow + blue, etc. so you may mix a lot of brown. But you can use any red yellow and blue to see what they do!