COLOR: Limitless Limits

 

You may have heard guests on the show suggest limiting your palette. That means choosing just the primaries (yellow, red, blue) plus white and maybe black to lay out.

You might be surprised at the sheer number of colors that three primaries plus white and black can give you.

Ep.27 guest Jed Dorsey says limiting your palette does two things:

(1) It teaches you color mixing and

(2) it almost guarantees color harmony in your painting. ⁠

Put it to Practice:

You probably already have a limited palette stashed in your current tubes of paint. Look for one yellow, one red, and one blue plus white and black. Practice with just those three primaries and see what you can mix.

You’ll find that some combinations will give you bright secondaries (green, orange, purple) and some won’t. Pay attention to where those do and don't happen.

Once you get comfortable (or even bored) with those three, swap one of them out. It’s amazing what swapping a Hansa Yellow Light for a Cadmium Yellow Medium can do for your mixes. ⁠

Bonus: A limited palette is the fastest way to learn how to color mix all while creating beautifully harmonious paintings. ⁠


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