Color Mixing

I recommend the book:

Blue and Yellow Don’t Make Green, by Michael Wilcox

Charting a color study using limited watercolor colors – the how and why

(making a spreadsheet like chart by mixing your colors together. Very useful to get to know your paints)

Warm vs cool primaries, complementary contrast, optical mixing, limited palette.

Exercises:
– Create color wheel from primaries.
– Mix neutrals using complementary colors.

Assignment: Still life with 3–color limited palette.

Color mixing lesson for beginners – the Watercolor Color Wheel

(Goes through creating a color wheel and mixing colors from your palette.

Does not talk about primary colors)

The only 3 tips you need for mastering color theory in watercolor

(Talks about both CMY and RYB primary colors.

Also analogous and Complementary color mixing)