Comments on: How to make a 12 color watercolor wheel

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 06:40:27 +0000

In reply to Jennifer B. Happy to help Jennifer!

By: Jennifer B

Jennifer B — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:22:49 +0000

Now This is a Watercolor lesson on color! Bravo! simple to the point, well thought out without being overly wordy and cumbersome. The sign of a very good teacher who knows their stuff – thank you!!

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:50:39 +0000

In reply to nancy alep.

Hi Nancy
The purpose of the color wheel is to help discover how paints mix together.
When you mix two paint colors together the results are quite unique. So for example, if you want to test how three primary paints mix together, a color wheel is an excellent tool.
Often artist will choose a range of paints to use in a painting (keeping this to a small number of paints helps create a more harmonious looking watercolor), then they will make a quite color wheel to test how they mix. you can then use this as a guide to help you mix colors during the painting process.
Hope that helps 🙂

By: nancy alep

nancy alep — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 21:04:20 +0000

Hi there,
Thank you so much for the information. I’m just confused by something…. wondering how to apply this to an actual painting. So for example, I make a color wheel with a chosen three colors. Does that mean that when I go to paint I can use all the resulting color combos on the color wheel and it would result in a nice painting? I really don’t know how to use the created color wheel in an actual painting and I can’t seem to find the answer in all my research on-line so far so I’d really appreciate your help! What is the actual purpose of the created color wheel when I am painting… Thank you so much! nancy

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 13 May 2024 07:00:05 +0000

In reply to Anne.

Hi Anne
Thanks for your kind comments 🙂
Maybe you were thinking of this chart:
watercolor-mixing-chart-step-by-step
This uses a color palette that includes warm and cool paint colors – you could remove the non-primary colors and just use a warm and cool version of a primary…
Hope that helps 🙂

By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 12 May 2024 15:26:52 +0000

I hope the people who take the time to look through all of your free lessons realize the wealth of information they’re receiving. This is probably the best website I’ve come across for learning how to paint with watercolor. But what I like the most is how you teach color theory.

I was sure you had a lesson on mixing warm and cool colors that involved a simple template. It was a rectangle, and I believe the idea was to work with primary colors. So, you would have your cool and warm reds on the side, and I believe you might have your cool and warm blues across the top. You then mixed the cools with the cools, warms with warms, and cools with warms.

I’ve gone through all the lessons on colors, and I cannot find it. I think I found something similar, but it’s a much larger guide. I could probably figure it out on my own, but was hoping you might know what I’m referring to.

Thanks so much for everything you do here! Anne

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 07:31:56 +0000

In reply to Linda. Thanks Linda!

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 23:55:40 +0000

Love this exercise. Love all these exercises. They are keeping me busy and keeping me learning! Also working on the oranges. (Orange tutorials) Great info!

By: Margo

Margo — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 17:51:17 +0000

I have taken water color lessons from at least 3 artists, but I have learned about cool or warm colors plus making a color wheel from Anthony. I will continue to get your blog!

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 09:09:09 +0000

Thank you, this info is really good. I am getting some watercolor medium for Xmas so I will get this ready to do my color wheel.