Today we're going to mix around the color wheel to maintain warmth and then mix around the color wheel to make things cooler. Let's get started. Today I want to talk about the color wheel and the reason for talking about the color wheel is because we're going to mix around the color wheel and I'm going to demonstrate how to do that. We're going to mix around the color wheel so that we can make colors both warmer and cooler. I'm going to show you how to do that and I think the best way to do it is to actually demonstrate it. I'm going to cue that footage up now and try to put this color wheel in as a cutaway. Let's see if that works. It seems to work so the color wheel is up on the right hand side. The first thing we're going to do is we're going to take Cerulean blue and put that on a piece of paper. Cerulean blue with a little bit of water added to it. That is my latest blue. What I want to do now is I want to make that blue a little bit warmer. In order to make it warmer, I have to think about the color wheel. Look at the color wheel for a second and look at blue. If I move from Cerulean blue to the right, I end up in violet. That's going to make things cooler. If I go to the left, I'm going to go toward green and that likewise is going to keep things cool. I don't want to do that. Remember I said I want to make it warmer. In order to make it warmer, I have to look at my warmer colors. My warmer colors are the fire side of the color wheel. They're the reds and the oranges and the yellows. All I want to do is lighten this Cerulean blue a little bit. In order to do that, I add a little bit of Naples blue to it. That's the next mark that I made. You can see it's about the same value. We're not talking about darkness or lightness here. What we're talking about is warmth. It got warmer. Admittedly, it also tipped a little bit toward green, but it's a very blue green. So I'm still within the blue range. Now what I want to do is mix around the color wheel to make a cooler blue. In order to do that, I took Cerulean blue and now I'm adding a little bit of ultra-marine blue to it. What I did was I went from Cerulean blue and went to my right and added some right on the color wheel. In other words, I was driving around it and added some ultra-marine blue to it. That makes it cooler. Now I have Cerulean blue and then I warmed it up with some Naples yellow and cooled it down with some ultra-marine blue. They're all about the same value. So all we're talking about here is how warm or cool something is. And sometimes when you have an object that is all one color or all one value, sometimes you have to be able to make shape by manipulating how warm or cool something is, rather than how light or dark something is. So that is one reason why warm and cool are really important. Warm and cool also obviously affect the way you look at a painting. Warm colors will make you feel sort of warm and happy and cooler colors will make you feel more somber. So here's a Hansa yellow going in. And I want to make it warmer. My choices for warmer are either where am I going into orange. Orange would be one of the choices. Why did I pick orange? That was a mistake. I shouldn't have picked orange. I should have done a Hansa yellow and just added some Naples yellow to it, something that was lighter. So that's very much a mistake on that part. I didn't. I drove in the wrong direction. Well, maybe that's a good example of driving in the wrong direction. I'm trying to correct it now by adding Naples yellow to it. So Hansa yellow with some Naples yellow to it there. That definitely is a light warmer yellow than my original yellow. But unfortunately it has some orange in there. That was a mistake. Alright, the next thing I'm doing is now I want to cool it down. So I'm using Hansa yellow. I'm looking at my color wheel in order to cool it down. I'm going to drive around to add and add some Alizarin Crimson or some red to it. I want to stay somewhat yellow if I can. So I'm just using the tip of my brush to add a little bit of Alizarin Crimson to that Hansa yellow. Tiny bit, tiny, tiny bit. I don't need much. And now I'm going to add more yellow to it. Now I've gotten back up and I see that I needed to tip it just a tiny bit more with some Alizarin blue. So that's an example of really dialing into color by using. I used four colors to make that one stripe. But I needed something cooler. In order to do that, I did see how they're all about the same value, but they are different in temperature. So that last one that I did was Hansa yellow, a little bit of orange into it, and then a little bit of Alizarin Crimson and a tiny bit of ultra marine blue. It took four colors, four different colors to get that to be cooler and yet still remain yellow. All right, the next thing I'm doing is Alizarin Crimson. Pretty much right from the tube. You'll notice I'm doing this example with primary colors, you know, red, yellow and blue. In order to make it warmer, I'm adding some Naples yellow to it. Because that's a warmer yellow. I could have used a lemon yellow if I wanted to. There we go. That's definitely warmer and slightly different in value. I have to say now I want to make it cooler, nor I make a cooler. I take Alizarin Crimson and I dial around the color wheel with and add some ultra marine blue to it. But I'm careful not to go all the way into violets and leave it in the red range. So what we have here are examples of how to dial around the color wheel. I maintained brightness because I went around the color wheel instead of across. But I did it by manipulating color and just tipping it a little bit. I used warm colors to tip my original color so they became warmer. And I used cooler colors to tip my color so they became cooler. The reason that this becomes really important is because sometimes you don't have a great variance in value. Sometimes you can't determine the form because it's later or darker necessarily. And so you have to create the illusion of depth by using color temperature, either warm or cool colors. The other thing the color temperature does is let you control on how, you know, a feeling in a painting. Those darker, cooler colors are going to feel more somber and the brighter and lighter, the warmer colors are going to feel more friendly and happy. And you can manipulate emotion that way a little bit too. So remember to keep the white to your paper white, your paint sweat, mass-revalue, and mixed for color. Those are short demonstration on how to mix around the color wheel. So please join my YouTube channel and I will see you next time. Okay, bye-bye.