COLOR THEORY - My Ideal Palette and Color Mixing Strategies for realistic Colors

In this video, I talk about about the pigments I prefer for my palette and explain my color mixing strategies for realistic paintings.

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I am an artist living and working in France. I learned the techniques of the Atelier of the Nineteenth century and now I try to share some of my knowledge with the rest of the world, because I think that beauty still has an important role to play in artistic creation. I do mostly drawing and oil painting, and my goal is always to provide techniques, thoughts and explanations that can be useful to anyone, from beginners to more advanced artists.

The material I use most of the time (not necessarily in this video) :

Drawing
Equipement
✓ Kneaded eraser
✓ Plumb line
✓ Small mirror
✓ An old synthetic brush
✓ Masking tape
✓ Cutter
✓ Sandpaper or sanding block
✓ Mahlstick or Hand rest (DIY)
✓ Level ruler
Graphite
✓ Pencils 2H, HB and 2B
Charcoal
✓ If available: Nitram charcoals (H, HB and B)
✓ Square charcoals
✓ Natural charcoal box
Black and white chalk
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
✓ Square Conté noir : HB and 2B
✓ Chalk or pencil holder
✓ Pencil sketch Conté Pierre noire : H and HB
Sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté : Blood and blood Medici
✓ Crayon Polychromos Faber-Castel : sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
Oil painting
Palette
(Extra-fine paint, recommended brands depending on availability: Lefranc Bourgeois, Winsor and Newton, Royal Talens Rembrandt)
✓ Titanium white PW6
✓ Yellow ochre PY42
✓ Burnt Sienna PR101 or PBr7
✓ Venetian red or English red PR101
✓ Permanent Alizarin crimson PV19 or PR177 or Quinacridone Rose PV19
✓ Cobalt teal blue PG50
✓ French ultramarine blue PB29
✓ Raw umber PBr7
✓ Burnt umber PBr7
✓ Ivory Black PBk9
Brushes
✓ About ten filbert hog bristle brushes sizes n° 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12
✓ Some flat brushes
✓ Round sable brush or round Kolinsky sable n° 4, 8, 10, 12 (from the size of the nail (about one inch) or synthetic imitation
Medium
✓ Linseed stand oil
✓ Odourless mineral spirits
✓ Safflower oil
Surface
✓ Linen canvas, fine grain universal coating
✓ For studies : Canson oil-acrylic oil paper Figueras
Others
✓ Palette
✓ Foam and spalter brushes
✓ Palette knife in the shape of a water drop, no souldering
✓ A few small pots, containers, jars...
✓ Paper towels

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Thanks for watching !

[smiley_crafts]

That you give away your color wheel for free tells me you truly want to help others not just make a fast buck off us “wannabe” artists. Thank you for your kindness and generosity. May you be blessed throughout your career!

[babba]

Cannot believe that this information is available for free! God bless you!

[apostalote]

I really like Venetian read. I rarely use it because I have a tendency not to use the reds on my palette, but I have a tube of it and I’ve played with it. Lovely colour, great for flesh tones

[fatemaalbalooshi]

Your professional approach and delivery of information is incredible. I paint as a hoppy and I listen to you intently God bless you, I learned so much from you 💋🙏🏻

[anthonypc]

Most of this I've learned before, but the way you explain things makes it worth re-learning.

[DCweldingAndArt]

Brother, this was one of the BEST made color theory/pallete videos out there. Excellent! Along side Andrew Tischler pallette vid. My pallette is the same...

Lead + Titanium white, Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna, Trans Red + Yellow Oxide, Yellow Ocher, (sometimes Gen naples yellow M. Harding) Cad yellow light, Cad red light, cad red deep(sometimes), Quin magenta(always), Cobalt teal, and Ultramarine(sometimes Curelean) Blue, and thalo green....all Blue Ridge Oils, Windsor pro grade, Gamblin artists, or Rublev oils

[amarynth]

love the feeling and passion you nurture towards art .inspires me so much.beautiful video

[giancarlozavattinart]

Florent you’re an incredible master on still life paint!!You match it so realistic!!

[alisonjvincent-davies]

Your comments during this video fit in so much with my own, from my earlier painting experience as a technical illustrator; now that I am at a later stage in my career, where I want explore and enjoy the use of colour, what you have taught here, is going to be so useful for myself personally, so I thank you sincerely. I have only recently come across your advice videos, but I will now view many more, as I think our styles are so similar, I believe that they will help my exploration and my consequent enjoyment.

[mountainside]

Florent, your videos have taught so many of us so much, and your joy is infectious. Thank you.

[sadden]

I just love your approach to teaching. As a novice, your videos are so invaluable

[kentjensen]

Florent, you are very talented and likable, and your channel is pure gold.

[amandap]

You are so wonderful to a beginner artist! Thank you for all you do! I plan to buy the poster of your color wheel because it has so much information I need on it!

[StevenRud]

This channel is amazing, I absolutely love the way you present the topics, great narration, nice editing, great camera work, the extreme close up shots of the colors are sensational! Keep up the great work. Cheers!👍🏻🍀😎

[SmartMeditationFilms]

Thank you! You are a blessing to everyone!

[vanessag.]

Thank you Florent! Very interesting and so helpful. Especially appreciated the information on toxicity and it's future in our colour choices. I have seen many warnings; It helps to know that there are alternatives!!! Great work as always! Loved the still life!!! 💖🖌️🖼️🎨💖

[deledition]

Thank you. Your videos and courses are amazing, very detailed, to the point of just what I need to know. Many thanks...

[SpokenBroke]

I loved the explanation for Cobalt Turquoise because just looking at a tube one tends to overlook the range of color mixes it enables.

[philsmith]

Brilliant! Very generous of you my friend.

[Pharcodra]

i really enjoy your videos about color theory.