Perfecting Your Color Palette

I am often asked how I choose my colours for my paintings. In this video I'll talk about one method I use.

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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:45 Working from reference photos
1:38 One simple way to help determine what a colour is
1:56 Another method I use to determine what the colours are that I see: Photoshop
3:04 The colours I used
4:32 Mixing the colours I chose
11:21 Patreon- Learn to paint with me
11:35 Painting demonstration of the rose
24:33 The finished painting
24:41 Outro
25:04 Bloopers

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