In this video, I’m going to talk about bust a couple of myths surrounding the notion of primary color : if, like anybody else, you’ve heard that yellow, red and blue are the primary colors that can help you mix all other colors, or even if you think that you know better and if you think that only cyan, yellow and magenta are the true primary colors, well… you might want to rethink that.
So, let’s talk about this notion of primary color. According to the commonly accepted definition, colors are "primary" if they cannot be obtained by any mixing and if they allow to mix all the other colors.
This is the definition you’ve probably heard at school, and I’m sure you were told that red, yellow and blue are the primary colors from which all other colors are created : you know, primary colors mixed give secondary colors red and yellow make orange, red and blue make purple and blue and yellow make green. From there, you mix every other colors in existence. That’s why they’re called primary, they can create all the other colors and you can’t obtain them by mixing. That’s the commonly accepted definition and it’s still present in many, many, serious art books.
But a closer look will show us that not everything is so simple...There are problems with this notion.

Time stamps:
01:32 Problem 1 with Primary colors
02:16 Problem 2 with Primary colors
02:45 Problem 3 with Primary colors
03:54 What are the true primaries ?
04:48 A new definition ?!
06:34 Should you ditch Red, Yellow and Blue ?
09:18 The notion of primary is imaginary
09:56 My recommendations
11:05 Please, don't make this mistake

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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 FaberCastel : sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
Oil painting
Palette
(Extrafine 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 (Attention: do not use the traditional pigment, which is not very lightfast) 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 oilacrylic 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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