Simple Watercolor Exercises

Only three colors are necessary at the beginning. More than three are inadvisable, and, in fact, make the study complex and difficult. For the purpose of the beginner, the three primary colors, yellow, red and blue, will produce every other color desired. In other words, all other colors contain combinations of two or three of these colors.

Mix blue and red, and you have purple or violet, or lilac, according to which of the two prevails.

Mix blue and yellow, and you have green.

Mix red and yellow, and orange is obtained.

Mix all three in equal proportions, and the result is a muddy brown.

Modifying the mixtures, for instance, three parts of red, two of blue and one of yellow produces a chocolate tint.