Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green  By Michael Wilcox

I have owned this book for several years.  Although I have always meant to take time to go through the color exercises, I never seemed to make the time.  I invite you to  you join me on my color journey.

There are approximately 50 color exercises.  

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Paints Needed

I used Golden Fluid Paints for my exercises. Although the book is specifically written for watercolors, the author provide the necessary information to use  other brands and types of paint.  

 The paints I used for the exercises were Hansa yellow medium, Hansa yellow light, Cadmuim red medium hue, Quinacridone red, Ultramarine blue, Cerulean blue chromium, Phthalo blue (green shade), Phthalo green (blue shade), Yellow ochre, Raw sienna, Burnt sienna, Titanium white and Titan buff.

These colors don't exactly match those specified in the book, but they were the closest I could get with the Golden fluid paints.

I have made a template you may use  as a worksheet for the color exercises.  I would recommend cardstock for the exercises.  Your printer must be a laser printer or use a photocopy.  Inkjet copies may bleed.  If your printer will not print on cardstock, you could print one page and have the template photocopied onto cardstock.  I plan to coil bind or 3-hole punch my sheets into a notebook.

To print this template:

• right click the word template (right). 

•  Choose :"Print Target"

• If necessary, confirm to print.

Your browser will print the page from my website and the date on the page.  I cannot control this, it is your computer setting causing it to happen.  If you do not want this on your worksheet, you will have to save the target to your computer, and print the graphic with a graphic software if you have it.

Mixing reds and blues

Click on the thumbnail to the right to go to the page of exercises 1 to 4.

Mixing yellow and blues.

Click on the thumbnail to the right to go to the page of exercises 5 to 9.

Mixing yellow and reds.

Click on the thumbnail to the right to go to the page of exercises 10 to 13.

Mixing compliments yellow and violet.

Click on the thumbnail to the right to go to the page of exercises 14 to 19.

Mixing compliments orange and blue.

Click on the thumbnail to the right to go to the page of exercises 20 to 25.

Mixing compliments red and green.

Click on the thumbnail to the right to go to the page of exercises 26 to 31.

Mixing greens with  phthalo green and blue.

Click on the thumbnail to the right to go to the page of exercises 32 to 36.

Understanding transparent and opaque colors.

Click on the thumbnail to the right to go to the page of exercises 37 to 40. 

Introducing Burnt sienna

Click on the thumbnail to the right to go to the page of exercises 41 to 45. 

introducing yellow ochre and raw sienna.

Click on the thumbnail to the right to go to the page of exercises 46 to 48.