

I used Winsor & Newton Professional Water Colour paints to create my color wheel. Every other color in the color wheel, including black, can be mixed using just these three colors. Primary colors will come straight out of the tube. Let's start by painting your primary colors. Just a note about the affiliate links to products in this post: I get a small commission for any sales created by you clicking on the links at no extra cost to you. You can even practice using heavy cardstock if you prefer to save a little money. You can put sheets of lightweight (90-pound) watercolor paper through many home printers. Print or trace the color wheel template (click here to open a printable PDF file) using wax-free graphite tracing paper onto a piece of watercolor paper. Once you create your color wheel you can use it as a guide while you are painting along with me during any of my video lessons. Learning how to mix colors is a great skill to have and a good way to practice the art of mixing colors is to create a color wheel. You can easily create every color imaginable using just the three primary paint colors. When you take any of my online painting classes I provide you with a color swatch so you can see all of the paint colors I use to create each painting but you don't have to have all of the colors. When I first began painting and had little money to invest in paints I bought three primary colors, red, yellow, and blue, and I learned how to mix those three paint colors together to create any other color I needed for a painting. Learn how to mix paints by creating a color wheel featuring primary, secondary, and tertiary colors.
