The EASIEST color mixing charts for watercolor and gouache STEP BY STEP

Love it! Great way to become at ease and more familiar with both colors and mixing colors, free, loose, easy and intuitive = fun anyone can enter into!

Can anyone answer this question. I’m really new to watercolors. When making this chart am I using any color in my palette as the secondary or should it be a complimentary color of the primary color?

Hi, is this to say that every single color will be mixed with every single color? (aka if you have 6 colors, you'll have like 30 "swatches" for each color, aka green with pink, green with yellow, green with orange... then another page for pink with green, pink with yellow, pink with orange...etc. etc)?

Feeeedoooom!

First time ever I found the color chart easy...otherwise it always confused me and seemed soooo difficult...thank you so much for making it fun specially for absolute beginners who are already so intimidated just by looking at it...🎨😵‍💫

God bless you!! This is brilliant! I’ve been DREADING doing grid charts!!

Thanks a lot for this simple technique. The grid method was putting me off because it was so time consuming ! Your technique is so easy and now i am going to do my swatches this way .I wish i had seen your videos years back! Subscribed ☺️

I loved this method. Perfect!

Ooh thank you so much for sharing! This looks really fun and seems like an intuitive method. I have to say I find those neat charts with strict boxes a bit intimidating, because I'm the kind of person who will make a monthly spread in my journal and realise I've left out Saturday only after inking all the grids 😂 so I'm excited to try this out! I have a few new watercolours coming in soon from a Jackson's sale that I've never tried before, so I'm very intrigued to see what they'll be like. Thanks again!

I love this method! I’ve been so intimidated by some of the meticulous mixing charts and this can really help me get started. Thank you!

I love this method so much better. Thank you! I don't like tedious tasks so this is exciting.

One of my favorite things is to mix paint!!! I have watched your videos for a very long time but completely missed this one! I ended up finding it through downloading the beginner gouache PDF! :D I'm happy both ways! I love the way these look! Now to figure out how to make minis to go at the same time! Thanks a bunch for these!

I have no clue how the mixtures happen.
What's mixed with what and why. I'm lost lol

Thanks for this! This makes more sense than any of the others. I have yet to make one so this will be my first. I have decided that the neat ones are not for me!

Sometimes I like swatching more than painting 🙈

I too am color chart obsessed. I like this method too, but usually make an easy grid with a clear square stamp in Archival Ink then get busy mixing. I leave room to grow for new colors I might (will) buy. My highest praise for my charts came from my artist daughter who asked if she could have them when I am dead 😳

This! This is the kind of colour chart that I am looking to make with my new oil paint colour that I got. Will probably do it with my other colours as well. One colour at a time. Thank you.

I just love it. THANK YOU!

I've learned more about color mixing gouache than I did in my two years in a graphic design program (back in the 90s). Probably because there weren't any teachers who did gouache. And I am working on making a portable mixing chart for when I finally get my pleinair painting kit together.

Thanks very helpful. By watching this and the color chart video by Will Elliston I have learnt soo much..Keep up the good work a thumbs up from me :)

Thank you for this tutorial. May I know how you choose your color B's, or do you just go through ALL the colors you have in your palette? 😊

Wow this looks so fun!

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thank you for sharing it with us! I've already tried out mixes with sap green, looking forward to try other variations!

I love this! This exactly what I was looking, something free and that also lets you discover much more colour mixes! Thanks a lot!

I don’t know if you see comments on videos that you published months ago, but I just want to compliment you on what a great video this is. I particularly appreciate your advice about mixing variations or irregularities being something valuable to learn from, rather than mistakes that ruin the entire exercise. So true, but hard to remind ourselves of that! Your swatches, handled as you show, prepare us so much better for “real painting.” And it’s great to see what you demonstrated about Quin Magenta being a powerhouse mixing color. Thank you!!

Amazing !!!

Very helpful thank you. In the watercolor palette you are using are those half or full pans and who makes it?

I love this. Are you using a size 6 brush ? The sea scapes swatch is a good idea, can you say what colours they are ?

Great thank you !! ^^

Can’t wait to try, right after my shower. Thank you for a meaningful day ... yay 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Do you clean out the color B paint blob after you have touched your paint brush containing color A to it so many times. And yes, I do have OCD tendencies. 😆

Thanks for sharing your idea. It is very simple and easy to pick the colors.

Newbie here! Thank you for this great video but veryyyy basic question, inbetween adding in more drops of the mixing paint, do you wash your brush?! Or could that add too much water?

I tend to do that kind of color charts when I have a new color that I want to explore more.
Quinacridone Magenta is such a nice mixing color. 💝
I want to get my hands on Quinacridone Magenta by QOR. Personally, I have only tried Purple Magenta by Schmincke and Permanent Magenta by Mission Gold (currently on my main palette).

I love this so much more. Sometimes those perfect looking grids get to me mentally if I feel mine isn’t perfect so I love this. Very freeing

I love doing charts. Since you have a cat, I will have to share story. My roommates cats liked to jump up and get in the middle of her art projects. Most of the time she was able to stop the cats from getting into her paints. One day she was doing a color chart for art class and she stepped away to make some tea and when she came back there was a trail of blue paw prints all across her color chart. Perfect blue paw prints and no smudges. No cats in the room. She found the cat with the blue foot and cleaned him up. She left the blue foot prints on her project. Her teacher loved it. LOL. Apparently we are not the only species that like to paint. Great video Thanks!

I love doing these swatches, and coming up with really nice special colours.

Definitely what I’ve been looking for! Thank you, I’m actually excited to swatch now lol

Freakin Awesome!

Sarah,please do a sketchbook tour{I dont know witch sketchbook exactly but it was full of seascapes ,you posted on instagram that you painted 11 paintings in one day to finish it before 2020}

Very helpful, thanks Sarah! Almost all of my charts are like this one because I'm just too lazy to do it the other way. I also find the "messier" charts to be more helpful and look more similar to how the paint would actually look when used.

OMG it s so messy and ineven,🤣🤣🤣 HI Sarah I did a gouache mixing achart {greens} ,but when i use it I feel like it s not helping me, and when I want a color I cant have the same color that is already in the achart. I have a problem mixing greens cuz I dont get a special colors , i always get the same repetitive green. LOVE YOU SO MUCH YOU ARE MY FAVOURITE ARTIST.

I bow to you ☺️ freedom from color chart pressure! Doing them on separate sheets will let me move them with different setups, too. This is a much better way to see how colors truly work with each other. Thank you!!!!! 🌺

I love this actually :O And as someone who tried and gave up to do the fancy grid charts, the messiness looks more my style, haha. Thanks for sharing :)

Thanks for these! Cant wait to swatch my set using your technique!

Ahhh...something finally clicked with me!! Thanks Sarah 🙌🏻🎨🌈

Thank you so much for this! This is exactly the kind of simple and easy to make chart I was looking to make!

Great tips! Thanks!