Download the free worksheet here: https://www.kirstypartridge.com/colour-theory-worksheet?video=DCfAsbv--Jk

I majored in Studio Art and you explained more about color theory in this 22 minute video than I learned in my four years of college. I love YouTube.

This is like my entire semester of Color Theory uni class in one video.

in college, I got tired of hauling around a big bag of colored pencils. Even now, I just carry around a true blue (cyan), process red (magenta), and yellow prismacolor, and just blend them, like how an inkjet printer would.. I'll only bring in additional colors if I need special effects (deeper blacks, intense red, sodium vapor light, etc). Hugely improved the quality of my art.

These are nice exercises. I would also recommend trying the same thing using yellow, cyan, and magenta as your primaries. I find that those three colors make more vibrant secondary colors, and makes for color wheels with more even increments.

This is one of the best and most informative video on color theory for colored pencils I've ever seen.  Thank you Kirsty for sharing.

Being colour blind i struggle no end with colours nicely named pencils and pens are a big safety net for me.

I have to admit, I have never understood why so many people keep banging on about the colour wheel/colour theory so much. It’s always seemed obvious to me what goes with what. But I also understood something significant has been missing from my drawing - the thing that elevates a drawing from flat to real. You have just completely blown my mind - I am so glad I stumbled across this video today! Thank you.

I am a complete beginner and I know you have saved me so much pain and suffering by just sharing these tips and the worksheet. I am thankful to you Kristy

Oh my goodness, I have painted with acrylic for years but still have problems with my color mixes and how to make my paintings improve. I do believe watching this video has helped me to understand color theory in a way I never could grasp before! Thank you so much, Kirsty! You are an amazing instructor!

In my first college drawing class, when we started working with colored pencils, the prof gave us a list of colors to buy & we were allowed to use only those colors. I can’t remember all of the color names but there were 2 shades of red, 2 yellow, 2 blue, plus 1 black & 1 white. We had to layer our colors to mix any color we needed. It was a great exercise. Although I had been creating art since kindergarten, I learned a lot about mixing colors in that class and that carried over into other media.
Now I use dozens of colored pencil colors, but still layer & mix them to get the exact hue I want. Lately I’ve been experimenting with using a brush & alcohol over my colors to blend them, sometimes with almost a dry brush & sometimes with enough alcohol to make them look almost like watercolors.

This is something we all do, that don't have money and draw and paint with less colours and therefor need to learn all about it to do it, in all techniques.

I’m absolutely blown away!  You’ve rejuvenated my colored pencil fascination.  This is the easiest to understand color theory/colored pencil tutorial I’ve ever seen. (I’ve been around for a hot minute.)

Thank you for this, I’m truly grateful!✨🙏✨

Years ago I read a book called The Paradox of Choice. It’s about how having an abundance of options ironically limits us. They referenced a study where a vendor at a food market had 24 different types of gourmet jam for customers to sample, and they offered a coupon to everyone who tried the jam. The catch was, they could only choose one flavour to buy.

On another day, they repeated the experiment with just  6 varieties of jam. They found that even though the larger display attracted more customers, those who tried samples on the second day were more likely to purchase a jar of jam. This was thought to be because on the first day, there were too many options and customers got overwhelmed. They found themselves deliberating over which flavour tasted the best, which one had the highest quality ingredients etc, then many gave up and walked away without purchasing anything. When the sample size was limited, customers were more certain about what they wanted as they had fewer options to choose from.

I think the same theory applies to your coloured pencils. When we have too many choices, we can limit ourselves. It’s best to stick to the necessities when possible. Your artwork is beautiful by the way!

The best tutorial on color creation for art in any video I have seen. These principles can be applied across the board for many medium! Great work!

This video is so timely for me. Thanks for posting on how to blend with a 12-color set. The last two days I've been hunting around for videos like that and they are few and far between! Most other channels will say they're using 12 pencils, but then they use 12 obscure pencils from their set of 150. See, I'm on a two-week small-set challenge. So yesterday I gave up on tutorials and just decided to DIY. I've got to say I'm really proud of myself! I coaxed all kinds of muted, realistic colors out of my $3 "kids" set of 12 from Walmart. Give small set art a try, folks! (If anyone is curious, the pencils I found are Staedtler Design Journey. They remind me of Goldfabers/Polychromos. They're fantastic for the price!)

You had me at look at these photos of Brad Pitt.

It's amazing how you can create so many different versions of the same colour!

10:06 "This is the cooler version of green", reminded me of that old meme of a yearbook with a photo of "Daniel 🙂" and "the Cooler Daniel 😎" 😂

37 yr old artist here. Been drawing since I could pick up a pencil. Pencil crayons always seemed daunting. THIS tutorial opened my eyes and saved my life. THANK you!