Watercolor Mixing Secrets

Afternoon Glow (detail) Watercolor J. Hulsey

Learning to mix colors is one of the most important and least understood skills a painter must undertake, regardless of medium. However, watercolor painters have a special need to get this skill understood early on precisely because our art relies on clean, not muddy, passages of transparent color, and we cannot make corrections by overpainting.
We must get our color mixes right from the first stroke to the last. In our classes and workshops, color mixing demonstrations are the most popular and always in demand.

My Watercolor Split Primary Palette