Oil Painting Demo: Limited Palette and Color Relativity

A limited palette (composed of three primary colors plus white) is one of the most useful tools for deepening your relationship with your pigments, honing your color sensitivity, and most importantly, gaining an understanding of color relativity. It's so important to approach painting as an exercise in recreating the relationships between the colors, as much as (or more than!) reproducing each color in a literal sense. This video demonstration takes us through two paintings of the same subject with two different limited palettes, an experience that highlights many of these nuances. This video should leave you feeling empowered to tackle many different types of subjects with whatever three primary colors you can lay your hands on--a liberating experience!