Mixing colour is really hard!

I'm currently studying Itten's colour theory, "Treatise of Colour", and the practical end of this is to actually mix colours together.

So I am hugely disappointed to discover today that I'm really bad at making colour on the palette. And I was hoping I would be the Mozart of mixing, LOL. Turns out most beginning painters suck at this (although I find my former method of "mixing by layering" seems to work out rather well, but thinking more about it, that seems to be the way a person would successfully mix "dry" colours , e.g., pencil or chalk - and is something I've done a lot so I'm comfortable with it).

I was just thinking I'd be equally good at mixing wet stuff, and am at a loss as to what to do next, now that I see I'm not good at it. At all. I give myself a D+ today for mixing success, LOL.

So my husband, a former theatre student and now a computer whiz, sent me straight to YouTube. And in a matter of minutes, I find that:

a) most if not all beginning painters have this problem (*whew* I'm not alone)
b) there *IS* help for us! :)

I found more than a few books on the subject, and am especially looking forward to Michael Wilcox's book, "Blue and Yellow don't make Green" (great title, eh?).

And tomorrow, I'm going to try and stop applying mathematical formulae to my colour mixing (e.g., 0.5 blue + 0.5 yellow = 1 green) - which obviously ISN'T WORKING!

- til next time...