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Welcome to Draw Tip Tuesday! In today's video, we’ll be exploring color palettes. I’ll show you how I choose and mix colors by creating palettes inspired by iconic cities like Miami, New York, Amsterdam, and Barcelona. Using reference photos, I explore pastel greens, peachy pinks, rich blues, and earthy brick tones. I mix watercolors to capture the essence of each place. You’ll see how these palettes completely transform the mood and style of the same drawing. I’ll also share tips on how to mix, collect, and document your own colors for future use. Whether you’re working with watercolors, colored pencils, markers, gouache paint or crayons, this is a fun way to add your own flavor and personal style to your sketchbook pages. Need an assignment this week? Look around for interesting color palettes or find photos that inspire you. Collect your custom palettes in your sketchbook and pick from them whenever you like. It’s fun, creative, and helps you stay in the moment. Let’s make our sketchbooks colorful and exciting! Materials used in this video: - Stillman&Birn Beta series Premium sketchbook 8.5x5.5 inch / 21.6x14.0 cm - Pink Pig A5 Posh Cartridge 150 gsm ringbound sketchbook - Staedtler pigment liner chisel tip 0.3-2.0 (for writing the city names on the palette collection page) - Sailor DeMannen fountain pen (fude/calligraphy nib with 55 degree angle) - Watercolors - Pentel Aquash waterbrush pen (broad) My Watercolor Palette (Daniel Smith): - Permanent Red Deep - Quinacridone Rose - Transparent Pyrrol Orange - Hansa Yellow Medium - New Gamboge (warm yellow) - Monte Amiata Natural Sienna - Quinacridone Gold - Green Gold - Sap Green - Hooker’s Green - Cerulean Blue, Chromium - Ultramarine Blue - Indigo - Van Dyck Brown - Italian Burnt Sienna - Burnt Umber Photos from Unsplash.com Miami: Jason Briscoe NYC: James Genchi Amsterdam: Robin Doode Lisbon: Tom Byrom Barcelona: Stefan Roks Feet on dashboard: Victoria Berman BOOK Get a copy of my book "Life is better when you draw it": https://www.koosjekoene.com/book WORKSHOPS Let's Draw People! Level 1 and 2: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/lets-draw-people-375049?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=creatorshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=odclsxcollection&utm-source=cp&aff=escb Italy: https://adventuresinitaly.ca/trips/koosje-koene-2025/ Lisbon: https://www.originalimpulse.com/capture-lisbon-wow-sketchbook-workshop/ Spain: https://www.thebluewalk.com/sketchbook-art-workshop-in-spain/ If you like my Draw Tip Tuesday Videos, you'll probably also like my MONTHLY LIVE ONLINE SESSIONS. I'd love to see you there! Join my upcoming online mini-workshop, or LEARN FROM ME ON PERSON here: https://www.koosjekoene.com/workshops JOIN ME ON PATREON If you like my videos here on YouTube, then you can help me keep making them and offering them weekly for free. For just a few dollars a month you're making a huge difference. More importantly, you're doing yourself a favor, because I’ll keep you inspired and motivated with extra pieces of encouragement, sharing projects and processes, handing ideas, tips and tricks and much more on Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/koosjekoene Don’t forget to subscribe for more creative tips and techniques. Copyrights Koosje Koene https://www.koosjekoene.com https://www.patreon.com/koosjekoene
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