Watercolour Colour Wheel – Colour Mixing & Watercolour Reference Guide

Take the guesswork out of colour mixing with this Watercolour Colour Wheel, a practical reference tool designed to help artists understand colour relationships and create beautiful, harmonious watercolour palettes. Specially developed for mixing transparent watercolour paints, this instructional colour wheel makes it easier to explore colour combinations, understand tonal values, and discover how different colours interact.

Whether you're learning the fundamentals of watercolour painting or refining your colour-mixing skills, this versatile guide provides an accessible visual reference for artists, students, illustrators, and creative hobbyists.

Learn to Mix Watercolour Colours with Confidence

Understanding colour theory is an essential part of painting. This watercolour mixing wheel helps you explore the relationships between primary and secondary colours, warm and cool hues, colour nuances, tones, shadows, and value scales.

Use it to better understand how transparent watercolours combine, how colours influence one another, and how to develop balanced colour harmonies for your paintings.

Features & Benefits

• Watercolour Colour Mixing Guide: Explore colour combinations and learn how transparent watercolour paints interact.

• Primary & Secondary Colours: Understand fundamental colour relationships and how to create new colours through mixing.

• Warm & Cool Colours: Identify colour temperature and discover how warm and cool hues influence a painting.

• Value Scale: Explore variations in lightness and darkness to develop tonal range and depth.

• Colour Nuances, Tones & Shadows: Learn how colour relationships contribute to dimension, contrast, and visual interest.

• Colour Harmony Reference: Discover combinations that work together to create balanced and visually engaging artwork.

• Easy-to-Use Rotating Design: Align colours on the inner and outer wheels to identify the resulting colour combination in the viewing window.

How to Use the Watercolour Colour Wheel

1. Locate the desired colour along the edge of the outer wheel.

2. Rotate the inner wheel until the corresponding colour aligns with the selected colour.

3. View the resulting colour combination displayed in the window on the inner wheel.

4. Use the suggested relationship as a guide when mixing watercolours and planning your painting palette.

Experiment with different combinations to develop a better understanding of colour theory and create your own harmonious watercolour palettes.

An Essential Tool for Watercolour Artists

Ideal for beginners learning how to mix colours and experienced artists looking for a quick studio reference, this watercolour colour wheel helps make colour theory easier to understand and apply. 

Keep it in your art studio, sketchbook bag, or classroom as a convenient guide for watercolour painting, colour experimentation, and creative exploration.

Explore colour, understand colour relationships, and bring your watercolour paintings to life with this practical colour mixing guide.