Searching for a “Color Mixing for Dummies” lesson? Yes, color mixing can be confusing, but Darrell Crow breaks down this important painting technique.

Now that you understand the basics of color mixing - its importance and how charts and sticks are used - it’s time to learn how to make your own color charts.

It’s time to get your hands dirty in this third lesson of a series on color mixing. Get out your mixing knife and create a color chart using numerical ratios.

What better way to practice color mixing than to paint a portrait of two furry, shiny golden retrievers? Learn about oil painting tones, tints and shades.

Continue learning about color mixing acrylic or oil paints with this lesson on matching colors for a photograph of two golden retriever dogs.

In this last lesson of this course on paint color mixing, learn how to match colors and add tints for the sunny highlights in the golden retriever fur.

Do you want to begin painting with oils, but don’t know where to start? In this lesson, you will learn how to set up a workstation and the select paint colors.

In part two of the oil painting prep series, you continue learning about materials. In this lesson you review tools from a bristle brush to the palette knife.

You have your workstation, your brushes, canvas and paints. What now? In this lesson, you learn about mediums and gessos, two essential tools for oil painting.

In this lesson, Crow demonstrates how to clean oil paint brushes effectively using baby oil, brush cleaners and restorers, and good ol’ Gojo.