All about color mixing from understanding the color wheel to color temperature, complementary colors, and more. There are also posts on how to mix the tints, tones, and shades of various colors.
Combine black and white in equal amounts to mix a basic neutral grey paint. Add more black to get a darker gray or more white to get a lighter gray. It’s pretty simple. You might even say it’s black and white. (🥴 sorry.) But there are many shades of gray, and not all use black […]
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Turquoise is versatile and vibrant and can add a unique charm to any artwork. While many shades of turquoise can be purchased already mixed in a tube, understanding how to mix your own turquoise in its various shades is helpful for artists. Basically, turquoise is a mixture of blue and green. However, knowing the right
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Blue is probably one of the first colors you buy when you start painting. Most often, it’s Ultramarine blue. You can buy many different shades of blue for any application, but artists’ paint is expensive, so why not learn to make your own shades of blue? Since blue is one of the three primary colors,
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Red is one of the three primary colors on the color wheel, the others being blue and yellow. All other colors are created by mixing these three colors together in different combinations. This means that basic red cannot be mixed by using any other colors. However, various tints, tones, and shades of red can be
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Sometimes, the color black gets a bad rap among artists. Many artists don’t even have tubes of black paint in their paint boxes. Why? Well, tubes of black pigment are often flat and lifeless. If used alone, they can make a painting seem dull. However, the black colors you see in nature and on objects
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To mix a basic brown, you need to combine two complementary colors (opposite each other on the color wheel), such as blue and orange or yellow and purple. That’s pretty basic, but there is a whole lot more to mixing colors and many ways to get the brown color you want for your painting. Keep
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