Color Mixing

Complementary colors are colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel. If you look at a color wheel, the opposite of yellow is purple, so purple is the complement to yellow. The same is true for other colors. The opposite or complement of blue is orange, and the opposite or complement of red […]

Most of us know what colors make purple paint, but mixing red and blue doesn’t always give us the desired result. Getting a bright, vibrant purple can be a little complicated. Purple is a color that is frequently on my painting palette. I love the color and all of its various tints and shades, from

Orange is not a paint color you would think you would often use, especially bright, vivid orange. However, you would be surprised how often you actually use variations of orange acrylic paint in your work. If you are a landscape artist, you already know the importance of various hues of orange paint in fall foliage

We all know that blue and yellow make green. We probably learned that in preschool. But what we probably didn’t learn from making a mess with the non-toxic, washable primary colors we used was how to mix the perfect green paint for our artwork. There is more than one green—probably even more than a hundred

Probably the first two tubes of paint an artist buys are black and white. They are the most boring paint in your art box, but they are also the most versatile and, in the beginning, probably the most used. We don’t really give much thought to black and white. They are the “service” paints on