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Aug 19 2012Hue- The hue of a color is what color family the color belongs to Is it red yellow blue green orange or purple? Value – How dark or light a color is Chroma – Is the intensity of a color how bright or dull a color is Grays are essential to give your painting structure and depth Grays are more than those neutral battleship grays
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Remember color is relative just like height I like to stand next to shorter people to make myself look taller (I'm not tall) Similarly the artist can manipulate a color's appearance with its surrounding colors If a color is matched well but looks wrong in the painting then the problem could be the surrounding colors
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Color Mixing in Pop Culture Today color mixing is used in a variety of fields and industries Apart from in arts and painting it is also used in fashion and design when producing a line for the season The same goes for home design colors most of which are achieved by combining specific hues to help bring the owner's vision to life
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Mixing those Wonderful Grays Colors in nature are rarely straight out of the tube Your primary and secondary colors are too intense to look natural When painting you are constantly modifying your colors and graying their intensity to create paintings that are harmonious First lets look at the definitions of color
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If you understand the color circle and the basics of mixing paint colors you'll be able to easily shift and adjust any paint color to your liking Plus if you are into decorative faux painting color wheel knowledge will come in handy when working with glazes and color layering
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The color wheel shows the primary colors — red yellow and blue — and the many colors they can combine to make The primary colors are the basis for every other color and you can't create the primaries by mixing other colors Use the color wheel to choose color painting schemes mix color formulas and make color combinations
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From Acrylic Painting For Dummies By Colette Pitcher Many artists prefer using acrylic paint more than oils or watercolors Enjoy painting your first artpiece in acrylics with know how about art supplies color mixing and acrylic paint characteristics
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Mixing Contrasts or Highlights Taking complementary colors and mixing white in one and black in the other will give a great contrasting color pair Discords are perfect to give your miniature or model a standout highlight Buttons on a jacket or trim on a hat will really pop with a discord color
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Mixing Contrasts or Highlights Taking complementary colors and mixing white in one and black in the other will give a great contrasting color pair Discords are perfect to give your miniature or model a standout highlight Buttons on a jacket or trim on a hat will really pop with a discord color
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NEW! Simple Colour Mixing Acrylic Course "I have finished 2 of the four paintings in the course and already I can see a huge difference in how I am seeing color and thinking about color mixing This course has shifted me forwards just in two weeks what I have been dithering about with for years My apricots painting was really one of
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In color mixing for painting the fundamental rule is that three colors cannot be made by mixing other colors These three (red blue and yellow) are known as the primary colors Mixing Primary Colors If you mix two primaries you create what is called a secondary color Mixing blue and red creates purple red and yellow make orange and
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Which Colors Do I Need? I find that using a limited palette of around 6 color plus white makes color mixing less complicated You can read about the colors I recommend in the post The 7 Colors You Need to Begin Painting with Acrylics You may notice that there's a total of 17 colors that I used to mix the colors for this chart
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Color and pigment provide so many different painting possibilities and nuances that an artist could spend a lifetime exploring color color theory and color mixing Color mixing is something that often overwhelms beginners and that they shy away from because it can be complicated but it can also be pared down to some fundamental tips and guidelines that will help the beginner
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