Let’s Talk About Red Paint
Walk into an art supply shop, or pop in on an online website and you’ll feel like a kid in a candy store with all the shiny baubles. Regardless of your medium, there’s hundred of paints produced by dozens of …
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Category: Color
Color Wheel Mixing Guides
If you’ve been dabbling in art with a pencil or pen, it may be intimidating to start using color. Many art students are comfortable drawing, but quickly become mired down when it comes to color creation. Color theory is one …
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Basic Paint Colors – Choosing Your Palette
Whether you’re a watercolorist, oil painter or acrylic artist, you will have the same selection of paint colors for your paint box. Sure, a traditional watercolorist probably won’t have a tube of white prominently displayed in the tabouret, but with …
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Color Mixing Recipes by William F Powell
You can’t play a musical instrument unless you learn to read music. You can’t learn how to cook until you can read a recipe. An artist can’t paint until he learns to mix colors. Sure, you can fling paint about. …
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Paint Color Relationships
The preliminary sketches are done. The composition looks good and drawn on the support. Now it is time to lay out paints on the palette. Opening the tabouret drawer, a small flock of tubes lies patiently waiting to be selected. …
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How to make your own Color Wheel
Regardless of the medium an artist uses, a color wheel is a useful and handy tool to have. Posted on a nearby wall, it is a quick reference for the experienced artist and a learning tool for the beginning student. …
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Color Planning For The Artist
You have selected the subject for your painting, determined the support and the medium you will use. The next task is laying out your palette. If you are a beginning art student, the colors in your tabouret may be minimal. …
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Color Wheels Explained
Colors are the basic building blocks of painting. Color is the visual representation of different wavelengths of light. History reports that in the early 18th century Isaac Newton developed the first color circle when studying the effect of prisms and …
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Color Theory
When painting, it is almost impossible to have every color you desire in a separate tube. Not only is this highly unlikely but it is rather expensive. Thankfully, you don’t need to go out and buy hundreds of different colors …
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