Learning to draw: mix acrylic, oil, watercolor paints. All kinds of shades from three primary colors.
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Without creativity, human life is empty and not interesting. Painting, as well as music, learn not only in order to be realized in life, but also in order to find an outlet in life, a hobby that will bring joy and peacefulness to life. And where is drawing and mixing colors. This is what this article is dedicated. In it, we will tell you how to mix and receive new colors and shades of the most common in drawing colors.
How to mix acrylic, oil and watercolor paints to obtain the desired color: table, proportions
Mix acrylic paints
We propose to get acquainted with the lesson of the famous artist and called teacher, author of the book "Acrylic Painting with Lee Hammond". Lee Hammond warns, although from childhood we allegedly know that, having mixed red and blue we get purple, acrylic paints have a different pigmentation and most likely you find brown on the palette.
Important: read pigments on packages. Have you seen on the shelves of stores lie up to 15 types of one shade? Do you think this to fill the window? No, this is presented the same color with various pigments. Therefore, we write out or photograph the color on the smartphone - the necessary pigment and already with this we go to the store for replenishing paints.
Also note that pigments are transparent, translucent and dense consistency. Therefore, you can buy completely different structures from the same manufacturer of colors. This is not a marriage, but the properties of the pigment.
So, in order to get an almost complete spectrum of colors, only 7 colors are enough. For beginners, it is recommended to purchase these colors, and in the future, at their own discretion, buy additional shades.
Please note that we specially do not translate the name of the primary colors so that you can name them in the store and purchase the necessary pigments:
- Main: Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Main: Cadmium Red Medium
- Main: Prussian Blue
- Additional: Alizarin Crimson
- Additional: BURNT UMBER
- Neutral: Ivory Black
- Neutral: Titanium White
We bought, prepared a canvas for an experiment and move on to magic.
The first experiment - we mix each color with white and get new, amazing pastel and delicate shades. We give a table of strokes with the signature of what we mixed.
Well, now from Lev to the right, from the first to the bottom we analyze the shades that we managed to get: Balled; peach or as it is also called coral; light pink; beige; sky blue; Gray or light asfall.
Now we try to mix all the colors with black, the result is in the table below.
And we got such colors: hacks or dark green; chestnut; plum; Saturated brown; dark blue.
But this is all simple, now let's move on to a more complex option to mix acrylic paints, but interesting! Mix and get all the shades of green.
As we have already done, we mix two colors that are under the smear and get just such a shade.
Additionally, we received: olive-green color; a gray-green shade resembling asphalt after the rain reflecting green crowns of trees; bottle-green; mint.
We also recommend mixing yellow and blue in different proportions and fix shades for the future, yellow with a drop of black and a little brown. In order to study the palette, it may take more than one week!
The next step is purple and purple tones and halftones. In order to get such shades, it will be required that the Berlin azure or alizarin is a pink or red cadmium in the set for work. Two examples for mixing: Prussian Blue + Cadmium Red Medium or Prussian Blue + Alizarin Crimson.
We got colors: chestnut, saturated gray gray, plum and a shade of lavender.
Now add a white pigment and stir, add more dropped to each option. Pay attention to what kind of riot of color it began to play in your hands!
Sunny shades. This is how the shades of orange artists love to call, these are beautiful raising moods of tone. They are obtained by mixing red with additional colors.
On this table, we received: orange as it is, peach, brick, coral.
Earthen shades can be obtained when adding a burner (international value Burnt Umber). If there is a need to get pastel shades of these tones, it is enough to add a drop of white pigment.
In this case, we received earthen shades: Umbra; brick; dark turquoise; Sepia is dark; dirty beige; pastel-lilac; blue steel; Gray warm shade.
Mix oil paints
In oil paints, the situation with a palette is a little easier and one pigment is used in one color, so we will not give the basic colors, but leave the name of the color exclusively. The rules that we remember since childhood are just the rules of oil paints.
| What color you need to get | What colors you need to mix |
| Pink | Add red in white paints to the red drop until the required shade is obtained. |
| Chestnut | Add red to brown and if you need to darken - a drop of black, lighten - white. |
| Purple red | Add blue in red |
| Shades of red | Red with white for lightening, red with black for dimming, red with yellow for purple and orange shades. |
| Orange | Add red to the yellow drop. |
| Gold | In yellow in a drop of brown and red until the required shade is obtained. |
| Shades of yellow and orange | Yellow with white, yellow with black, yellow with red and brown. |
| Pastel-green | Yellow with a drop of blue, yellow with a drop of blue and black. |
| The color of the grass | Yellow with a drop of blue and green. |
| Olive | In a dark green, add yellow. |
| Light green | Add white in green, for a drop, for the depth of the color, a drop of yellow. |
| Turquoise-green | Green with a drop of blue. |
| Bottle-green | Blue dilute with yellow. |
| Green needles | Add the yellow and black to green. |
| Bright turquoise | In blue, add green and white for lightening. |
| Pastel-blue | In blue, gradually add white. |
| Vedzhwood blue | In blue add 5 drops of white and 1 drop of black until the desired shade is obtained. |
| Royal blue | In blue add black and a drop of green. |
| Dark blue | In blue add black and at the end a drop of green. |
| Grey | We dilute the white with black, adding green you get asphalt shade. |
| Pearl-gray | In black add white and a drop of blue. |
| Brown | Mix yellow, red and blue in equal proportions, if necessary, dilute white, black or green for the desired shade. |
| Brick | Red with yellow and a drop of blue, if necessary with white. |
| Brown-gold | Red with yellow, blue and a little white. Yellow most for expressiveness. |
| Mustard | In a yellow drop of red and black, a drop of green for piquancy of color. |
| Beige | In brown droppings white, if you need a bright beige - a drop of yellow. |
| Dirty white | Brown and black in a drop in a drop. |
| Pink-gray | In white in a drop of red and black. |
| Gray-blue | Add gray and blue to white. |
| Greenish-gray | Add green and white to gray. |
| Bright coal | Black white in black. |
| Citric | In white dropped yellow and green, more yellow. |
| Pastel-brown | In yellow, add a drop of green and dilute brown and white. |
| Fern | Green with white and a drop of black. |
| Coniferous | Mix green with black. |
| Emerald | In green add yellow and a drop of white. |
| Bright light green | Add yellow and white to green. |
| Bright turquoise | In white add green and a drop of black for the depth of color. |
| Avocado shade | In brown add yellow and a drop of black. |
| Royal Purpur | In blue add red and yellow. |
| Dark purple | In red add blue and a drop of black. |
| The color of tomatoes | Red dilute yellow and add brown. |
| Tangerine | In yellow in a drop of red and brown |
| Bayer with a redhead | Red to breed brown and a drop of black for shading. |
| Bright orange | Divorce white with orange and brown in equal proportions. |
| Marsala | Red with brown and a drop of yellow and black. |
| Crimson | In blue add white, a little brown and red. |
| Plum | Blue mix with red and white, darken black. |
| Bright chestnut | Red with yellow and dilute black and white. |
| Honey | Brown dilute white and yellow. |
| Dark brown | Red with yellow and black. |
| Sed-gray | In black, gradually add red with white. |
| The color of the egg shells | Yellow with white and a drop of brown. |
Mix watercolor paints
Watercolor paints are mixed according to the same principle as oil, except that the watercolor is translucent and the shades are more muffled. We recommend that you first work out the table specified above, and only then move on to drawing on canvas.
Basic colors for mixing colors
The main colors in mixing paints include only three colors. This is red, blue and yellow. Additional is white and black. Thanks to these colors, absolutely all the shades of the rainbow can be obtained.
This article does not give ready -made solutions, because it is impossible to squeeze out or smear a certain amount of milligrams, this article gives a direction in which you can go to work and develop. Try, experiment and you will definitely get a delightful creation. And painting works much better than any psychologist, relieves stress, distracts from problems and helps to see the beautiful in the usual!
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