Many decorative artists do not like mixing colors and thereby missing out on fun and endless options in painting.
Today in About.com, Marion Boddy-Evans discussed six different ways to mix paint. We employ at least the first five regularly in our painting. Realizing this may encourage more freedom and less frustration in not having the "perfect" color. One factor is knowing your product. You need to be very familiar with the colors you use and how they look when broken down with medium. Solution? Paint often and play on the palette a bit.
1. Physical Mix (mixing on a palette)
2. Incomplete mixing on a palette--brush blendling
3. Wet into wet--mixing on the painting
4. Scrumbling, or broken layers
5. Glazing or layering
6.Optical mixing--placing colors in close proximity and letting the eye blend them, such as pointillism.
Here is the link:
http://painting.about.com/od/colourtheory/tp/ways-mix-colors.htm?nl=1
Today in About.com, Marion Boddy-Evans discussed six different ways to mix paint. We employ at least the first five regularly in our painting. Realizing this may encourage more freedom and less frustration in not having the "perfect" color. One factor is knowing your product. You need to be very familiar with the colors you use and how they look when broken down with medium. Solution? Paint often and play on the palette a bit.
1. Physical Mix (mixing on a palette)
2. Incomplete mixing on a palette--brush blendling
3. Wet into wet--mixing on the painting
4. Scrumbling, or broken layers
5. Glazing or layering
6.Optical mixing--placing colors in close proximity and letting the eye blend them, such as pointillism.
Here is the link:
http://painting.about.com/od/colourtheory/tp/ways-mix-colors.htm?nl=1
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