|
|
Posts: 2687
Location: Hayward, WI | Do most of you mix a lot of the colors you are using, or have an assortment of 100's of colors of paint to use the manufactured color straight from the bottle?
If you are mixing colors often, is there a good color mixing guide, or is it just trial & error and experience?
Tucker |
|
| |
|
Posts: 791
Location: WI | I mix for smaller batch stuff or shading but other wise buy colors. Don't like trying to match a color scheme that I have done before. I do a lot of larger order stuff though.
I do recommend darkening up colors for shading around gill plates and eyes ect..... |
|
| |
|
Posts: 1529
| we mix to get the proper shades.
you will need to learn primary colors.
then theres metallic.
time and practice will get ya where ya gotta get. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 1106
Location: Muskegon Michigan | We mix up a lot of our base colors. Tans, Pikie, St. Lawrence as these off whites are not standard colors at Createx. You make grey by adding black to white. Tan by adding brown to white. Cream by adding yellow and brown to white. I add a little electric blue to Pearl White and make a nice Cisco scale. Darken transparent brown with opaque Black. etc. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 2687
Location: Hayward, WI | Thanks for your advice everyone. I believe mixing more rather than buying more makes sense for me for now. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 1202
Location: Money, PA | There are several colors I mix myself...I also even mix right on the painting surface believe it or not...it can be done. This can be achieved by layering color on the surface in a transparent/translucent fashion allowing for undertones to show through. So experimentation is the biggest factor. Good Luck! |
|
| |
