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describe your pallet
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Posted 11 months ago What colors do you always put on your pallet?
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| Posted 11 months ago I work on glass paintings, so I use a oil base paint, |
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| Posted 10 months ago I found this site to help answer my questions-http://www.goldenpaints.com/artist/mixguide.php |
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| Posted 10 months ago This is a helpful site- http://www.liquitex.com/techniques/tipsarchive.cfm#top |
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| Posted 10 months ago And this one-http://www.winsornewton.com/main.aspx?PageID=51 |
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| Posted 10 months ago I am notorious for using whatever paint I dig up in the studio. Liquitex is the usual culprit, but I have been known to use craft paint, dry pigments and lots of texturizing mediums. I guess that it helps that my paintings are very textural. Lately I am in love with Golden fluid acrylics in a metalized Iron oxide. I can layer on anywhere from 20-40 different coatings to build the surface resulting in many layers popping through. |
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| Posted 10 months ago I'm a beginner at acrylic painting as well and I only put a few primary colors on my pallate at a time. I like mixing colors myself, so I don't buy alot of colors, just the building blocks. It also helps me to have a color chart to look at. I find that using opposite colors for shadows and light is very effective and realistic, like purple for a yellow shape. |
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| Posted 10 months ago I use liquitex- primary colors, plus black and white and earth colors mostly to produce abstract paintings. I try to keep my palette bright! Dennis You can get paintings, prints, t-shirts, and many other items with my artwork on them at:
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| Posted 10 months ago Im not biginner but i always use use (most of the time anyway) primary colors and black and white. thats about it! I likt to be able to make my own colors! |
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| Posted 10 months ago I have dioxazine purple, Hooker's green, pthalo blue (green), bright yellow green, light cadmium yellow, mars yellow, red oxide, siennas, umbers, Payne's grey, naphthol crimson, quinacridones, tons of Ti white, and lots of metallics and interferences. I enjoy the purest, most saturated tones. I also love the true earth tones. |
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| Posted 10 months ago Oh yeah, and I do mostly Liquitex. Golden and Jacquard are in there too. As a note, if you mix more than two interferences together (regardless of any regular pigment addition, say diox violet+int. blue+int. green) the micas lose their ability to reflect their specified light waves. You just end up with a dull pearl. |
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| Posted 10 months ago I like the thickness of Golden in jars because I tend to work so opaque. My pallet tends to be on the loud candy color side, when I do tone down colors, I use complimentary colors to do that with. Which isn't that often I assure you. I guess no kid would pick an earth tone jelly bean, and I tend to paint with a kid in a candy store stomach. I changed my highlights to include the canvas or board "showing through" because of the "chalkiness" of titanium white. Took me a while to figure that one out. My next experiment will be to do a monotone underpainting and use color glazes using acrylic medium...wish me luck. |
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| Posted 10 months ago flossygomez said: As long as you stick with a transparent warm color, like alizarin golden or burnt sienna, you should be good. It's WAY easier to cool down the warms than it is to warm up a viridian or a pthalo (blue or green). I do this with both acrylics and oils. Warm greys are nice, too, especially if you like a very subdued, oceanic feel. But that doesn't seem to up your alley... Your pallet actually sounds like my hair looked this last summer. It was red and hot pink, then yellow, then green, then blue and purple, then white, then pink again. I'm amazed I still have it! |
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| Posted 9 months ago Maybe I can paint your head one day. I guess painting obeys the law of thermodynamics? |
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| Posted 9 months ago Hey, I'm up for anything. Just as long as there's no more bleach involved (well, no higher than a 12% peroxide mixture). I'm tryin to grow my hair out. And it's black naturally. So, knock yourself out! I'll get an updated shot for you if you like! |