Mix color

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If you buy a tin of six basic colors that I proposed at the end of my basic needs, this topic will help you learn to mix colors actually are. I suggest you start with small amounts and mix the colors and those for a while 'all familiar with what they can do, you can always add more color palettes you as you get more experienced. Here are the six colors (with their successors) that I recommend as a starting color. (AP) is Winsor & Newton Artists' Watercolor, (GRA), is about to Grumbacher Academy watercolors. The color of the first list is my first choice and higher cat as a whole, but because the audience asked me a cheaper alternative, I included the color Grumbacher Academy. However, it should be noted that golden yellow and Vermilion Hue is not as lightfast as the Winsor & Newton alternatives.

Color mixing isn't complicated if you stop and think first about what color you want to end up with. For example, if you want a "pure" vibrant purple, mix it from a red and blue that both share or are biased toward purple–permanent alizarin or thalo crimson and french ultramarine or ultramarine (permanent blue). If you want a slightly duller, less intense purple, use the orange-biased red (organic vermilion) and purple-biased ultramarine blue. If you want a very greyed purple (hardly purple at all!) use the orange-biased red with the green-biased blue.

This same theory applies to all your other hues. The purest, most intense mixtures come from combining two primary colors that lean toward (are "biased" toward) the same secondary color.

The more colors you mix together, the grayer (duller) and less pure your mixtures will become as you can see from the mixtures below. The lines connect the two primary colors that were mixed in each case. Notice that when you cross the black dotted lines into an adjacent color quadrant that the mixtures are duller.

Colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel (like red and green, for example) will also neutralize each other when mixed, and make a grayish, brownish color. Try to mix the color you want using no more than three colors. Start with the lightest of the two colors, and add the darker one to it, a little at a time, until you get the result you want. Remember that watercolor dries lighter, so what you see in your palette should be a deeper, more saturated mix to compensate for this drying shift.