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Avril Soldani

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I have taken a photo of a beautiful old oak near my house and Kirsty would like to see it and ..... hopefully make a beautiful painting! where can I post it ?I don't know how to put a photo on the forum :$ ! Ah just seen "attach a file after posting" ..... is that the way ?

Mick Saunders

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No I never bothered with stuff like that. I just picked the paints that I wanted for the colour scheme for the painting and fired in with those.bestMick

Sylvia Evans

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Rules is meant to be broken,,,, just paint...enjoy.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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There are &quot;rules&quot;, guidelines, suggested colour mixtures - and any number of us can supply those; muddy colour mixes can be  avoided.  But - you can learn yourself, as most of us did: it may take you longer, but the learning will be your own.  It depends perhaps on how swiftly you wish to advance. <div> </div><div>I don't separate colours on the palette, no...... because that would be immensely tedious; over time, you get to know your colours, discover which are opaque, which transparent, which semi-transparent, and the fewer of them there are, the better.  Understand your colours - get to know them, mix them with others .... see what happens.  </div><div> </div><div>It's not instinct - the more you get to know your colours the better; it's based on knowledge and experiment, trial and error.  </div>
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Michael Edwards

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Like the others I don' bother - in fact I've never thought about it. I have a basic palette to which I adhere and only use other colours for the odd highlight . For the record my palette consists of: light red, raw and burnt sienna, ultramarine, paynes grey, burnt umber, and cobalt blue. I've got to know these colours over time and how they mix and behave. Should add that I do use a green (usually olive green but whatever's going) which I mix with any of basic palette colours before using I never use it 'raw'.

Michael Robinson

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some say there is no such thing as mud in the palette .for me mud is made by over painting your tones and values ,if one can mix as near as possible to the colour you need ,, in your palette ,beforehand ,you can .avoid the need to over paint ,,,an over painted passage in a watercolor.is not nice ,fiddling with it after its done is another not nice, ,a piece of spare paper to test on as you paint is handy

Dennis Spicer

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It is useful to know how paints will behave and it does save a lot of disappointment in the long run, but this is best done by experience as Robert says. To know which colours are transparent and which are opaque is helpful and an understanding of colours as applied to the colour wheel is vital I would have thought. I have never got on with the terms warm and cool as they are subjective and depend on what is put next to them, I prefer to think of them with doubled barrelled names, for instance purple red (alizarin crimson) , greeny blue (cerulean) etc.