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Benefits of Mixing White
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Not sure what you are questioning, the mixing of white with other pigments or mixing white pigments themselves? In oil painting, if it's mixing white with other pigments the benefit is the obtaining of a tint of the other pigment, except with reds where the white will turn it to another colour, pink. The downside, generally, is that whites are opaque to one degree or another and mixing with a translucent pigment will result in a loss of transparency in the mixed colour. For that same reason white should not be used in a mix for shadows or to indicate shade as shadows/shade is transparent.
No experience of mixing white from pigment as all my whites come from a tube.
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I was browsing Ken Brommers site and was looking at 'Mixing White'...... in the Acrylic. Similar to zinc white I believe, less opaque which its properties are useful with skies for example..... Whereas Titanium white is opaque, but I find can be watered down to the same effect.
Just got me thinking really as a waste really, pointless.... a tube of mixing white....or am I wrong?