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I admit I find mixing colour charts painstaking, but necessary. Spent an hour mixing some new colours recently purchased to get the feel for them. I had to hand the May issue of Leisure Painter and found the article, mixing colours on paper. So decided to have a go....see the result below. It was fascinating to see the colours do their own thing.
Ellen
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Having only painted in watercolour and gouache, when I first started painting in acrylics, I was so confused by the way that the colours mixed that I bought a book showing how all the colours mix and how to achieve any colour under the sun. It was Acrylic Artist's Mixing Bible, by Ian Siddaway.
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I love mixing colours. All my paintings have a fairly limited palette from which I mix things, it makes the whole image seem more harmonious. I learnt a lot about colour mixing from my dad, who worked as a printer and told me I only needed five colours and I don't need to buy any more. I have a few more than that now, but I tend to buy colours I know will mix well with other ones I have. I don't own any oranges or purples, for example.
I've never made a colour chart. I keep meaning to, but I prefer to mix my colours on the day, trial and error style, and see what happens. if I have trouble mixing a colour I am after, I'll either keep trying or use something else (I know a colour chart would help with this, but it isn't as much fun ... :))
Kay M
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I've never made a colour chart. I keep meaning to, but I prefer to mix my colours on the day, trial and error style, and see what happens. if I have trouble mixing a colour I am after, I'll either keep trying or use something else (I know a colour chart would help with this, but it isn't as much fun
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vital
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To be quite honest with you - I've never made a colour chart either. I've recommended that others should do so - but I think we approach things in different ways; I learned as much colour theory as I could, and can make the colour mixes I need without having a chart available to me. That's one reason - and the other is that I'm lazy.
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I had to do a colour chart for a course I attempting. with only the three primary colours. it took me a long time to fathom how I was going to make this interesting for myself to do.
I draw a design of a tree with lots of branches and leaves, then I started mixing my colours using two colours at first just to see how many leaves I could colour in with a slightly different hues. and I really enjoyed the exercise and was amazed at the amount of colours I ended up with. it certainly filled up a rainy afternoon although very messy by the end. but very satisfying. try it . its fun.
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by Tao