wats the best way to blend coloyrs while painting?????

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i need help!

Answer 1

You need a good book about colour theory. Basically, there are 3 primary colours; red, yelow and blue. You cannot make these by mixing.
If you mix equal amounts of 2 primary colours you get a secondary colour;
red + yellow = orange
red + blue = purple
blue + yellow = green

If you mix a primary and a secondary you get a tertiary, or earth tone; a shade of brown.

Answer 2

1) As several people have already said, which medium you use will make a vast difference to the techniques available to you. Oil is slow drying, so you can slap paint onto the canvas or board and push it around for days. Acrylics go off in a few minutes, so the dry brushing or glazing techniques might work better here. Watercolour is a world in itself and I think your work might look better if you follow what the medium wants to do rather than trying to impose on it.

2) There is a lot of approximate information out there on colour mixing. I would recommend "Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green" or other books by Michael Wilcox. I'm suggesting this book for the information it contains, not the writer's style, which is amateurish and gets tedious after a while. If you work through it you will understand colour mixing much more thoroughly.

3) Final tip - don't just think "Red" or "Blue", etc, get acquainted with the actual pigments put into the tubes, you can mix colours with Ultramarine that you can't with Pthalocyanine blue and vice versa.

Answer 3

You will find that nearly every colour that you see isn't a pure primary or secondary colour-it's a mixture of all 3.
If I was going to paint a perfect blue sky, I would use a light blue, but I would still mix a little yellow and red into it, and of course vary these quantities across the whole sky area.

A good technique which i am using at the moment is to paint with pure colours directly from the tube and mixing them together ON the canvas or other surface (this works best with oils!) To start with you will have very intense colours all clashing together, but in the mixing process they become neutralised to some extent ( the more you mix the less intense they become) but still create a lively surface which simulates a natural effect.

You can use white, black and various earth colours (browns,greys, ochres etc) to tweak the mix to vary the tone and the intensity.

This probably all sounds a bit messy, and it is! but it's a good way of preventing your colours looking dead on the canvas.
I believe that Rubens and other old masters used some variation on this technique.

Answer 4

There are many ways. They are all good.
What medium? Acrylics? Oils?
Mix the paints on your palette first. that's a pretty straight forward way. Or you can work a-la-prima- blending them on the canvas as you go. You may get mud, though, if you are new to it. Remember, you can always cover it or scrape it off.

Also, try dry brushing. For example, let one color dry. Then take a hard brush with very little paint on it and go over the top.

Good luck.

Also, search for glazing techniques online. It's a long process, but it worked for the old masters.

Answer 5

depends what style your going for. Sometimes its better to mix colours thouroughly on the palette, sometimes partly and sometimes its better on the surface. I find it looks more interesting not mixing your colours too much on the palette. I also find acrylic dries up very quickly if you try and mix up colours.

As for blending, either a soft brush while paint is wet, a thin brush with a bit of water to soften an edge (I think the techniques called subatto or something similar) or the thing that works for me is using my finger as you have a lot of control and get even blends.

Answer 6

u dont need a book. every artist has an individual style. the old masters didnt read 'how to paint' books. if there is an artist who blends colours the way you like, read up about their technique. also try out different things on ur own. i like to blend colours on the canvas. but u may prefer a different look. also it depends on the paint. blending oil is very different from blending acrylic or water colours. u learn best by trial and error.

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Answer 8

The very vest way to blend colors while painting, is to experiment!
I tend to draw the lighter colors into the dark.. then dark back down into the light.. close your eyes as see it in your head, then open your eyes and have a go at it..
Enjoy YOUR artwork.. and yourself!

Answer 9

You mostly use red, yellow, and blut to make other colors. There isn't anything that makes those three colors. You could also use black and white to mix with colors, too. When you mix colors, always remember to add the darker color to the lighter color. You can never add a lighter color to the darker. You won't even be able to tell the difference if you add lighter.
Play around with different colors.
Have fun and good luck!

Answer 10

When I paint with water colors, I wet the paper a little where I am fixin' to pain then I paint.It helps it not to be so dark and you can blend them easier.