Comments on: Oil Painting Tips – How To Keep Your Colors Pure http://www.artinstructionblog.com/oil-painting-tips-how-to-keep-your-colors-pure Free art lessons & tips on a variety of different mediums including oil painting,watercolor,acrylics and more! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:28:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: steve http://www.artinstructionblog.com/oil-painting-tips-how-to-keep-your-colors-pure/comment-page-1#comment-478246 steve Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:44:14 +0000 http://www.artinstructionblog.com/?p=1635#comment-478246 Bearing in mind that I use oil paint for my art, you can add mauve to Cadmium Yellow Light to darken it to the color Yellow Ochre, and by adding more mauve it then becomes the color Raw Sienna and once again by adding more mauve you get the color Raw Umber. BTW (you get mauve by either buy the color or mixing the colors Ultramarine with Alizarin Crimson) Bearing in mind that I use oil paint for my art, you can add mauve to Cadmium Yellow Light to darken it to the color Yellow Ochre, and by adding more mauve it then becomes the color Raw Sienna and once again by adding more mauve you get the color Raw Umber. BTW (you get mauve by either buy the color or mixing the colors Ultramarine with Alizarin Crimson)

]]> By: Megan Cherveny http://www.artinstructionblog.com/oil-painting-tips-how-to-keep-your-colors-pure/comment-page-1#comment-58092 Megan Cherveny Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:12:32 +0000 http://www.artinstructionblog.com/?p=1635#comment-58092 As opposed to adding black to achieve darker colors, try adding your dark blues or browns to maintain a hue that is more natural and not greyed out. You can also try stretching your colors to lighter and darker hues without obtaining mud by adding small amounts of a much lighter or darker color - for example, use a tiny (very tiny) amount of violet to bring your lemon yellow to a mustard yellow. The author mentioned keeping a clean workspace. As part of this, be cognizant of remnant color in your brush or that your brush picks up if you are painting over wet paint. If you have a lot of problems with this (I did), get yourself an arsenal of cheap brushes and force yourself to allow a couple days drying time before coming back to work in lighter and darker shadows in the barely wet paint on you canvas. Last point: learn the difference mixing with between titanium and zinc white because they give totally different results. As opposed to adding black to achieve darker colors, try adding your dark blues or browns to maintain a hue that is more natural and not greyed out. You can also try stretching your colors to lighter and darker hues without obtaining mud by adding small amounts of a much lighter or darker color – for example, use a tiny (very tiny) amount of violet to bring your lemon yellow to a mustard yellow.

The author mentioned keeping a clean workspace. As part of this, be cognizant of remnant color in your brush or that your brush picks up if you are painting over wet paint. If you have a lot of problems with this (I did), get yourself an arsenal of cheap brushes and force yourself to allow a couple days drying time before coming back to work in lighter and darker shadows in the barely wet paint on you canvas.

Last point: learn the difference mixing with between titanium and zinc white because they give totally different results.

]]> By: Kindrie Grove http://www.artinstructionblog.com/oil-painting-tips-how-to-keep-your-colors-pure/comment-page-1#comment-37104 Kindrie Grove Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:14:56 +0000 http://www.artinstructionblog.com/?p=1635#comment-37104 This is a great post with some very good advice. As an artist and art instructor, I have found that helping beginner oil painters break the habit of over touching, or worrying their painting is also very helpful for keeping colour from becoming muddy and dull. Try a simple exercise of limiting yourself to three touches of a loaded brush to your painting. Then move back to your palette to pick up more paint or clean your brush. It might be hard at first, but the clarity of your colour will definitely improve. .-= Kindrie Grove´s last blog ..<a href="http://onlineartinstruction.net/early-stage-painting-blues/" rel="nofollow">Early Stage Painting Blues?</a> =-. This is a great post with some very good advice.

As an artist and art instructor, I have found that helping beginner oil painters break the habit of over touching, or worrying their painting is also very helpful for keeping colour from becoming muddy and dull. Try a simple exercise of limiting yourself to three touches of a loaded brush to your painting. Then move back to your palette to pick up more paint or clean your brush.

It might be hard at first, but the clarity of your colour will definitely improve.
.-= Kindrie Grove´s last blog ..Early Stage Painting Blues? =-.

]]> By: ruslan http://www.artinstructionblog.com/oil-painting-tips-how-to-keep-your-colors-pure/comment-page-1#comment-14667 ruslan Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:17:00 +0000 http://www.artinstructionblog.com/?p=1635#comment-14667 gr8 guidance! Though m not a beginner 2 oil painting, I feel that some of the tips mentioned could b a new beginning 4 me. gr8 guidance! Though m not a beginner 2 oil painting, I feel that some of the tips mentioned could b a new beginning 4 me.

]]> By: alicia8522 http://www.artinstructionblog.com/oil-painting-tips-how-to-keep-your-colors-pure/comment-page-1#comment-14162 alicia8522 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:25:30 +0000 http://www.artinstructionblog.com/?p=1635#comment-14162 Thanks for the tips. You have written a great article, and I have become a big fan of yours. I will definitely recommend your blog to my friends. Thanks for the tips. You have written a great article, and I have become a big fan of yours. I will definitely recommend your blog to my friends.

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