Paint Colours

Notes for Me

I paint a lot of these things and always intend to write down what colour combos I do, and then get so involved that I don't. Here's an attempt to correct that.

These notes are based off the watercolours I happen to have in my childhood paint tray, which i inherited from my gran and is still going strong - I've only had to replace the black, in all that time. I use block watercolours, because it's what i have. i hate watercolour, like really loathe it. I think what i really want to get into is gouache? but watercolours are what i have. i did get lucky with some painters inks recently and fell in love with their glassy vibrance, so maybe i will experiment with them soon

Circle-and-Triangle

  • Land-top-green: Apple Green + Mustard
  • Stellar green: Sky Blue + Bright Yellow
  • LM Blue: Sky Blue + Blood Red
  • Blue before Lunar: Sky Blue + Royal Blue

Seeker in the Cosmos

  • Lunar green: apple green + sky blue; darkening with apple green + midnight blue; and then that plus black
  • SolStel green: sky blue + yellow. Brightening with ++ yellow
  • Middle green: white+black, plus green. Lighter: adding white, towards white+green. Darker: adding green. It's underpainted with something I forgot.

Colour Wheel

  • Weather: Midnight Blue + mustard
  • Fire: orange-red + blood red over the top

Red Diagram Colours

Note: since these notes made, gone over again with other paints

Solar is Saturation because it's nto really golden,exactly - it's light, so that means, most visible.

Moonwise - Light

  • warm yellow +-> water
  • Water + sky blue
  • sky blue + midnight blue
  • mid blue
  • Sky blue + blood red == blue
  • Mid blue + mustard
  • Apple green, sky blue, black

Moonwise - Fields

  • Mustard + yellow
  • Mustard + apple green
  • +-> more apple green
  • Sky blue + yellow == green
  • Apple green, deep blue,
  • Apple green, deep blue, black
  • Apple green, sky blue, black

Central Column

  • From lunar down: water + cold blood red
  • cold blood red + a dot of sky blue
  • + black

Walking pectra

  • Ancestor browns: thin raw umber mixed with white
  • Warm green black: layer of bottle black. On top, mix of crimson lake deep and viridian

Mixing techniquyes

  • Pull it all togethr with a glaze opf white
  • Pontilism
  • dry dustying

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