In order to understand how to mix paints, you need to understand the features of their chemical composition and the basic concepts of colors. Any paint is a mixture of a pigment with a binder. Pigment is a powder of mineral substances, which, when combined with special "liquids", gains the ability to overlap the main surface color. Most often these are natural natural dyes.
In order to get this or that shade, you need to know the laws of color mixing. Although the human eye distinguishes hundreds of tones, in fact, only three main colors can be distinguished, thanks to which the rest are obtained. Red, blue and yellow are base colors and cannot be mixed. But combined in different proportions and quantities, they are able to create any desired shade.
For example, from a combination of blue and yellow, green, blue and red are obtained, mixing, they give a dark blue tint, and by combining equal parts of all three colors, you can get black. By experimenting with the amount of a particular color, you can endlessly get new shades. It should not be forgotten that random mixing of different dyes leads to the formation of dirty, unattractive colors.
- Do not mix more than three different colors, as this would result in a "dirty" shade.
- Some paints can enter into a chemical reaction with each other, and from this there is a change in their saturation, lightness or hue.
- Some watercolors, such as cobalt blue or cadmium red, when in contact with a large amount of water, lose their ability to uniformly cover the surface.
- Gouache paints often lighten when dry. Also, you should not take them from the can with a brush: wet pile captures paint of different thicknesses, and from this subsequently unwanted stripes form on the paper.
- It must be remembered that each color has an infinite number of shades, from cold to warm. Mixing one shade with another gives a completely new one.
- White, as a rule, softens colors, making them more delicate and washed out, while black paint, on the contrary, mutes and makes the color heavier.
You can clearly see how to mix paints by looking at the color wheel, in which three basic simple colors are placed at an equal distance from each other, additional ones depart from them. This table clearly demonstrates the possibilities and consequences of color mixing.
