Mixing oil paints is a painstaking job. After mixing, the tone should be uniform so that there are no difficulties with color reproduction. This should be done on a palette, with a brush or palette knife, after diluting the paints with turpentine.
It is necessary
- Oil paints,
- palette,
- turpentine,
- brush,
- palette knife.
Instructions
Step 1
Before starting work, oil paints need to be put on the edge of the palette. The middle of the palette should be left empty because the colors are to be mixed on it.
Step 2
The mixing process itself should be carried out with a brush or palette knife. The palette knife is a metal spatula, sometimes with pointed edges. You need to work with tools quickly enough, but carefully. The result is a mass of pasty consistency of a uniform tone. Oil paints can not be diluted with anything, but write as they are squeezed out of a tube. If the need arose, it should only be diluted with a liquid that is capable of evaporating from them. It is best to use varnishes or turpentine.
Step 3
When mixing paints, you should know what happens if you mix paint of one tone with another.
The fruits of ripe pears depicted using dark or light yellow cadmium should not be highlighted, if necessary, with lead whitewash. Most likely the colors will fade and change their tone. In this case, it is better to use peanut butter. The golden yellow foliage obtained with the help of cadmium will change color if ocher is added. Lead white is a rather whimsical paint. Suppose there is a need to lighten a night landscape painted with dark ocher, cobalt purple, Mars brown until deep twilight. If we use white lead for this, we will get rather the beginning twilight, so the tone will be sharply highlighted with this white. In addition, the quality of this paint will be greatly reduced. Neapolitan yellow paint is made on the basis of lead white. This paint should not be mixed with an iron palette knife, because on contact with iron, it darkens. To do this, you can use a bone palette knife (there is one), or mix paints with a brush. Finicky enough and such a wonderful tone as ultramarine. If, for example, the sky and the sea with the predominant use of ultramarine are made lighter with the help of all the same lead white, you will get a pre-storm ocean, where brown shades will rule the ball. Ultramarine is not friendly with black paints. It quickly dries up in their presence. All these features are very important to consider when mixing, so as not to get into a mess.
Step 4
It is necessary to mix paints just before work. If you leave the paints on the palette for a long time, then the top layer will dry out and it will become impossible to work with a brush. Do not be afraid of improvisation, you can mix shades that no one has been able to mix before. The main thing is not to forget which neighborhood in what way affects the color and quality of paints.
