The human eye is capable of distinguishing a great variety of shades. In the paintings of great artists, the viewer sees exquisite color transitions, the play of light and shadow - and all this splendor is achieved with the help of a very small amount of colors. The art of mixing colors must be mastered at the very beginning, in the first drawing lessons.
It is necessary
- - watercolor paints;
- - gouache;
- - oil paints;
- - jars for paints;
- - palette;
- - brush;
- - wooden stick;
- - paper;
- - color circle.
Instructions
Step 1
Remember which colors are the main ones. They are red, yellow and blue. If you have such paints, you can get all the colors of the spectrum. Try experimenting with gouache. Put some carmine or red cadmium in a separate jar (the paint must be diluted to the consistency of thick sour cream), add the same amount of yellow strontium or yellow cadmium and mix thoroughly. You will end up with a deep orange color. By adding more yellow or red paint, you get different shades of orange. Do the same experiment by mixing red and blue paints or blue and yellow. In the first case, you will get different shades of purple, in the second - green.
Step 2
Each color has several other characteristics. These are hue, hue and saturation. A hue represents a specific color - for example, blue-green, yellow-green, red-orange, yellow-orange, etc. The first of these shades is achieved by mixing yellow and blue paints with a predominance of blue, the second is made from the same colors, but with a predominance of yellow.
Step 3
The tone characterizes how much a given shade is lighter or darker than others obtained using the same paints taken in the same proportions. You can get different tones of gouache with white. Mix two colors - for example, blue and red. You will end up with purple. Take a small amount of this new paint, put it in a separate jar and add a little bit of white. You will get a lighter tone of the same shade. By adding more white, you get a paint of an even lighter tone, in the end you will see a pale lilac paint in a jar.
Step 4
Saturation is the brightness of a color. Take a clean paint, put it in separate jars (or put it on a palette) and experiment. You can blur it, add darker or lighter colors, etc. You will end up with different variations of the same color, from washed out to muted. In the same way, you can experiment with watercolors or oil paints.
Step 5
It is best to record the results of your experiments in a color chart. In the top row and the left column, indicate the shades that you mixed (the cells can be painted in the appropriate color). In the remaining cells, place the colors obtained by mixing each pair of shades. To find, for example, a certain shade of purple, it will be enough to look at the intersection of the red column and the blue line. The table can be quite large. This is practically a catalog, similar to the one offered to buyers by large hardware stores. The buyer orders paint of a certain shade, tone and saturation, it is immediately prepared for him, strictly observing the proportions.
