It's made more complicated by whites having different transparencies, and blacks having warm and cool tendencies. Another way is to mix in the complementary color. One way to desaturate is mix with a grey of the right value. Value changes.īut if my color is too saturated, I need to desaturate, or reduce chroma. Given a pure color, you can make it lighter with white, darker with black. Certainy, unmixed colours - red, yellow, blue, brown, white and black of the basic DMP palette should not be ditched if they are still useable but I think that, generally, if a painting is finished then so is the mud on your palette.īut maybe I'm wrong. And, frankly, I'd rather start with a clean palette for every painting because, unless you are painting the same subject over and over again under exactly the same lighting, the colour of your greys (but maybe not the values) will always be different and so you'll have to modify your saved grey anyway, and you'll be mixing old paint with fresh which may cause other problems. But oil paint dries and won't stay workable forever. I guess you could try saving left over paint to use in greys. So, if realism is what you are after, you'll always be dealing in shades of coloured greys. The colour of any given subject is rarely, if ever, what comes out of a tube and is always modified by shadow, reflected light etc.
Even the pigments in the paints we use are not exactly the same as what we perceive in any given subject whether it be a still life, landscape or whatever. Perhaps one of the few times we see pure colours in nature is in a rainbow and even they are transient and somewhat attenuated by cloud, time of day and other atmospheric vagueries.
(this post probably won’t make any sense lol, there are many more greys in our visual world than pure colours. The colors they mix seem fine to me then they go and add some grey lol. I would just just play around with it all but I don’t want to waste my paint doing so.Īlso with Geneva paints there doesn’t seem to be a point to this. (And these videos are not amateurs.one is old of a guy copying a Sargent painting)(one guy does say his orange was a little too orange so he added grey) What is the benefit of having all that grey? One guy saves all his paint at the end and makes it a grey for later use. Why do they need three greys (dark, med, light) on their palette?. So are the greys for making a color neutral? Just to change the brightness or chroma?Īnother mixing question I don’t understand. So I thought black/white is to darken and go up/down in value scale. they seem to dip into one to desaturate a color.? I have seen people (YouTube, several videos) of people mixing up like 3 shades of grey on their palette in addition to the colors they need.
can someone explain if I understand this correctly or not. Okay This will probably not make any sense.
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