I’ve had a couple versions of pyrrole red in my pile of acrylic paint colours. When standing in the art store as an absolute beginner, both enticed me with their beautiful reds, each seeming to be a “classic” red. I’ve used them occasionally, but mostly relied on cadmium red and quinacridone magenta as my “warm” […]
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Choosing a green-leaning blue for your palette can be tricky. Do you go for the dark phthalos? Or the paler ceruleans? This blog post looks at cerulean blue and a similar colour: cerulean blue chromium. Both paints are a middle value – not overly dark or pale. Landscape artists particularly love them because they are
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Today I’m taking a closer look at two pale neutral acrylic paints – N8 neutral gray and titan buff. I’ve used titan buff quite extensively and have just recently added N8 neutral gray to my collection. Both are quite pale – they land at about 8 on a value scale from 1-10, with 1 being
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I’ve been examining different similar acrylic paint colours, testing out colour mixes to see how the slight differences in hue might be useful (or not) as an acrylic artist. Today, I’m looking at titanium white and zinc white acrylic paint. These two white colours are the most common white acrylic paints. If you’re a beginner
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Which gray is the best gray for your paint palette? I’m examining two versions of gray acrylic paint, including one of the most popular: payne’s gray. The second shade of gray is N5 Neutral Gray. Not every artist likes to have a gray paint as part of their acrylic palette. Many do, though, as a
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To many, black paint is black paint. They aren’t necessarily that different. But for an artist, you might want to get to understand the different versions of black paint available to you so you can make a worthwhile choice for your palette. In this post, I’m getting to know bone black and ivory black acrylic
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Black acrylic paint is controversial in the art world. Some artists won’t touch them, saying it deadens their paintings. Others love having them on their palette, using them as a shortcut to create deeper colours from others on their palette. I’m taking a close look at carbon black and mars black in this post, looking
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I’ve tried quite a few different types of palettes. One type that I’ve used quite extensively are the disposable palette paper pads. Right now, I have three types in my collection so I thought I’d share my thoughts with you on them. I currently have versions of palette paper pads from Canson XL, Strathmore and
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Today I’m looking at a couple cool-leaning yellows: hansa yellow light and cadmium-free yellow light acrylic paint. Cool-leaning yellows have a touch of green in them. This might not be obvious at first glance but will become more obvious when mixing because they’ll produce bright greens with certain blues. If you want to mix a
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Yellow can be a tricky colour to paint with in acrylics . It can be easily overpowered by other colours. Enter the yellow earth pigments, like yellow ochre and yellow oxide. These can hold their own on a palette although aren’t as bright or pure-looking as a lemon yellow or many of the cadmium yellows.
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