Your Primary school teacher lied to you!
The simple colour wheel she taught you doesn’t work. Colour wheels are hotly debated and tweaked by each working artist’s practical preferences. Everyone’s aim is to make colour mixing easier but it can get confusing.
The no.1 thing to do, is to start noticing towards which secondary colour your ‘primary’ colour is slanting.
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The Signifying Power of Absence, Oil on Canvas, Anna-Carien Goosen
The array of whites available can quickly become confusing! This post shares information about various whites and what you need to keep in mind when choosing whites. it also includes links to other sites if you want to get more technical information and see photos of experiments in white.
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Take the time to know your gear. An artist should be "paint literate" in terms of not only being able to recall paint by its name but also understanding the ingredients used and the differences between each.
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Historically, a lot of artist materials are quite poisonous.
Living in today's fast paced world of quick fixes and insta-gratification we hardly stop to think of the history of the objects we use, and the many sacrifices that have been made to provide us with utter convenience. Oil Paint, especially, has a dark and grim history. Preparing and grinding pigments for paint was not only a laborious task for any painter (If you've seen the movie Girl with the Pearl Earring you should recall this), but also toxic, gross and often involved animal cruelty.
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Nougat doesn't really care for etiquette...
Romantic ideas of the depressed artist painting into the early hours of the morning are often accompanied by an overwhelming olfactory sensation, of turpentine. Fortunately, the wonders of linseed oil and baby oil have been discovered. This is what my basic set-up for oil painting looks like:
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For those of us who are tempted by positively everything within an art store, investing in a new medium can be a daunting task ( of trying not to buy everything - and still keeping within the budget).
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