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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These are books that I've read over and over..... and over...
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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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Keep in mind firstly, that this is my colour choice (and all artists have different preferences even though they use the same basic colour principles), and then secondly that this post is more relevant for South-Africans living close to Jimnettes Art Shop
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