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Painting Basic – Studying your paint and inks
Painters and printmakers use a process to study their paints and inks. You can easily use the same process. You do these studies on index cards, so you need at least one for every tube of paint you have.
1. Set out your paints, palette, palette knife, solvent, and paper towels.
2. Set a plain index card vertically, and write the name of a color at the top.Leave room below the name for the three color samples you will apply to the card.
3. Squeeze a small dot of that color to one side near the top of the card under the written name.
4. Use your palette knife like a squeegee to scrape the paint as thinly as you can down the length of the card.This is called a draw down.
5. Beside the draw down at the top, paint a spot of color straight from the tube.
6. Mix equal parts of your color and white and paint a spot of the color next to the spot of tube color.
7. Look closely at the color of the draw down to determine whether the color is transparent, opaque, or semi-transparent; write the result on the card.If you see a lot of white paper showing through the paint, the color is transparent. If you don’t, it’s opaque. It could also be in between, or semi-transparent. Write what you see on the card anywhere.
8. Compare the color of the draw down to the painted color from the tube to determine its undertone; write “no undertone,” “undertone is warmer,” or “undertone is cooler” on the card as appropriate. Some — but not all — colors have undertones. The thinned color of the draw down will look warmer or cooler than the painted color. For example, alizarin crimson has a warm undertone. The color of the draw down looks more orange than the color of the body or mass of the paint. If the color of the draw down and painted color match, the color has no undertone.
9. Determine the tinting strength of your color by comparing the color of the tube with the spot of color you mixed with white; write this info on your card. If the spot of color you mixed with white is only slightly lighter than the color from the tube, your pigment is very strong and has a high tinting strength. If the white changed it significantly, your color has a low tinting strength.
Repeat this with each of your colors. Just doing this exercise will help you learn the properties of each color. You can continue this experiment with any new color you purchase as well.
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