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ADD DEPTH TO DARKS I avoid using Raw Umber, Burnt Umber or Payne’s Grey as
I want my dark areas to be made up from a multitude of
colours. By combining blues, greens and purples with dashes of their respective complementary colours, you can create lovely neutrals and darks instead. This does however leave my palette with plenty of ‘corrupted’ paint so I use a palette knife to skim the unwanted paint away and refi ll the well with fresh paint when needed (this can happen a lot during these initial applications).
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BREAK UP HARMONY Using a clean 2” Sky Flow brush, I loaded up Cadmium Red,
Cadmium Yellow Medium, Magenta and Yellow Ochre and
applied a layer to indicate the large red restaurant sign on the right hand corner. As more applications were made, tiny dashes of other colours – including Deep Violet, Burnt Sienna, Pale Olive Green and varying blues – were added to break up the harmonious pigment and avoid repetition. Smaller areas of these warm shades were painted with a 1” long fl at brush.
TOP TIP
AVOID OVER- WORKING ACRYLIC PAINT TO KEEP COLOURS BRIGHT
FOR BEST RESULTS,
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CONTROL COLOUR The key to mixing multiple pigments on one brush is to have
a dominating harmonious colour that takes up around 85 to
90% of the brush. For example, if you take yellows, orange, magenta and red, the other 10 or 15% should be comprised of dashes of green, blue and violet. Anything too dark may spill over and dominate or corrupt that main colour. The other factor to bear in mind is that you should avoid over-working acrylic once applied, as it may go dull and lifeless.
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DON’T LET WHITE DOMINATE Once the colour has been fully realised on the canvas, the
next step is to add Titanium White highlights. By avoiding
using white until this later stage, it has a greater potency and impact when it is fi nally introduced. The danger at this point is letting the white completely dominate – you should try to accurately measure the colour balance. Keep it subtle by mixing shots of Phthalo Green, Cadmium Yellow and Process Cyan with Titanium White and applying it to the side of the white van using a 1½1/2” Sky Flow brush.
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