From the course: Painting Foundations: Creating Palettes for the Landscape
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Paints and mediums
From the course: Painting Foundations: Creating Palettes for the Landscape
Paints and mediums
- With so many acrylic paint colors available, it can be really overwhelming when you go to the art store and are faced with all this massive colors in front of you. And with such a choice it can be hard to know which colors are best to start with. Often, you tend towards a beginner's starter kit, but is this really the best choice to start with when you're first mixing colors? Box starter sets are designed to give you a varied approach, a range of colors that give you the widest color gambit with a minimum amount of outlay. But it depends what you're aiming for for your end result if the starter set is gonna be the right choice for you. If you think about the paintings that you want to achieve, the subject matter you are tackling before you actually decide on the paints, then you can create a color palette that is going to work best for the subject. So before every painting lesson throughout this course, I'm going to show you the base pigments that I've chosen to mix the seasonal…
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