From the course: Painting Foundations: Acrylic
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Five key colors
From the course: Painting Foundations: Acrylic
Five key colors
- There are hundreds of different color choices you can make in your paintings. Sometimes I'll create a painting just with two pigments, and other times I use as many as 12. So to prevent overwhelm next time you're in the art store, where it's everyone's Aladdin's Cave with so many different pigments, we're just going to be using five colors, and that's including the white, so we can get a good range of different paintings, but still using a very limited palette. What I'm going to do now is go through each pigment on the palette in more detail, and explain what I've chosen, and the benefit of using them. So the first paint I usually have on my palette isn't a bright color at all. It's an earth color called Burnt Umber, and it's really handy in the early stages of a painting. And it's fantastic paint, because it can tone down your colors really easily, and gives you this lovely warm base to work with. So just with the Titanium White and Burnt Umber, you can establish a great deal of…
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