Painting: Colours
Jan. 24th, 2011 12:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheI'm learning a good deal about me and painting. One important thing is that I don't LIKE having lots of colours available in tubes, particularly; what I love most is mixing colours and creating the right ones, especially when it happens on the brush and on the canvas (mm, lovely oils; I painted something red and yellow today which I very nearly ate, it was so gloopy and colouredy and downright sensual. Omnomnom).
I'm looking at buying more acrylic paint - I've been using Daler Rowney in tubes of 120ml and am looking at Winsor and Newton in tubes of 60ml, hoping they're thicker - but the sets all seem to have 10 or more colours. Same with Gouache starter sets. Too many colours. I would like to start with the RIGHT shades of red, yellow, and blue, and some white, and go on from there.
I also want to find a palette to use with my acrylics; I got one which looked very useful but is actually rubbish and irritating. I think that for oils I may well end up using a classic flat lump of wood wiv a hole in, but I don't know what's best for acrylics. I hate cleaning up after them. Must buy some chemical wipe things.
But mixing colours as I paint is the best thing in the universe ever. That, and secret things around corners.
I'm looking at buying more acrylic paint - I've been using Daler Rowney in tubes of 120ml and am looking at Winsor and Newton in tubes of 60ml, hoping they're thicker - but the sets all seem to have 10 or more colours. Same with Gouache starter sets. Too many colours. I would like to start with the RIGHT shades of red, yellow, and blue, and some white, and go on from there.
I also want to find a palette to use with my acrylics; I got one which looked very useful but is actually rubbish and irritating. I think that for oils I may well end up using a classic flat lump of wood wiv a hole in, but I don't know what's best for acrylics. I hate cleaning up after them. Must buy some chemical wipe things.
But mixing colours as I paint is the best thing in the universe ever. That, and secret things around corners.