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Practical Colors Tutorial
Published: 2007-10-19 06:20:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 147087; Favourites: 3309; Downloads: 2186
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Practical Traditional Paint Color Mixing TutorialI made this with my watercolors, but it can be used as a guide for acrylic paints and oil paints.
I had a very hard time with watercolors for a very long time. When I started reading websites and books on some color mixing techniques, it started to click. This is my small contribution to the community that will hopefully be of some value.
Update 28-10-07
Tweaked some readability issues
Gave some suggestions on other common names for the paints I recommended
Added a mini description on how to mix color progression samples
Additional Resources
New to watercolors? Check out this news article for some great dA resources.
handprint - an exhaustive watercolor resource
Don't know the names of your colors? try these steps and discover the perfect mix of your colors.
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EDIT OMG a DD?! I am honored that =IBinsanity and ^bleedsopretty felt this would be valuable to share in this manner.
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My pleasure! 
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thank you so much
that's gonna help me lots in whatever pieces I actually try to turn into watercolor paintings 
thanks~
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I'm so glad, let me know if you have questions.
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will do
thank you again <3~
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Thats a really practical, useful and friendly guide
Nice work. thx
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I'm so glad, let me know if he has questions.
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This is one of the best tutorials on color mixing I've seen - thanks for posting.
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That means a lot to me from you. Thank you.
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very helpfull indeed, i dont even know to use oil colors yet, but i'm trying out making pastel (mixing color pigments), and, hey!, is really hard to know how much pigment i have to mix, but i think that gonna be fun to figure it out
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good luck! If you have questions, let me know.
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I am very hesitant to do that. If I put them on, I would need to explain them properly, and I haven't come up with a succinct way to do that. I really want to keep this tut as simple as I can, as to not intimidate people who are already intimidated by colors.
I am interested in describing pigments, but am unsure if it would be better served in another tutorial.
I will continue thinking about it though, it is vital info for intermediate/advanced painters.
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If you don't, I will.
But then I'd have to go out and buy tubes of each pigment so I could get an accurate scan of what they look like. And I'm poor already as it is.
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hmmm, 
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Color Bias, woot! Thank you for preaching the good art news!
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exactly!
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If I didn't have color theory class, I'd be enamored by this tutorial.
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Thank you.
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Very, very useful indeed.
I'm soooo glad I found this tutorial.
You have no idea how happy I am
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This would actually be helpful for me since I'm getting tired of trying to get the perfect ruddy orange for a fox I'm painting on wood with acrylics. So I hope this will help ease my frustrations a bit.
And save some paint in the process
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Oh yes! These color combos work perfectly with acrylics! Best of luck on your fox painting!
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Thank you very much. Hopefully I'll get it done soon. It's a rather good sized piece so it will take time
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Thank you so much!
This is so well done and full of usefull precice information.
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I love this resource! This will totally save me wasting paint by mixing and mixing and mixing~
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Glad it could help, let me know if you have questions.
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;-p I'm totally going to use this when i paint. fantastic!
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thank you thank you thank you...
This is going to be so much help in my Color & Design class. I can't thank you enough.
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I am so glad this will help you, let me know if you have any questions.
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Thanks for sharing, and congrats on getting a DD!
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I went ahead and featured this in my journal even though it got a DD today because some of my friends who could use this are hermits. 
Let me know if you want it taken down.
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Oh thank you!
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Thankyou!! I'll make my own swatches and see what happenes.
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Hooray! 
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Great tut, well deserving of a DD
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This is amazingly well put together and it looks like you had a lot of fun with this too! Great tut, and congrats on the DD <3
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I did!
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My pleasure
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nice colors. good job. this could be very useful. ^-^
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