Oil painting color mixing techniques

The color mixing techniques for oil paintings are as follows:

For beginners, mixing colors in oil paintings is a difficult problem. Here are some common color mixing tips to share with you. The following is for reference only!

Three primary colors

The three most basic colors in painting are red (magenta), yellow (lemon yellow), and blue (lake blue), which are called primary colors. These three primary colors are pure, bright, and strong, and they cannot be mixed by themselves, but they can be mixed into a variety of hues.

The primary colors in the pigment can be blended into various colors according to a certain ratio, but other colors in the pigment cannot be blended into the primary colors.

Secondary colors

The color produced by mixing equal amounts of any two of the three primary colors is called a secondary color, also known as a secondary color. (Red + blue = purple, yellow + red = orange, yellow + blue = green) If the components of the two primary colors are not equal when mixed, other colors can be produced. For example, if yellow and red are mixed, yellow-orange colors such as Zhongluo yellow and Danluo yellow will appear if there are many yellow components.

Compound color

The color produced by mixing any two secondary colors (or a primary color and a secondary color) is called a complex color, also known as a secondary color or a tertiary color. . (Black is dark gray and black, so any color mixed with black is a complex color. That is, all complex colors have components of the three primary colors of red, yellow, and blue.)

Hue

< p> refers to the appearance of color, which is the most significant feature of color and is the result of colors of different wavelengths being felt. Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, indigo, and violet on the spectrum are the seven different basic hues.

Brightness

refers to the difference in lightness and shade of color, which depends on the intensity of reflected light. It includes two meanings: one refers to the light and dark of a color itself, and the other refers to the difference between light and dark between different hues.

Purity

Refers to the degree of purity and turbidity of color pigments, also known as color saturation. Pure colors without black and white or other colors mixed in. Colors with low purity give people a dark, elegant or soft feeling. Colors with high purity give people bright, prominent and powerful colors, but they feel monotonous and dazzling. If the mixture is too mixed, it will easily feel dirty and the tone will be dark.

Congeneric colors

A series of colors with different tendencies in the same hue are called congeneric colors. For example, yellow can be divided into lemon yellow, medium yellow, orange, earthy yellow, etc., which are all called similar colors.

Contrast color

Contrast color is a physiological phenomenon produced by human visual senses. It is the balancing effect of the retina on color. Refers to two colors that are 120 degrees to 180 degrees apart on the 24-color hue circle and are called contrasting colors.

Complementary colors

Colors that are 180 degrees apart in the hue circle are called complementary colors. For example: red and green, blue and orange, yellow and purple are complementary colors. When complementary colors are subtracted (for example, when matching paints, two complementary colors are painted on the same point on white paper), it becomes black; when complementary colors are juxtaposed, it will cause strong contrast in color vision, and red will feel redder and green more. Green, if the saturation of the complementary colors is weakened, it can tend to be harmonious.

Then let’s learn the skills↓

Use the color optimization and blending method

(1) Complementary color intermodulation method: a common blending method generally called high-grade gray The method is red, green, yellow, purple, intermodulation. Be careful not to use equal amounts, and do not mix too much, otherwise it will easily turn gray and dirty

(2) Similar hue adjustment method: it can not only change the brightness, but also enrich the color, and it is not easy to get dirty.

(3) Gray blending method

1. Directly use ready-made gray and add trend colors

Basic color blending

1. Red plus yellow turns into orange

2. Less yellow and more red turns into dark orange

3. Less red and more yellow turns into light yellow

4. Red plus blue Turn purple

5. Less blue, more red, turn purple, add more red, turn rose red

6. Add yellow, blue, turn green

7. Less yellow, more Blue becomes dark blue

8. Less blue and more yellow becomes light green