Plant a novice now to paint the most banal landscape, we will get blue sky, green grass, yellow sun, brown house, red flower, etc. at the exit. That is, a person clearly knows what color the grass is, the sky and everything else, and paints them with exceptionally pure colors available in the set of colors. However, he does not take into account, for example, the fact that these colors can have many shades under different lighting conditions, and it is necessary to achieve them by mixing paints. In the same way, one additional can be obtained from several basic colors.
The base colors that cannot be obtained by any mixing are yellow, red and blue. There are also so-called neutral
colors: black and white. All the rest can be attributed to additional ones, since they can be achieved by mixing two or three basic colors. And the addition of neutrals will give a darker or lighter shade. For example, how to get purple color? Suddenly he wasn’t in your paint box, but you need it. To do this, mix a little red and a little
blue on the palette
. Something already happened. It may not be exactly what you wanted, but it is easy to fix. For this, there are proportions of mixing paints. If your purple turned out with a reddish tint, then you just need to add a little blue to it. And you need to do this until you achieve exactly the shade that you need. If you "went over" with blue, then add more red.
Thus, you get an additional color, but maybe it turned out too dark? How to get violet color of a lighter shade? Here comes neutral white to the rescue. Take it quite a bit, literally at the tip of the brush, and mix it with what you have already done. As you can see, the shade has become much lighter. The more white, the lighter and more tender your purple will turn out. Suppose you draw a regular flower. If you paint over its petals with a solid color, it will look flat. To “revive” him, you need to determine where he will have the lightest and darkest areas. It would be logical to assume that the lighter shade of the petals will be closer to the outer edge, and the darkest - to the middle and between the petals. How to get the purple color of dark tones? Very simple: mix red with blue and add a drop of black there. In the shade that you received when mixing with white, it is better not to touch, otherwise you will get just a dirty daub. Make a dark tone separately.
So, the flower is painted over with the main color, and we determined its light and dark areas. Take a light tone and walk them along the outer edge of each petal, literally with one stroke. Now put a dark shade on the brush and walk along the bottom in the same way. In the same tone, “separate” the petals from one another. You do not need to completely circle them, especially in those places where you have outlined the brightest areas. The closer to light, the thinner and more transparent the shadows between the petals should be. Now, knowing how to get the
purple color, you can experiment with it, as well as with other colors, creating no longer flat, but rather voluminous, almost lively images.