Being engaged in painting, painting or applied arts, one often encounters the problem of a shortage of one color or another. Then an entertaining and very useful science comes to our aid - colorist. For example, let's talk about how to get purple from paints.
What do you need for this?
- Paints (we look that is from red, blue, black and white can be necessary).
- Tassels (the more the better).
- Palette.
- Water or solvent for oil paints.
Whatever paints you paint - acrylic, oil or watercolor, you need to mix the colors on the palette, and only then apply to the drawing. In this case, you can adjust the intensity of the desired shade and correct it if necessary.
How to get the purple color of the paint, many were told at drawing lessons in elementary school. But when you urgently need to βrealizeβ this color, we frantically begin to mix all the shades in a row, getting a kind of dirty mass.
How to get purple color from paints in a few steps?
The violet color itself is secondary, in order to get it, we need to mix two primary, primary colors - red and blue.
Take a little red in the palette and add about the same amount of blue. Mix the paints thoroughly. You will get a basic purple color. Most likely, it will not suit you, and you will have to "refine" it.
- In order to get a lighter shade of purple, you need to add white.
- If you mix lilac paint with white, you can also get a purple color. Depending on the amount of white, violet shades of various intensities will be obtained.
- A subtle purple hue can be obtained by mixing pink paint with blue.
There is one more way how to receive violet color from paints. To get a muted violet color you need to mix black paint with any cool shades of red. For example, it can be alizarin red. You get exactly purple, it will not be very bright and chromatic.
There is one more important point in how to receive violet color from paints. A large role in this will be played by the saturation of the shades of the outgoing colors. For example, it will look like this: a scarlet shade of red + light blue paint will give you a purple color with a beautiful burgundy shade. Or if you mix red with dark blue, you will get a rich purple color, very close to the eggplant.
In the event that you work with watercolors and do not use whitewash, adjust the saturation or pallor of the color using the amount of water.
And if you prefer to work with gouache - do not forget that when it dries, it becomes lighter by several shades, and you need to achieve a darker purple color.
Be sure to change, wipe or wash the brushes with each set of paint, then your experiments will please you.
Well, now you know how to make purple. And by surprise the situation will no longer catch you.