Renee,
Thank you so much, I am beginning to understand more. This whole thing about mixing different values of EACH color is new to me. I have studied a lot of posts by Marvin about Paxton's palette and even ordered all the colors mailorder from the Italian Art Supply place that he recommended. So, I have all the colors.
I recently viewed Daniel Greene's video and he does something that sounds similar, mixing a number of values in each color. As I said, this is new to me. I understood that Marvin mixed his neutrals in all the values.
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Originally Posted by Renee Price
. . . a row of neutrals in values 9-1
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I will have to find the post that tells me exactly what the neutral is. I remember there was yellow ochre in it ( a yellow) to neutralize the blue in the black. Can't remember exactly . . .
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When mixing colors, remember to work up and down within the values and never across. For example, never mix a value 6 yellow ochre with a value 5 cool red and always use a different brush for each value. Mixing across the values or using the same brush for the different values can result in mud.
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Renee, are you saying that when you decide to paint, say, a cheek in a value 3, then you go to your premixed colors as you described them and mix together some of this color in value 3, then a little of that color in value 3, until you get the right color? I understand not mixing in a little of a value 2, for example, with this "3" mixture. Am I getting this right? Doesn't that mean you have to have a pretty huge palette surface? Daniel Greene's is huge, he had is specially made.
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Shadows on the flesh are not just brown or grey. They vary in value and color based on planes of the face, local color and value, temp of light, and surrounding clothing. Don't limit yourself to one value and one color.
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Thank you for this thought, it's good for me to remember that a shadow isn't just one color. Although . . . the down side here is that I can hardly figure out ONE good color to make a shadow and now you're telling me to find lots of good shadow colors.
Seriously though, I'll try and be more open minded when it comes to "seeing" the colors in the shadows.
Thank you very much,
Joan