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Color Mixing for Beginners: How to Avoid Muddy Paint

By Olly Farmer

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Article
Level
Beginner
Price
Free
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About this lesson

Explains how matching the warm or cool bias of two primaries produces a brilliant mix while mismatched bias introduces a hidden third primary and dulls the result, and sets out a 'never mix more than three pigments' rule alongside clean-brush and swatch-testing habits.