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Why are My Colour Mixes Dirty?

By Rachel Shirley

Type
Article
Level
Beginner
Price
Free
Published
2010
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About this lesson

Diagnoses the common causes of muddy oil mixes, such as darkening with black, mixing too many pigments and overworking wet paint. Gives fixes including darkening with complements, keeping mixes to three or four pigments, and blotting overworked passages with newspaper (tonking).