Article · Oil Painting Medic
Why are My Colour Mixes Dirty?
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2010
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).
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