Oh my, thanks everyone for the kind words...
Craka_J, your post really flattered me
I never thought anyone would think of me that way...I really appreciate it, man...don't know what else to say
As for the acrylics thing, I don't know if I'm really a good person to give advice, no one taught me how to use them and I'm a little goofy with them, trying something new every time...but basically I just put colors on the palette, mix them and put it on paper, but using as little water as possible!! Even though acrylics are soluble in water, they work just fine without it and it's best to keep it that way unless you want glaze or make a quick colored background, so you don't paint directly on white.
And as for mixing colors, there's some basic rules I follow:
- first of all, think that you're painting light, not colors. There's no pure color in nature, everything is affected by light and you paint the light that's reflected by various colored surfaces.
- secondly, you must understand that saturation is a concept regarding light, not color. Chroma is the correct term for what you might be used to call "saturation" for colors;
- black is NOT EVIL!!! Using black to darken a color is allright, as long as you remember that black lowers the chroma faster than it lowers the brightness!! So you might want to add a color high in chroma after you add black to something, to keep it on track (because shadows are always higher in chroma than areas in light!).
Adding the complementary color to darken a color is pretty fake and doesn't work every time.
- Combining 2 colors with high chroma => color with high chroma.
- Magenta and Cyan are much higher in chroma than red and yellow and they're better at additive mixing, so try using them more often.
That's all I can remember for now, I hope it helps...
