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Practical Colors Tutorialby *leftyfro

Resources & Stock Images / Tutorials / Traditional Art / Painting

Practical Traditional Paint Color Mixing Tutorial

I made this with my watercolors, but it can be used as a guide for acrylic paints and oil paints.

I had a very hard time with watercolors for a very long time. When I started reading websites and books on some color mixing techniques, it started to click. This is my small contribution to the community that will hopefully be of some value.

Update 28-10-07
Tweaked some readability issues
Gave some suggestions on other common names for the paints I recommended
Added a mini description on how to mix color progression samples

Additional Resources
New to watercolors? Check out this news article for some great dA resources.
handprint - an exhaustive watercolor resource
Don't know the names of your colors? try these steps and discover the perfect mix of your colors.

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EDIT OMG a DD?! I am honored that =IBinsanity and ^bleedsopretty felt this would be valuable to share in this manner.

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It seems on dA that people who want to learn painting can be overwhelmed with tutorials that presume a foreknowledge of colour theory, and most of the colour theory tutorials on dA are very technical. Practical Colors Tutorial by *leftyfro assumes no previous learning - it's nice, simple, basic, and very in-depth, teaching how to mix any colour that the average painting student would ever need. ( Suggested by `IBinsanity and Featured by `bleedsopretty )

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~pixarjunkie 6 days ago

this is so simple and wonderful. thank you for posting this!!

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~lamorghana May 4, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

very very good. thanks

~sparkleshitoflunes Apr 30, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Wow. Thanks a lot!

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~rphugo Apr 11, 2012 New member Hobbyist Digital Artist

You put it so simply

I've always wanted to try traditional paint, but it's so intimidating.
I like the 'progressive color sample' picture, i've always wondered how people mixed paint systematically.

Thank you for this^^

~Neosun7 Mar 16, 2012

This is very helpful! Thank you!

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~mjnarrance Dec 21, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

Thanks!
Sincerely, A Painting Noob.

*KaizokuShojo Nov 29, 2011 Traditional Artist

This is useful! I'm not good with colours at all, but I do want to try some painting!

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~shu-ming Jun 3, 2011 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Thank you for this tutorial!

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*leftyfro Jun 12, 2011

you're welcome!

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~Zmma Mar 13, 2011

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