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Painters.....please help me. I am taking a colour theory course currently and we are mixing chromatic greys. How do I do this?? It always ends up some kind of brown or green mud. It looks awful and nothing like it should. We are using liquitex acrylic paint on Bristol board (shit).
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>>2394099
to make grey look grey, saturate it very slightly with the opposite color of the color it is painted in. sort of giving it inverse temperature. let me demonstrate.
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>>2394106
meh. can't replicate it. thought i understood it, i don't. sry!
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Well guys I'm just gonna kill myself
Thanks for the help
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>>2394099
Don't try neutralizing from a pure colour. Instead bust out the Ivory & Titanium and mix that to your value, then add in a small amount of the neutralized colour.
Apart from that make sure you are using the exact complement. I don't know, I've seen painters just grab a random green and start mixing it with a Cadmium Hue expecting it to work.
Mud is a bitch.
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