How To Use a Sketchbook To Play with Color Mixing Charts
What is the best way to learn about color?
Playing with it.
Color mixing in a sketchbook with a limited amount of colors can teach you a lot about each paint color you own and how they interact with other colors you have. I like to choose any red, yellow, and blue to get started.
For example, I might choose cadmium red medium, yellow ochre, and ultramarine blue. Another time I might pick quinacridone magenta, lemon yellow, and cerulean blue. By choosing the primary colors, you can get all of the colors of the rainbow.
To explore limited palettes you can choose just a blue and a yellow or just a red and a blue. Use white to get a variety of shades. All you have to do is mix and match colors to see what happens.
Keep each of your experiments on a single page, like I do in the video, to get a taste of what you can create with each selection. Make sure you label the page so you know what colors you used.
It’s only a taste of what you can make, color is infinitely fascinating.
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