Gouache practice 3: Squirtle
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I cannot find a heckin purple (a saturated one) xD, I try to mix blues with reds but I get desaturated colors close to brown and grey... at least I tried xdddd.
I cannot find a heckin purple (a saturated one) xD, I try to mix blues with reds but I get desaturated colors close to brown and grey... at least I tried xdddd.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Pokemon
Species Pokemon
Gender Any
Size 3130 x 2263px
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I think that's a quirk of water colors. You can't get them to be saturated that good if at all.
I only called it water color because it looks similar to it, and because she tagged these with watercolor. It is nice that gouache is more opaque though, it shows up better and is more vibrant than regular water color paint.
Pigments should be mixed with the CMYK color range. If you want purple, mix cyan into a bit of magenta. Pigments are subtractive in the light spectrum so mixing up a purple with red and blue muddies things since red and blue are both secondary colors using the subtractive model, red being a mix of magenta and yellow, blue being magenta and cyan. It's not a hard and fast rule for pigments but learning a bit about it might help you mix more vibrant and true to life colors. Alternatively, you can just buy a purple gouache xD
I cannot find Cyan, Magenta and/or Purple gouache, which is why I was trying to make it xD
Winsor & Newton make really good gouache paints. Lemon yellow, or cad yellow for the yellow obvs. Quinacridone magenta is great if you want a "true" magenta, but I think permanent rose is a great mixing color. Cyan can pretty much be any of the cool, transparent blues like cerulean or turquoise blue. Those should get you a wide range on a budget!
here's a link to Winsor & Newton's "spectrum purple", I've never tried it, but looks decent. Hope this helps ^^
here's a link to Winsor & Newton's "spectrum purple", I've never tried it, but looks decent. Hope this helps ^^
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