Guide D

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Guide D - Absolutely Accurate Colour Mixing

Introduction

Part One - All About Pigments

  • What is Oil Painting?

  • Pigment Facts

  • The Pigment Wheel

  • Table of Pigment Properties and NCS codes

Part Two – Preparing For Mixing

  • Drawing for an oil painting

  • Choosing Values

  • Making a Tonal Strip

  • The Orchard Arts Colour Recognition and Mixing System Colour Chart

  • Preparing a Support - Mediums, Brushes, Knives, Palettes

  • Painting a Ground

Part Three -The Orchard Arts Colour Recognition And Mixing System

  • Canvas Light

  • Partitive Colour Mixing - The Partitive Colour Wheel

  • Additive Colour Mixing - The Additive Colour Wheel

  • Subtractive Colour Mixing - The Subtractive Colour Wheel

  • Absolutely Accurate Colour Mixing

Part Four - The Process Of Painting

  • Getting the Paint onto the Canvas Painting

  • Varnishing Storing

Conclusion