Acrylic Painting: Black Canvas and Colour Mixing

 

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I painted this forest scene for my own colour based art challenge on Instagram. Just to experiment and keep myself motivated. The prompt is : Turquoise Forest. Four more prompts to go. Join if you find it interesting.

Here are the details. I'm going with the hashtag #paintwithtarang

Also I have painted it on a black canvas, which I find very fascinating. The colours look more vibrant on black canvas. Do you paint on black canvas?

And I'm experimenting with colour mixing and find it very interesting. Like I haven't used green in this painting. I mixed pthalo blue and cad yellow (Pthalo blue is my favourite!). I have created my own turquoise. 

And learnt that you get green when you mix black and yellow (almost sap green if it's lemon yellow). And we don't get a good shade of purple by mixing red and blue; we get beautiful shades of purple by mixing neon pink (or dark pink/magenta with blue. And mixing Prussian blue (another favourite) with Yellow Ochre gives you a very interesting shade of Turquoise.

Did you know that? Share your colour mixing ideas?

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