Sunday, February 7, 2021

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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18 comments:

  1. I love your painting! The ground flowers are so beautifully done! I'll check you out on Instagram, hopefully I can join in your challenge a few times! :)

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    1. Thank you very much!
      And that would be wonderful.

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  2. this is beautiful! You've captured the light in the forest center perfectly.

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  3. This painting is gorgeous! The black canvas really mykaes the colors pop. Love that! Did you buy the canvas ready made or did you paint it black by yourself? Happy PPF!

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    1. Thank you very much!
      I painted it black (over a painting that I didn't like much). But I think I'll buy a set of black canvas pad. :)

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  4. I love the light you created in your beautiful forest. It is very inviting :)

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  5. Lovely work. Excellent choice of colours.

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  6. Beautiful painting and great capture of the forest light ~

    Moment by Moment,

    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  7. Wow your painting is amazing. Great detail and the colors are fantastic.

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