My mixing of colors...well it ain’t brown

[Joe T]

looking to do a wood grain thing and saw a post here where user mixed yellow, then a drop of red then a little drop of blue. He got brown..I get green. What did I do wrong? I’m using wicked primary colors and am now pulling my hair out. Even tried using com art and no go. Btw, the com art sprays petty easy. I took my mixed mess and practiced dagger strokes...

I’d like to find a iPad app that you could use to get color ratios etc.

Joe.......and now hairless

 

[Samantha Freeman]

LOL if you have green then add more red. You should also head over to this thread as it will give a better understanding how colors play with one another: http://www.airbrushforum.org/threads/my-experiments-in-color.19907/

Good luck and keep spraying friend

 

[Joe T]

LOL if you have green then add more red. You should also head over to this thread as it will give a better understanding how colors play with one another: http://www.airbrushforum.org/threads/my-experiments-in-color.19907/

Good luck and keep spraying friend

Omg. VICTORY! Thank you so much. Now to read that thread you posted.

 

[MarcosD]

I’d like to find a iPad app that you could use to get color ratios etc.

Joe.......and now hairless

hth



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[basepaint]

LOL if you have green then add more red. You should also head over to this thread as it will give a better understanding how colors play with one another: http://www.airbrushforum.org/threads/my-experiments-in-color.19907/

Good luck and keep spraying friend

Glad to see you jumping in to help,great link too

 

[Samantha Freeman]

Glad to see you jumping in to help,great link too

Anything I can do

 

[Joe T]

Anything I can do

Yea, took me all but 30 seconds to fix it. Then I started paying with different tones...

Thanks again

Joe

 

[Joe T]

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Have you used this. Seems petty slick

 

[MarcosD]

Have you used this. Seems petty slick

Yup, it works fine, but bare in mind that you won’t see the same color in real life than on screen, but it narrows the search when you are starting like me!!!


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[twood]

And also do not forget that there are many, many different colors of blues, reds and yellows. It is a major factor when color mixing. I use these online mixing pages as a starting point and tweek it from there....

 

[jord001]

Yes, it depends on what paints your using to how much of each colour you will need to use, Make your own colour wheel with your paints, that way you can work out what you will get with what paint you have.

Lee

 

[Samantha Freeman]

Yes, it depends on what paints your using to how much of each colour you will need to use, Make your own colour wheel with your paints, that way you can work out what you will get with what paint you have.

Lee

Exactly as I have used the online color mixers but really the understanding of the color 'sphere' really really helped me. Mixing now is no big deal as I contemplate shades and tones rather than how to get one specific color (ex: oh that green looks like I need slightly more yellow). I am thinking the online color mixer is part of the learning process though considering I used to use that too. So excellent answer Lee and props for whom suggested to use the color mixer to begin with

Keep spraying friends!

 

[Joe T]

Playing with the app is helping me understand the colors more. Mixing paint is helping more. I’ve started to make notes of how many drops of what makes what I want

 

[Samantha Freeman]

Sounds like you you will have that down in no time Joe

 

[Joe T]

Sounds like you you will have that down in no time Joe

Thanks Samantha. Your reply got the ball rolling for sure.

 

[dmshanks]

Just the thread I needed. I downloaded that app on to my phone a couple minutes ago. Lovely.