Brush Mixing by Jeanne Downing, CDA
I am Jeanne Downing. Welcome! The focus of this tutorial is brush mixing. You will find that most of my publications, this is what I used to execute my designs. And this is how I like to lay out my palette. Across the top edge of the palette, I will lay out the colors from warm to cool, left to right, from the lighter values to the darker values, left to right, and down along the right side is where I would lay my shading colors and if I were using dioxazine purple or burnt amber, I would lay those two up here. And then I have ivory black and Persian blue. In the lower right corner I lay my leaf green colors that I am going to use to create the greens within my painting. And notice they are kind of close together here and then finally I will lay a bit of titanium white and if I were using Naples yellow light I would also lay a bit of Naples yellow light.
When you are brush mixing you do not use turp to clean out your brush from—when you go from one color to another and I do not use turp to rinse out my brush until I am all done with my painting for the day. First of all, brush mixing uses plus, minus, and parentheses symbols. So when you say something that says a color such as cad red light plus another color, this is what you would do. First of all whatever colors last at first, you would work into that paddle. So in this essence cad red light and you would use touch, pull, touch, pull, touch, pull at the edge of the paddle to pull out some of that paint. Do not level sides as your brush you are just are loading one side of your brush. And then it would say plus burnt caramel. So you come over here and do the burnt caramel paddle so pull out some burnt caramel. So you come over here and do the burnt caramel paddle and pull out some burnt caramel and notice that color overpowers the cad red light. So that would require me to go back into the cad red light and work more cad red light into my burnt caramel. And I will go back and forth until I achieved the desired color and once that color has been achieved I would apply it onto the surface of the object that I am painting.
Then you might say a dash after that combination and that means to dry wipe your brush which means to me to pinch your brush between your thumb and your finger on a paper towel. Do not do this back and forth because that can damage the hairs of your brush. So just pinch the brush between your thumb and your finger. And then after the minus it will say whatever color such as maybe Naple yellow deep and then I will go into Naples yellow deep. And now thought, there is a little bit of pink coming out of my brush that would be maybe the color that I would want to do. If I do not want so much pink in there I might dry wipe again and go back into the Naples yellow deep and you see when you do that you kind of clarify the color in your brush and then I will go and apply that color onto the surface that I am painting. If a color is listed in parentheses, for instance, it might say cad red light plus burnt caramel, I noticed I kind of went back into my burnt caramel and paddle there and I might allow more burnt caramel plus in parentheses black, that means you can take it or leave it whatever colors in parentheses, you can choose if you choose. But if you do use it just use a small amount. So I am just going to pull this a little bit of black into that color. And if that overpowers it, then I will go back into my burnt caramel and cad red light mixture and go back into the black until I achieved the desired color. Now it usually goes, colors that are in parentheses are the very darkest shading colors. And then I would apply that color onto my surface. Once again, the plus means to add a color, the dash means to dry wipe your brush and the parentheses means that color is optional, take it or leave it but if you choose to use it, use a small amount.
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