Color and Light - Premixing Chapter 7
PREMIXING
Mixing Color Strings
Premixing is especially helpful when you are going into a study session. Free mixing, which is when you blend new strokes each time from the tube, is another type of mixing. Color strings are usually a selection of paints in multiple values. Having a good set of colors to work with has a big outcome on the ending painting.
The Reilly Method: Mixing multiple hue steps for each color along with a series of values.
Gamut Mapping
A gamut is a spectrum of specific colors used in a painting. It is very selective - but it doesn't have to only be a triangle shape.
Creating Gamut Masks
It is easy to create a mask from the gamut of color you selected and apply it on top of a painting like in Photoshop. This can help you find ways to use the color well.
Colors within the gamut are helpful because it helps limit your palette without limiting the effect of the overall painting.
Shapes of Color Schemes
You can use many colors for a gamut or use colors exclusively on one side of the color wheel. Usually they are a polygonal shape, like a diamond, triangle, or square. A Gamut can also be exclusive to one side and have an accent shape across the color wheel, with no mixing in between.
Mixing a Controlled Gamut
Using high hue colors from the tube, mix the colors you have selected for a gamut. (One easy way to do this is to create a shape and place it on the color wheel.) After that, extend them in to multiple values - keeping the hue and chroma consistent. Then eliminate the original colors from your palette, so you are not tempted to use them while painting.
Color Scripting
When setting colors for a graphic novel, animation, or book, it is important to consider how one color flows to the next and what they convey.
Mixing Color Strings
Premixing is especially helpful when you are going into a study session. Free mixing, which is when you blend new strokes each time from the tube, is another type of mixing. Color strings are usually a selection of paints in multiple values. Having a good set of colors to work with has a big outcome on the ending painting.
The Reilly Method: Mixing multiple hue steps for each color along with a series of values.
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| The Reilly Method The Reilly Papers |
Gamut Mapping
A gamut is a spectrum of specific colors used in a painting. It is very selective - but it doesn't have to only be a triangle shape.
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| Example of a Gamut |
Creating Gamut Masks
It is easy to create a mask from the gamut of color you selected and apply it on top of a painting like in Photoshop. This can help you find ways to use the color well.
Colors within the gamut are helpful because it helps limit your palette without limiting the effect of the overall painting.
Shapes of Color Schemes
You can use many colors for a gamut or use colors exclusively on one side of the color wheel. Usually they are a polygonal shape, like a diamond, triangle, or square. A Gamut can also be exclusive to one side and have an accent shape across the color wheel, with no mixing in between.
Mixing a Controlled Gamut
Using high hue colors from the tube, mix the colors you have selected for a gamut. (One easy way to do this is to create a shape and place it on the color wheel.) After that, extend them in to multiple values - keeping the hue and chroma consistent. Then eliminate the original colors from your palette, so you are not tempted to use them while painting.
Color Scripting
When setting colors for a graphic novel, animation, or book, it is important to consider how one color flows to the next and what they convey.
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| Color Script for "Annie" Taylor Price |
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