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Post by emeri1md on Aug 22, 2015 1:18:44 GMT
I'm about to start in on my crafting, and I'm curious about the colors all of you use when painting. I know black, white, various grays, various browns, and such are used, but what specific colors are they? I'll compile the answers up here as they come in, as well as how many people chose them, so other crafters can follow. Starting out with DM Scotty's starting paints: Acrylic Paints:Black Dark Gray (no specific color given) Light Gray (no specific color given) Dark Brown (Burnt Umber) Medium Brown (Spice Brown) Light Brown (Golden Brown) Gunmetal Dark Blue (Midnight Blue) Light Blue (Regency? Blue) White Bright Yellow Orange True Red Spray Paints:Flat Black Stone Texture Gray Stone Texture Brown
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Post by DnDPaladin on Aug 22, 2015 6:11:27 GMT
i mostly use... Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Brown, White and Black. but i bought Gold and Silver lately. and i do intend on buying orange and a few off color i thought were easy to make with the coors i had. only to notice how much i suck at making parts.
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Post by runningwolf on Aug 22, 2015 14:00:04 GMT
If you look back on Scotty's early videos he has a thing about tools and paints.
Grey and Browns the actual color names are less important than having a light, medium, and dark shade of them. you can always use some white or black to lighten/darken but won't get consistent colors from batch to batch (one project to another).
The uber smart way for idiots (which works for me) is when you get down to 1/2-1/4 bottle is take a pic. That way when you're out and about and see paint to buy you know that you have "brick red" instead of "fire house red".
Also be warned that some colors don't hold well. Try another brand or another shade.....Sometimes too your first coat will show brush strokes and seem to suck. A second coat might go on looking like poop but will dry awesome (I have a light blue that does that).
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Post by daveyjones on Aug 22, 2015 17:04:05 GMT
extra black, extra white. you will use these 2 more then any others, with the possible exception of metals, depending on what you are crafting.
as for metals i use silver and gold. between the 2 i find i can mix up most any kind of metal effect except chrome.
one more thing you might look into, again depending on what you are crafting, is 'glaze' medium. it is a clear paint that you can mix some regular paint in to give it colour and create a transparent paint.
lastly there is washes to consider. i have tried to make my own washes with paint and then i tried ink made for making washes and it made a significant difference. if washes are something you want to do, i definitely recommend getting a product made for it.
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Post by Erasmas on Aug 23, 2015 6:17:27 GMT
Also, if you are going to be buying fewer, and thus mixing more of your own colors, then I highly recommend color recipes. In addition to this, I also recommend recording your base, mid-tone, highlight for certain things that you may make multiples things of (such as a specific house's colors, buildings/rooms of the same locale, etc.).
I keep a notepad entry on my phone for this, and I use it all the time. So, I will put something like:
Davenian Purple: 2 parts True Blue (Folk Art) 1 part Red Apple (Americana) 1/2 part Pure White (DecoArt)
This is completely made up, so I don't know what this actually looks like; or if these color names actually belong to these brands. It's just an example.
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Post by adamantinedragon on Aug 23, 2015 6:47:22 GMT
I would say that 80% or more of my painting is done with white, black and brown paint. I mix them to create different shades of brown and gray. Other than that I use mostly red, blue, green and yellow. I could mix green, but I use green enough to justify a bottle of it.
Mixing paint is an art in itself, and one that I need to improve on, but for basic colors it's not very hard, and fewer paint bottles reduces the clutter on my table.
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Post by Sleepy Hollow Mike on Aug 23, 2015 20:51:47 GMT
That texture stone spray paint is a real life saver! The brown is also good.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Aug 23, 2015 21:18:45 GMT
i'm gonna go ahead and ask a few things that may be easy to figure out, but aren't for me...
- white doesn't seem to make things lighter, it seems to make it less colorfull. am i using too much ? - what makes a "part" ? i thought it was drops of the products, but considering each bottles have different sized holes. it makes "parts" harder to think through. - last but not least, if i want to mix colors, is the color wheel a good thing to buy ?
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Post by Erasmas on Aug 24, 2015 14:55:19 GMT
In my experience, black, white and red radically alter a mixed color easier than any other color. So, it may come down to how much of it you are using. A good standby is to just add a little at a time until you get what you are looking for. It's always easier to add more than to balance out too much.
It doesn't matter how much a "part" is, so long as you keep the same measurement throughout. It could be drops if you only need a little of a certain color, or it could be gallons if you are painting a house. All that it means in a recipe when you say "part(s)" is what ratio you are looking for. "For every one part of white, you add two parts of green", for example. Drops is usually a good increment, but if some of your bottles dole out more paint per "drop" than others... just eyeball the amount on your pallette/plate/whatever where you are doing your mixing.
You could buy a color wheel, if you feel like you need one. I, personally, don't use one... but overall I seem to have a pretty good grasp of what I need to add to get the desired color I am after. When I worked in the Drama Department in college, I was the Head of Paint Department for one show... which probably helped a lot. They had this massive three-ring binder FILLED with paper swatches - each with a blob of paint, the recipe to create said color, and the name. Since these were almost exclusively made by college theatre arts majors... some of the names got a little interesting. I remember things like "Smurf Butt" and "Next Morning's Regret". And I got to come up with and make some new ones for the show we were doing (with approval from the director). The only rule was that we did Children's Theatre in the summer... so the names couldn't be anything too bad.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Aug 24, 2015 18:34:47 GMT
yeah, with all the problems i had with mixing, i decided to buy the colors directly. much less problem that way.
i'd say those that changes radically is what you said... but i would switch white for black... its ridiculous how much black is needed to blacken one color. i mean a simple blob can totally wreck your coloring.
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Post by runningwolf on Aug 24, 2015 21:13:26 GMT
Just a small tip but a wash of really watered down black paint and a pat dry with a paper towel can work wonders.
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Post by sotf on Aug 27, 2015 14:59:56 GMT
Just a small tip but a wash of really watered down black paint and a pat dry with a paper towel can work wonders. As a side note about washes, you kind of need to be very careful with making your own washes, you can't thin it to far with just water or you end up with something that can't be controlled (And just makes a mess)...to thin it down as far as you want with acryllics, you need to get some acryllic medium (A lot of art supply stores and craft stores carry some version of it, and if you're a GW/Citadel paints person, I believe their version is Lahmian Medium)
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Post by gnomezrule on Aug 28, 2015 19:45:42 GMT
Other than black I have run out of white, and greys fastest.
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Post by voodoo on Aug 29, 2015 12:10:18 GMT
I use 'BASICS' black, white (large tubes), liquitex basics assorted colours (I had a 50% off coupon so I bought a box of assorted 48 colours)and 'Americana' neon green. oh yeah and two shades of blue and green stained glass paint from Michaels and dollar store black, burnt umber, tan cinmin, dark grey, light grey, dark green, light green Hope this helps. Here this makes it easier. I'm just learning to paint and everything here is from the dollar store (and it works fine) except the liquitex branded stuff which I buy when I get my 50% off coupons. s927.photobucket.com/user/vooooodooooo/library/Paint?sort=3&page=1
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