Brushstrokes: Acrylic

Choosing Colors

When choosing colors for a painting, let’s start with a basic color wheel. The primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. As you may also recall from childhood, mixing two primary colors makes what are called secondary colors. Orange, green, and purple are secondary colors.

While in theory all of this is correct, there are actually many different paints out there with different properties. These different properties will affect how they mix together and how the colors appear.

For example, the purest paints are made up of a single pigment. There are also designer colors, which contain a combination of pigments that create a custom ...