Acrylic Painting for Beginners
Easy Acrylic Painting Lessons and Ideas
Mix the colors you need from a few tubes: a limited palette, a mixing chart of your own paints, and tints, tones and shades.
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Learn what tints, tones and shades are, why white turns colors chalky and black turns them flat, and how to lighten, darken and mute acrylic colors with neighbors and complements instead.
Rule a simple grid, mix every color you own with every other color, and add a second chart stepped with white. The result is a one-page reference showing exactly what your own tubes can do.
Mix the colors you need from five tubes: white, a yellow, a red, a blue and an earth brown. Learn why some mixes turn dull and how to reach natural greens, soft oranges, browns, grays and a rich dark.
