Color and Light - Premixing Chapter 7

MIXING COLOR STRINGS

• A color string is a group of prepared paint blobs of a given hue mixed with a palette knife in a set of steps from light to dark.  
• saves time to prepare before you start painting 

GAMUT MAPPING 

• The entire group of possible colors for a painting is called the gamut.  
• the gamut for a triadic scheme would be a triangle 
• start with parent colors everything you mix will come from them.  
• You can mask over a painting with gamut colors to unify it even more 

SHAPES OF COLOR SCHEMES 

The most common shape is the triangle 

hues directly next to each other are harmonious 

MIXING A CONTROLLED GAMUT 

• remove tube colors 
• try not to mix too many after initial mixing plan 

COLOR SCRIPTING 

• Sequential art needs to consider previous and future color schemes as a whole 
• consider the change in color schemes and what it means 

Color and Light - Paint and Pigments Chapter 5 pgs 96-99, 104-107

WARM UNDERPAINTING

• instead of beginning a painting on white canvas sometimes artists pretone the painting
• a warm underpainting is good for skies or foliage or anything with major blue or green 

SKY PANELS 

• prepare a panel with a sky gradation as a base layer for the future painting 
• paint the sky gradient then the details on top.

LIMITED PALETTES 

• keep your color palette simple to create a more unified piece