Hello from 🍁Canada

charongraham

Hey everyone!! I am an acrylic painter. Just learning to paint. Sort of researching desaturated and saturated. Someone talked about desaturating tertiary colours. Aren’t tertiaries already desat because they are mixed with another colour ??  Does white desat a pure colour?? 

Thanks you guys. 

CBG

@charongraham

This video is a great start! Mark shows how to mix any color.

https://youtu.be/TNB3XY67Q-I

To desat any color mix in the colors that make the opposite color i.e. on the other side of the color wheel.

GTO

Welcome @charongraham to the forum.
CBG’s link to Marks mixing video will help.
Im not sure about saturation.  I think of paint in terms of Hue (the color) and chroma (how gray it is) and value (how light or dark it is).  

I try to keep it simple.

rinfuso

Welcome! I'm originally from Toronto, now in Vancouver. Where are you located?[