Eggplant / Aubergine color

Annie

Hello all ,
I have and eggplant that should be painted but I can’t get my color right , at all .
Would anyone advice me ? I must be missing something . I can’t get a pretty deep purple and end up with mud .
Thanks so much .
annie 

CBG

Have you tried power colors? cad red, phthalo blue?

edit:  not that those specifically would make your color… sometimes cad red is very orange and phthalo blue can have green or purple variants…

Annie

@CBG
I didn’t !
I’m fairly new to painting , about a year .
I was using alizarin . Thank you very much .

CBG

Check out Mark’s youtube video on using power colors… I think it’s relatively recent (1-2 years ago maybe?)

https://youtu.be/kutBRWFcTpE

I was off… it’s from earlier!

Annie

@CBG
Thank you ! I missed that one .

Annie

Does this look alright ? The highlights are too blue I think ?

tassieguy

The colours look good, @Annie. It's an interesting painting.

To make the basic dark purple colour I would have used Quinacridone crimson and Ultramarine blue  and varied the proportions of each to match the warmer and cooler areas. 

Annie

@tassieguy

Hi!
I think mine is a bit too blue : the lights come out blue. 

I’ll try that . It’s not   done so I can go over some parts . 

When I add white it doesn’t give me the same color but lighter . I’m still learning about mixing colors. 

Much appreciated . 

Abstraction

This. Upload your photo, click on the section and it tells you how to mix it in three different ways.

You tell it what paints you have (it's brand based so you have to pick a brand that has paints or equivalents that you have.

https://sensuallogic.com/

Annie

@Abstraction

oooooh ! 

That . Is. Amazing.
Im getting it . Thank you 

Annie

I finished it :  

Richard_P

It's really good. You should be very proud of this.

tassieguy

Beautiful! And cut ready to make moussaka. 

@Annie, the aubergine is beautifully painted an its simple shadow locates it in space, anchors it, and makes the background work in this.  It's amazing what something as simple as a faint cast shadow can do.  

MichaelD

I really like how you have done this @Annie

And its a nice departure from the pears, which are also very good.

  

Annie

I varnished it and framed it !

Annie

I did not realize that there were more comments here . I’m sorry .
Still puttering about , trying to get to know this forum . 

@MichaelD, @tassieguy, @Richard_P

Abstraction

What an intriguing design. There's a lovely depth to this.

Annie

It is painted from a picture so the design isn’t mine. I had this photo waaaay before I started painting . If I knew who it was from I would credit them. Just wanted to try to match the colors . 

Thank you , @Abstraction.

Abstraction

You absolutely nailed the colours.

Annie

@abstraction

Thank You . You’re all so kind here .
This forum is a great place .

I should write down what colors I use .