Color Card Creations (part 2 of 2)

Shobe

Part 2 of 'Color Card Creations'

After my first 2 attempts of mixing my newly-purchased Geneva Paints, I decided to make the last batch of Color Cards to be my best and to NOT make any mistakes with wrong colors or mixes.  I think I did ok this time.

I will save all of my Color Cards and use them for future reference....and hopefully, I've learned something along the way about color mixing.

I've also picked up many color swatches from the local hardware store....sprayed a gloss finish on them...and have practiced and practiced to match any of the colors.  I did ok at first, but I feel my lessons-learned from doing the color cards will help me to be better at color matching.

Maybe this should be a lesson taught on 'DrawMixPaint'?



These Color Cards have a designed template format that I will label onto the border tape after the paints dry.


My efforts to match color with the color swatches...


For me....it was helpful to quickly grab the correct tube of color after I labeled them.



I think my studying is done for now and I have a pretty good supply of color references.





Has anyone done this before?

dencal

Shobe

WOW! What an outstanding effort. Well done that man.

Um err... I did one color wheel for the restricted palette Mark recommends.

Previously, two guys have done the Full Monty color cards. Gary and Kingston (Kingston has removed himself and his posts from the Forum).

Here is a link to Gary’s color cards 
http://forum.drawmixpaint.com/discussion/397/using-paint-chips

Denis

Shobe

dencal said:

Shove

WOW! What an outstanding effort. Well done that man.

Um err... I did one color wheel for the restricted palette Mark recommends.

Previously, two guys have done the Full Monty color cards. Gary and Kingston (Kingston has removed himself and his posts from the Forum).

Here is a link to Gary’s color cards 
http://forum.drawmixpaint.com/discussion/397/using-paint-chips

Denis

Thank you Denise!  And I will follow up on the link you offered, so thanks again!

marieb

@Shobe, That is a lot of work !  Mark has videos that show how to match any colour.I think I would rather learn mixing whilst I am actually painting. Well done for your perseverance, I think you probably learned a lot

BOB73

Well done, man. That IS a lot of work. Thanks for sharing that with us and Thanks also both for the tip about learning about light for photography and the idea for getting paint swatches from the paint store to practice mixing colors. Capital Idea.

alsart

Paint swatches - great idea @Shobe

Julianna

Great work!  I know Richard Schmid swears by them - I get so bored and have many unfinished charts - your work is impressive!!!

Shobe

@BOB73  thank you Bob!  Yes it was a lot of work and much more than I thought I was getting myself into!  

Jiashen

@Shobe My godness! Such a scientific spirit. When the time permits, It would be interesting to try. But I am curious - when you decide to refer back to one of the color you mixed, do you remember how you mixed them? It is the first time I saw this type of stupendous work, I might have asked a stupid question without any knowledge about it. But I am curious to understand! 

Shobe

Jiashen...thank you!  And it's not a stupid question about remembering the formula for each mix.  I still need to 'label' the cards with the pre-designed template formulas.  Of the 10 cards, 8 of them are the same where each box represents the same combination as the other cards.  (1:1, 1:2, etc.).  The paints are still wet as of now, so I can't place the palm of my hand on the cards where need to write on them.  I plan to do it though so I won't forget and perhaps I will republish the final results with a quality photo of each card that can be printed or referenced online.  It was a lot of work, so I hope to still find a future purpose for the cards as a reference.  However, I also feel that it was more about the journey than the destination!  Thanks again!

Jiashen

@Shobe This is already so very generous of you by thinking to publish the final result for reference. I see - with this great journey you actually have ‘saved’ a lot energy for future when it comes to color mixing. Just like Mark teaches to pre-mix color steps on the pallette, you did all work at once. So impressed! Thanks again for sharing.

Renoir

Brilliant! I wish I had even a fraction of your patience and persistence! but as always, this site is such a wonderful source of excellence and talent. Thank you @Shobe

dencal

shobe

Critical to the success of this endeavour is the method of measurement of the paint quantities and proportions in each tile. How did you do it? Are all the Pigments mixed with medium? How did you keep that mix uniform?

Noticeable in the beautiful results is the lack of pastel tints nd the inevitable preponderance of near white values. Seems you chose to limit the light end of the spectrum.

Denis

Shobe

dencal said:

shobe

Critical to the success of this endeavour is the method of measurement of the paint quantities and proportions in each tile. How did you do it? Are all the Pigments mixed with medium? How did you keep that mix uniform?

Noticeable in the beautiful results is the lack of pastel tints nd the inevitable preponderance of near white values. Seems you chose to limit the light end of the spectrum.

Denis

Hi Dencal...

Thank you for the comments and questions.  

As for mixing accurately, I decided to use syringes to get my secondary colors as consistent as possible by adding equal parts.  As for the rest of the mixing, I got pretty good at ''eye-balling'!

All the mixes were created by paint straight from the tube of Geneva paints.  I did not add any mediums.

And to be honest about my results...yeah, not enough light colors compared to how many ended up so dark, but that was not intentional.  Many were so dark that I could barely tell the difference between them.  I thought about redoing some of the darker mixes and adding white to show the hue better.

Thanks again!
-Tim

Forgiveness

It's a good method to add the white to the darkest to show the hue better.