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?
Comments
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
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
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