Need help

JohnC

Can anyone advise how to mix the colour of ginger (shade of the colour of Canada Dry Ginger Ale) from the Geneva 5 basic colours? I've tried a lot of combinations of red, yellow and burnt umber and white but just can't match it!

dencal

JohnC



Looks to to me like some combo of Indian yellow, or naples yellow and yellow ochre.

5 White and 2 yellow ochre would probably get there.

Denis

JohnC

Thanks for the advice Denis.

Problem is I haven't any Yellow Ochre, I only have cad yellow, burnt umber, french ultramarine, pyrrole rubin and white which are the Geneva Essential Palette.

This is my first attempt at oil painting and the only other oils I have are Winsor & Newton Griffin Alkyd fast drying oils, I've got a winsor yellow, indian red, indian yellow and raw sienna in these but wouldn't have thought it a good idea to use these with the Geneva paints? Would appreciate your input on this?

dencal

JohnC

You do have yellow ochre. Here Is the formula kindly provided by Mark.

JohnC

Wow thanks for that Denis! How on earth do you get the percentages right?

PaulB

JohnC said:

Wow thanks for that Denis! How on earth do you get the percentages right?

You don’t need to get it right, because you don’t need pure yellow ochre.

Use this as a guide, it tells you what colors you might need, and what you don’t.  But more importantly, it tells you that all the “classic” colors are simply mixes of primaries, all are reachable using Geneva paint.

All you need to do is mix the colors, asking yourself the six questions.  It works.

PaulB

To answer your original question, I would begin with an equal mix of burnt umber and yellow, desaturated slightly with purple (red +blue), then add a little white to lighten.

Then iterate using the six questions.

dencal

JohnC

Mainly by eyeballing scoops with a palette knife.

If you want to obsessive about it l recommend one of these @ $26.



Denis

tassieguy

It's basically an orange so, as @PaulB said, srart with BU and Y and then keep  asking yourself the six questions and adding R, B and W until you arrive at  the correct value and colour.  

BOB73

Don't you guys have graduated palette knives to get the percentages?

JohnC

Didn't know they existed!

PaulB

JohnC said:

Didn't know they existed!

John, there’s something you need to know about Bob...

BOB73

You can actually use a serrated steak knife to make evenly apportioned rows of paint then a little experimenting with the math and voila.