Looking around the Art Camp 2 Week 5 stuff I see a lot of people apologizing about
their colours being off in their traditional master study paintings and other
paintings that are referenced from photos. Here is a bit of advise to help
you out in matching the reference colours traditionally:
Make a colour
copy (on paper from a copier/printer) of the image or print out a colour copy if you are looking at
something online, make sure the colours come out as you want them to be. Now
either when you are setting up your paint colours to use or if you mix them
while you work take a small daub of the colour and paint it on the colour copy
in the area you are trying to match. If the colours blend and you can't tell
the difference between them you are good to go. If the colour is off try again until
they blend into each other. Just make small dots on your colour copy to test
your mixed colours so you leave plenty of the actual colour. And that's it! As
long as your drawing is accurate and you test your colours to get them to match
then you can come up with a pretty close replication of what the image is. You
can even use this to get accurately matched colours for your own Illustrations
if you have good reference you can use or are just trying to get a specific
colour.
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