Shoreline Shadow Mixing Recipies

When it comes to sand and shells and sea SUBTLETY is key!

To mix these colours requires adding tiny increments of pigment at a time.

To mix their shadow counterparts necessitates equal focus on small additions of colour to avoid lurching uncontrollably from hue to hue and missing the mark.

The colours we will use are :-

Perinone Orange or any bright orange

Quinacridone Burnt Orange - or any burnt orange/rust

Cobalt Teal Blue - or any turquoise green

Manganese Blue - or any pale blue

Buff Titanium - or any pale biscuit

Yavapai Genuine - or any chocolate brown

Quinacridone Coral - or any bright pink

Green Gold - or any bright grass green

Permanent Alizarin Crimson - or any ruby red

Ultramarine Violet - or any pale purple

Amazonite - or any emerelad green and

Indanthrone Blue - or any navy blue

So - watch the short video and then go to your palette and paper and PLAY - hesitantly at first.

Practice picking 1 colour and adding a SMALL amount of any other colour to see what you get.

Like learning the notes on a piano there is no shortcut to knowing your colours and their mixes.

Enjoy this delicate discovery!

Here is a sample play session from my own ocean sketchbook -

Print off my prepared colour chart attached as a jpeg below called

Shoreline Shadow Mixing Recipes

but do not simply rely on it - try your hand yourself!

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