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Reply To: Hobby Weekender 18/01/18 Early thread in mid Jan!

January 23, 2019 at 10:23 pm #1336148

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@sundancer I laugh at your pain and suffering. Bwahahahaha! Red is a pain to get right. There was a painting session for nothing but painting red fabric during an oil painting class I was taking toward a degree, that I didn’t finish, in art. The difference here is that oil is very very forgiving and blends so much easier moving from Prussian blue, and burnt umber into orange that gave the red its variety of value.

Try looking at it as a sepia tone figure and then glaze over it with red. You could do a high contrast zenithal highlight of linen white, or light beige, on black and then cover it with a red ink to a dark enough value/opacity to eliminate any pink tones.

Realistically you have my empathy on this. Black has been my bane until figuring on using blues in general. I’m trying to figure out good secondary/tertiary color shades.