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June 1, 2020 at 10:13 am #1532962

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Painting metal is all about contrast – super high contrast = super shiny surface. Bob Ross nailed it the other night on telly (BBC Four, weekdays, 7pm for UK viewers) you need the dark to see the light. If the mid-tone is too bright, your bright highlights don’t look bright at all. If you look at NMM, it’s often painted in almost black and white bands to get as much contrast as possible.

I’ve found that a dark green-ish gold (old, old Citadal paints gold or Coat d’Arms gold) works well with bright silver edge highlights, but an orangey-brown-gold would look good too.

TLDR; yellow isn’t dark enough to make a convincing gold.