2/Experimenting with Color Mixing

A Theoretical Approach

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It is hard to prescribe precise recipes for obtaining one particular mixture. In fact, depending on which brand of watercolors you choose, the pigmentary concentration may be lesser or greater. Every manufacturer has its own manufacturing secrets, which you will have to adapt to as you get to know the behavior and characteristics of the colors offered by that company.

When you create a mixture, the most important thing is to try to use as few colors as possible in your mixture.

The goal is to approximate the desired shades, because when you are painting, you don’t have to create something ...

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