Day Two- Color
Color Mixing Techniques
I created the Anti-Color Wheel because the general color wheel excludes brown, indigo,
white and black. Better color mixing comes from thinking differently and trying a new color theory.
With the Anti-Color Wheel, there is only one rule: opposites react.
- White and Black
- Yellow and Purple
- Brown and Indigo
- Orange and Blue
- Red and Green
The purpose of the opposite rule, is to turn the volume down on a color without changing the
channel. For example, if you try to neutralize yellow by using anything other than purple, you
will get an orange, brown or a green.
Opposite colors can produce visual pain when placed next to each other, and create beautiful
grays when mixed together. For vibrant visual effects, use one color as a base, and sprinkle its
opposite color on it or next to it, such as 90 percent green and 10 percent red.
Opposite colors darken each other without the use of black.
Grays
Produce beautiful grays by using the Anti-Color Wheel.
This picture show the Anti-Color Wheel, mixed at 50/50 in the center, and a quarter on either
side of the gray. These are your base grays. I am only showing you a mixture of five, but there
are infinite mixtures between the lines. Since you know how to create grays now, add white to
lighten the grays up. All objects are made of pure colors, and by the use of grays or toning
down the colors, will give the object form and dimension. In other words, light and shade.
Getting The Colors You Want
This guide will show you which paints are best for making the colors you want. In the next
several demonstrations, you will learn how to create many prominent colors that are used
often in most paintings, regardless of subject or type. There are millions of other colors and
these will give you a base to work from. Refer to these guides as often as needed.
To use this guide, simply open up the page to the color you want to mix and look next to the
color. There is an Anti-Color Wheel guide next to each mixed color. The colors dotted on the
Anti-Color Wheel indicate which paints should be mixed in order to create the color shown. If
the mixture is dark, then the darker color(s) were used more than the lighter color(s) and vise-versa for the light colors.
Please note that your paints are going to turn out much prettier and more vibrant than the
pictures shown here. Photography just doesn't see how our eyes do.
GRAYS
YELLOWS
BROWNS
ORANGES
REDS
PINKS
PURPLES
INDIGOS
BLUES
GREENS
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