Acrylic Beginner Series Volume 1: Graying a Color

Learn how to gray a color so you can create softer, richer colors.

Jerry Yarnell | Runtime (8 min)

Learn how to gray a color so you can create softer, richer colors.

Acrylics

  • Cadmium Yellow Light
  • Cadmium Orange
  • Cadmium Red Light
  • Hooker’s Green
  • Burnt Sienna
  • Burnt Umber
  • Turquoise Deep
  • Ultramarine Blue
  • Dioxazine Purple
  • Vivid Lime Green (Phthalo Yellow Green)
  • Alizarin Crimson

Surfaces

  • Stretched canvas (medium-textured cotton, pre-primed)
  • Canvas boards

Brushes

  • Long Bristle: nos. 10, 12, 6, 4
  • Hake: 2-inch
  • Sable: round no. 4, flat no. 4, script no. 4

Others

  • Brush soap
  • Color wheel
  • Conte pencil (white)
  • Gesso (white)
  • Palette paper
  • Palette box
  • Palette knife
  • Palette sponge
  • Paper towels
  • Sandpaper (fine-grit sandpaper pad)
  • Spray bottle
  • Water container
  • Vine charcoal (soft, thin)

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  KATHRYN  4/21/2019
Wow! This is a huge help with the current painting I am working on!


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very good


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creating a better understanding


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  Lucy  12/31/2016
Never would have figured this out on my own! Great!


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great info


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  Olubunmi  10/5/2014
Nice to know! It is a different approach to using 'primary colors' in apealing ways. Olu



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