[edible snowman]

how would i mix paint to get a more desaturated look with any given color?

[jr]

i'm not sure what you mean by "desaturated", but to tone down a color there's a few methods, either pick the oposite color (ie green to red), add grey(could be any color grey), add alittle black, or put a brighter more intensed color nexted to it (more of a trick to the eye than anything. hoped that helped.

[Lunatique]

jr pretty muched covered all the methods. I'd say try all the methods he suggested and test out the results. Make a color wheel/chart that uses the original colors, and then do different sections that uses white, black, contrasting colors, greys..etc.

[edible snowman]

thanks, i remember hearing about that now. thats probably the downfall of starting with digital painting. you get to quickly pick colors and can change and desaturate them however you want without knowing anything about how to paint.

[Sonique128]

if its watercolor then i have a line that you will always remember once you try it.

"yellow ocre is your friend."

[MrLuisDiaz]

I think jr has the right idea.------Luis Diaz

[spooge demon]

When you mix compliments, try altering the value of the compliment to the same as the color you are greying out. Example, take a 70%red, mix a 70% percent green and then mix them together. Then you get greying without changing value. It is a lot of work, but it works well, very decorative.

[Freddio]

where did you pop out from spooge ?

yea I might try that.. I need to work on my mixing of paints.

[Briareos]

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Originally posted by spooge demon:
When you mix compliments, try altering the value of the compliment to the same as the color you are greying out. Example, take a 70%red, mix a 70% percent green and then mix them together. Then you get greying without changing value. It is a lot of work, but it works well, very decorative.

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Yah, the trick is to see past the color into the value. Your tubes should have the value scale on them. If you get the correct value of each compliment then you will get what your looking for.. hard stuff, have a grey scale handy.

[edible snowman]

yeah, i think ill just get a bunch of paint and play around with mixing it. if i get anything resembling what i want ill paint something. thanks for the tips.