How do I paint wet on wet with oil paint, without the two colours mixing together and going muddy?

use alternate layers of thick, then thin paints. Hope this helps. Sometimes it's just better to let them dry overnight.How do I paint wet on wet with oil paint, without the two colours mixing together and going muddy?
Do you start out with an underpainting. If you don't, you may want to look into what exactly underpainting does for a painting. I use it and it keeps me from over working my brush strokes and muddying up my colors. But whether you do or not, painting wet on wet is a technique that does take some practice. I started out doing wet on wet without underpainting and some of my work can be checked out at hellosanantonio.com under artist name GUERRO1.How do I paint wet on wet with oil paint, without the two colours mixing together and going muddy?
Thin layers underneath.


Paint colours are not pure colours and you need to be careful what colour you put on another colour. Usually you want the dark clour underneath the lighter colour.


Also try to avoid scrubbing the colours around too much.


Wet on wet lets you get the streaky colours.


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What I mean about pur colours is that the reds have a bit of blue or yellow tone and things like that. If you mix many colours you do get mud.


This means you need pure colour pigments or at least matching colour mixes in the paints you intend to mix.


Good paint makers have mixing charts to help with this. Cheaper paints don't provide the charts and because they use cheaper pigments are worse for this problem.


Most makers of oil paints for art have websites with loads of information on colour mixing and other ways to get more out of your paints.
Hi,





To paint alla prima one usually thins the paint much less than when working on first layers. The medium (mix of turps and oil, for insteance) is toward the fat side.


Now, when painting alla prima the well known carpenter's rule applies : measure twice to cut once.


Since you have little chance to make changes, it's better than you know what you're going to do, namely by checking the colours carefully before applying them (remembering that colours should be matched without being influenced by surrounding ones).


The fish slice is alla prima :


http://www.hushcolours.com/still_lifes_2鈥?/a>


Also the one in the middle on top :


http://www.hushcolours.com/still_lifes_2鈥?/a>


Good luck.





Kind regards,





Jos茅http://www.hushcolours.com

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