Chapter 3.1c Mixing Complementary Shades and adding White

I used acrylics throughout and used titanium white as the mixing white.

I first started off by deciding on three complementary colour options to work with:

• yellow and violet,
• orange and blue, 
• green and red.

Then I used various of the primary colours to mix.

Yellow and Violet

Orange and Blue

I found this produced a good range of grey tones

Red and Green
This also produced and interesting range of tones

I took to grey tones and diluted them with water. 

• Blue (prussian) and orange (alizarin and Cad med yellow) + white 
• Red (Process Magenta) and Green (Prus B and Cad med yellow) + white

Then I made shade cards from three grey tones I'd mixed

• Prussian blue and orange
• Yellow and violet
• Red and green

I was really pleased with the range of tones produced.

Then I put the whole lot together to see the complete range of shades made.

One of my workings, trying to match up colours.