#so i went to use the lightest green but that was dried out (i dont have any more of that number tho thankfully) | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

lesbianlenas · 4 months ago

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had an adhd zoning out moment where i was trying to mix this paint bc one of my paints dried out bc i haven’t worked on this painting in a yr lol and i got paint all over my hands and for some reason used my leg as a palette which wasn’t that helpful bc when i was like ok that looks right it was too yellow in the end 😔 right at the end i added a little more of the bright orange bc i thought it wasn’t yellow enough but it prob was & my dumb leg didn’t show it right…..but anyway i did that for like 2 hrs by accident 😭

#michelle speaks #i should have just mixed the bright orange w white & i would have gotten it a lot easier #but i didn’t realize i had a bright orange so also the color was not yellow it was like a pale color that was slightly tinted yellow #so i was like ok i will use the color one above it which was this kind of peachish color & then i added white to that #but this was before i realized the yellow tint bc i made it lighter but it was just closer to tan now so i was like oh…..#but i had no idea how to make it be more yellow so i looked it up & saw i could use a little green perhaps #so i went to use the lightest green but that was dried out (i dont have any more of that number tho thankfully)#so i had to use the slightly darker green very sparingly it was only slightly darker too so still light #which did start giving it a more yellowish tint but not a bright yellow more of a dull yellow #and that was the point at which i realized i had bright orange & i was like oh……i should have just used this #too late at that point tho! so i added the bright orange & it finally started brightening up a little bit #but i was like i don’t want this to get too orange now so i added a little more white #and then i was like ok done. i had the paint that was dry bc it got like a rubbery quality so i was putting some paint on it to compare #& it looked to be basically the right color. the problem was that i either did not use this color at all yet or i used it like one time #so i never really had a good thing to compare it to bc i didn’t really know how it looked on the paper #but when i used it it def came out as a nice pale yellow. so i made a nice color just a little too yellow i think #i think i was going more for tan w a yellow tint vs getting more of a pale yellow which i got #but it is what it is i’m done 😩 it’s a nice color & def different from the other colors + close enough to the og so i am satisfied #you’re welcome for the step by step thru me mixing a paint color for 2 hrs 🙏#most impressive part is the fact that i actually achieved some yellow tbh lol…..i did not think i could do it w the colors i had at first 😩

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