How to Mix Limestone Color on Watercolor
- 1). Place your scrap watercolor paper beside a picture of limestone. This will help you decide if the color you mix is accurate.
- 2). Dip your paintbrush in a jar of water and allow several drops to fall on your palette.
- 3). Dip the tip of your paintbrush in the black paint on your palette, to pick up only a tiny amount of black.
- 4). Dip the paintbrush with the black paint into the water on the palette and mix it thoroughly.
- 5). Dip the tip of the paintbrush into the yellow ochre paint.
- 6). Dip the paintbrush into the black water mixture on the palette and mix it thoroughly.
- 7). Paint a streak of the color you mixed onto the scrap of watercolor paper. Compare it to the photograph. Flick your eyes back and forth between the photograph and the paper. Look for differences in value and hue.
- 8). Add more water to the palette if you believe that the color is too dark. Add more black paint to the palette if you believe the color is too light. Add more yellow ochre to the palette if you believe the color is too gray.
- 9). Paint a streak of your newly mixed color onto the scrap paper.
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Allow the paint to dry on the scrap paper. Watercolors often look different after they have dried. It may dry a shade lighter than what you see on the paper. Decide if the paint you have applied to the paper is close enough to match the photograph that you are satisfied.