From the course: Painting Foundations: Acrylic
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Color bias
From the course: Painting Foundations: Acrylic
Color bias
- Every pigment has a color bias, and that means it has a bias towards one direction or the other on the color wheel. So for example, with the blue, it will either have a bias towards red or towards yellow. And every different pigment, whichever one you have on the color wheel, if for example, you had a red, it would either go warmer, towards yellow, or go cooler, towards blue. And this is what's called a pigment's color bias. This is really important when you're first starting painting, because not understanding the hidden properties of the pigments you're using can really easily throw your color mixing out, and you can get muddy colors very quickly, and you don't know why. When you understand the hidden color bias, then you can mix really bright colors or really muted colors, and you'll get the perfect mix every time because you understand the actual makeup of the paint pigment. So let's now see how two seemingly very similar blues in their masstone have actually got two very…
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