Welcome to
The Painting Lesson
by Linda Carson
big black pig studio
98 King St. N., Waterloo Ontario Canada
www.bigblackpig.com
Achromatic Grays
When you mix black and white together you get gray, an achromatic or "colourless" gray. These are clear neutral mixtures (as opposed to the murky "what the heck colour is that really?" mixtures called chromatic grays).
|
For example: The floating paint tube (above) is painted entirely in mixtures of black, white, and a commercially-manufactured Neutral Gray. |
Of course, it's never that simple. Depending on what sort of white and black you use, you may find that your gray has a subtle tendency to look beige/taupe/brown. That's a "warm" gray. Or it might look a little gunmetal/mauve/blue: a "cool" gray.
Back to the main lesson?Art & Text (C) Linda Carson 2002
Loosely translated, that means:
"Please don't copy this material or redistribute it
in some other form, for any reason.
This is my livelihood."