{"id":2021,"date":"2011-06-18T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/?page_id=2021"},"modified":"2019-03-05T18:02:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T02:02:17","slug":"2021-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/workshops\/tutorials\/color-inspirations-exercises\/2021-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Instinctive Mixing (p.60)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Instinctive<\/a>When you are instinctive mixing\u00a0it\u00a0helps to\u00a0imagine\u00a0\u00a0the direction that you want\u00a0to\u00a0move the color.\u00a0\u00a0Once you\u00a0know the direction,\u00a0\u00a0you can find the path.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0“path” is the\u00a0imaginary line that runs between the color you have and\u00a0the color that you want.\u00a0 If you extend this line across the color sorter, any color along that\u00a0line\u00a0can be used\u00a0to move the color to where you want it to be.\u00a0\u00a0 This is especially true when you are mixing the desaturated colors that fall on the inside of the color sorter.\u00a0 Here’s the example from the book diagrammed on the color sorter.<\/p>\n

Color 1 shows\u00a0 the first step –\u00a0\u00a0mixing green from yellow and blue.\u00a0\u00a0Color 2 shows \u00a0moving the color toward blue by mixing it with a little more blue. Since the color that you want has more mud in it, you need\u00a0to move\u00a0it toward the center of the color sorter.\u00a0Color 3 shows the color moved toward the center by mixing it with “mud”, in this case a brown mud.<\/p>\n

Imagine the other\u00a0choices that fall along the same\u00a0path\u00a0for moving Color\u00a02\u00a0toward the center. You could\u00a0mix Color 2\u00a0with gray, with brown, with brick red, or with cherry red (the complement of emerald green) and it would move into the same place. The only difference would be in the proportion of Color 2 used in each mixture.<\/p>\n

Weekend Extra Exercises<\/strong><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Make a small amount of\u00a0emerald green and divide it into two pieces.\u00a0 Mix one piece with with a\u00a0brown mud to make a spruce color. Mix the second piece with a cherry red to make a similar spruce color.\u00a0 How much mud did it take to move the emerald to spruce? \u00a0How much cherry red?<\/p>\n

\"instinctive<\/a>2.\u00a0\u00a0There\u00a0can be\u00a0many paths to\u00a0get\u00a0to the same color.\u00a0\u00a0Mix\u00a0three versions of\u00a0olive green by following three different paths:<\/p>\n

1. Lemon Yellow to Blue Violet<\/p>\n

2 Emerald Green to Yellow Orange<\/p>\n

3. Lime Green to Ochre<\/p>\n

3. Try mixing some of the other earth colors by following different paths.<\/p>\n

4. Cut your instinctive mixes of earth colors\u00a0in half. Add white to one half.\u00a0\u00a0Compare the pastel versions to the original\u00a0 earth color. Can you see the mud?<\/p>\n

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TIPS<\/strong><\/p>\n