tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603688707055036302.post1644675358335457983..comments2023-08-23T07:12:31.803-07:00Comments on The Acrylic Diva Blog: All about warm and cool colorsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00254330131218206843noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603688707055036302.post-5346202230807722862011-09-12T21:44:31.960-07:002011-09-12T21:44:31.960-07:00"I'm not sure there is any substitute for..."I'm not sure there is any substitute for learning by doing." Wise words Susan! Color is a very complex issue and there is always more to learn. Keep at it!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00254330131218206843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603688707055036302.post-70394306960057520732011-09-12T13:52:57.643-07:002011-09-12T13:52:57.643-07:00I am trying to learn to use Fluid acrylics as wate...I am trying to learn to use Fluid acrylics as watercolor, but the color wheel is very different. I think any watercolor book that has a color wheel, including Nita Leland's Exploring Color, will show these differences from the Golden color wheel -- causing much confusion! I usually work with a very limited wc palette--cool yellow, warm yellow, cool red, warm red, cool blue, warm blue, burnt sienna and diox violet. Since buying a set of Fluid Acrylics, I have been making color charts and trying to master their differences from watercolor colors, and they are a whole new concept! (Starting from the use of Cyan, Magenta and Hansa Yellow instead of traditional primaries. Traditionalists like me expect to see Violet, not Primary Blue, opposite yellow! It's not easy to grasp that primary blue is now a secondary color.) To traditional watercolorists (and the Winsor & Newton company), Ultramarine is a warm blue (closer to red), vs Pthalo blue (slightly greenish) as a cool; Cerulean blue watercolor is considered cool although biased toward yellow (but it's warm in Fluid acrylics because it's biased toward yellow....and it appears slightly redder than wc Cerulean to me.) It took me a while (and a look at pigment numbers) to realize that Fluid Quinacridone Red = Permanent Rose watercolor, which W&N recommends as its warm red on a 6 color palette. Quin Magenta or Alizarin Red watercolors are cool reds & work on a six color wc palette, but Golden Alizarin is much browner/more neutralized than Alizarin or Permanent Alizarin watercolors -- not a good choice for that slot. And Fluid Burnt Sienna seems light to me -- in fact, when mixed with water, it will eventually separate into white and colored pigment. I often mix Fr. Ultramarine and Burnt Sienna watercolors to get a dense black -- not sure how that's going to come out in Fluids.... Your Golden Workshops were very helpful, but if I hadn't spent money on the acrylics, I would have given up in frustration and gone back to the color chart I know well. Thanks for you practical, hands-on mixing experience. Acrylic beginners like me just need to be aware that along with the advantages, there are differences -- I'm not sure there is any substitute for learning by doing.Susan Grotenoreply@blogger.com