Opaque vs Transparent
When it comes to working in oils or acrylics, understanding the transparency or opacity of your colors is super important! When you work in layers in painting with cold wax medium (oils and acrylics) it is important to know whether your paint color is TRANSPARENT or OPAQUE, WARM or COOL. In the video below, I'll show you how to recognise the transparency of your paints.
Color swatches
What you could do is make colour swatches in a sketchbook and write their properties (transparent, opaque, cool, warm) next to the swatch or you can simple mark a T or an O on your paint tube!
The transparent colours I can’t do without are:
Sennelier Chinese Orange
W&N Sap Green
Gamblin Asphaltum
Sennelier Alizarin Crimson
Gamblin Brown Pink
and of course
Gamblin Phthalo Turquoise💙
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