Burnt umber is ideal for cooling down and tempering cadmium red to express (with a little white) shadows in sand dunes. Reds can be tempered with a little earth color. Flesh tint, Winsor orange and permanent magenta to name but three. Carmine has incredible tinting strength and requires the smallest amount in color mixtures.īut there are a lot of red pigments that are either superfluous (as the aforementioned provide color mixes they provide) or are redundant. Alizarin is almost blood-like in appearance and adds depth to any color mixture. These reds have high tinting strength and are ideal for use in oil painting glazes, to increase color saturation of the color beneath.
Other red pigments are worth exploring such as alizarin crimson, carmine red and quinacridone. This red being biased towards yellow is the ideal component for mixing orange or gold colors. Permanent rose, therefore is a good hue to use for cool reds.Ī useful warm red can be found in a few oil pigments which might be cadmium red, scarlet lake or cadmium scarlet. Ultramarine blue, being biased towards red, would result in a clean violet color. Permanent rose is a sharp, almost acidic hue, and which therefore is the ideal component for mixing violet colors.
As with any other color, there are two chromatic directions this ‘primary red’ can go, and that is warm or cool.
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