If you want to start painting, you had better have some knowledge of colour theory, at least some basic one. Well, you could buy lots of different colours and use them as they are, but that would be very expensive and not practical. With just the basics you can already tweak your standard colours a bit. Want your red more orangey? Mix it with a little yellow. Want to make violet from your blue? Mix the blue with a little bit of red. And there is nothing wrong with already having a green and an orange and maybe also a violet in your palette. And some browns. With this you already have quite some options. The next step would be to understand that there are warm and cool versions of basic colours. A warm red leans towards orange, a cool one towards violet. A warm blue leans towards violet, a cool one towards green. A warm yellow leans towards orange, a cool one towards green. If you want to, say, mix a good, brillant violet, mix a warm blue and a cool red. They both alrea...
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