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Color mixing tips

Some tips for color mixing especially for landscape painting.

Skies
Cool grey sky : cobalt blue + vermillion
Cobalt blue + light red

warm grey sky :  cobalt blue + light red and yellow ochre
Dark grey sky : windsor blue + indian red.

Blue sky : cerulean blue
french ultramarine gradated through cobalt blue to cobalt blue mixed with vermillion or rose madder genuine at the horizon.

Light clouds: cobalt blue + french ultramarine + indian red
Moon light: french ultramarine + burnt sienna
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Grass:
Viridian + raw sienna.
viridian + yellow ochre+ vermillion.
viridian + cadmium yellow .
yellow ochre + french ultramarine

Foliage: viridian + cadmium yellow.
viridian + raw sienna.
viridian + burnt sienna.
Tree trunks.
Viridian + indan red
Distances: french ultramarine plus rose madder

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