ah look.... i mean.... black is awesome... has a place... and certainly is great... but sometimes if you are using "black" add a tad of ultramarine, deep red, burnt umber and a gorgeous phtalo green in at the same time. even doing that can help. Just depends on what you are doing. certainly for shadows i like to use a mix of colours... I know plenty of very professional artists that DO use it thought.
Yeah im just tryhing to keep my hand in and painting little paintings like this im not afraid of "spoiling a big one ive been working on for months" because im not quite in the mood. its amazing how "unafraid" of the the painting you are when you are just doing something small.
Anyway happy creating!!!
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Yeah, even so only matters if you're going in for a realism style haha. Just sometimes I don't think enough and wonder why it doesn't work for me, not realizing I should be doing something else. Mixing paint is so interesting, and here we also have a struggle with the composition in colors. Using paint (or being a painter in general) gave me a few learnings in chemistry and sometimes physics. 🤣
Hahaha omg I totally get this. I'm like this too. I call it practice but it's more like procrastination most of the time LOL. The back of my mind is telling me JUST DO IT!!!
im very keen on colour theory. I was well into it with my oil painting i used to do. I think you asked somewhere about my main medium. it USED to be oils just don't have the space so 90% these days its acrylic.
thats why i like time daily paintings. pick a subject you know you can do in an hour... then if its shit... "NEXT" and keep moving... you learn lots.
i like to faf and fiddle and go for perfection... but i learn more and find more "instant dopamine" from doing daily paintings.
you should give it a go??