Mastering color mixing with limited color palettes

ArtistAssistApp allows you to experiment with color mixing and limited palettes without wasting your paints.

ArtistAssistApp allows you to play around with a limited color palette and don't waste paint experimenting with color mixing. Using a limited palette helps achieve color harmony. Select up to 5 colors to be your primary colors and see what your reference photo would look like painted with just those colors. It helps to depict the atmosphere. For example, the lighting in the north is different from the Mediterranean, as are the colors needed to depict this atmosphere. Select specific colors from specific brands for mixing, specify the appropriate proportions, and get the resulting color mixture in various consistencies. No more wasting paint on experiments.

Simulating the real color mixing

On the "Color mixing" tab, choose specific colors of specific brands to mix, specify the proportions, and get the resulting color mixture in various consistencies.

There are three primary colors that can't be mixed with other colors: lemon yellow, cyan or blue, and magenta or red.

These three colors plus white and black allow us to mix any color hue we wish.

As watercolors are transparent, the white color is not needed because the white paper can show through a diluted watercolor layer.

Limited palettes

Using a limited palette helps achieve color harmony.

It's possible to replace three primary colors with others to depict a specific atmosphere.

For example, the lighting in the north is different from the Mediterranean, as are the colors needed to depict this atmosphere.

Open the "Limited Palette" tab and select up to five colors to be your primaries.

Press the "Preview" button to see what your reference photo would look like painted with just those colors.

About ArtistAssistApp

ArtistAssistApp, also known as Artist Assist App, is a web app for artists to accurately mix any color from a photo, analyze tonal values, turn a photo into an outline, draw with the grid method, paint with a limited palette, simplify a photo, remove the background from an image, compare photos pairwise, and more.

Try it now for free at https://app.artistassistapp.com to improve your painting and drawing skills and create stunning artworks.