Acrylics issue with highlighting red colour

[pmfs]

Hi planeteers!

I´ve always seen many people using orange to highlight the red, for couple of times i also used.
Did anybody used other colour instead the orange?
I want to reproduce a faded red colour and if I use skin colour or white probably my figure will became pink.
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

 

[housecarl]

This is oils Pedro, but it might give you an idea.
Carl.

 

[pmfs]

This is oils Pedro, but it might give you an idea.
Carl.

Sorry mate, cant see nothing.

Pedro.

 

[Sturm Grenadier]

Hello Pedro, The faded, dusty look your trying to paint reminded me of Bill Horan's method of painting red with shadows/highlights. His base coat is scarlet, leather, and brick red. Shadows: scarlet mixed with alizarin crimson. And for highlights: flesh mixed with base coat. These colors are Humbrol and oil, but, could easily be changed to acrylics. Hope this helps you a little. Regards, SG

 

[pmfs]

Hello Pedro, The faded, dusty look your trying to paint reminded me of Bill Horan's method of painting red with shadows/highlights. His base coat is scarlet, leather, and brick red. Shadows: scarlet mixed with alizarin crimson. And for highlights: flesh mixed with base coat. These colors are Humbrol and oil, but, could easily be changed to acrylics. Hope this helps you a little. Regards, SG

SG, Bill Horan WOW, Mr.Fabio Nunnari present me to the master in WE Montreaux, back in 2011. I talk with him for about 35 seconds.
You hit the target SG, my mix is diferent but i will repaint the base coat, but 1st I will studie the colours to find the comparasion table between.

Thanks!

 

[housecarl]

Try this Pedro.
http://www.timelinesforum.com/index.php?page=paintingreds1
Carl.

 

[pmfs]

Thank you Carl!

Pedro.

 

[ChaosCossack]

If you're using Vallejos Model Colour... Try Carmine Red 908 as the base, highlight by adding Sunny Skintone 845 and shade using Red 926.

Because the Sunny Skintone is a flesh tone with a goodly amount of yellow in it, the Carmine doesn't turn pinkish but a more muted light red that leans to the orange end of the tone. If you want a really faded out red, use Vermillion 909 or Scarlet 817 as the base and then add the Sunny Skintone to highlight. The Vermillion is slightly lighter than the Carmine and the Scarlet is more of a reddish-orange right off the start.

Try it out on a practice piece until you get exactly the combo of tones that you're looking for.

Hope this is of some help to you

Colin

 

[pmfs]

Colin thank you.
Carmin red is my base coat with flat red, i will try to paint only with carmin to see the result.

Pedro

 

[smudger1960]

Hi Pedro,I paint in oils but the highlights I use for a faded red look are Cadmium Orange mixed with Naples yellow,this may help when your using acrylics to mix similar colours to oils

 

[Einion]

I commonly use a mixture of colours blended with the midtone to highlight reds - white + something else on the palette at the time. But what works best depends on the specific red, you can't use the same things with two different reds and get the same outcome.

I want to reproduce a faded red colour and if I use skin colour or white probably my figure will became pink.

I would have thought that a skin mixture would rarely lead to a too-pink highlight mix because of the yellow or ochre in the blend. Adding just white doesn't necessarily make pinks either BTW, depending on the red and what pigment(s) it's made from.

Anyway for a faded red you definitely don't want to use orange or yellow, quite apart from the fact that this will change the hue. The thing you're aiming for is lighter and duller, but the mixture isn't critical, a premixed neutral grey, white + black, white + blue and white + Burnt Umber can all mix believable dusty-looking highlight mixtures with a base red.

Einion

 

[pmfs]

Dear fellow modellers thanks for the input.

Pedro.