Shading Old Rose.

[housecarl]

Any suggestions for a colour to shade 944 Old rose. Highliights look OK with a touch of white. But adding red, changes the colour all together.
Thanks in advance,
Carl.

 

[pmfs]

Hello Carl,

try to mix Vallejo flat brown

 

[Steve]

I was going to suggest using the contrast color, which would be a sort of off whack olive green. Pedro seems to have a better answer.--

 

[gothicgeek]

Burnt umber would be my choice Carl.

Mark

 

[housecarl]

Thanks to everyone for their comments. I went for the old faithful, burnt umber.
Carl.

 

[renarts]

burnt umber will keep it a warm tone, blue will make it cool.

 

[Einion]

As I think I touched on in another of your threads Carl, generally when you shade a colour you want to keep the hue the same - when painted shadows look wrong the hue having changed in one of the major culprits.

The swatch you've posted is red in hue, so if this is reasonably representative of the real colour that's what you want to aim for in the hue of the shadows. Burnt Umber is orange in hue generally. If you like how this worked that's all that matters but be aware that this is a change of hue; it would be normal for the hue to still be red, just darker (and a little duller).

The simplest way of doing this might be to use a little Cad Red (or another mid-red) + a touch of black.

Einion