The color white

[Roc]

Hey guys,I just thaught it might be a good idea to share among ourselves the different techniques and color mixtures for painting white.

This is my technique, what is yours?

1- undercoat - acrylic light gray.

2- Base - Titanium white + warm gray + liquitex parchment.

3- Medium shadows - add a little bit of Lamp black to base color, to shadow top half.

4- deep shadows - add a bit more Lamp black to medium shadows, to shadow lower half.

5- Medium highlights - add more Titanium white to Base color, highlight lower half.


6- extreme highlights - pure Titanium white.

7 - very extreme highlights - after completely dry I will touch the highest points
with glazes of pure Ttanium white+ a very tine amount of Windsor blue.
The warmest part of the figure is closest to the body, and coolist part is away from the body


To dry the figure and to get rid of the sheen I put in the oven for todays at a temperature of 140 degrees[warm]


Roc.

 

[KeithP]

Roc-

Where did you find the Liquitex parchment?

I understand that it is not made any longer?

I have an alternate mix formula from Craig W (Mongo Mel) that is pretty close.

Keith

 

[Edson]

Hi, Keith

you can also mix for the Liquitex parchment with:

Titanium white, a little of Mars Yellow, and a touch of Lampblack,a little of Venetian Red

hope it help, and for the withe mix, I don´t have one yet, so maybe I´ll learn very much on this topic lol thanks :lol:

Cheers
Ed

 

[slaj]

Roc , personally I don't have one set mix for white. I vary it according to subject. I do have a few mixes for acrylics but when I painted in oils my mix/s were very close to yours. You'll see what I mean when I post pics of the finished fusilier I'm doing.It's nearly all white

Stephen Mallia

 

[KeithP]

Ed-

Thanks. That looks pretty close to the mix Craig sent me.

I need a good one for the Pegaso Grand Master Teutonic knight I have...

Keith

 

[Pete_H]

Undercoat: Vallejo's SilverGrey

Base color: 4 - 5 parts buff titatium + 1 part raw umber.

Shadows:
1st.: add raw umber to base.
2nd.: straight raw umber.

Highlights:
1st.: 1 part buff titanium + 1 part tit.white.
2nd.: straight tit.white.

Just like Rocco does, touch up the highest highlights with straight tit.white.

Cheers!

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Humbrol rules................

Base is 70% 34 White, 25% 61 Flesh and 5% 33 Black.

Shadow is mixed by adding more 61 Flesh and some more 33 Black to the mix. Deep dark shadows is only 61 Flesh + 33 Black.

Highlights by adding more 34 White to the base with the extreme highlights being pure white.

The base could be tinted afterwards with filters like yellow, brown, blue and grey depending on the fabric or the look of the cloth.

 

[Roc]

Hi Keith, Liquitex oils have been discontinued, but as Ed said you can mix your parchment.

As you can see on this thread, there are many fine mixes and techniques,
You have to experiment and then develop your own.

Cheers.

Roc.

 

[Roc]

Hey Stephen, I'm looking forward to seeing your fusilier.

Ciao.
Roc.

 

[Roc]

Hey Richard, I don't think there is anything close to liquitex parchment, but than again I have not looked too hard.

You may want to try Ed's mix for parchment.

Cheers

Roc.

 

[Einion]

In that article by Derek Hansen that Geoff mentioned, if memory serves he used Zinc White to glaze one item and Flake White for the other - Zinc White is a 'cool' white, and Flake is a 'warm' white.

If you don't have Flake or Cremnitz White you can simulate its colour by mixing in a small amount of Raw Sienna, or something similar, to Titanium White.

I can look up the exact ingredients for Parchment if anyone is interested but if I recall correctly it's Titanium White, Mars Yellow and a black.

Einion

 

[Pete_H]

Einion, my boy, that has got to be the shortest posting of yours I've ever read :lol: Welcome about the planet, dude!

 

[kidney stone kid]

Einion, good to here from you. I'll jot that down for future referece. Hope all is well with you.

 

[Roc]

Einion, my friend,welcome aboard.

How about sharing with us your technique and formula for white.

Cheers

 

[Einion]

Hi Rocco, I don't have one formula for white, I paint it differently depending on the material etc. I usually use Mars Black because it's the most opaque, plus various earths like most of us to counteract the blueish colour you get with black alone.

For a basic neutral mix Burnt Umber + black, sometimes I use Ultramarine instead of black with BU, makes a good range of 'neutrals' depending on which you favour in the mix.
For wool I might use Raw Sienna + Raw Umber + black.
For raw linen Raw Umber + black, with a touch of Yellow Ochre perhaps.

White is also one of the few colours I sometimes paint from a dark ground up to the highlight, instead of from the midtone working in both directions, but usually only for small items like a belt. I've also tried painting darker from a white ground but I didn't like it at all.

Since I use acrylics Titanium White is pretty much the only choice, in oils it's the most opaque of the four or more whites one can buy so I would prefer this also, keeping lead whites for glazing. Zinc White is extremely transparent, best kept for glazing and transparent tints only.

Einion

 

[Lou Masses]

I have a question about the Zinc white. I have tried the method of glazing with it as you describe Eionion, but I never seem to get satisfactory results-I end up with what looks like a "veil" of while over my shadows. I can't explain it in print properly but it doesn't look real.

 

[Larry R]

I have a question for Pete! What's butt Titanium? LOL!!

 

[Lou Masses]

I really don't want to know what's on Pete's palette for that sort of thing. You can at least tell where his mind is most of the time.

 

[Pete_H]

Larry,
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaw sh#t!!! Lou's right - you could tell what was on my mind when I wrote it. It was on the "scenery" I was enjoying at work. Too many hot girls strutting around the computer lab in their shorts & tanktops and the A/C was at full-blast

 

[Larry R]

Pete, I need to change jobs! Especially when all I get to look at is Patrick!