Thanks for your video. Interesting that you used the three primary subtractive colours. I'm an ex printer and now amateur artist now that I am retired. As you would know, cyan, magenta and yellow are the colour of the inks used in process colour printing. Virtually every colour magazine or picture book uses these colours plus black. They are very pure and transparent. When combined they produce a huge colour gamut. The pigment particles in these inks/paints are like tiny transparent glass beads. They allow light to pass through them and then reflect back 9ff the substrate surface They act like a filter that absorbs some frequencies of light. Opaque pigments on the other hand are like solid opaque beads. They still filter out specific frequencies of light, but completely block the light from reflecting back off the white surface of your substrate.. They greatly reduce your colour gamut (range of colours). Opaque colours also give duller results. In practice, if you want to block out another colour, use an opaque colour. If you want a large range of possible colours and vibrant clean colours then use transparent ones. In printing and painting we can also tint colours with either a transparent or opaque white 9r tinting medium. The best colours for completely blocking out another colour are either an opaque white or a metallic silver. Hope this information helps and is not too technical. I love your videos and painting style
@decea9380 Thank you so much for this!!! I've come to art very... very😊... late in life and honestly thought I didn't need nor want to worry about "color theory", let alone transparency vs opacity and on and on.... mostly because I knew I'd never remember it all😊, and while that part is 100% accurate, my desire to learn color mixing (which I'm just so in love with) and learning the how/why/when of using one over the other has me wishing I was smarter😂😊 But I love how you explained that!! It gave me such a visual, which I seem to need to remember anything, and even then it's sketchy😬🤦♀️😆 but I just love learning things like this!! So I just wanted to thank you for that because I for one just honestly find it fascinating and would love to learn more. And since it was very visually explained I keep thinking about it... I know I'll forget some details... it'll be like the old game called "telephone", though I think everyone had different names for it, again, old so this was way back... but you whisper a bit of information and it goes around the circle and then you get to hear what it's become by the end and uts typically crazy different and hysterical. So, I'll take a screenshot of this so that I don't destroy this explanation, because it is awesome!! Technical in all the right ways. I know, I get super excited about odd things😊 But thank you again for that!😊
Great video as usual. I've been overwhelmed by all the complexities that come with using colors. Mostly its a guessing game with me. That's why I'm thinking of working in black and white for a while, and perhaps adding just a splash of color, like crimson or ultra marine blue. Thanks for sharing and cheers from New England 🍻
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I just looked at some of my acrylic tubes and found within this one set, labeled as "heavy body" acrylic, only the black and white are opaque. ❤
