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Outline: I have followed Fred Wagner's recipe for mixing home made clayboard.
I have painted 6 layers onto 5mm cherry plywood 5x7in, although I think I need more
layers or thicker mix, as you can still see the slight grain indent shapes in the clay.

I am gonna be attempting my very first picture with scratching technique of a
Scottish Red highland cow as a practice piece before I attempt a bigger one that
my son wants me do for him.

Question:
How do you make your own Ginger coloured paint mix which is the colour of the cows fur?
Its a kind of Red/Brown-ish colour, so I am thinking Red and Umber, but one of my colour books
shows something kind of near to what I want and it was a mix of Cad Yellow and Violet?

Anyone got any ideas or actually done a dark Ginger type colour?
 
Jacky, many thanks. If I understand the above, you mix the R,B,Y colours to get the mother mix, then you add Red
then successively add White for the shade you require (same process for any of the other strands of colour).

cheers.
 
Herb, thanks, and that is the exact book I have and 2 other thinner ones which I think are subsets of that 1500 one.
Also have the 'Colour mixing bible' produced by Ian Sidaway and published by David & Charles, and it was that one
that I got the the Yellow and Violet mix from.

This is the cow I am attempting to do....
highland-cattle-scotland_35950_990x7421.jpg

and I will look at that online paint mixer and see what it comes up with, very interesting.
 
Herb, thanks, and that is the exact book I have and 2 other thinner ones which I think are subsets of that 1500 one.
Also have the 'Colour mixing bible' produced by Ian Sidaway and published by David & Charles, and it was that one
that I got the the Yellow and Violet mix from.

This is the cow I am attempting to do....
View attachment 56898

and I will look at that online paint mixer and see what it comes up with, very interesting.
I have a neighbor who has a few head of cattle that looks like that one he said it is a woolly mammath cow. I think he is pulling my leg .
 
I always use etac efx brown ocher as a base for that color fur it is more towards orange than brown and it all depends on what colors I see in the fur of a highland cow witch other colors I might use like a yellow or a umber
 
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