New to this and looking for instruction

It would depend on how exact you want the painting to look to the reference.
Yes people will mix 20 to 100 shades if needed to make the painting come out the way they want it too.
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But you could start out basing it with the lightest shade of blue they start building from that to the darkest blue gray /blue black mix.
 
On this one, I am pretty sure I would convert the reference to gray scale, and then work in the "Grisaille" method. Working on a monotone under-painting concentrating on value, rather than color. Ten, I would glaze over the under-painting with transparent color. One very transparent blue can be made into hundreds of colors with some very light overcoats of contrasting, or complimentary color... Good luck! Very detailed piece you chose to start with. Look forward to seeing how you wind up tackling it.
 
What is the best transparent paint to use?

To answer your question Mr. Micron I want to make is look as close and clean as possible. I also could use some good information or video on using stencils for something like this. I have never used stencils before in anything I have worked with ( tattoos and paper / pencil) so I am finding it difficult to grasp how to properly use them.
 
What is the best transparent paint to use?

To answer your question Mr. Micron I want to make is look as close and clean as possible. I also could use some good information or video on using stencils for something like this. I have never used stencils before in anything I have worked with ( tattoos and paper / pencil) so I am finding it difficult to grasp how to properly use them.
Watch Gerald Mendez live feeds on FB he uses a lot of hand cut stencils. Trick it to make it not look like you used a stencil.
 
Createx Illustration colors are fairly transparent - even more so when adding the transparent base they make for it. The colors included in the Steve Gibson Grisaille set are exceptionally transparent. Golden has some very transparent color in the High Flow line of colors, as well as offering a transparent High Flow base to further extend the colors. Com-art has several very good transparents, etc...
 
Will this be your first try airbrushing? If so its alot different then a tattoo gun, But you can do it im sure. If uou get stuck just post up what your looking to do and someone will help.
 
That’s a really hard painting to start with!
If you use transparent colours or heavily reduced paint slowly build up the transitions.
I would personally colour match the main core colour then add subtly using white and in this case Cobalt Blue.
 
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