reflective objects

Ranjana Bacrania wrote

on 23 Jul 2012 5:24 AM

Can somebody please tell me how do I paint a silver teapot and get a good shine? 

valeriemalley wrote

on 23 Jul 2012 8:00 AM

Helen Van Wyk's book 'Colour Mixing the Van Wyk Way" suggests these colours:

BODY TONE - Black & White, Raw Sienna

BODY SHADOW - Add black, Alizarin, Crimson and Thalo Blue to body tone mixture

HIGHLIGHT - White, Alizarin Crimson and Thalo Blue.  Lighten with white, Yellow Ochre

DARKER REFLECTIONS - Burnt Umber

LIGHT REFLECTIONS - Depends on colours surrounding silver

Helen Van Wyk painted with oils.

Margo5 wrote

on 23 Jul 2012 11:02 AM

Learn value scale and learn the difference between your warm and cool primary, secondary, tertiery, and complementary gray colors. Arleta Pesch does an amazing job of this, but so do many others. You can look for her books and dvd's by searching the internet. Amazon has her books and Creative Cataiyst has her dvd's.

Maria Kellner wrote

on 24 Jul 2012 10:28 PM

Painting silver  it has many colours, shapes,hard edges soft edges, it picks up what ever surrounds it to paint it life like, this is what I look for.I take a photo and study the shapes and colours.

Ranjana Bacrania wrote

on 26 Jul 2012 6:43 AM

Hi Maria,

Thank you for your reply. I did take pictures and studied the values, colors but my silver pot and kettle don't look like the photos of them. What am I doing wrong or if you are good with silver then maybe if you can paint them and send me the images. I hope I am not troubling you too much. 

Thanks for being my art friend. Please expect some images.

Ranju