And, you will be developing your painterly skills. So, tinting with white, and possible adjusting with Phthalo Green if you like it, should be the path to a solution. Ross’s skies.īelieve me when I say there isn’t a fixed answer – each of the three blues in question have different look and more importantly, different handling characteristics. You will be developing excellent mixing skills, learning about the paints, “seeing” what is really going on, and be able to assess how your mixes look in comparison to Mr. Mix, paint a swatch, assess a comparison. To the mix pile, add just a pencil dot of Phthalo green… assuming there is still a blob of paint in the mix pile – the Phthalo Green would be about 1/50th or less to start. Do they look too reddish? You can try with the remainder of the two mix piles to do the following: Now, I would assess my swatches about how they look to you. doubling the amount of Phthalo Blue each time. Next, add two pencil dots worth of Phthalo blue, mix, paint out swatch.Īnd so on…. Paint out a sample swatch.Īdd another pencil dot… mix, paint swatch. To this add a pencil dot of phthalo blue. Do this until the swatch sample series is a very pale blue.įor the Phthalo Blue, it is a VERY powerful paint, and will easily tint the white, so I would recommend starting with a white pile of paint. Mix, and take a wee bit and paint out your sample swatch beside the first two.Īnd so on… the logic being each swatch has double the white content of the previous swatch. To the mix pile, add FOUR “drops” of white. Mix, and take a wee bit and paint out your sample swatch beside the first two. To the mix pile, add TWO “drops” of white. so, adding one tenth as much white.įrom your pile, take a wee bit and paint out a sample swatch (1×1 inch).ġ0X Prussian to 2 x White… however much white you added in the previous step, say “one drop” add the same amount again, another “drop”.Īgain, take a wee bit and paint out a sample swatch beside the first swatch. Lay out a daub of your Prussian Blue, and tint it with white in a series:ġ0X Prussian to 1X White…. I would add that my approach would be the following: Each tube of paint you have has its own tinting strength, both much stronger than Cerulean, I think.