Finger Painting

More tips on creating colors

My attempt of creating a Peacock palatte 

My brush used was a little to thick to get into the nooks of the inlay~ bummer, oh well

this is practice not perfect 

Colors used: CeCe Caldwell Vintage White, CeCe Caldwell Young Kansas Wheat, CeCe Caldwell Maine Harbor Blue & I did use three other additionals which were " tads and drips" till I created " my wanted" result 

The Additives 

For less than 10.00 - a little drip will change, enhance, add - create a new color

The products you see: Utrecht Artist's Fluid Acrylics - I have used Golden Brand too

To the left is " Yellow Green Light" to the right is " Aquamarine" 

The Tube, far right, is Liquitex heavy body Arcrylic in " Bright Aqua Green" 

I did not mix the additives into the CeCe base. I did it by layer, adding each color over the wet base - time to create the Peacock exterior: less than 10 mins.  I guess you would call it dry brushing, extremely fast. Whisking, and re loading the brush, with very little color. I use paper plates or my home made pallette of wood. Pour small amount, load your brush and whisk away. 

1. Liquitex Bright Aqua Green   2. Utrecht Aquamarine   3. Utrecht Yellow Green Light

Under each marked with " VW" is CeCe Caldwell Vintage White dragged thru as an overlay, while the base still wet with a Pallatte knife.

You can see it doesn't take much " Tads is all" to " alter" the paints I used as " tints" - either way it is this simple. Simple as 1. 2. 3.  Even if you do not have a color in mind at the begining and are playing with mixing, your eye will direct you along the way... we all favor certain colors. Its when we get it right that the " giggles" start ... WOW I did this all by myself. 

I am not a paint professional, I am but a color addict, and the new line of CeCe is right up my alley. 

To make the Drift Wood Effect I used: Vintage White, Young Kansas Wheat, Cottonwood Sienna, and Pittsburgh Gray last. I have put them in order of amount used, Vintage white being the " most" the Cottonwood Sienna and Pittsburgh Gray was literally toothpick like streaks in the end. There is Green underneath, what I call my Driftwood Finish, this where the glow of coca cola glass comes from. There is No Green added to this Driftwood finish before, during or after - the Green is simply is the first base color, dried. I did take the Vintage white first with a brush, went up and down and then used a clean cotton rag to rub it down, then I began layering - dry brushing technique of the CeCe colors.

The Green I created all by itself, was not using CeCe - Nope. I used White Gesso and
two Green tints - My next buy from CeCe is " Kentucky Mint Green " Then I won't have to make my own " green"  - not that it will stop me from tinting, washing and streaking :)

You Can Do This ~ all you need is Paint and Imagination