Having great colors in your paintings can sometimes be the reason why audiences feel attracted toward your painting. Colors bring life to a portrait; they make things livelier and more interesting. Color makes the viewers captivated because of the blend and mix in the painting. In short the color is a great element of painting that makes the art more appreciated.

Here are some tips that can you get the best color combinations out of your pain and pallets. Mixing colors all together gives us unlimited results if explored properly. This should be one factor that even a beginner should not shy away from. The worst thing that could happen is that your colors will look like mud. It will be ok, because you can mix light colors, white for instance, to do some tonal exercises. Here are some more tips that can help you out bring more colors.

1. It will take a whole lot of light colors to lighten up dark colors. While only a little dark color can be used to darken up light colors. An example will be an artist trying to attempt to make darker colors. It will be easier for him or her to mix a little blue to the white color rather than mixing lot of white paint to a blue paint.
2. The same tip could be said for opaque and transparent colors. Only add little opaque colors to the transparent one rather than the other way around.  Transparent color has a weaker influence compared to opaque ones.
3. If you are looking to produce intense and bright results, mix colors that are made with the same pigmentations. The pigmentation or the quality of the paint is usually listed on the side of the tube label.
4. Toc create ideal browns and grays, use complimentary colors. Use complimentary colors such as red and green, yellow and purple, and blue and orange. By using this technique the brown and grey you would want will be harmonious with the painting. It will create different ranges when the proportions are varied.
5. Don’t over mix. Sometimes stop in the middle of the mixing process and try to see if the color you are looking for has been produced already. It will produce varying results and will no longer be flat and consistent.

If you are still not able to get the hang out of it, practice will only make you better. If you love colors really, it would not be a heavy burden for you to keep on trying to produce great results.