What Color to Use for Painting Backlight?
In this brief post, I’ll show you step by step how to paint a backlight and the colors you should use.
We’re going to paint the backlight stage of the artwork. You’ll see fairly dark areas, especially in the earth and mountains. Only the water part will have light because it reflects the sky.
To create the backlight, I’m going to use Payne’s Gray, a color I often recommend. It’s like a bluish-gray. At some point, we’ll also add Ultramarine Blue.
I’ll try to avoid using black if possible.
It’s not that it’s wrong (everyone paints as they want), but we’ll try to use the colors we’ve used in the composition. If we reuse all the colors, we’ll be contributing to the harmony of the artwork.
In this case, we haven’t used black at any point, so I choose gray.
This is how we’ll see it:
To lighten, we can use Titanium White or Zinc White.
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