How Do You Change Paint Color To A Darker Hue?
Your first impulse when darkening a paint color may be to simply add black. Most artists who have worked with paint know that adding black to a color will make it murky and gray, which is often an undesirable result. Consider other ways to darken a color without muddying the hue. Although the method of darkening the paint is always the same, the colors you use will depend on what hue you are trying to darken. Find a tube of paint in the color you’d like to darken, and squirt a little of it from the tube. Use your paintbrush to spread the paint into a circle in the center of your palette. Choose the appropriate color to darken the selected hue from your selection of paints. The color you choose will depend entirely upon what color you are trying to darken: If you are trying to darken red, use blue or brown. If you are trying to darken blue, use a darker blue or a black (one of the few times that black is appropriate). If you are trying to darken yellow, use a light shade of orange. If y
