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Back to oils lol
I’ve left it over for more than a year, today I got back to it
I really wanted to start painting in oils again, but I’m very lazy, always finding excuses not to
My joy was tattooing for long now, so everything I was doing was related to tattoos…
But the common thing between those two is DIRTY MIXING colours
So it’s just dipping the brush or the needles into one colour, and then doing this to other colour to achieve necessary hue
At this point I thought it can become very handy exercise at home, while I’m not practicing tattoo
It’ll provide me great exercise and colour mixing skill, that one day I hope will become to me like second nature

PogArt-Ttoo wrote: Tue Feb 18, 2025 10:54 pm But the common thing between those two is DIRTY MIXING colours
So it’s just dipping the brush or the needles into one colour, and then doing this to other colour to achieve necessary hue

Good to see you working on this again, Artur. And thanks for answering a question that been on my mind... MIXING.

OK... I'm old enough that when I think "tattoo" an image of a black anchor on Popeye's arm comes to mind.

I'm aware that tattooists seem to have many more colours available now, but I wasn't sure if you could mix colours. I mean physically mix them to achieve new colours before applying to the skin - rather than closely positioning two colours to give the impression of a third colour.

Mike Sibley wrote: Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:00 am

PogArt-Ttoo wrote: Tue Feb 18, 2025 10:54 pm But the common thing between those two is DIRTY MIXING colours
So it’s just dipping the brush or the needles into one colour, and then doing this to other colour to achieve necessary hue

Good to see you working on this again, Artur. And thanks for answering a question that been on my mind... MIXING.

OK... I'm old enough that when I think "tattoo" an image of a black anchor on Popeye's arm comes to mind.

I'm aware that tattooists seem to have many more colours available now, but I wasn't sure if you could mix colours. I mean physically mix them to achieve new colours before applying to the skin - rather than closely positioning two colours to give the impression of a third colour.

Thank you Mike for stepping by

Tattoo it's nothing else but depositing the INK into the skin tissue.
The INK it's just the pigment certificated for human use
It has all those characteristics of other painting mediums then , so it's FULLY MIXABLE

You can do it in few ways.
ON THE SKIN like on the oil's canvas (wet on wet).
You can deposit the ink colour over other colour being already into the skin - to blend it, so you can achieve hue changes into the skin
IN THE INK CUP - just adding droplets there to mix it together and do tattoo with that colour then
DIRTY MIXING - the needle cartridge can absorb small amount of the ink.
Imagine the fountain pen
So if you quickly dip the needles into different colours - the mixing is happening INSIDE THE CARTRIDGE - on the go
Pretty interesting, isn't it

There’s a lot to learn about tattooing! It’s quite complex.

I love your dobermans! It’s always a challenge to create vibrant blacks like this that reflect light so well.

Laurene wrote: Wed Feb 19, 2025 7:13 pm There’s a lot to learn about tattooing! It’s quite complex.

I love your dobermans! It’s always a challenge to create vibrant blacks like this that reflect light so well.

This mostly why I do adore working with colours...
It's game changer, it's giving much more flexibility, than just black and white.
It's like the photography...
Depends what artist wants to achieve, sometimes black and white can support this effect, other time working with colours
Thank you

Here we go ~ another leg is done
I’m trying to enjoy it, even if I’ve have limited time to actually focus a little bit
I bet it shouldn’t have take too long to finish it
Thank you watching…

Great update, Artur.

I’m noticing how the brown/cinnamon colour of the paws is quite different from the patches on the chest, and that in both cases there is a gradient of colour. It must take quite a bit of layering to get this richness of colour.

Laurene wrote: Sat Mar 01, 2025 3:09 pm Great update, Artur.

I’m noticing how the brown/cinnamon colour of the paws is quite different from the patches on the chest, and that in both cases there is a gradient of colour. It must take quite a bit of layering to get this richness of colour.

To be honest... it's few adjusting passes to get the darks and lights done adequate to the reference photo...
No much of layers...
I'm enjoying to mix exact hue, depositing it on the canvas, then mixing some again to get the hue darker or brighter, and jobs done
Unfortunately I'm back on buses, so no time to carry on this painting for a while.
Thank you Laurene for keen interest