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August 5, 2007 at 9:23 pm #986602
Somewhere I read something about Daniel Smith’s Buff Titanium being cool to use; so I bought it.
So far, to me; it just looks like whitish beige sludge.Any suggestions? I’ve tried to combine it with other colors and I just don’t see the point, as it adds nothing except lighter opacity.
thanks
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August 6, 2007 at 6:08 am #1087978Mimi,
I bought it too and so far haven’t found it to be very useful either. I did use it on a building painting to look like stucco, but I am chalking this up as a lesson learned. :rolleyes:Sylvia
August 6, 2007 at 8:24 am #1087980A few suggestions culled from the DS site:
— Spatter or drop a brushload of Buff Titanium into a moist wash and enjoy the pigment displacement.
— Pre-mix Buff Titanium with Quinacridone Rose or Perinone Orange for subtle hues and matte surfaces ideal for the velvety petals of your favorite flowers.
— Mix with Indigo or Van Dyke Brown to create slate-colored shadows and soft feathers.
— Glaze a dried landscape with a misty, atmospheric mood.And from elsewhere:
— “a good pigment to lighten and desaturate greens or blues, for example, to render gray desert foliage” (http://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/waterw.html)
— “My usual recipe for skin tones starts with shading in Dark Umber, followed by purple, blue or red accents, depending on the mood and color scheme of the piece. Next I add a layer of Burnt Umber and top it off with a very watered down layer of Buff Titanium.” (http://www.magicalomaha.com/Amy%20Brown%20Bio.htm)
— “Buff titanium is very nice color if you like to flow opaques into your washes. . . . The Buff Titaniun is a bit like naples yellow but less yellow, more nuetral.” (http://forums.studioproducts.com/archive/index.php/t-23905.html)Just some ideas.
Jan
August 6, 2007 at 9:55 am #1087993I “enjoyed” this experience in acrylics so didn’t buy it in watercolor. Eventually I used it as a base-in, to be covered later with Titanium.
August 6, 2007 at 10:55 am #1087985I wouldn’t buy it in watercolour because of its opacity.
I like it in acrylic though – I paint the edges of my seascape canvasses with it mixed with some white and it’s a perfect neutral colour for them (and means they’ll match even if done several years apart), it’s also a perfect colour for where dried sand has a cool tone (mixed or not with white) against the warmer peachier or whatever colour of the damp sand. I like it in mixing in acrylics as well.
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August 6, 2007 at 11:01 am #1087987Jan thanks for the tips I got in a trio and was like mimi “unimpressed” After reading your tips I think I may have a use for it/ Living in Texas allot of landscapes have that grayed foliage which has been a bugger to get. Now I may have a tool.. Whoot time to play…
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GIMP ArticleAugust 6, 2007 at 11:03 am #1087988oh thank you thank you!
Jan; I was not able to find that info on the DS website, that’s very helpful;
Sylvia; Stucco, exactly what i was looking for!
Fookie, thanks
Vivien, that’s the sort of thing I was asking about; thanks![FONT=Georgia] Mimi - My art blog
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August 6, 2007 at 1:46 pm #1087982Is it not just an off white white?
Like in body color?August 6, 2007 at 2:10 pm #1087986colours are so subjective – one persons luscious phalo blue is another persons never touch that vile colour pthalo blue!
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August 6, 2007 at 4:06 pm #1087981Arnold Lowrey uses it extensively… in HIS paintings, it makes GORGEOUS mist!!!
Now… I didn’t have it, but did have some white gouauche… I added a little naples yellow to my white gouauche, thinned the mixture right out and then used it to make mist. I was REALLY happy with the result!!!
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August 7, 2007 at 2:15 pm #1087989i tried dropping buff titanium into some different colored washes. Ho hum
i mixed it with some colors again and got nothing spectacular; BUTi mixed it with Quin Rose and got a fantastic pink!! thanks for that tip.
so there IS something i can do with it that i like. thanks again everyone![FONT=Georgia] Mimi - My art blog
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August 7, 2007 at 5:46 pm #1087991“Buff Titanium” isn’t always the same across manufacturers. I’ve never tried the Daniel Smith Buff Titanium, but I know from acrylics that they can be a mixture of any number of pigments, usually Titanium White PW6, Yellow Oxide PY42, and Synthesized Earth PBr7. There’s also a single-pigment for unbleached Titanium, PW6.4 if I recall correctly.
August 7, 2007 at 9:13 pm #1087979I have a tube of Daniel Smith’s Buff Titanium here and says on the side:
Pigment: Buff Titanium White PW6:1 CL#77891:1
So it seems it isn’t a mixture of colors as is the acrylic one you cite above.
Sylvia
August 13, 2007 at 12:06 am #1087992Thanks for clarifying.
August 14, 2007 at 1:28 am #1087984I suspect this is the same as Cheap Joes “coastal fog” – one of his American Journey watercolours.
I use it occasionally with a bristle brush painting it i to existng paint
Here are some examples
Arnold
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