How to make a gold color?

Church domes, ancient coins, jewelry - yes, there is little that can appear in the painting of a novice artist. All this should look like it's made of pure gold. And if you decided to insert a mirror, for example, in the "golden" frame? Or lay out the contours of stained glass - they do not have to be outwardly different from those that are cast from this precious metal. How to make a gold color? This we now discuss.

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Painting, painting, computer programs

Gold paints may be necessary for the painter, and the master of arts and crafts, and for those who prefer to draw on the computer. Ways to get the appropriate color will be different, and this is a very simple explanation.

Painting

The colors on the picturesque canvases are to some extent conditional. The number of colors in the box is limited, shades can be obtained a great many. A true master of his work takes into account not only the colors themselves, but their combinations, and how they are perceived by the viewer.

Gold paint is in some sets of watercolors, as well as silver. Some artists use them. But in most cases, in the pictures you can see "gold" items, which are painted with colors that do not contain any additional metallic inclusions.

Thread and molding

But the situation with the master of arts and crafts is quite different. If he needs to make a gold color on the surface, he gilds it - with the help of paints, in which special substances are added. The product and the texture is similar to metal.

Important! Most often these paints the master does by his own hands.

Photoshop and the rest

A gold color is also needed for the prepress. For example, a gold font is often used:

• in congratulatory addresses;
• in diplomas of honor;
• on business cards;
• for book design.

Of course, the designer at hand does not have any brushes, or boxes of paints. The desired color is obtained using special functions, which are equipped, for example, Photoshop. And the principle of obtaining the right shade will be very different from that followed by painters or applied artists.

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Color in the picture

To draw any picture, the artist needs only a few colors, but in two different scales:

• achromatic;
• is chromatic.

The achromatic colors include:

• black;
• white.

Important! Mixing these two colors in different proportions, you will get all the shades of gray that only in the world.

As for the chromatic scale, you need only three colors:

• yellow;
• red;
• blue.

Mixing paint

Try to take three jars of gouache and get all the other colors that we see in the spectrum:

• red and yellow color give orange;
• the result of the mixing of yellow and blue will turn green;
• connecting red and blue, you will get purple.

Important! In the boxes with colors you can see "purple K" or "purple C", this means that in one case the red pigment predominates, in the other case blue.

Adding whitewash

Scenic paints can be:

1. transparent;
2. is opaque.

The most popular kind of transparent paints is watercolor. Through each new layer, all the previous ones are looked through, so you can get, say, pink or blue only in one way - you can dilute the water with red paint or blue.

Opaque paints - oil and gouache. They can be applied with a continuous layer, so that no canvas or paper can be seen, nor previous layers. Gouache, of course, also bred with water, like watercolor. But here light tones are obtained in a completely different way. Add white to the palette. The more white, the lighter the tone.

Gold paint on the painting

Gold color is also obtained by mixing paints. It is close to yellow, but not quite. Orange, too, can not be called. However, it is obtained by mixing exactly yellow and red. True, red is not suitable for everyone, but only royal or red-brown. And you need it quite a bit, just a few drops on a standard jar of gouache.

So, how to make a gold color from gouache:

1. If the gouache has dried, dilute it with water and stir to the consistency of thick sour cream.
2. Add a little carmine to the jar with yellow strontium and mix to obtain a homogeneous mass, without fractions.

We do the same with oil, but with watercolors the situation is more interesting. Of course, you can mix the colors on the palette, but nothing prevents you from doing it in the picture itself to make the gold color:

1. Apply a layer of bright yellow watercolor to the desired area.
2. Drop a couple of drops of red and mash, depending on the shape of the item being displayed. For example, on the domes on one side the color will be lighter than on the other - depending on where the light falls).

How to make a gold color from gouache?

Sometimes gouache has to be used not only to create paintings, but also to cover some other objects of decor. For example, made of plasticine and primed with a water-based bas-relief.

The traditional pictorial method here is of little use. You need:

• yellow gouache;
• bronze powder.

Technology on which you can make a gold color, is available to anyone:

1. Dilute the gouache to the desired consistency.
2. Add bronze to it.
3. Cover the desired terrain.
4. Top all your work with varnish.

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Gold items

And what if you need to cover with gold paint jewelry, figurine or furniture? By mixing red and yellow here you will not get rid, it is necessary to make a gold paint.

For this you will need:

• bronze or gold powder;
• nitrile or oily:
• glass jar;
• wooden stick.

Gold powder can be bought in shops selling goods for artists. Of course, she will get the most natural color. But it has one significant drawback - it is quite expensive. Bronze will cost a lot cheaper, and you can buy it at a construction store. By color, they almost do not differ.

Important! For fine jewelry, gold powder is more suitable, for larger objects you can use bronze.

Methods of coloring

You can use bronze or gold powder in two ways:

• dilute in a varnish;
• paint the product by dust.

Make the dye

To make the gold paint, in principle, any lacquer, but most often use oil or nitro. There is not much difference in price, but the oil dries much more slowly.

To use this tool:

1. Pour the lacquer into the glass jar.
2. Slowly pour bronze powder there, constantly mixing.
3. Stir the composition to make it homogeneous, without accumulation of powder, and thick enough( preferably - to avoid colorless gaps between the grains of bronze).
4. Paint the product with a brush or a cotton swab( the first way is better).
5. Allow things to dry.
6. Correct the coating so that the layer is smooth everywhere.

Important! The advantage of this method is that the product does not require additional processing after it has been gilded.

Spraying method

In this case, the layer of powder is applied over the varnish:

1. Put the powder in a jar of this volume to fit the product.
2. Cover a thing with oil or nitrocellulose.
3. Put it in a jar of powder.

Important! The main disadvantage of this method is that after the treatment the product fades quite a long time. To prevent this from happening, it is covered with another layer of varnish. In this case, if the first layer was oily, then top of the powder should be applied with nitro-lacquer( and vice versa).

A little bit about

surfaces Gold paint based on oil varnish can be used to cover any surfaces:

• wood;
• metal;
• plastic.

With regard to nitrolac, it is certainly suitable for metal and wood products, but for plastic - not always. If you need a gilded plastic hoop to dry quickly, try first to apply a few drops of nitro-lacquer to a small place and see if it starts dissolving plastic or not.

Important! Silver paint is obtained in exactly the same way, only powder is needed not bronze, but aluminum.

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We sit down at the computer

And what if I need to make a postcard and send it by e-mail? Nothing supernatural. Such opportunities your technology has, if only it stands Adobe Photoshop

In this program you can get a gold color:

• for the image;
• for text.

It's strange, but in order to get any shade, a computer needs only three colors - just like an artist painting paints. True, the color set is somewhat different. It includes:

• red;
• green;
• blue.

The same process of obtaining the right shades consists in changing the intensity and relative positioning in the structure of a picture. The golden color in this scheme is by no means a curiosity.

Convert lead into gold

To feel like an alchemist, find any picture where there is something leaden-gray. For example, a car. Open the image in Photoshop.

Important! For experiments, the GIF format is most suitable.

It's best to take a drawing where the background layer is transparent. In this case, the graphic editor can easily determine the contours of the main image. Why is this necessary? Then, not to mess around with the background, but to work only with the image.

Curves

The tool that allows you to turn lead into gold is called Curves or Curves. You can find it in the upper menu, in the "Image" tab( "Adjustments").

Important! When you open the tab, a panel appears in front of you, at the top of which there is a window. By default, there is RGB, but you can also set the names of the primary colors.

Next:

1. Darken the image, drawing the curve a little back - the result you'll see in the picture.
2. Move in turn the curves of red, green and blue.
3. Curve of red - take back, that is to the top line.
4. Curves of blue and green - on the contrary, lead to the bottom line.
5. Try different positions of the curves.

Important! Having received a color close to the desired one, try experimenting with the effects - you will find the corresponding functions in the "Filters" tab.

Gold text

Open the image in Photoshop and apply text to it( for this, find the picture with the letter T on the toolbar).It will be in alphabetic format, but you need a graphic:

1. Select the Rectangular Marquee Tool( rectangular area).
2. Right click on the text.
3. Select Rasterize Layer.
4. And then - process the drawing in the same way as in the previous case.

Important! Before you rasterize the text, carefully check it - after such processing errors can not be fixed.

From this article you learned how to make a gold color. Now you can continue to create using the necessary colors, regardless of whether you decided to make a decorative object, an architectural element, a computer image or a real artistic masterpiece on canvas. Good luck!