OK, these are the choice colours i'm usin' on this figure. They're from Vallejo, and are Emerald and Violet Red.
After applyin' the Emerald colour, I kind of hit a brick wall when it came down to mixin' a highlight for this shade. I never had any Sap Green oil paint! So in the end I mixed Yellow Naples Hue in with Cobalt Blue Hue, and came up with a suitable shade. I found out that if I mixed a lot of Yellow Naples into the Cobalt Blue you only end up gettin' a lighter shade of blue and not a green colour you'd expect. Yellow Naples seems to have a lot more white in it than Yellow, now I know! Its strange, jus' by mixin' a little of the Yellow Naples oil paint I got the shade of green I was after. In the end the brick wall was only a fence, and allowed me to progress.
The highlight for the Violet Red consisted of mixin' Yellow Naples Hue (again), in with Dioxazine Purple.
Yellow Naples Hue is the key colour for mixin' highlight shades!
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