Chromatic black by Gamblin , it’s a transparent so doesn’t kill color

The person above is correct, although not all colors can be so easily knocked down in value with chromatic black. Because the titanium white can chalk up your colors very quickly, but is still highly useful. Since you seem to like to mix your blacks, a chromatic black can be mixed with a *pthalo green* and *quinacridone red* in roughly equal parts. Hope this helps you out.

Thank you for your comment , although I did not create the title, I am interested to know if you can point me to a book or video in which it is taught to mix a value puddle with a transparent black , nailing the value first and than add the color into th value. I have never seen or read such a method. Would love to know of a source. Many thanks. I have reviewed almost 100 videos , read over 100 art instruction books , attended over 30 workshops and seen 100 or more demos and never seen this process, so I am just curious . Many thanks. The video is also about 5 times longer than this clip .

@@bdartman I have never seen it taught with transparent black, but the Frank J Reilly School of Art taught the technique using Ivory Black mixed with Titanium White to create a nine value grey scale which was then used to vary the chroma once the value had been determined. Reilly's method is covered in detail in Frank Faragasso's book The Student's Guide to Painting.

@@nigelgilbert-green3247 thanks Nigel, always great to know of things I haven’t seen, unfamiliar with the book and the artist / teacher Did he let the grays dry when doing a tonal and did he mix the colors into the gray puddles ? I had never used black because it really can dilute color , the chromatic black is transparent and much easier on the color , thanks again

@@bdartman No Bill, he would mix the color to the desired value and then alter the chroma with the similarly valued mixed grey. Much the same as I saw you doing in your demo with Eric Rhoads, "Mixing Perfect Color". Reilly was primarily a portrait painter, but obviously applies to landscapes as per your demo. Thanks for your input, it's been very enlightening.