blending 2 different colors

[thelawl]

i just began painting yesterday and want to start on my wood elfs. i want an autumn theme, yet i don't know how to blend colors very well. for the glade guard caps i want it to start red and change to orange then yellow like an autumn leaf. i don't know how to do this, but from what i can tell i need to wet blend, but all the videos on wet blending only include 1 color (from light to dark or vise versa). any tips on blending 2 colors?

[Nymie_the_Pooh]

It might be easiest to start with the median colour, in this case orange over the whole area. Then lay in the areas where you want the red and yellow to be the strongest. Then where the red and orange meet do a wet blend on top of the work you already did using a stripe of paint for each colour and blending those stripes together and repeat for the yellow and orange sections.

One benefit for the colours you selected is that orange is made up of both orange and yellow (unless mixing lights, but that's a completely unrelated topic). As an alternative to the above you can wet blend straight from red to yellow. If the orange sections aren't orange enough then you can wash in or blend some orange into the midtones.

[Wintermute]

I've moved this thread to M,P&T General

Wintermute

[Wicksy]

Two ways: either start with a yellow base, then layer on orange then layer on red. Or start with red and work to yellow. How are your blending? Feathering? wet blending? layering? Layering or feathering would be the easiest method, though layering with a few intermediate colour mixes will give you a lovely smooth blend. Keep your paintings thin and work in thin layers and you should be fine.