Creating gradients
With our Smart Color Chart stencils
Creating and managing color gradients is a simple and effective way to build a clear and versatile color palette. Whether you're working with a gradient of eight distinct tones or exploring a nine-level scale of achromatic brightness, these tonal ranges help maintain harmony and balance within your painting. By saving these gradients in a color chart, they remain easily accessible, visually organized and efficiently reusable across various artworks.
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Discover how to use our stencils to build color gradients with ease:
Create a gradient of 8 tones, or 9 levels of achromatic brightness, using Stencil No. 1.
1. Position the stencil on the palette
2. Tonal range from cerulean blue to titanium white. Place the color you wish to blend on your palette
3. Fill the openings of the blue slot with blue paint
4. If necessary, remove any excess paint using your palette knife.
5. Fill the openings of the white slot with white paint
6. The openings are now filled with blue and white
7. Carefully remove the stencil to avoid disturbing the amounts of paint placed in each opening
8. Blend the colors using a palette knife (not with a brush)
9. Place stencil no. 3 on your paper support to apply a sample of the resulting color and gradually build your personalized color chart
10. A gradation of cerulean blue and titanium white, along with achromatic degrees of titanium white and ivory black
