Pick any color and get a recipe from five acrylic tubes, using Mark Carder's value-first method. Then use the coach to correct your actual mix one dab at a time.
Value views hide color so you can judge lights and darks first. Taps still sample the real color.
Tell the coach what your mix looks like right now. It checks value first, then asks the six questions, and suggests the next dab with a preview.
Photograph a dab of your mix on a knife or card held right next to your subject, then tap the photo to sample both.
Lasso one area on your photo, such as the face, and get the 5 to 10 colors you need to mix for it. Each lasso becomes its own range. Keep up to 5.
Six colors, mixed from your five tubes. Opposites sit across from each other. The dots show your target and your current mix; the arrow is the direction to push.
Example palette. Upload a photo above to plan your own painting.
| Group (light to dark) | Recipe for one group | Match |
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Ask about your reference photo, your mix or your color ranges. Claude reads the details below, and the photo if you include it, then answers using the value-first method and your tubes.
Mark Carder, Draw Mix Paint. The value-first workflow, the six questions and the five-color palette in this app come from this video. The power-color tip starts around 11:24.
Each round, your mix is off from the target in one way. Name it, the way you would at the easel.
Brands differ, and acrylic and oil tubes are kept separately. Paint a thin swatch of each tube, photograph it, and set the colors here so recipes match your paint. Saved in this browser.