[Lunatique]

It's actually quite easy to achieve the illusion of gold.

Use ochre toned yellows, not the saturated ones.

Gold is reflective, so you'll get stronger highlights than your average objects/surfaces.

Hope that helps. If not, let me know and I'll whip up a tutorial.

[dontfallin]

a gold tutorial would be awesome

[dontfallin]

I was wondering if anyone knew of a tutorial for colouring gold or even just a good example of it?

[Lunatique]

I'm in the middle of trying to finish a few paintings, so I'm not going to do a detailed step by step tut, but I whipped up this example to show you what I meant.



Notice how the color for the gold is more or less a desaturated yellow color(it COULD be more saturated depending on the setting, lighting..etc). Also, look at how it is more reflective than the other surface it's sitting on. I basically just painted a flat ochre strip, then dodge and burned it. After that, I desaturated it a bit, and that's it. Of course, you don't have to use dodge and burn, but actually paint in the colors and then blend them. I used D&B because it was quicker.

It doesn't what kind of gold you are tying to paint(jewlery, gold leaf, architecture..etc), if you remember these points, you should do fine. But of course, nothing beats looking at real gold and studying how light reflects off of it. I suggest browsing some pictures with gold in them.

[ February 14, 2002: Message edited by: Lunatique ]

[dontfallin]

thanks for your help

[Lunatique]

Here's an example of the technique I described actually applied to a painting I'm working on:



It's not finished yet, but the gold part is. I used the exact same technique to paint the gold on her dress as I did for that gold stripe on the ball thingie.]]

[dontfallin]

It looks great, I want use gold on a disk -sort of like a coin, your little tutorial is really gonna help out