Vanessa - I hear you! and I did just that for several years, but, here’s the thing - the more expensive paints, especially the ones with pure pigment, tend to be easier to mix and obtain colors that are not ‘muddy’ and more often, accurate results when working from color recipes and the advice of pro’s and teachers. This is because cheaper paints contain pigments that are mixtures of color and so, when you mix them to make certain colors, they tend to be rather unpredictable in their results…for example, I used to have tons of trouble with the Galleria cad red hue, because I would mix it using a color recipe and my result would be totally different from what it was supposed to be! I am self taught, but the best advice I have ever found on this is from Will Kemp (Will Kemp Art School, look it up online if you are interested…full of great FREE advice!!) He advises, buy the best paint you can afford…so, yes, buy Galleria, if you wish, buy artists loft, but, if you find yourself very frustrated with color mixing - try a few tubes of something more expensive and see if that helps! (Golden paints, using a coupon, are really not too expensive, from Michaels and AC Moore…just buy only when you have a coupon and build up a small collection)
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