Is your White turning Blue ? This Tip will help.

[@AirbrushAsylum]

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[@bimi03]

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[@hezronokuru6377]

Awesome lessons I really enjoying as well as learning

[@ShEiP23]

Always enjoy seeing your videos! You've been a tremendous resource in my personal airbrush journey. Cheers, mate!

[@AirbrushAsylum]

Thank you glad you found it helpful 👍🏻

[@scottyboy6269]

I've spent hundreds on Blair's virtual classes, so so good, the ship one is simple, there is a lot of stencil work, but if he had a class near me...I'd be going everyone at his classes ends up looking like they made some pro work

[@randomguy4u2watch6]

I never would have tought of trying this thank you for letting us know, great tip brother love your videos

[@CHUNKYNUGGET666]

This is awesome! The blue shift has been my nemesis in so many paintings.. I’ve made a more muted orange white mix that works similar but not as good! I’ve seen this happen in all of Gigers airbrush paintings and it’s always thrown my eye going from cold to warm.. I’m inspired to pick up the brush and Dare I say Giger would luv this!!

[@my1956effie]

Stumbled across your channel whilst researching for a model PT boat paint scheme. Fantastic channel really good content subbed, 👍

[@necroide]

Excellent tip! I always had that problem with white on top of black

[@AirbrushAsylum]

Yes it’s quite common glad it helped 👍🏻

[@royalecrafts6252]

This happens with normal acrylic as well, you know the liquitex tubes sort of brands, specially on top of black or when applied thinly

[@chrisnaggy5142]

Yep I remember reading an article in airbrush action by Dru Blair on this. Its a great tip. Thanks for putting it out there and reminding everyone. Remember white isn't always white and there is a tin of blue in white. I used to mix paint at the local Napa store. Keep up the great videos!

[@joerutsky2973]

I haven’t airbrushed for a while, but did it for about 15 years - mostly tshirts and vehicles. I remember reading this tip back then. Saw too many black and white portraits with the blue shift in the highlights.

[@angelwings8815]

Wow! Thank you for this advice!

[@kenbarton3136]

Beautifully demonstrated. Thanks

[@stoney268]

Yesssss, did you read my mind? lol Only mine already turned blue in the cup :)

[@AirbrushAsylum]

Lol glad it helped 👍🏻

[@lucideification]

been waiting for this vid..thanks sir!!!

[@AirbrushAsylum]

No probs at all….don’t thank me thank Dru Blair for the tip 👍🏻🙏🏻

[@ixamraxi]

Orange is opposite blue on the color wheel, this is why adding orange undoes blue shift; it works by muddying the excess blue to neutral/brown. I'm sure we all remember that all three primary's added together will get you brown, so if you're trying to kill a color, adding its complement will muddy it away. Most manufactured paints have a color bias, and white is often slightly biased towards blue, so adding orange kills the excess blue by turning it into brown. So, if you get a red/pink shift, adding a tiny green will kill it, and if you get a yellow shift, adding a tiny purple will kill it. (Vice Versa is also true). Be careful to add tiny amounts at a time, you want to kill the color shift, not shift the color towards the complement.

[@PetrikNZ]

Well said, was coming here to post the same thing.

[@ELPADREAIRBRUSH]

Holy crap your a genius

[@AirbrushAsylum]

😂 lol thank you 🙏🏻

[@Zigr72]

Hello! Thank you for the information it was very useful to know

[@t54760]

Excellent information and demonstration of the solution. Thank you. Why does the blue shift happen?

[@babel232]

Because of the way they mix and manufacture the white paints... besides the titanium oxide pigment which already reflects blue light waves more, there is a small amount of blue tint added during the process, which compounds the blue shift on Heavy blue tones such as greys blacks and of course blues, with transparent or semi transparent whites it's very very noticable, less so against orange or red tints which cancel blue light in the color spectrum. the more opaque the white the more it tends to blue shift when contrasted against red hues.. unless you get a mix that is a warmer slightly off white tone controlled towards the yellow/orange end of spectrum. Hope this is a satisfying simplified answer.

[@ELPADREAIRBRUSH]

Found it buddy about the blue shift !!

[@AirbrushAsylum]

Glad you found the vid and found it helpful 😉👍🏻

[@DisVietVetUSA]

WOW that is very interesting, wow orange that is really cool! Apologies for not following you for such a long time, but I got ill and was trying very hard to recover, but I am back again.......

[@kevinhawkins7635]

I'm interested in seeing how you display your finished aluminum panels

[@FozzyZ28]

As ever, a great video! 😁👍

[@AirbrushAsylum]

Thank you glad you enjoyed it 👍🏻

[@FoxiAndMolly]

in your example, instead of white over black, then transparent orange, and then white again.....could you go with only orange and then white where you want your highlights to be on your artwork? (one step less)

[@Joe-oq2zn]

thanks for this tip. Any hypothesis why this is happening?

[@kurogiza]

My guess: I reckon it's because most black paints have a blue tint to them, which gets affects the white, especially in the transparent overspray. The orange neutralises this blue tint, since mixing blue and orange will give you a truer gray.

[@AirbrushAsylum]

Dru would be the best person to ask …he is honestly like a scientist when it comes to colour , I was just amazed when he showed me this tip so hope it helped and you enjoyed the video 👍🏻

[@AirbrushAsylum]

I reckon you are pretty much on the money 👍🏻👍🏻

[@frostsebaot5280]

It's not the black paint that causes the blueshift in the white paint. It's the pigments in the white paint that reflects less red light than blue light. It's also possible to put a tiny amount of orange in the white paint to counter the blueshift effect.

[@PetrikNZ]

@@frostsebaot5280 Yes, Titanium white, the most common white, is known for this.

[@azarelthecreator7098]

This is the difficult way of doing it. You can just mix a white using 4 parts white to 1 part orange and not have blueshift in the paint to begin with. This is the path ive learned to take to avoid it.

[@AirbrushAsylum]

Yes this is also a fantastic way to do it especially without the need of working back over an area that has blue shift, the reason I showed this method is because it helps those who are painting normally and then detect blue shift , rather than always running with a orange / white mix to totally eliminate it …sometimes in colder/darker artworks I think blue shift is a positive 👍🏻👍🏻

[@kenrosloniec9546]

How would that work on canvas. Would that pencil work on canvas for removing paint. Thanks Ken

[@AirbrushAsylum]

Yes you can use it on canvas just be mindful if you are working on a surface like canvas which is not smooth, I would therefore recommend apply gesso to smooth your canvas and then it should be fine. It won’t be as effective as the synthetic paper but I have used the pencils on Aluminium composite panels and it works great 👍🏻

[@lucadesantis9161]

hi I wanted to know what card you are using ... thanks

[@AirbrushAsylum]

The paper is Blair Synthetic Paper available from schoolofrealism.com hope that helps 👍🏻

[@lexzbuddy]

It's voodoo, very interesting, thanks.

[@PetrikNZ]

Basic colour theory actually.

[@johnduffy1114]

That’s great using the eraser, if your using Dru’s paper. But what do you use if you paint on canvas?

[@scottyboy6269]

Xacto blade, ammonia based cleaner makes the illustration paint very very easy to remove

[@ThePsychoNad]

What about a drop of red in the white?

[@ThePsychoNad]

Or better ye, a drop of trans orange?

[@AirbrushAsylum]

I have given this a go but either way you would need to re highlight your white so you don’t have the orange tinge to it (even though it would be slight) that said definitely feel free to experiment and let me know if you find a better way to do it , always happy to hear how you guys go 👍🏻👍🏻

[@FreedomAboveAll]

Orange is on another side of color wheel. Great idea!!

[@ianhadden859]

Hey Carsten can you use any transparent colour to remove the blue shift??? Thanx in advance

[@ixamraxi]

You add whatever color is opposite on the color wheel for whatever shift you get, aka you add its complement. If you're getting blue shift, you add orange. If you get red/pink shift, you would add green, if you get a yellow shift, you would add purple, etc etc. Add just enough to muddy the shifted color down to neutral/brown, too much and you end up shifting it towards the complement.

[@andregrafia1914]

good

[@AirbrushAsylum]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@Pavelek88]

So you have to put orange in between layers of white when blueshift occurs, or you can start the highlight with it? Just wondering, I'll test it myself later :D

[@danomite359]

Why orange? Because orange is the color opposite blue on the color wheel. Spraying white with a little orange over the black background would work up to a point, Then as you spray heavier it will have an orange tint.

[@kylarstern7627]

That's awsome, but why is it Happening?!!

[@Zenobiaification]

But why does it become blue?

[@AirbrushAsylum]

The white shifts to a blue hue as it is absorbing some of the blue from the black, the orange will neutralize this 👍🏻

[@Zenobiaification]

Pigments are amazing. I’m learning so much from your channel.

[@ianmcpherson2301]

All blacks contain blue. That is the cause of the blue shift. Using an opposing color will always neutralise that color.

[@babel232]

Many whites also contain a blue tint in them for vibrancy. like in nature most of what we perceive as white light contains some of the blue spectrum. the red and yellow light filter down much of the blue.

[@totallynotabot151]

That's a nice workaround, but doesn't explain why it's happening.

[@paulkelley7445]

Sc

[@byronbuchanan3066]

Dry Blair did not come up with this concept...... the great masters of the past such as Rembrandt did.

[@babel232]

True, But he didn't say Dru Blair invented it, he gave Him credit for sharing it with him. If someone teaches you Chocolate Cake is delicious, You may thank them for introducing you to chocolate cake, doesn't mean You're saying that person invented Chocolate Cake. I could Say I discovered that fire is hot when I was 2 years old... doesn't mean I was first to discover it or in anyway claiming to have invented fire, just that it's when it became known to me. So relax champ and eat a snickers bar.