In oil painting, what colours do you use to make something look silver and gold.?

I'm trying to paint a silver vase and a golden challis for a still life painting. I've never attempted to do anything that looks like metal, and am having trouble getting it to look real.In oil painting, what colours do you use to make something look silver and gold.?
When painting metals, you have to consider the colors that the brightest highlights will reflect. For ';silver'; metals, such as silver, chrome, aluminum or pewter, shades of gray would be used. For ';gold';metals, such as brass, gold, bronze shades of yellow would be used. What makes an object appear shiny is having a bright reflected area next to a deep shadow. The contrast reads as reflection. When you do your metallic surface, consider showing some of the image that is being reflected.


This will create a heightened sense of the shiny nature of the object.In oil painting, what colours do you use to make something look silver and gold.?
To make an object look shiny, you should put your darkest and lightest shades almost on top of one another. Metal objects also reflect the colors around them, so try incorporating them into the midtones where you see them. Reflective surfaces are some of the hardest things to paint.





There's a really good section in Boris Vallejo's book, ';Fantasy Workshop'; about painting metal objects. It's useful even if you're not into fantasy-themed painting.
For silver, shades of gray plus white and black. Reflections too





For gold, yellow ochre, yellow, touches of burnt sienna, some white for high lights.





Feel the metal in your mind. The cool hardness, . If possible hold something silver in your hand and move it around. watch how it catches the light and reflects. Then paint you picture.
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Well, if you have that possibility, go to museum and look at paintings of Rembrandt, Vermeer, or Tizian, Raphael, Velazquez etc. Each one of them had a different approach how to do it. You should study the technology of painting of Renaissance and baroque, they painted it usually in 7 layers and the look of gold or silver was reached by contrast of layers of color. Silver was painted with black and white, but remember it was don in several layers, the first four made mostly in raw umber and yellow ocher. For gold I do not know exactly, but I would say they used green earth and on the top of it layer or two of yellow ocher and lemon yellow. The important thing is the proper contrast, do not forget it is illusion which has to deceive your eye. Try to find a book from Cennino Cennini from 15. century about the techniques of painting. It is very useful.


Good luck


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Let me post a link and then some considerations .


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When painting a reflective surface, namely metal, one doesn't think if is painting a spoon, a glass or whatever.


One is painting abstracts that together will form the object.


You will pay attention (this almost sounds like hypnose :-) ) to what you see and not what you think you see.


Squint your eyes to better separate the values (darks and lights). Remember that a colour on its own seems different than aside another.


With time you'll see your painting progress smoothly.


One last consideration : metal objects usually have well defined edges. If the edges are not well defined (don't need to mark them, of course) our brain will have trouble to read them as metal. There are exceptions, of course, but that's another story.


I hope to have been of some help.





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