Matching Paint to Photos

[patindaytona]

When you match paint on a knife up against a photo...it's hard! These are two different surfaces. The glossy paper and the other is paint. I know you just get it pretty close and that will take time to get used to.

[thegrindre]

Try squinting to make things blurry... And use indirect lighting...

[patindaytona]

Yes, I do that too. Still can throw you off though, the differences of the mediums.

[nolan]

I always close one eye when checking my colours. Also make sure the paint or the reference photo are not reflecting (shiny) as that will give a wrong "reading"

[patindaytona]

I'll try one eye closed Nolan. I got out my colors again from the fridge since I'm not doing anything today...might as well work on mixing. I matched the colors much closer now in the photo. Didn't think I could, but I can see it is. I might be onto something with this....pre-mix my color one day in advance so to have less to think about.
Nolan, did you use that dark Orange area of the petal to find your base color because it was one of the "bookends"(darkest part of painting/lightest part)? What I'm asking is was their some careful decisiveness beforehand on choosing this particular area?