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So I honestly haven't paid much attention to the new paint releases as I've got a mega paint set sitting right next to me, but the two colours I need are ironically not colours (if your an art snob), black and White. So I was looking through the new ranges and saw they have black and White as base colours, and also as layers. That struck me as stupid. If you get great coverage with the base paints due to higher pigment count, why buy the layers of black and White? Is there any benefit at all?

To blend layers. As the base colours will have a higher pigment and will not blend very well.

Use the base to get a solid colour, then use the layer paints to build up the layers and achieve a good transition from darker to lighter shades (or vice versa).

*art snob mode on* Technically black is the presence of all colors. *art snob mode off*

That's interesting. The foundation white, I might buy if that's the case.

Black is the absence of light. White is the combination of all colors.

ScootyPuffJunior wrote:Black is the absence of light. White is the combination of all colors.

You are thinking in Spectrum Light. Paint is the oppisite.

ScootyPuffJunior wrote:Black is the absence of light. White is the combination of all colors.

Again, to risk sounding like an art snob:

Black is the absence of light, true. White light is the presence of all the colors of light. Objects and substances (such as, say, paint) reflect certain colors from light and absorbs the others: for example green paint absorbs all colors except green, so your eyes see green paint as green. This is the reason why wearing black makes your body hotter (in a literal way) and wearing white makes your body cooler (again, in a literal way) since black absorbs all the color of light, and white bounces all of them off.

When dealing with material object colors, you use the subtractive color model. When dealing with light, you use the additive color model. It's the difference why CMYK mode is used for images to be printed and RGB is used for images to be displayed on web.

To really understand colour theory you show read the book called
Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green.

Apparently the base white isn't actually white but super light grey, therefore I would assume the layer is a true white. I imagine it's the other way round the black. The base being true black and the layer being off black.