Why Your Acrylic Paint Colors Look Different Than the Instructor's

Have you ever painted along with a video, or at a virtual class, and you use the same color as the instructor, but the color looks different? Well, part of it could be that the colors got changed up a bit from their camera to your monitor. (It's like a visual game of "telephone".)

But it's also very possible that you were using a different brand of paint than the instructor. What one brand calls Burnt Sienna, another calls Red Ochre. In one brand, Brilliant Blue is a dark blue, in another it's a light blue. It can be frustrating! And even if the colors look the same right out of the tube, they can be very different once you add white to them. Or, they can look different right out of the tube, but the same when you add white. It all depends on the pigments the paint maker used, and what their idea of a particular color is.

In today's Art Snack video, I explore three different brands of Burnt Sienna, and a Red Ochre for good measure.

Here are the paints I used in the video (affiliate links ahead!):
Grumbacher Academy Burnt Sienna: https://amzn.to/3l3bBQ9
Windsor and newton Galeria Burnt Sienna: https://amzn.to/3l3bBQ9
Liquitex Basics Burnt Sienna: https://amzn.to/3ifYn0J
Artist's Loft Red Ochre: https://amzn.to/3ifYn0J