I just got some winton ivory black. I don't mind mixing either BUT.......do you guys think mountain mix is worth it?

    Toadi I imagine not, unless you're in a hurry. I actually know a BRI instructor who scrapes all the dark colors off his palette at the end of the day, mixes them well, then saves it for a mountain color. Seems like it should work, but he doesn't take enough care to keep phthalo green out of the mix.

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      I do the same thing Ian Adkins. I take my left over dark colors, scrape them off and put into a piece of cellophane and stick in the freezer. When I need a mountain color I just pull out the frozen left overs. I'm not a professional painter so it works fine for me.

        Toadi, I really like the mountain mix. I’ve switched to Gamblin paint due to the horrible excess oil I was experiencing with the Ross paints but still use mountain mix quite often.

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        I've got mountain mix but don't use it on its own as I don't really like the colour so I end up adding other colours to change it up or down. I don't see the point in buying it specifically just to change it. Might as well mix up a colour I like from the outset. My favourite mountain I did was using alizarin crimson (despite red being a foreground colour) with tiny bits of darker colours randomly mixed in, just whatever happened to be on the palette and I got a result I liked. I don't see the attraction to using blue all the time for mountains anyway, other than to help push them back into the painting, but other colours can do that too. I think bob created the mountain mix as a guide, to help beginners so they didn't have to struggle mixing. What I find odd is the colour he mixes in his tutorials for his mountains always seems to be a lot different to the mountain mix he created for the purpose.

          thanks bunches everyone!!!

            cmcox120 That’s good to hear. During the time period two years ago when I purchased mine almost every color had excess oil. Being new to painting I didn’t know any different other than noticing Bob never had excess oil running off his palette 😂. I watched other artists paint with Gamblin which has little to no excess oil and I’ve been happy with it.

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              cmcox120 I have been using the BR paints since I started with oils a couple months ago. Occasionally you'll get a tube (I use the large tubes since I go through it so quick) that has excess oil. What I do is just squeeze gently and dump that excess onto a paper towel and disgard. But the vast majority of the paint comes nice a firm. Just like Bob would like it :-)

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