If a brighter hue is desired, apply an unmixed pure yellow over it. The yellow of the bird, for example, seems to be a desaturated or earthy yellow, or a yellow ochre. Use pure, unmixed paints, and apply them undiluted on top of the existing colours. The saturation of the current hues may have suffered from dilution or mixing with other hues. It's easiest to retouch or repaint (parts of) the paintings. The visual change this inflicts notwithstanding, there are a few remedies to make the colours in the paintings brighter (assuming no coat has been applied afterwards, since that potentially influences the solutions and makes them dependent on the nature of the coating if this is the case, let me know, and I can update my answer): Retouch I think it's hard to judge the real difference between the paintings your nephew made and the example of the goal he has in mind: the first are taken in what seems a yellowish light, while the second is colour corrected (at least, it seems to have a proper white balance set) and taken in bright light.Īssuming both the eyes of the giraffe and the fur on the hat of the bird are white in reality, this reproduction comes closer to what the artworks look like:
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