How to mix oil paint colors for dried swamp grass and white tailed deer fur?

I have some trouble with mixing oil paints to get dried swamp grass (that warm yellowy-beigey color) and white tailed deer fur, summer and winter coats. Titanium white makes the dried swamp grass too cold looking, but I need to make the highlights quite light. The deer coats, I just keep messing up, no idea what to do there.





Any help is appreciated! Thanks!!How to mix oil paint colors for dried swamp grass and white tailed deer fur?
Rembrandt makes a color called Yellow Ochre Light.


Give it a shot, I bet it's exactly what you're looking for.





If you don't want to buy the color, you're just going to have to learn to control your mixtures better.


If the Yellow Ochre + White is still too cool, try adding a dab of Cadmium Orange.


Or just Cadmium Orange and White.





The key to keep in mind is that white is a COOL color.


Because it is devoid of all saturation, it will dull and cool any color it interacts with.


For this reason, you can not add it to yellow expecting to make a brighter yellow.


Lighter, yes... Brighter, no.


You need to substitute more yellows (like lemon yellow) or learn to surround the white with warm colors so that it takes on their appearance.


Once you start to apply white in a thin manner, it looks very blue.


In fact, Old Masters used to use this technique (called scumbling) to create the illusion of blue when none was available.





Lastly,


all color is relative.


If your beige color is looking too cool, it could be because your background is just too warm.How to mix oil paint colors for dried swamp grass and white tailed deer fur?
Try burnt sienna or burnt umber mix with raw sienna for the fur. Remember the coats are not uniform in color. Darker on the back and getting lighter on the sides to white on the belly.


For the grass, start with yellow ocher and white to get the lightest color and stronger ocher for the shaded parts. Use some burnt umber for darker shade.