If I was to do an oil painting of a deer hunter, how would I approximate the fluorescent orange?

When people do these paintings, do they just use cadmium orange, even though most actual hunting clothes are fluourescent orange? Or what?





I'm still a beginner - only done 20 paintings or so. Thank you very much!If I was to do an oil painting of a deer hunter, how would I approximate the fluorescent orange?
An artist will use his or her palette and color theory to approximate almost anything that can be painted. . . so your orange will work just fine. What you need to do is make most of your painting more neutral, toned-down colors, and the orange will pop as if it is fluorescent. By placing this bright, intense color next to muted colors you will use the properties of visual contrast and the intensifying effect of neutrals to get your effect!





Examples: http://www.pheasantduckhunting.com/pheas鈥?/a>


http://www.biggamehunt.net/graphics/phot鈥?/a>


http://risleyranch.blogs.com/photos/unca鈥?/a>





Never try to use gimmicks to create illusion. .. it looks like glitter and a greeting card . . . kinda amateurish. Instead, learn how to create the illusion by learning how your colors work with and against one another. And you will soon learn the value of neutrals and how to use them.If I was to do an oil painting of a deer hunter, how would I approximate the fluorescent orange?
The trick is not to *match* the color to the real object, but the *effect* of the color in contrast with surrounding colors. It's all relative.





Hm. That's not a very clear explanation. . .





Think of how you'd paint the sun. None of the paints in your palette can go brighter than white, so if you were to paint a big spot on the canvas and say, ';That's the Sun, the brightest object on the whole canvas!'; then all the other objects in the painting would have to obey that rule and be darker relative to the white or whatever color you'd picked out for the Sun.





So, for a fluorescent orange, you'd pick out a color which would stand in for the brightest area on the hunter's suit, and then make sure every other color around it is much darker to create the appropriate illusion.





Working from a photograph is helpful for solving these kinds of color puzzles. --A printed image is limited to a palette just the same as you are, none of the colors available to the printer are fluorescent orange. So just look closely at what colors were put down by the printing process to create the illusion of a hunter's reflective clothing.





I hope that's helpful to you.





Enjoy your project!
You can try using model paint.
I will mix it with white. Not on the palette but as strikes on the orange.