Achieving earthly colour for your palette

Why do we include pastel and earth colours in our discussion of neutral colour? It is because earth tone is a warm, neutralized colour . But do not get confused with milky colour.

Milky colour arise when you add white to make a passage turn lighter and the resultant colour appears chalky. It is not the same as neutral colour! A muddy colour tone appears when a neutral mixture has lost its identity and it often arised because of the use of too much elements in the colour mixture.

So when trying to achieve rich, earthly and neutral colour, try not to use brown from the tube. Achieve an earthly colour by using more colour mixture than simply adding more brown.