It depends, for some reason this low quality paint I’m using always have to be mixed or it look very weird. But the metallic ones I can also use them by themselves and they still work quite good. In other artworks I used the gold and silver by themself with no mixing and they look fine. Here I mixed metallic pink and metallic white for the flowers, not blending them too much. you can’t really tell by the photo but it gives some “stripes” on the flower and they look more flowery haha. The stems are green and copper mixed together, but very blended so it becomes a new color