Make blue paint gray. How to get orange color by mixing paints

In this article, we will look at what needs to be mixed to get brown in paints.

Such a noble and calm color as brown has always dominated the clothes of rich and noble representatives. By the way, its main characteristic is stability and stability. But often there is no such color or its necessary shade in the palette. Yes, and young or even experienced artists should be able to select the right colors in order to independently create the colors of the brown spectrum. And our recommendations will help in this aspect.

How to get brown when mixed: 3 ways

Before rushing to color and brushes, you need to remember what colors are. They are divided into two groups - basic and additional. Two more subgroups are also distinguished - composite and complex. All of them make up the construction of four groups of basic colors.

Remember - primary colors cannot be obtained by combining any palettes. By the way, it is they who become the basis for creating other colors. Moreover, having black and white on hand, you can extract absolutely any color.

IMPORTANT: Brown belongs to the group of complex colors.

We offer three basic ways to get brown.

Green (blue+yellow) with red

• Even schoolchildren know that brown comes out if you mix two colors together - green and red. This is the case if we talk about the primary and secondary color.
• But the task is still to make a green tint. Easy peasy! Take two primary colors - yellow and blue.
• You need to take an equal number of different shades. But take into account your wishes.
  • If you want to get a darker color in the end, then add a little more blue, but already in the finished green color.
  • If, on the contrary, you want to make a more transparent shade, then initially take a little more yellow.
• After obtaining the secondary color, we proceed to the manufacture of the tertiary. In the green color that you have turned out, you need to add a little red tone.
• It is important to introduce red paint, and not vice versa! After all, it is the main tone that regulates the degree of darkness and saturation of the brown tint. If you add too much red coloring, then you get more of a brick shade.
  • But also keep in mind that red makes brown so warm (in large quantities it can even create a rusty effect), but green, on the contrary, will even make it a little grayish and cold.

Orange (yellow + red) with blue

• The first step is to take the red color. And add yellow to it. By the way, it should be introduced gradually and in small amounts.
• On average, yellow should be only 10% of the volume of red. It is important to get a dark orange. But keep in mind that a lot of red color will create a reddish brown color.
• Blue paint will need even less - 5-7% of the total volume. You also need to add it gradually, in small portions and stirring the components well.
• Of course, adjust the hue and saturation of the brown with a blue tint.

Violet (red + blue) with yellow

• Red and blue color should be taken in equal amounts. Then you can get a noble, and even a royal shade of purple, which will have the desired saturation and warmth.
• Then, you need to introduce a little yellow. It will lighten the resulting purple, so keep an eye on the amount. If there is predominantly a yellow color, then the brown color will come out lighter and warmer. Violet tone acts in the opposite way.

IMPORTANT: Too much yellow paint will create an ocher tint.

How to make a light brown color from paints, gouache when mixing?

To get a light brown color, you need to give the predominance of yellow. But! We repeat that too much of it will make the color look like ocher. And, of course, it all depends on the desired lordship.

• To whiten the brown color, you need add white. Yes, it's that simple. The more you add, the lighter the final color will be.
• But do not overdo it, brown is a warm color, and white will neutralize this characteristic. Therefore, enter very carefully, gradually and in small portions (literally, 1% of the total mass of paints).
• Although adding the previous color will help correct the situation.

How to get a dark brown color when mixing paints, gouache?

In terms of previous blending options, more blue or green will make a darker brown. But they will also bring their own shade. There is another, simpler and faster way to get a dark brown color.

• Just add black paint. But you need to work with it extremely carefully, since a small dose of excess paint will simply turn it into black.
• Therefore, introduce paint in tiny portions and take note of one rule - experiment with a small amount of paint.

• By the way, in order not to miscalculate with the right color, mix a little black with white. But leave the predominance of the first shade. Just make it a little softer as it can quickly "eat" the brown.

How to get chocolate when mixing paints, gouache?

To create a chocolate color, you need to tinker a little. The most unencumbered scheme is to choose the right tones of orange and blue. But there is another possible option.

• Combine yellow and blue paint for a dark green color. In another bowl, combine red and a dash of yellow to create orange.
• Now combine the two received colors. And in the end you get the color of grass green or grass green.
• Now you need to create a blood red color. To do this, combine the same orange and red palette.

• In conclusion, it remains to combine the two complex colors obtained.
• And as a result, we get the color of real chocolate.
  • If you want milk chocolate, then add a drop of white paint
  • A mixture of white and yellow will give an additional golden hue to the color.
  • Dark chocolate is obtained again by adding black paint
  • But the yellow color with chocolate will help to get a beautiful and even brown color.

How to get coffee when mixing paints, gouache?

• Coffee color can be obtained by adding the same black gouache. Also, you need to mix according to technology - orange paint plus blue. In this case, you can achieve the desired tone.

• Alternatively, you can achieve the desired color with a combination of purple and orange paint. If necessary, add a drop of black.

Color mixing: table

For visual perception, we want to provide you with a table that will show all possible versions of the derivation of brown color and its range. To get a brown color, you need to mix the composite colors, adding the main shade to them. True, there are other options where the composition includes not just secondary colors, but even complex palettes.

Decided to take up painting or painting furniture? But don't know how to get different shades? The paint mixing charts and tips will help you do just that.

Basic concepts

Before you start studying paint mixing tables, you should familiarize yourself with some definitions that will make it easy to understand a new material for yourself. The words used in the theory and practice of blending shades are explained below. These are not scientific encyclopedic definitions, but transcripts in a language understandable to an ordinary beginner, without the presence of complex terminology.

Achromatic colors are all intermediate shades between black and white, that is, gray. In these colors there is only a tonal component (dark - light), but there is no "color" as such. Those where it is are called chromatic.

Primary colors are red, blue, yellow. They cannot be obtained by mixing any other colors. Those that can are composite.

Saturation is a characteristic that distinguishes an achromatic hue from an identical lightness. Next, consider what a paint mixing table for drawing is.

Spectrum

Paint mixing tables are usually presented as a matrix of rectangles or squares, or in the form of shade combination schemes with numerical values ​​or percentages of each color component.

The underlying table is the spectrum. It can be depicted as a stripe or a circle. The second option is more convenient, visual and understandable. In fact, the spectrum is a schematic representation of a beam of light decomposed into color components, in other words, a rainbow.

This table contains both primary and secondary colors. The more sectors in this circle, the greater the number of intermediate shades. In the figure above, there are also gradations of lightness. Each ring corresponds to a certain tone.

The hue of each sector is obtained by mixing neighboring paints along the ring.

How to mix achromatic colors

There is such a painting technique as grisaille. It involves the creation of a picture using gradations of exclusively achromatic colors. Sometimes brown or another shade is added. Below is a table of mixing colors for paints when working with this method.

Please note that when working with gouache, oil, acrylic, a grayer shade is created by not only reducing the amount of black, but also by adding white. In watercolor, professionals do not use this paint, but dilute

How to mix with white and black

In order to get a darker or lighter shade of the pigment that you have in the kit, you need to mix it with achromatic colors. This is how gouache works, mixing acrylic paints. The table below is suitable for working with any material.

There are a different number of ready-made colors in the kits, so compare what you have with the desired shade. When adding white, you will get the so-called pastel colors.

Below is how the gradation of several complex colors is obtained from the lightest, almost white, to very dark.

Mixing watercolors

The table below can be used for both methods of painting: glazing or single layer. The difference is that in the first version, the final shade is obtained by visually connecting different tones superimposed one on top of the other. The second method involves the mechanical creation of the desired color by combining pigments on the palette.

How this is done is easy to understand from the example of the first line with purple tones from the figure above. Layered execution is done like this:

1. Fill in all the squares with a light tone, which will be obtained by using a small amount of paint and a sufficient amount of water.
2. After drying, apply the same color to the second and third elements.
3. Repeat the steps as many times as needed. In this version, there are only three color transition cells, but there may be more.

When working in the technique of glazing painting, it is worth remembering that it is better to mix different colors in no more than five layers. The previous one must be well dried out.

In the event that you prepare the required color immediately on the palette, the sequence of work with the same purple gradation will be as follows:

1. Set the color by taking a little paint on a wet brush. Apply to the first rectangle.
2. Add pigment, fill in the second element.
3. Dip the brush back into the paint and make a third cell.

When working in one layer, you must first mix all the colors on the palette. This means that in the first method, the final shade is obtained by optical mixing, and in the second - mechanical.

gouache and oil

The techniques for working with these materials are similar, since the pigments are always presented in the form of a creamy mass. If the gouache is dry, it is pre-diluted with water to the desired consistency. White is always present in any set. They are usually used up faster than others, so they are sold in individual jars or tubes.

Mixing (table below), like gouaches, is a simple task. The advantage of these techniques is that the next layer completely overlaps the previous one. If you made a mistake and after drying you didn’t like the resulting shade, make up a new one and apply it on top. The previous one will not show through if you work with thick colors without diluting them with liquid (water for gouache, solvent for oil).

Pictures in this painting technique can even be textured, when a thick mass is applied pasty, that is, in a thick layer. Often, a special tool is used for this - a palette knife, which is a metal spatula on the handle.

The proportions of paints to be mixed and the necessary colors to obtain the desired shade are shown in the previous table diagram. It is worth saying that it is enough to have only three primary colors in the set (red, yellow and blue), as well as black and white. From them, in different combinations, all other shades are obtained. The main thing is that the colors in the jar should be exactly the main spectral tones, that is, for example, not pink or raspberry, but red.

Acrylic work

Most often, these paints work on wood, cardboard, glass, stone, making decorative crafts. In this case, it happens the same way as when using gouache or oil. If the surface has been pre-primed and the paints are suitable for it, getting the desired shade is not difficult. Below are examples of mixing shades with acrylic.

For (batik) are also used but they are sold in jars of liquid consistency and are similar to printer ink. In this case, the colors are mixed according to the principle of watercolor on the palette with the addition of water, not white.

If you understand how to use paint mixing charts, you can easily create an unlimited number of shades when working with watercolors, oils, or acrylics.

Blue is one of the primary colors. Along with red and yellow, it is included in the list of tones that cannot be produced at home. But artists know very well how to get blue in its various shades - for this you need to mix the classic color with other pigments, which gives amazing results.

traditional color wheel

Experts call blue, red, yellow the "three pillars" of color and painting. It is on them that the widest palette of semitones of the second and third orders rests, they are combined with each other, while the creation is excluded.

All the most important colors are included in the so-called color wheel. It is a conditional model divided into sectors. The latter are placed in an order close to the location in the visible light spectrum. Nearby shades are called chromatic, they can be mixed with each other to obtain a new chromatic (color) paint. If, when mixing colors, take opposite tones, an achromatic color (grayish) will come out. That is, the farther apart the colors, the more likely that their mixture will give an inexpressive, ugly tone.

Classic blue and its shades

It will not work to make a blue color at home, so to create its different shades, you need to purchase ready-made gouache, watercolor, acrylic paint or another type of dye (even plasticine). Then you can use other colors from the set, because when combined, you can get incredible tones and halftones of blue. Artists have special tables with the names of shades and the necessary proportions for paints, but in practice you still have to experiment.

In ordinary gouache sets, blue is represented by a shade of ultramarine. It is very bright, moderately dark, has slightly purple notes. There is an important rule to remember: white is added to lighten the tone, black is added to darken it, and various colors are added to change the reflection of the paint.

blue green

Making shades of blue with green highlights is easy. The effect of a dark green tone is given by the introduction of a small amount of ready-made green paint into the blue. If it doesn't exist, you can do something else. Since the combination of blue and yellow gives a green color, you can add a little yellowness to the blue. Next, the paint is lightened with white, resulting in a shade of the third order, less saturated.

Prussian blue

Azure color also contains green shades. Artists have a recipe for its preparation - you need to combine 1 part of blue and the same amount of light green or bright green (herbal) shade. If necessary, the tone is diluted with white.

blue purple

This color is considered very rich, powerful in energy, it is prepared by combining blue with red paint in equal proportions. But the finished purple must be made to “turn blue”, for which a blue color scheme is added drop by drop until the desired tone is obtained. Usually the final ratio does not exceed 2:1.

royal blue

The color royal is a dark, cold tone, close to classic. Traditional royal blue is part of the HTML color scheme used in computer graphics. It is also the main tone of ink, paint for cartridges. To make this color, a drop of black and even less green are introduced into ultramarine.

blue gray

This shade is reminiscent of an overcast sky, as well as the color of the water on a non-sunny day. In the base blue, you need to add a little brown, as a result you get a dark blue-gray tone. It is diluted with whitewash to the desired degree of clarification. There is another option for creating a gray-blue hue - combine blue with orange, as a result you get a grayish mass with a slightly blue glow.

Dark blue

Blue paint begins to darken from the addition of a small amount of black color. The ratio should be no more than 4:1. Creating such a shade is required if you need to “calm down” a color when it is initially too bright.

Blue

Blue is easy to make. To do this, blue of any tone is diluted with whitewash 3: 1 or more. Increasing the volume of white paint leads to even more lightening up to sky blue or pastel blue. To achieve the manufacture of the original tone, you can dilute turquoise with whitewash.

Other shades

Wedgwood tone is obtained by combining a portion of blue, as well as a drop of white and black paint. For dark turquoise, a yellow-green color scheme is added dropwise to blue. Cornflower blue is created by mixing purple, blue, a drop of brown and the same amount of black dye.

Blue in nature

In the real world, blue is perceived by the eye in the range of 440-485 nm. This is the digital value of the electromagnetic wavelength, which has a blue tone in the general spectrum of light. In nature, you can see up to 180 shades of blue - its tones are visible in the color of the seas and oceans, the sky, twilight, moonlight, many plants, insects.

To get the perfect color, you need to ensure that all the ingredients are similar in chemical composition. Otherwise, the mass may delaminate, leaving unmixed streaks in it. It is also important to use high-quality paints, because others begin to darken and gray over time. Oil dyes are very susceptible to changes - it is better to first try working on a small area and evaluate the effect after a couple of days. Artists note: the fewer colors were combined, the better the result will be, the less risk of burnout and flaking of the finished decor.

Thanks to modern technology, interior designers are becoming real wizards. In the blink of an eye, they will make any room stylish and original. Recently, more and more attention is paid to color design. The most popular are non-standard shades that can be obtained by mixing colors.

Process Basics

Manufacturers of paints and varnishes presented a fairly wide range on the market. But it is not always possible to choose what is ideal for the interior. Combining multiple shades will save time and money.

In many specialized stores, you can use the services of a specialist who will help you make the right color. But if you know the basic rules of how to mix dyes, you can do it at home with your own hands.

When mixing, you need to remember one important rule: you can not combine liquid products with a dry mixture. They have different indices, so the coloring composition may eventually curl up.

The most interesting part of the process is creating the desired shade. There are four primary colors:

• white;
• blue;
• red;
• green.

By mixing them, you can get any others. Here are illustrative examples:

1. Brown is obtained by combining red and green. For a lighter shade, you can add some white.
2. Orange is the result of mixing yellow and red.
3. If you need green, you need to combine yellow and blue paints.
4. To get purple, you need to mix blue and red.
5. Red and white will result in pink.

So you can mix ad infinitum.

Mixing acrylic materials

Designers love acrylic paints the most. They are very easy to work with, the finished coating has excellent water-repellent properties. Their use has several nuances:

1. The work surface must be perfectly flat and smooth. To do this, it needs to be sanded.
2. It is important that the paint does not dry out.
3. To get an opaque color use undiluted paint. Conversely, for transparency, you can add a little water.
4. To be able to slowly choose the right color, it is recommended to use. Thanks to him, the tool will not dry so quickly.
5. To distribute the paint, use the edge of the brush.
6. Mixing is best done with a clean instrument. In this case, the colors should be directed towards each other.
7. To make a light tone, you need to add a white dye to the solution, and to get a dark one - black. It is worth remembering that the palette of dark colors is much wider than light ones.

Here are some examples of mixing acrylic-based colorants:

1. Apricot color is obtained by mixing red, yellow, brown and white.
2. The recipe for making beige paint involves combining brown and white. If you need a bright beige, you can add a little yellow. For a light beige shade, you need more white.
3. Gold is the result of mixing yellow and red.
4. Ocher is yellow with brown. By the way, it is considered popular in the current season.
5. Khaki can be made by mixing green dye with brown.
6. Magenta requires three different colors: red, yellow, and blue.

Mixing oil paints

Oil-based paints are more fluid, which necessitates more thorough mixing of the compositions if mixing tones is performed. The specificity and properties of oil colors give the following advantages:

• the tone will be the most uniform, so the paint is perfect for decorating any surface;
• if desired, you can leave streaks in the paint, which will allow you to create unusual effects on a canvas or wall.

Oil stirring

Before work, it is important to evaluate whether it is possible to combine individual tones with each other, what will be the result. If you introduce a little glossy paint into a matte one, the result will be inexpressive. Adding a matte paint to a shiny one helps to make the latter a little more subdued.

It is possible by such methods:

1. Mechanical. In one dish, on the palette, different colors are combined by mechanical mixing. The saturation of the finished mass is adjusted by adding brighter or lighter shades.
2. Optic. This method is practiced only by professionals. Paints combine to obtain a new color when they are applied to the canvas, wall.
3. Color overlay. By layering strokes, a new tone is created.

Features of mixing paints

The mechanical method is the simplest, therefore it is recommended for beginners. When using color overlay, the result may differ from what was intended, which must be taken into account in advance. You can apply the glazing method - first apply a darker color, then lighten it with strokes of light paint. It is better to practice combining oil paints in their small portions, learn how to create original effects, and then start creating paintings or decorating the interior.

The working process

By mixing several different colors, you can get a large number of a wide variety of shades. What?

shades of gray

Quite often used in interior design. Help to create a shadow or unobtrusive color, as well as:

1. You can create regular gray by mixing black with white.
2. To create cold shades, you need to add a little green to gray, and for warm ones - ocher.
3. Grey-green is gray with white and green.
4. Gray-blue - gray, white and a little blue.
5. Dark gray is the result of mixing gray and black.

brown tones

To dye, you need to mix:

• green with red;
• red with blue and yellow;
• red with white, black and yellow.

How to create other original tones:

1. Mustard will turn out if you add red, green and black dyes to yellow paint.
2. Tobacco shade is red, green, yellow and white.
3. Golden brown is the result of combining yellow, red, green, white and blue. In this case, there should be more yellow pigment.

Red tones

1. The basis for the pink shade is considered to be white. Red is added to it. The brighter the desired shade, the more red should be added.
2. To get a rich chestnut, you need to mix red and black.
3. Bright red-orange color - red and a little yellow. The more of the latter, the paler the result will be.
4. You can give the dye a purple tint by mixing a few drops of bright blue and yellow colors and red pigment.
5. To create crimson, according to the recipe, you need to mix bright red + white + brown + blue. The more white, the pinker the shade.

Deep green is formed by combining yellow and blue tones. The saturation of the finished dye depends on the amount of each of them. To create shades, you need to add other colors to green:

1. For mint you need white.
2. To get an olive color, you need green and a few drops of yellow.
3. A shade of grass can be obtained by mixing green with blue. Yellow paint will help even out the color.
4. The color of the needles is the result of mixing green with black and yellow.
5. Gradually mixing green with white and yellow, you can make an emerald tone.

purple tones

Purple is made by mixing blue and red. You can also use blue and pink paints - the final color will be light, pastel. To darken the finished tone, artists use black paint, which is added in very small portions. Here are the nuances for creating shades of purple:

• for light purple, you can dilute the finished color with white in the right ratio;
• for magenta, you need to enter more red paint than blue.

Orange color

When creating a classic orange, they combine one part of yellow and red paint. But for many types of paint, you have to take more yellow, otherwise the color will turn out to be too dark. Here are the main shades of orange and how to get them:

• for light orange, take pink and yellow, you can also add a little white paint;
• coral requires dark orange, pink, white in equal proportions;
• peach needs colors such as orange, yellow, pink, white;
• for red, you need to take dark orange and a little brown.

Important rule

Many people ask the question: is it possible to mix paints and varnishes from different manufacturers? It is desirable that the dyes to be mixed be made by the same company. It's even better if they are from the same batch. Mixing dyes from different companies is not recommended. Often they have different properties, such as density, brightness, etc. Because of this, the finished coating may curl.

If there is a desire to take a chance, you can combine a little bit of one and the other paint and apply the resulting solution to the surface. If it thickens or clumps, the experiment is not a success.

Computer help

You can mix several colors correctly using special computer programs. They help to see the final result and determine in percentage terms how much of one or another tone needs to be added. Such programs will help you figure out what shade can be obtained from the funds that are available. They consist of several elements:

1. A button that removes tones from a set.
2. Color names.
3. Lines of input or output to or from a calculation.
4. samples.
5. A button that introduces colors into the set.
6. Result windows.
7. New selection window and list.
8. The composition of the finished dye as a percentage.

Mixing several different colors is a fairly common technique among designers. Unusual shades will help to advantageously decorate the interior, make it original or even unique. You can mix dyes even at home. There are many recipes for creating a particular shade. For example, to get beige, you need to combine white and brown, and for pink, white and red.

It is recommended to always have a thinner on hand to prevent the paint from drying too quickly. Do not mix products from different manufacturers, because the result will be a poor-quality coating. To find out the final result of mixing, you can use a special computer program.

As children, we loved to experiment, creating original images in the process of drawing, decorating them in unusual colors that we did not have in the palette. At the same time, many did not think about the combination of which colors turned out to be one or another shade. In fact, there are a lot of options, the main thing is to know which tones should be mixed in order to achieve the desired result. Let's find out how to get purple when mixing paints.

Even if we assume that we need red and blue tones to get purple, then mixing them will not achieve the desired result. The result is a dirty gray color that resembles purple in some cases and red in others.

All this is due to the fact that the red color predominates over blue, which is why it appears when mixed to a greater extent. If you add red or green to blue paint, then blue will dominate. As a result, the desired purple hue is not obtained.

What to do in such a situation, with which mix to achieve the desired color?

Tip: before the mixing process, make sure that the paint does not have additional color additives - it must be clean, without foreign impurities. If you get a purple tone with a gray tint, as previously indicated, then the reason lies in poor-quality paints, even if they look clean.

To determine whether you are using high-quality paint or not, we recommend using white. On a sheet of white paper, apply separately drops of red and blue paint. Add a drop of white on top. If red becomes red and blue becomes turquoise, then the paint is of poor quality, since pink and blue should be derivatives of red and blue.

Don't be afraid to experiment

Do not be afraid to experiment, because sometimes even from a combination of standard and primitive colors you can achieve an incredible shade. So, for example, you can get a beautiful purple tone thanks to yellow, brown, red and blue colors. You can replace brown with black. The main thing is to maintain the correct proportion.

By combining different shades of the original tones, we can get a purple color of different saturation. In this case, it should be noted that the red should have a colder shade, since the warm color is more like orange, so brown may come out as a result.

A large amount of blue paint will allow you to get a darker purple hue, close to purple.

This is far from the only option with which you can get a really beautiful purple color. Alternatively, you can mix blue, crimson and turquoise, etc. to achieve the result.