Mixing Oil Paints To Make Grey

The grays vary in value and color temperature i mix both warm and cool grays.

Mixing oil paints to make grey.

Premixed grays will result in finer control of the subtleties of value color and chroma saturation needed in an oil painting. Mix primary colors to make a test batch before painting. A color mixing table below will help get the necessary colors for oil painting. A bit of blue to orange a bit of yellow to purple or a bit of red to green will result in brown oil paint.

If working with oil mix the metallic powder with a little walnut oil before mixing it with the paint. Keep track of the paints you use. Here is your color mixing guide list of paints so far. In this chart you can see the similar colorful grays though more opaque because of the medium.

Of course mix paints on the palette. There are warm and cool grays that are made with warm reds or cool blues. Another way is to mix all 6 primary and secondary colors together to form a basic brown. Silver metallic powder contains tiny pieces of silver.

So when you mix blue paint with yellow paint to make green you re also bringing together two other colors into the mix and that s exactly what makes color mixing difficult. My prepared black will have 2 parts ivory or mars black 1 part burnt umber and 1 8 part prussian blue. Color mixing guide list of oil paints. See the variations of color you can make.

Here is an example of mixing grays with oil paint on my youtube channel. Mixing the opposite colors of the color wheel will result in brown. Mix it with a liquid medium to create the consistency of liquid paint. Stick with it and you will learn more about mixing colors.

Adding a bit of the opposite primary color to the secondary color. Are these not lovely colors. Visit my channel click here. Add white or black to lighten or darken.

Below is an example of mixing grays using oil paints. To see more videos on drawing and painting. This color mixing exercise can be challenging the first couple of times you try it. Another good reason to premix grays is once you start a painting it will proceed faster and you ll have less adjusting on the canvas.

With the paints i use i have four different ways to make green. The table will expand the horizons and add a daring young artists to mix colors as for the color you need to mix a few colors and 4 types 2 3 for. Get out your paints and practice mixing color with their complementary colors. I can mix phthalo blue the top blue in this next image with either cadmium yellow light or cadmium.

For a shiny paint that reflects light like a mirror add metallic powder to the desired shade tone or tint of gray. The possibilities are endless. The table is painted in detail how and what colors to mix to get different colors. You can experiment with making a very deep rich black using just prussian blue and burnt umber.