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Artist's tools. Features of mixing colors: acrylic and oil paints How the artist mixes paints

“Everything in the world is relative!” - Albert Einstein once said. One is relative to the other. Finding new shades in painting is no exception!

No matter how extensive your palette is, when working on a painting you cannot do without mixing oil paints. This need will definitely arise when you need to get an additional shade. Painting is a flexible tool for conveying what you see, while being in a special state. And color helps you express your creative nature using the language of colors.About the huge world of oil paints and accessories

Mixing colors in oil paints– the process is meticulous, exciting and exciting. By searching for new shades, we become a little “ART-istically” richer and better understand the full power of color.

Mixing colors can create new shades

I once heard this phrase from one person:“Explain, please, why when mixing red and blue, the result is not pure purple, but some kind of dirt! How do you get pure purple? It's all about the shades of color. After all, red and blue can have many shades.

Mixing oil paints and a shade chart to help

How many shades do you think there are in the world? More than 1000 shades! Of course, among the manufacturers of oil paints for painting, there is hardly one with so many shades. However, many of them offer a wide palette.

Rich palette of Lefranc Bourgeois - 120 colors and shades

For example, the paints that I use in practice: French Lefranc & Bourgeois- dye High Quality, 120 colors and shades of 20 ml, 40 ml and 120 ml Rembrandt by Royal Talens- high quality Dutch paint with a wide selection of 120 colors and shades, 15 ml and 40 ml, white is available in 60 ml and 150 ml; this company also produces a series Van Gogh, but in smaller quantities. Here are some more French-Pebeo good quality, 60 shades of 37 ml and 80 ml.

I also use English paint manufacturers Georgian by Daler&Royney, here you can buy very large tubes of 200 ml, although there are 57 shades in total. I like German ones Lukas— about 70 shades of 37 ml and 200 ml. Mussini, Here are more paints of excellent quality, they have 108 shades of 35 ml and 150 ml. There are some Italian Oil Master from Ferrario, There are only 50 colors and shades. I have a little in my arsenal and “ Ladoga", there are 54 shades, in tubes of 46 ml, 60 ml and 120 ml

By the way, I was born near Lake Ladoga, so I bought them purely intuitively, because of the name. Nostalgia, apparently...

Did you know how many shades can the eye discern? ordinary person? An untrained human eye can see about 180 shades, as well as about 10 degrees of saturation. How can we learn to see and distinguish more? It may seem banal, but you can learn to feel more subtle shades with training!

If you train your eye, you can see more than 360 shades. That's almost 3 times more! Incredible, isn't it?

For example, how many colors and shades can you distinguish in nature, in the forest. “Well, there’s one green one, a little yellow and cinnamon!” Many will say. I agree, but to paint a forest on canvas, the artist must use many shades and color tones of the same green, yellow and brown. So that trees, blades of grass, pebbles are not just one green-brown mass of forest on the canvas. Otherwise, it will turn out to be a child's drawing.

By the way, children up to a certain age use pure paints and do not risk mixing them with each other. The trainee artist's eye is trained, as he constantly works with colors. In other words, To paint interestingly, you need: gamma, tonality, saturation.

It will seem strange, but the shadow of the red car on the white snow is slightly purple. Before art school, where I studied to become an artist in interior decoration with frescoes and wall painting, I would say that the shadow from the car is gray, but not now! I learned to see shades that I had previously seen differently. Mixing practice and training helps see color much more widely.

When combining colors, you need to experiment. But to make it easier to get the desired shade, special tables have been created where the color range for mixing is marked. It is not immediately clear to a novice painter what to mix with what and in what proportions to get, for example, a purple-pink or “so-so” beautiful shade.
Table to help:

Mixing oil paints table 1

Mixing oil paints table 2

Mixing oil paints table 3

Such tables are used not only by novice artists, but also by experienced painters. They help save searching time and paint. Yes, yes, paints... You will have to mix, and incorrect and dirty mixtures of paints will most likely be thrown away.

Did you know that the eyes of some animals see not only color, but even ultraviolet light? Cats, for example, see the world in color, but limited in shades. Dogs see everything around them black and white. Although, you can’t say that. A dog named Sam has an excellent sense of color.

How to mix oil paints

Under the term "mixing" This means, of course, mixing paint on the palette to get a new interesting shade. But paint can also be mixed on canvas, not to get a new shade, but for the sake of interesting effects. Some techniques that make the picture more interesting.

There are three main techniques for “merging” paint in oil painting:

  1. Physical.
  2. Applying paints.
  3. Junction of colors.

About the first method we said above: you need to combine two or more selected shades and mix well to obtain a uniform color. How to get the desired colors when mixing paints, you can look in the table or try to intuitively determine the optimal ratio.

Get new colors by mixing paints and tables

Second wayinvolves applying a transparent layer of another transparent layer over a well-dried smear of paint of one color. The result is an unusual fusion of colors. This technique requires a certain skill and knowledge of glaze technology. The effect is amazing– as if one color shines through another. Recently, I have become interested in mixing dry paints on canvas for the sake of an interesting shade.

Applying a transparent shade to the dried layer

Shades created by applying paints differ from those obtained by simple mixing. Try, for example, applying transparent pink to cadmium yellow and compare with traditional orange. It will be different, deeper or something. You won't be able to get this orange the first way.

On the left is glaze mixing, on the right is the mixing path

Third way mixing colors the most unusual. It is used by experienced craftsmen. The point: to achieve the optical illusion of the appearance of the desired color due to the close proximity of two or more other shades. In this case, small strokes of the component colors are located as close to each other as possible and at the desired angle.

And when long distance the human eye can see a color that is not there. In the first photo above, for example, the eye can detect orange, but there are only red and yellow there. Did you think so too? In a word, an optical illusion...

Mastering paint mixing techniques

Beginning artists should first practice physically combining different colors. Here, too, not everything is as simple as it might seem at first glance. It is important to understand what paints to mix. Transparent paints can be combined with each other to create new transparent shades. But when they are combined with covering paint, a new covering color will be obtained.

There is also a trick when combining two covering colors of different lightness. You need to make small strokes of dark paint on a light base, otherwise mixing will not work.

Bold mixing of oil paints will create an interesting picture

Having mastered this method, start practicing glazing - apply a lighter transparent shade to a dark tone, then an even lighter one and achieve a through appearance of the colors. Happened? This means you can experiment with the proximity of strokes.

Oil paints can and should be mixed, the main thing is to remember the proportions, otherwise it will be difficult to repeat the found shade. Make your own table to help you get started. Developing your color sense is useful, even through trial and error.

If you want to stop by and observe, I invite you to read a separate article on this topic. You will definitely be interested to know modern approaches to art!

By the way, over the past 200 years, the range of colors has expanded greatly. New, rich shades have also appeared in painting, allowing humanity to create in different contrasts, thereby enriching the world of painting.

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Have you noticed how many types of paints there are today? There is a whole abundance that makes your eyes wide open, especially for a novice artist. If experienced artist goes to the store to buy paint that has been “accumulated” over the years, then the situation is completely different for those who have not yet decided on it.

But fortunately, a wide range of paints allows you to choose “your” material. But only after experimenting with each of the types of paints for, which we will talk about later, can you at some specific moment understand that you have found the “same” material or materials.

Watercolor


You can start with watercolors, which belong to the group of adhesive paints. WITH watercolor paints in cuvettes and tubes, we have known each other since childhood. Its main advantage is transparency, which is why many artists fell in love with watercolors, because paintings painted in watercolors look light and bright.

The paint is easy to pick up on a brush and also easy to apply to paper, however, the technique of painting with watercolors is one of the most difficult, since the paint can be difficult to handle.

Renaissance masters used watercolors to develop sketches for frescoes and easel works.

A skilled artist can easily paint sketches and lyrical miniatures with this paint, conveying the unique states of nature. Also, the watercolor technique allows you to paint landscapes, still lifes and even portraits. The works of Lessuer, Raphael, Van Ostade and Rubens, painted with this paint, have survived to this day.

Acrylic


The polymer substance as a binding material for acrylic paint protects the work with its dense and durable film. Modern, simple, reliable and at the same time beautiful acrylic paint can be applied to any surface, even without preliminary preparation. The colors and shades of acrylic are quite varied.

Available in both liquid and thick paints. The first ones are used for painting pictures with a smooth surface. Using thick acrylic you can create works with an interesting texture. Dries quickly, does not wash off and does not fade in the sun.

Acrylic allows you to work without cracking the film on moving substrates. The color does not change when dried.

Tempera


But tempera, unlike acrylic, may lose color over time. Once it dries, it cannot be washed off with water. An excellent artist's tool for painting and decorative design work. Having extensive experience, you can use any application technique and paint both on paper and on canvas primed with emulsion primer.

The white or yolk is used as a binding material. Tempera paints have the advantage of not only fast drying, but also durability.

Feel complete creative freedom with tempera paints, as applying thick layers does not affect durability. In addition, the base can be not only made of cardboard, plywood, paper or canvas, it can also be concrete, plaster, glass or synthetic linoleum.

Oil


Oil is the main material in painting, because since the 6th century, master artists have used only it. And how many masterpieces are written with oil paints!

You can work with oil calmly and for a long time, but most importantly, it is oil that allows you to create the most realistic and vibrant paintings with amazing brightness.

Everything here is to the taste of the amateur, because a layer of oil paint can be transparent and dense, thin and thick, light and dark, matte or shiny.

The binder is linseed and other natural oils, but mostly it is linseed oil.

Oil paints have good light fastness.

The consistency is thick, the color intensity is high. The colors are easy to mix together.

The ideal material for oil is, of course, canvas, especially linen, but the following materials can also be used: cardboard, paper and all wooden surfaces. Although I personally don’t like cardboard - it takes all the moisture out of the paint, it becomes dry, which is why it can form clumps.

Creating oil paintings definitely requires certain skills when working with equipment, so you can’t do it without training and gaining experience.

Gouache


This is truly amazing, simple and at the same time complex material. Gouache is painted by both children and great artists. Remember the works of Picasso and Rubens? Here are some of them painted in gouache.

With such paint you can easily correct any defect, this is where its ease lies, but the difficulty is that achieving the desired color and even tone is often a difficult task. Again, you need to experiment.

This paint is bright and water soluble. The white that it contains makes it slightly pale, but velvety.

Compared with oil works, gouache is stored less. But gouache is absolutely harmless, which cannot be said about the composition in oil paint.

Gouache paints are similar to watercolors. They only differ in their opacity of color. But use watercolor technique this way it is impossible.

Sanguine and sepia

People have been painting with these natural minerals since prehistoric times. In the form of crayons, they can be used to depict nudes, since its tone exactly matches the color of the human body.

Sepia and sanguine are applied quite easily, and shaded with the same ease. Such materials can be combined with coal, because it practically does not differ in the principle of working with sanguine and sepia, but by experimenting, you can get inspiring and interesting works.

Coal

The most popular and ancient material. With absolute accuracy it conveys the state and mood of the artist to the object. It is also easy to shade and rub like sanguine. Using charcoal can enhance the effectiveness of a painting due to its deep black color, which is good for coloring or drawing lines on parts of the face.

It is important to learn how to handle it carefully, as it is fragile and can easily get dirty. But besides this, of course, you will need knowledge of techniques with this material.

Mascara

Ink (soot) can be used to make thin (pen) and broad brush strokes. You can't remove mascara! This can be intimidating for newbies, but it's actually a plus. After all, once you get the hang of it, you can make your work much more expressive.

Pastel


Unusual view painting material. But with the help of pastels, you can add magic and fabulousness to the picture using the appropriate technique. Essentially, these are the same crayons or pencils, and the artist does not need to mix colors on the palette.

You can see how beautiful and varied the pastel technique is by looking at the excellent works of Levitan, Dega or Sirov.

The ease of working with this material is also amazing: you can mix shades to get the desired tone directly on paper, using the same shading. Layers can overlap, and any defects can be easily masked.

Mastering the technique of working with pastels is quite simple and interesting.

Conclusion

Finally, we can say about two more colors used in painting - on ceramics And stained glass.


Stained glass. The name speaks for itself: the paint allows you to create the effect of stained glass or real colored glass. It can be solvent-based or water-based. Can be used on glass and other smooth surfaces.

Paints for ceramics characterized by their non-fluidity. With such opaque paint, you can achieve the effect of glazed ceramics using “hot” or “cold” painting techniques.

Thanks to modern technologies, interior designers become real wizards. In the blink of an eye, they will make any room stylish and original. IN Lately More and more attention is being 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’s not always possible to choose what suits the interior perfectly. Combining several shades will help save time and money.

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

One thing to remember when mixing important rule: Do not combine liquid products with the dry mixture. They have different indices, so the coloring composition may eventually curdle.

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

  • blue;
  • red;
  • green.

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

  1. You get brown if you combine red and green. To make a lighter shade, you can add a little white.
  2. - the result of mixing yellow and red.
  3. If you need green, you need to combine yellow and blue paints.
  4. To get it, you need to mix blue and red.
  5. Red and white will result in pink.

This way you can mix endlessly.

Mixing acrylic-based materials

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

  1. The working 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 obtain an opaque color, use undiluted paint. Conversely, you can add a little water for transparency.
  4. To be able to slowly select the desired color, it is recommended to use. Thanks to it, the product will not dry out so quickly.
  5. Use the edge of the brush to distribute the paint.
  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 white dye to the solution, and to get a dark one, add black. It is worth remembering that the palette dark colors much wider than light ones.

Here are some examples of mixing acrylic-based paints:

  1. Apricot color is obtained by mixing red, yellow, brown and white.
  2. The manufacturing recipe involves combining brown and white. If you want a bright beige, you can add a little yellow. For a light beige shade you will need more white.
  3. Gold is the result of mixing yellow and red colors.
  4. Ocher is yellow and brown. By the way, it is considered popular this season.
  5. can be done by mixing green dye with brown.
  6. To get purple you need 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 tones are mixed. The specificity and properties of oil colors provide the following advantages:

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

Stirring the oil

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

Brown tones

Red tones

  1. The basis for this is considered to be White color. Red is added to it. The brighter the desired shade, the more red you should add.
  2. To get a rich chestnut color, 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 flowers and red pigment.
  5. To create, according to the recipe, you need to mix bright red + white + brown + blue. The more white, the pinker the hue.

Deep green color 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. You will need white.
  2. To obtain an olive color you need green and a few drops of yellow.
  3. The shade of grass can be obtained by mixing green with blue. Yellow paint will help to 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 create an emerald tone.

Violet 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 required ratio;
  • For purple, you need to add more red paint than blue.

Orange color

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

  • for light orange use pink and yellow, you can also add a little white paint;
  • for coral, dark orange, pink, and white are required in equal proportions;
  • for peach you need 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 advisable that the dyes being mixed are manufactured by the same company. It's even better if they come from the same batch. It is not recommended to mix dyes from different companies. They often have different properties, such as density, brightness, etc. Because of this, the finished coating may curl.

If you want to take a risk, 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 a failure.

Computer help

You can correctly mix several colors using special computer programs. They help you see the end result and determine percentage, how much of this or that tone needs to be added. Such programs will help you figure out what shade you can get from the products that are available. They consist of several elements:

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

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

It is recommended to always have a thinner on hand that will prevent the paint from drying out quickly. You should 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.

PALETTE

PALETTE

(French, from Latin pala - shoulder blade). A tablet made of wood, porcelain or bone, on which painters lay and mix, for education. shades, paints during work.

Dictionary foreign words, included in the Russian language. - Chudinov A.N., 1910 .

PALETTE

a board used by artists for rubbing and mixing paints; most often it is oval in shape, with a round hole at the narrowed end, into which the thumb of the left hand, on which the sting rests, is threaded from below.

Dictionary of foreign words included in the Russian language. - Pavlenkov F., 1907 .

PALETTE

artists have a tablet with a hole into which the thumb of the left hand is inserted; paints are ground and mixed on it, more. frequent it comes in oval shape and made of light wood.

A complete dictionary of foreign words that have come into use in the Russian language. - Popov M., 1907 .

PALETTE

French palette, etc. paleta, from Lat. pala, shoulder blade. A board on which painters hold paints.

Explanation of 25,000 foreign words that have come into use in the Russian language, with the meaning of their roots. - Mikhelson A.D., 1865 .

Palette

(fr. palette)

1) a thin board with a hole for putting on the thumb of the left hand, used by painters for mixing paints;

2) trans. selection of colors characteristic of a given painting or a given painter; color;

3) trans. totality expressive means in the work of a writer, composer, etc.

New dictionary foreign words.- by EdwART,, 2009 .

Palette

palettes, w. [from it. paletta]. A small thin board on which painters, holding it on their left hand with their thumb threaded through an existing slot, mix paint while working. || trans. The totality of expressive means available to someone. artist, writer (book).

Big dictionary foreign words.- Publishing house "IDDK", 2007 .

Palette

s, and. (Polish paletra German Palette lat. pāla scapula).
1. A small board on which the painter mixes paints.
2. trans. Selection of colorful combinations in the picture, as well as typical for some. artist color gamma. Bright p. paintings. P. Levitan.
|| Wed. coloring
3. trans. The set of expressive means in the work of a writer, composer and etc. Acting p.
|| Wed. amalgam, gamma, mosaic, spectrum.

Dictionary foreign words by L. P. Krysin. - M: Russian language, 1998 .


Synonyms:

See what "PALETTE" is in other dictionaries:

    palette- s, zh., PALETRA s, zh. palette f., it. paletta, floor paleta 1. claim Board, plate with a cutout for thumb, on which the painter grinds and mixes paints. BAS 1. Painters call a palletra a hand-held tablet for paints... ... Historical Dictionary of Gallicisms of the Russian Language

    PALETTE, palettes, women. (from Italian paletta). A small thin board on which painters, holding it on their left hand with their thumb threaded through an existing slot, mix paint while working. || trans. A set of expressive means that... Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary

    Arsenal of means, plate, gamma, color scheme, selection, board, list Dictionary of Russian synonyms. palette noun, number of synonyms: 8 arsenal of means (1) ... Synonym dictionary

    - (from the French palette), a thin wooden board or metal, porcelain or earthenware plate that serves the artist for mixing paints during the work process; also the selection of colors characteristic of the pictorial manner of this artist … Modern encyclopedia

    - (from the French palette plate) a quadrangular or oval wooden plate, metal or porcelain plate for mixing paints; also the selection of colors used by the artist... Big encyclopedic Dictionary

    - (foreign) manner, method of a painter, writer (a hint of a palette, a painter’s tablet with paints). Wed. Boborykin’s (kindness) as a writer, complete reluctance, or rather, inability to succumb to irritation, deprives him of one very... Michelson's Large Explanatory and Phraseological Dictionary (original spelling)

    PALETTE, s, women. 1. A small board or plate on which the painter mixes paints. 2. transfer Selection of colorful combinations in the picture, color scheme. 3. transfer The totality of the artist's means of expression. Rich p. writer. Dictionary… … Ozhegov's Explanatory Dictionary

    Female, French hand-painted tablet with oil paints: tray. Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary. IN AND. Dahl. 1863 1866 … Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary

    - (from the French palette), 1) a thin wooden board or metal, porcelain, earthenware plate, rectangular or oval, on which the artist mixes paints (usually oil) during the work process. 2) In a figurative sense, selection... ... Art encyclopedia

Mixing colors is one of the most difficult procedures that a person who decides to make repairs on their own may face the need to perform. The point is that it is very important to know what colors to mix to create certain tone. It should be immediately noted that it is better to purchase white paint and tint it in the store using a special machine, so the tone will be uniform. If you decide to do everything yourself, then you can read more about how to mix colors correctly.

These materials are universal, they are used for many purposes: with their help you can simply paint walls, paint stained glass windows, apply designs on the wall and ceiling. In general, the scope of their use is limited by imagination. The compositions are easy to use and adhere well to the surface. But if you decide to paint a multi-component image on the wall, then buying paint of all the necessary colors will be too expensive, and after completion of the work there will be a large number of unnecessary material. In this case, it is better to buy a basic series, and to create certain shades, mix acrylic paints.


Mixing base paint colors makes it possible to get many different shades, while you can save a lot on your purchase

Main color range

Everyone knows from school: when you combine yellow and red, you get orange, but if you add blue to the same yellow, you get green. It is on this principle that the table for mixing acrylic paints is built. According to it, it is enough to purchase only the primary colors:

  • white;
  • black;
  • red;
  • brown;
  • blue;
  • yellow;
  • pink.

You can just mix acrylic paints these tones to obtain the majority of existing shades.

Basics of mixing according to the table

To properly mix materials, you cannot do without a table. At first glance, it is easy to work with: to get the desired result, you just need to find the color and see what components are required. But the color mixing table does not indicate the proportions, so it is necessary to gradually add tinting material to the base paint and apply the mixture to some unnecessary product: a sheet of plywood, drywall, and so on. Then you need to wait until the material dries. If the color matches what is required, you can begin work on the main surface.

Coloring technique

Now about how to get colors. By mixing acrylic materials, you can achieve the formation of two main tones: light and dark. Basic tones: earthy, green, orange, purple. To create color, it is recommended to follow certain rules:

  1. Light. In this case, the main material is titanium white, to which one or two tinting compounds are added. The less additional paintwork materials are used, the lighter the tone will be. This is how you can make most shades of a light palette.
  2. Dark. To create shades of this type, do the opposite. Before mixing colors, you need to prepare the base tone; black dye is gradually introduced into the base. When working with black paint, you need to be careful because it can make the color look muddy rather than dark.
  3. Green. This shade is not in the main palette, so you will need to mix yellow and blue. The exact ratio can only be determined experimentally.
  4. Violet. This is a cool color that is obtained by mixing blue with pink or red. In some cases, you will also need to add black to darken the material.
  5. Orange. To create this color you need to mix red and yellow. For a richer orange, it is recommended to add more red and vice versa. If you want to create a soft color, for example, coral, then you need to lighten the material with white. Can I add dark dyes? Yes, you can, but mixing colors may result in a muddy tone.
  6. Earthy. Here the main color is brown. By adding various shades to it, they get a color from beige to dark wood.

Rules for working with the palette

To get started you will need basic set paints, brushes, a container of water and a palette (you can take any surface, including school items for drawing).

It is recommended to place white in the center, since it is used in creating most shades. Dyes of the main color range are placed in the recesses around (if any). You need to mix carefully, gradually adding tinting material and constantly checking the result. After mixing the colors, the brush should be rinsed in a container of water.

On a note! Working with materials based on acrylic resins using a table and palette is quite simple. The main thing is to practice more, the result will get better each time.

Oil paints

If you compare this material with watercolor or acrylic, then oil is more fluid. Because of this, you need to mix compositions of different colors very carefully. On the one hand, this is a drawback, but on the other hand, this feature allows you to obtain the following effects:

  • If thoroughly mixed, a uniform tone will be obtained. This material is perfect for both complete painting of surfaces and partial decoration.
  • If you mix partially, then different colored veins will appear on the coating.

Mixing

Now about how to mix oil paints. A chart is also used to mix oil-based paint colors. It indicates the colors obtained by combining various tinting components. In addition, here you can find such an indicator as a combination of shine. If you add a little gloss to a matte base, there will be practically no result, but if you do the opposite, the shine will be slightly muted.

Mixing methods:

  1. Mechanical. In this case, we are talking about mixing two or more materials of different colors in one container. Color saturation is controlled by the number of compositions of bright shades. Desired color is created even before the wall or ceiling is processed.
  2. Color overlay. Gradual application of several strokes on top of each other.
  3. Optic. This is the most complex method, which is available only to specialists. It involves mixing glossy and matte bases while applying paint to the surface. You can mix paint colors only on the surface being treated, otherwise you will get a more even tone.

Peculiarities

The first method fully corresponds to the data in the table. When it comes to color application, the result is unpredictable. One of the most simple options optical illusions is glazing: a dark tone is applied to the surface, after it dries, paint is applied a little lighter, and then completely light. As a result, each color will be visible through the top layers.

So there is no specific pattern. To find out which colors need to be mixed, it is not enough just to take and look at the table; it is important to constantly practice and not be afraid of experiments. This is how you can create new effect, which will make the interior unique. It is also important to remember that a mixed shade is very difficult to replicate, so you should remember the proportions.

Now the question of how to mix paints correctly does not seem so difficult.