Red And Green Paint Mixed

You were taught that if you mixed red and yellow you get orange.

Red and green paint mixed. It s interesting to find lots of reference that purple is actually violet. While blue and yellow combined make green and blue and red make purple violet. You get a brown which varies according to the percentage of each you mix together. Modify a red paint by mixing it with a darker shade of red that is the same brand and type of paint.

For example a blue green and red may combine pigments that appear as a gray color since it is using mostly cool tones. Interestingly though they all contain the same three primary colors the brown created by this mixture is different than the brown created by mixing yellow and purple or blue and orange. The simple diagram above explains that if you mix the colors adjacent to each other you will get a new color. If you add some yellow or white they can change the kind of brown you get.

When you mix paint it s like the light gets filtered twice. Mix a deeper shade of red with your base red. If you mix the blue and yellow paints together then the only light that won t get soaked up by either paint is green. Mixing 2 shades of the same color together is the best option for making minor changes to a red paint s color profile.