How to Mix Colors for Paints

Creating the perfect color of paint will help you to create the precise type of atmosphere you are looking for in a room.  By mixing different hues together you will be able to move beyond the primary colors and thus expand your means of expression at the same time.  With a little know-how this is something anyone can do.

1. Squeeze some of blue, yellow and red paint onto the palette that you are making.  This should create a triangle without any of its points connecting.


2. Add the other colors of paint around the outside of your palette in round spots.


3. Move some yellow paint halfway towards the red and stop. 


4. Wash your brush.


5. Dip your brush into the red paint and mix it about halfway into the yellow paint. 


6. Brush this back into your red paint.


7. Dip your clean brush into the red paint and move it halfway towards the blue paint.


8. Brush your blue paint into your red paint.

• Mix some black into the paints to make your colors darker.  This will also make your paints look flat.  If you don’t want them to be flat, use purple instead.


• Add some white to the paint colors to make them lighter.


• Add red to the paint colors to make them brighter.


• Add some yellow and red to the paint to make the colors more vibrant.