Nature has a countless variety of shades. Sometimes, in order to convey the most realistic story, you need tones that you can’t find in your palette. But to get them by yourself, not having enough experience, is quite difficult.
The colors mixing table greatly simplifies this process. It allows you to get the desired result, both in art and in construction, when creating an individual design solution of the interior.
If we talk about drawing, you need to remember that the overall appearance will affect not only the exact ratio of colors but also the background, the orientation of the smear relative to the canvas material, the thickness of the application and other details.
For convenience, we will divide the shades into groups of primary colors and tell you what colors you need to use to get a particular tone of the required saturation.
Simple mixing
Before proceeding to the description of complex shades, try to understand the basic ones. It’s considered to be only three primary colors: red, yellow and blue. On their basis, we get the secondary ones:
Orange
Red plus yellow;
Green
Yellow plus blue;
Purple
Blue plus red.
If you combine one primary and one secondary color, we will achieve transitional shades: red-orange; yellow-green; blue-purple; red-purple; blue-green and yellow-orange. Often these tones serve as the basis for realistic, deep and rich colors.
Blue
It’s being used quite often. You can’t create the sky, ice, water, flowers and other elements without it.
The slightest nuance shows the credibility of the picture, fortunately we can get the desired shade of blue by mixing colors:
Turquoise
Add some green color;
If your turquoise color is close to blue-add a little bit of the green color;
Pastel blue
add white color;
Wedgwood
Mix it with white color and a drop of black paint;
Dark blue (deep)
Add a black color and a little bit of green color to the main paint;
Royal blue
A liitle bit more of black color and a little bit of green. You can dilute it with the water a little bit;
Purple
Add the paint of bright red color;
Grey-blue
Light grey and a little bit of white;
Light turquoise
It requires a blue-green base, which is mixed with a drop of yellow-green and white tones;
Turquoise-green
Add blue color to green one;
Dark turquoise
We’ll get it by mixing the blue-green and the yellow-green, adding one drop of the last color;
White-blue
The main paint is white and it’s being mixed with blue one;
Cornflower blue
We get it by mixing purple, a drop of red-brown, blue and black colors;
Lavender
Dilute purple and blue with the water.
Gray
You can find this color in the works and the interior as often as blue color. Many natural phenomena, shadows and unobtrusive coating of the walls in the apartment are created with the help of these neutral shades.
Ordinary grey
Black with white in equal quantity;
Black with a drop of white color will make gray look darker. White and a little bit of black – lighter.
Pearl grey
Mix two monochrome colors with blue color;
Cold grey
Add grey to green color;
Warm grey
Mix grey with ochre;
Grey-green
Add white and green colors to grey one;
Grey-blue
Add white tone and the pigment of the blue paint to light grey color;
Charcoal grey
Mix a large amount of black pigment with the grey color.
Brown
Depending on what primary color you need, combine:
- Green with red paint pigment;
- The same bright red color with yellow and blue;
- Yellow paint with white, black and red;
- Mix orange with blue or grey.
Mustard shade
The pigment of yellow paint in connection with red, green and a small amount of black tone;
Golden-brown
A lot of yellow color and in equal amounts – red, green, white and blue tones;
Medium brown
Add red and blue to yellow paint, lighten it with white color and darken it with black one;
Brick brown
Add red-purple paint to the yellow-orange base;
Beige tone
You will get it if you add white to brown and then create the brightness by using yellow color;
Tobacco shade
It’s being achieved by mixing yellow, red, white and green.
Ochre
It’s a mixture of yellow and brown.
Dark chocolate
Red plus green or red (basic), yellow and blue colors.
Red
The red palette is characterized by a wide variety – from pale pink to dark purple.
Royal red
If you add blue to red color;
Royal purple
It requires blue and yellow colors;
Ordinary purple tone
You get it after adding a couple of drops of bright blue and bright yellow to the red paint;
Dark purple
Add blue and black to red color;
Pink
The basis for creating pink color is white in combination with red;
Apricot
We will get it in the process of mixing white, ochre and red;
another variant: red plus yellow, brown and white;
Rich chestnut (deep)
You will create it easily by mixing black or brown with red;
Orange-red
Combine bright red and a liitle bit of yellow. The more yellow, the lighter the tone;
Tomato shade
We create it by adding yellow and brown to the red;
Crimson
Add white tone in combination with brown and blue to bright red. The more the white pigment will be the more pink the color will be;
Berry color
It’s synthesis of scarlet, red and red-brown;
For plum color
Mix white, blue and black with red;
Red burgundy
You can have it by adding brown, yellow and black;
Rich burgundy
We create it by using red-purple and a little bit of blue-purple colors;
Yellow and orange
We can’t imagine summer landscapes without these shades.
Pure orange
We can get it by diluting red and yellow colors;
For bright orange
You need to add orange and brown to white color;
Tangerine color
We get it by mixing yellow with red and brown;
Soft salmon tone
Yellow-orange or yellow-green with red-orange and white;
Gold
We’ll get it by mixing red or brown with yellow;
Honey shade
It requires white, yellow and dark brown paint;
For lemon color
Add white and a little bit of green to yellow color;
Eggshell color
You can have it if you add yellow and a drop of brown color to the white paint;
Green
It’s created by adding yellow and blue paints. The amount of the first or the second shade affects the saturation of the resulting tone.
Mint color
Mix the green paint with the white one;
Olive color
You can easily create it by combining yellow and green colors;
Color of the grass
Mixing of blue and green paints. You can change the shades by using the yellow tone;
Coniferous shade
It’s a synthesis of green shade with black color with a small amount of yellow;
Emerald
It appears in the process of mixing drops of white and yellow pains with the main color;
Pale green
It requires yellow and blue colors and a drop of black color will give depth;
Light green shade
We’ll get it by mixing green with yellow or white pigment;
Bottle color
It’s achieved by connecting yellow and blue;
Khaki color
Khaki is based on green and brown colors. And you can get it by mixing yellow-orange with blue-green or blue-purple tones.
How to get shade using a color
In the chemical industry, color is a special highly concentrated pigment mixture which can be used to obtain any shade of paint. There are universal colors that are used for any paintwork materials. It’s added to the paint to make it acquire the desired color.
Table: what colors to mix in the color to get the needed shade
Scarlet 209* – 1, Orange 206* – 2-Chrome-yellow 235* 3, Gold 240 – 4, Sun 207* – 5, Green Apple 246 – 6, Mint 221 – 7, Dark green 213 – 8, Khaki 239 – 9, Sea-wave, 244 – 10, Sky 210 – 11, Ultramarine – 218 – 12, Blue 245 – 13, 243 Lilac – 14, Purple 216* – 15, Black-204 – 16-Dark brown-206 – 17, Brown 205 – 18, Coffee with milk – 237 – 18. Ochre 201 – 19, Violet270* – 20, Cherry-215 – 21.
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Conclusion
The variants for mixing colors, as you can guess, are endless. The combinations provided by us are more suitable for beginners. Professional work will require more in-depth knowledge and experience. Only practice will show what color will give the mixture of red and blue, how to make a white color, how to create a purple color, how many drops for additional tone to add to create the perfect shade.
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