Mixing Oil Paints To Make Grey

Making gray paint isn t as simple as mixing black and white.

Mixing oil paints to make grey.

The possibilities are endless. Mixing the opposite colors of the color wheel will result in brown. 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. There are warm and cool grays that are made with warm reds or cool blues.

Keep track of the paints you use. Premixed grays will result in finer control of the subtleties of value color and chroma saturation needed in an oil painting. The grays vary in value and color temperature i mix both warm and cool grays. This color mixing exercise can be challenging the first couple of times you try it.

For a shiny paint that reflects light like a mirror add metallic powder to the desired shade tone or tint of gray. Here is your color mixing guide list of paints so far. Another way is to mix all 6 primary and secondary colors together to form a basic brown. In this chart you can see the similar colorful grays though more opaque because of the medium.

The table is painted in detail how and what colors to mix to get different colors. Mix primary colors to make a test batch before painting. Stick with it and you will learn more about mixing colors. A color mixing table below will help get the necessary colors for oil painting.

With the paints i use i have four different ways to make green. I can mix phthalo blue the top blue in this next image with either cadmium yellow light or cadmium. If working with oil mix the metallic powder with a little walnut oil before mixing it with the paint. 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.

Visit my channel click here. Below is an example of mixing grays using oil paints. Color mixing guide list of oil paints. Are these not lovely colors.

Silver metallic powder contains tiny pieces of silver. Adding a bit of the opposite primary color to the secondary color. See the variations of color you can make. 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.

To see more videos on drawing and painting. Of course mix paints on the palette. You can experiment with making a very deep rich black using just prussian blue and burnt umber. Add white or black to lighten or darken.

Get out your paints and practice mixing color with their complementary colors. Here is an example of mixing grays with oil paint on my youtube channel. Mix it with a liquid medium to create the consistency of liquid paint. Original oil paintings by fine art painter jose trujillo to view work on ebay.