How to get red and its shades by mixing paints? Photo paint + theory in pictures: what color will be obtained when adding different colors.
What colors should you mix to get red?
Red belongs to the main colors and even in the most minimal sets this tone will be present. However, inks that are used for mass printing are not red. Instead, it is used, from which red is obtained when mixed 1: 1 with yellow.
So, if you take a paint "carmine", which is similar to and mix with yellow in a ratio of 2: 1, we get a medium red tint. (2: 1 ratio, because the shade of paint for painting is more reddish than magenta for printing inks)
Judging by the tones, from which we got the red color is a pink shade, but if we take the classic pink color and mix it with yellow, we get orange.
This is because pink and magenta are different colors: if pink is the result of diluting red with white (with the addition (or without) a blue tint to obtain a lilac undertone), then magenta is a light shade of purple - the color that we see when both red and purple hit the retina. Since paints are nothing more than substances that reflect one or another wavelength of the spectrum, then by neutralizing the part that reflects violet ( yellow is complementary to violet, which means that when you mix them together you get a gray (dirty) color) we get a substance that reflects the red color. The intensity of the resulting color will still be lower than that of the red paint due to the admixture of gray color, which was obtained by neutralizing the violet spectrum.
How to get shades of red?
How to get yellow red (scarlet)?
You can get a scarlet shade of red by mixing yellow and red. To do this, you will need 2 parts of red and 1 of yellow. If there is a lot of yellow, you get orange.
How to get a soft red tint?
If you mix pink and red, then the intensity of red will decrease, and it will acquire a certain softness and complexity: A lighter shade can be obtained by mixing red with white, but in this case the color will be purer and more unambiguous.
How to get a reddish orange hue?
A vibrant reddish-orange hue can be obtained by mixing orange with red. You can achieve the same effect by mixing red with yellow, but it will take more paint to achieve the same effect.
Get white to red
There are quite a few light shades of red, since with lightening the red turns into a warm pink shade.
How to get burgundy color?
Red itself is a fairly dark shade and if mixed with any darker shade, the resulting color will be burgundy.
Mix red and purple
If you take 3 parts of red and 1 purple, then dark red is learned. As the violet increases, the color darkens to reddish-violet, but never magenta, as this is enough bright color, and all shades obtained by mixing colors are duller than the originals.
Get red-blue color
If you mix blue and red 1: 1, you get a dark dull purple... With a slight addition of blue to red, the hue will be similar to mixing with purple: burgundy.
Get green red
When mixing green and red in a ratio of 1: 3, the resulting burgundy shade will be warmer than previous versions, since green contains yellow. With an increase in the proportion of green, the red color will turn into brown.
Get a reddish brown color
By mixing red with brown, you can gradually darken the red from dark red to reddish brown (or maroon). Darker shades can be obtained with black.
The theory of obtaining red shades
Different manufacturers of paints in one set (of 12 or 6 paints) produce different shades. In addition, paints are of different quality: the brighter and cleaner, the more shades you can create from them. By mixing the 2nd colors, we get a shade dimmer than the original ones, and if we mix the two obtained shades, then the third color will be even more faded.
Speaking about the theoretical creation of shades, we take a graphic model without regard to the quality and brightness of the colors. Knowing it, you can navigate in any palette and create the shade of red you need.
Since childhood, everyone knows how to get certain shades by mixing multi-colored paints. But few people know how to get White color and is it possible in principle. This question may arise for novice artists and designers who are interested in the possibility of obtaining the desired colors.
On the market of paints and varnishes there is a wide range of various colors and shades. It is not always possible to find a color that is most suitable for a specific task. Combining different colors comes to the rescue to obtain the desired tone or shade.
Visible spectrum colors
There are 4 main colors, the combination of which can lead to the creation of almost the entire palette:
- Red;
- green;
- blue;
- White.
These are the primary colors of the optical spectrum that fall within the range of visible light radiation. Separately, it is worth noting the yellow color, which is also the base color for most shades of color.
In the video: how to mix colors correctly.
When studying the light spectrum with a magnifying glass, on a computer or TV screen, you can see that a white pixel, as it were, consists of different shades. Thanks to this effect, many began to think that mixing the base colors in any case turns out to be white. It does not matter what dye is used for such mixing.
Combining and mixing colors in the visible spectrum
A fairly well-known optical experiment consists in the rapid unrolling of a circle, sectorally divided into 7 colors in the order of their arrangement in the rainbow. A rotating disc colored in this way is visually perceived as white. The multicolored circle turns into a solid white. This effect it is used when superimposing the main components of the spectrum on a TV screen or monitor: red, blue and green.
To receive white tone a combination of colored light is used. The result in the form of white is obtained due to additive mixing, that is, due to the "addition" of the used shades. Getting new colors when mixing paints is carried out under the influence the opposite principle, subtractive mixing, when the colors suppress each other.
Therefore, when printing with a digital or inkjet printer, it is impossible to obtain a truly white background. By default, it is assumed that the media, for example, paper or cardboard, has the correct tone and that no dye is applied to the corresponding area of the sheet of paper. For printing directly in white, special toners with the appropriate dye are used.
Mixing coloring compositions
The combination of red, blue and green paints will rather give a shade closer to contrasting black or dirty brown. Primary colors will simply absorb each other. Even getting beige tones as close as possible to the desired one is possible only by mixing white paint with other shades.
This applies to any formulations, be it Oil paint, watercolor or acrylic. By mixing different shades, get white paint impossible, and the existing reviews on the combination of primary colors are repelled precisely by the imposition of light radiation, and not by the coloring compositions. To understand how to make the desired color scheme, what colors to mix in order to get a particular shade, you should carefully study the corresponding tables of the paint manufacturer. It depends on the specific composition of an individual manufacturer - which paints need to be mixed to get the desired tone.
How to get blue by mixing paint colors? Unfortunately, this is not a feasible task, however, you can get shades of it. Photo.
Therefore, you will need blue paint to create all shades of blue. No mixing of other colors will give a blue tint, so the presence of this paint in the set is a must!
How to get the classic blue color when mixing paint?
Even in a set of 12 shades, you may not have the classic blue paint, the so-called royal shade. For example, in acrylic paints the main blue color is ultramarine: a very bright and dark shade with a slight purple undertone. For a lighter paint of blue color it should be mixed with white: 3 parts blue and 1 part white. The more white the color is, the lighter the tone will be, down to a sky blue tint.
And to get a moderately saturated tone, dark saturated paint should be mixed with turquoise.
How to get blue-green color by mixing paints?
To obtain, you need to take 1 part of blue and 1 part of yellow paint and mix them thoroughly, the resulting paint will be a dark blue-green hue. To obtain a lighter blue-green shade, it should be mixed with white paint, but the resulting color will not only be lighter, but also paler, since it will be composed of 3 colors.
How to get Prussian Blue by mixing paints?
This shade of blue can be obtained by mixing a bright green with a light green tint (1 part) and a base blue (1 part), the result is a deep and rich shade that can also be called underwater blue. With the addition of white, the purity of the shade does not change.
How to get a blue-violet color by mixing paints?
Can be obtained by mixing basic blue paint (2 parts) and red (1 part). As a result, the color will turn out to be dark and moderately saturated. Lighter shades are obtained by adding white.
How to get Royal Blue by mixing paint?
Bright is at the junction of blue and lilac... This eye-catching shade can be obtained by mixing the base blue (1 part) with the Mangent pink (1 part). Lighter tones are obtained by mixing the resulting shade with white.
How to get a gray-blue color by mixing colors?
An additional color for blue is orange, when mixing these color spectra you should get grey colour... If you mix colors: orange and blue, then we get a formidable mass of indeterminate color. However, if you replace orange with brown and mix it with the main blue in the proportion of 2 parts blue and 1 brown, you get a dark, complex one. With the addition of white, the color acquires a more pronounced gray-blue tint.
How to get by mixing colors?
If saturated dark color the main palette of colors is not dark enough or too bright for you, then you can muffle and darken it with the help of black: 3 parts of blue + 1 black.