This is another sky blue but with more pronounced green undertones (but it’s still definitely blue!).You could also use any blue paint that is the color of the blue sky (directly overhead because that’s the richest color) on a cloudless sunny day.You could try mixing ultramarine blue with phthalo blue, then add just a titch of phthalo green, and finish by adding white to your liking.If you have dioxazine purple and ultramarine blue, mix together with white or use any light blue paint color that has a bit of purple added.Try mixing a cool toned purple, a little bit at a time, with a cool toned red.A vivid mid-toned (not too dark, not too light) purple red mix.If you have Quinacridone Magenta, mix it with white or you could mix any magenta that leans more toward purple with white to create a mid-tone pinkish purple color.Try mixing a royal jewel toned purple with white.Mid-tone (not too dark, not too light) purple.A vivid dark purple with a slight red undertone but not so much as Deep Violet or Prism Violet.Try mixing a dark purple with a bit of yellow to dull it down and then add white to lighten.Mid-tone purple (not too dark, not too light) with a grey undertone.Try the same mix as Deep Violet but add a bit of a brownish red like red oxide or brick red.Transparent deep purple with a slight brown undertone.If you have Quinacridone Magenta and Dioxazine Purple, mix together and add a bit of red.This is a very dark rich purple with a slight red undertone.I am most definitely NOT a paint snob, haha! To this day, I use craft paint, student paint, and professional paint. That said, as soon as you can afford it, and you’ve decided you can’t live without the joy of painting with acrylics, you should consider slowly upgrading. The most important thing, when you’re first starting to paint, is to get painting! In fact, I’m a big advocate for starting with craft paint because it’s inexpensive and easy to get your hands on. That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t use craft paint. It has to do with the amount of pigment used in the paint and, also, the quality of the pigment.Ī lot of craft paints have less pigment load which means that it takes a lot more paint to get the same effect as you would with two swipes of a student grade and one swipe of a professional grade. This can happen with craft paint as well as student grade paint. This can cause you to think that you’re using the wrong paint color but it could be that you just need to add more layers. This is the least worrisome challenge and the one that is most easily fixed, in my opinion, but it’s still worth mentioning.ĭifferent paint colors, and brands, can have different levels of transparency. These are subtle differences that can make a huge difference. This is especially true for paint colors that are made by mixing different pigments.įor example, you may have a turquoise paint from two different brands that both use a combination of phthalo blue, phthalo green, and titanium white BUT maybe one brand uses more green than blue and the other one uses more white than green. The other issue is that there is no way of knowing exactly how much pigment is being used in a formulation. So, even if you have two different brands of paint with a paint color that share the same name, the same pigments, the same everything, I hate to tell you this, but they could still be different.Īs someone who used to formulate bath and body products, I am well acquainted with using pigments and mixing them to create new colors.įirst of all, the two paint brands could be sourcing their pigments from different suppliers who mine their pigments (or manufacture them) in different locations and, believe it or not, that is enough sometimes to create a big difference. Let’s look a little closer at these stumbling blocks.Įvery paint brand has its own formula for how they make each color of paint. These are just some of the issues you can face that make the process of substituting paint colors……complicated.
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