Color Mixing

Turquoise is versatile and vibrant and can add a unique charm to any artwork. While many shades of turquoise can be purchased already mixed in a tube, understanding how to mix your own turquoise in its various shades is helpful for artists.  Basically, turquoise is a mixture of blue and green. However, knowing the right

Blue is often one of the first colours artists buy, usually Ultramarine Blue. While there are many beautiful blue paint colours available, artist-grade paint can be expensive. Learning how to mix blue paint colours allows you to create dozens of shades of blue using just a few tubes of paint. Since blue is one of

Red is one of the three primary colors on the color wheel, the others being blue and yellow. All other colors are created by mixing these three colors together in different combinations. This means that basic red cannot be mixed by using any other colors. However, various tints, tones, and shades of red can be

Sometimes, the colour black gets a bad rap among artists. Many artists don’t even have tubes of black paint in their paint boxes.  Why? Well, tubes of black pigment are often flat and lifeless. If used alone, they can make a painting seem dull. However, the black colours you see in nature and in objects

To mix a basic brown, you need to combine two complementary colours (opposite each other on the colour wheel), such as blue and orange or yellow and purple. That’s pretty basic, but there is a whole lot more to mixing colours and many ways to get the brown colour you want for your painting. Keep