![]() ![]() This high intensity color yields something close to black. I'm mixing alizarin red with phthalo green. The second color, I want to just give you perspective of what the brown would look like if the cool tone is too cool. Because the green is a light and soft green, this yields a nice reddish brown, for all the colors that I’m mixing here I’m going to add white to it so you can see it more clearly The first color I'm mixing cadmium red with emerald green. When mixed together they cancel each other out, meaning you create a greyscale, and in some instances you will get different shades of brown. These are red and green, orange and blue, purple and yellow. The first method is to use complimentary colors on the color wheel looking at the color wheel, the complimentary colors are the pairs that are directly across from each other. Mixing Brown using Complementary Colors.To visualize this more, you can see the different color mixing proportions and combinations in my color mixing cheat sheet. In order for a color to look brown, the warm tone must be the predominant tone, if the cool tone is stronger than the warm tone, then the brown can turn blue, purple, or green. So simplifying this, I know that orange is made of red and yellow, and that red and yellow are warm tones. I mean it’s a pretty confusing color to define isn’t it? Here’s a rule of thumb, think of brown as a type of orange. Find out more Artist Tips on my eBook Becoming A Self Taught Artistīefore I begin, I think it’s important to understand what brown really is. In the video (below) you can see that I’m mixing the colors and then add white to it so you can see it in its dark and light form. The first is using complimentary colors, the second using black paint, and the third using primary colors. In this blog, I talk about how to mix brown using three different methods. ![]()
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