How to get an orange color and its shades in 10 photos + a table of all possible derivatives. How to get coral, peach, terracotta and red colors? Influence of white, black and brown in color composition.
Orange color is obtained by mixing red and yellow, but you can get a shade of this color (soft and light enough) by adding pink to yellow paint. Subsequently, all the main saturated shades of orange are somehow associated with red, yellow, pink, white. More complex and dark tones, are obtained with the participation of purple, brown and black.

How to get an orange color by mixing paints: red and yellow of the desired tone?

Everyone knows that the main orange gradient lies between red-orange and yellow-orange. Since the color is obtained or two colors, then, depending on the percentage of each color, there is a shift in one direction or another.
Of course, all the resulting shades from primary colors(in our case, red and yellow) will be paler. However, orange is made up of 2 warm tones, the waves of which are not very different (the opposite would be blue and yellow to create green), and even in the second order it looks quite catchy.

Mixing acrylic paints for drawing:

How to get yellow-orange and red-orange?

It is believed that to get a classic orange, you need to take 1 part of yellow and 1 part of red. However, in practice it turns out that you have to take more yellow than red. In the palette, you can always choose the right tone by adding yellow or red to the mixture.

How to get a light orange color?

This tone has a wide range of pastel shades. They are built using white, but there is an alternative: mix pink and yellow, the resulting shade is a soft orange tone related to the light range:

Another option would be to add yellow and white.
Usually in a palette of 12 colors there is already an orange tint, which is much brighter than the color obtained by mixing, so when building shades, we will use the existing one.
There is a bright red-orange tone in my palette of glossy acrylic paints. To get light orange tones from it, I need to mix red-orange, yellow and white:

How to get coral color?

Although this shade is closer to pink, its construction is completely tied to orange color, and there are 2 scenarios for getting it:
1) Complicated: we take red-orange, pink and white in approximately equal parts (when you mix, adjust the shade by eye, the main thing is to mix the paint thoroughly).

2) Red-orange is close to scarlet, and scarlet is a shade of red. Red mixed with white gives pink, and coral can be called a light shade of pink with an orange undertone.

IN this case coral will lean closer to orange, but still remain a luxurious tropical shade.

How to get peach color?

Another light and subtle shade of the base color. Peach belongs to the soft pastel scale., standing out from it with its sophistication, it has long been loved and entrenched in our imagination. Its construction consists of 4 colors:
1) Red+yellow+pink+white
2) Orange+yellow+pink+white
3) Coral + yellow + white

How to get terracotta color?

Let's move on to dark shades orange. One of interesting options- this is terracotta: a medium-dark, but rich complex red-orange hue is obtained by mixing purple and red-orange:

To make the shade lighter, adding a drop of white will help.

How to get red color?

The red color has an orange undertone. If you take Brown color and mix it with red-orange, then the resulting shades will be dark, but saturated. You can adjust the tone by adding yellow.

How to get a dark orange color?

You can adjust the brightness of orange shades using black: either to completely darken it, or simply dim the brightness. This is necessary to create contrast.
If you want to dim light shades: mix white with black to a gray mass and bring it into the working tone.

Table for obtaining orange shades when mixing colors:

Practice in color science is indispensable, but theory can give you an understanding of how this or that tone is built.

In the center - the main color from which the color is built. The first circle of colors is the shades with which the color is mixed in the proportion indicated below. The third circle is formed by tones that are the result of mixing the primary color and the first circle in a smaller proportion than the third. On the sides of the color at the end of the beam, the same color with the addition of black (darker) and white (lighter).

How to get other colors and their shades: theory and practice. Click on the icon.

Learning to draw: mix acrylic, oil, watercolor paints. All sorts of shades with three primary colors.

Without creativity human life empty and uninteresting. Painting, like music, is studied not only in order to be realized in life, but also in order to find an outlet in life, a hobby that will bring joy and peace to life. And where is the drawing, so is the mixing of colors. This is what this article is about. In it, we will tell you how to mix and get new colors and shades of the most common paints in drawing.

How to mix acrylic, oil and watercolor paints to get the right color: table, proportions

Mixing acrylic paints

We invite you to take a look at the lesson. famous artist and a dedicated teacher, author of Acrylic Painting with Lee Hammond. Lee Hammond warns that although we supposedly know from childhood that by mixing red and blue we get purple, acrylic paints have a different pigmentation and most likely you will find brown on the palette.

Important: read the pigments on the packages. Have you seen up to 15 types of one shade on store shelves? Do you think this is to fill the window? No, it's the same color with different pigments. Therefore, we write out or photograph on a smartphone the color - the necessary pigment, and already with this we go to the store to replenish the colors.

Also note that the pigments are transparent, translucent and dense in consistency. Therefore, you can buy completely different structures from the same paint manufacturer. This is not a marriage, but the properties of the pigment.

So, in order to get an almost complete range of colors, just 7 colors are enough. For beginners, it is recommended to purchase these particular colors, and in the future, at your own discretion, buy additional shades.

Please note that we do not specifically translate the name of the primary colors so that you can name them in the store and purchase the necessary pigments:

• Primary: Cadmium Yellow Medium
• Primary: Cadmium Red Medium
• Primary: Prussian Blue
• Optional: Alizarin Crimson
• Additional: Burnt Umber
• Neutral: Ivory Black
• Neutral: Titanium White

Bought, prepared the canvas for the experiment and move on to magic.

The first experiment - we mix each color with white and get new, amazing pastel and delicate shades. We give a table of strokes with a signature of what we mixed.

Well, now from left to right, from the first to the bottom, we analyze the shades that we managed to get: fawn; peach or as it is also called coral; light pink; beige; sky blue; gray or light asphalt.

And now we are trying to mix all the colors with black, the result is in the table below.

And we got these colors: khaki or dark green; chestnut; plum; rich brown; dark blue.

But it's all simple, now let's move on to a more complex option for mixing acrylic paints, but interesting! Mix and get all shades of green.

As we already did, we mix two colors that are under the stroke and get just such a shade.

In addition, we received: olive- green color; a gray-green hue reminiscent of asphalt after rain reflecting the green crowns of trees; bottle green; mint.

The next step is purple and purple tones and semitones. In order to get such shades, you will need to have Prussian blue or Alizarin pink or cadmium red in the work kit. Two mixing examples: Prussian Blue + Cadmium red medium or Prussian Blue + Alizarin Crimson.

We got colors: chestnut, rich warm gray, plum and lavender.

Now add white pigment and stir, add another drop to each option. Pay attention to what a riot of color played in your hands!

Solar shades. That's what artists like to call shades of orange, these are wonderful uplifting tones. They are obtained by mixing red with complementary colors.

On this table we got: orange as it is, peach, brick, coral.

Earth tones can be obtained by adding burnt umber (international value of Burnt Umber). If it becomes necessary to get pastel shades of these tones, then just add a drop of white pigment.

In this case, we got earthy tones: umber; brick; dark turquoise; sepia dark; dirty beige; pastel lilac; blue steel; warm grey.

Mixing oil paints

In oil paints, the situation with the palette is a little simpler and one pigment is used in one color, so we will not give the main colors, but leave only the name of the color. The rules that we remember from childhood are just the rules oil paints.

Mixing watercolor paints

Watercolor paints are mixed in the same way as oil paints, except that watercolor is translucent and the shades are more muted. We recommend that you work through the table above first, and only then move on to drawing on canvas.

Basic colors for mixing paints

The primary colors in mixing paints are only three colors. It's red, blue and yellow. White and black are optional. Thanks to these colors, you can get absolutely all the shades of the rainbow.

This article does not give ready-made solutions, because it is impossible to squeeze out or smear a certain amount of milligrams of paint, this article gives a direction in which you can work and develop. Try, experiment and you will definitely get an amazing creation. And painting works much better than any psychologist, relieves stress, distracts from problems and helps to see beauty in the ordinary!

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Every person has ever thought about how this or that color is obtained from the artist. In fact, many shades are obtained with colorists.

Consider the process of obtaining purple: the primary colors are red, blue and yellow. It is when they are mixed that a wide variety of tones and shades are obtained.

Mention should be made of black and white. They don't come out of mixing, so it's worth considering that artists use these five base tones in their work.

For getting purple just mix red and blue. Moreover, the shade of color will directly depend on the following factors:

1. Saturation of original colors
2. Their number and ratio.

When mixed, the main tone of purple is obtained.

Shades of dark purple

To get a dark purple tone, you can use two methods:

1. Add some black to the red.
2. Mix blue and red, and more than the first in ratio. You can adjust the black intensity of the desired shade.

Light purple is obtained by adding white to the base tone. A magenta tint can be made by changing the ratio in favor of red.

Gentle purple will turn out when mixing pink and blue paints. The scarlet shade of red and light blue give a beautiful burgundy shade of purple.

Mixing dark blue and red results in a rich eggplant tone.

Mixing Features

For different paints with different composition exist certain ways mixing them to get the tone we want.

How to make from watercolor?

When faced with this type of material, there is a problem with the saturation of the resulting color. To solve it, you will need the use of whitewash. In the event that they are not available, saturation can be adjusted by adding a certain amount of water.

From oil at home

Oil is more fluid than acrylic or watercolor. Therefore, the compositions must be mixed very carefully. You can call this a disadvantage, but it allows you to get uniform tones. With partial mixing, you can get multi-tone inserts.

There are three ways to mix oil paints: mechanical, color overlay and optical. In the first case, the process takes place in one container, and the saturation is regulated by adding basic tones. In the second case, strokes are applied to each other. In the third method, the paints are mixed directly on the treated surface, which allows you to get a more even tone.

How to get from acrylic?

They are universal and are used for many purposes - painting walls, drawing patterns on the ceiling, and so on. The composition adheres well to the treated surface. Buying all possible shades will be very expensive. For this reason, base colors are mixed.

To get the specific shade that you need, in the case of acrylic paints, you should use a special table that shows mixing options.

How much to add corrector?

The corrector is able to neutralize the unwanted shade from the resulting color. To facilitate the task, use the so-called Oswald's star. There are six colors - three basic and three additional.

If the ends of the star are connected with diagonal lines, then you get colors that neutralize each other. For instance, purple is able to neutralize the basic colors: green, red and yellow.

To enhance the color, you need to add a corrector below the color wheel.

IN various fields use, these correctors are also called mixtons.

UV for tattoo

The paint used is a powder that is "charged" by light and releases this energy in the form of a glow. With this combination, a luminous tattoo is obtained, and the desired color is achieved by adding a dye.

UV pigment is safe for humans. The composition does not cause allergies, but the paint should be tested to avoid undesirable consequences for the body.

Important! Why should you use UV pigment carefully? Any paint can cause an allergic reaction, so you need to be careful when choosing a pigment manufacturer.

In conclusion, we note that coloring is a very interesting science that allows you to give full rein to the artist's imagination. Getting purple and its various shades clearly illustrates this. Moreover, these methods work not only when writing works of art, but also for decorating rooms, interiors and glass stained-glass windows.

The color mixing table allows you to create a huge palette of bright shades from 3 basic colors. It is very exciting! The main thing is to choose the right colors according to the color mixing table.

Artist's Workshop: Magic Lessons

1. The combination of two neighboring colors of the spectrum gives shades with different intensities of these colors. For example, yellow and orange, when superimposed, give yellow-orange or orange-yellow, depending on which of these 2 colors prevails. If, in equal proportions, you mix 3 shades located next to each other on the color wheel, for example, yellow, red and orange, you will get the same orange, but more dirty.

2. When white is added to any color, its pastel shades of different intensities are obtained.

3. Mixing in equal proportions 2 primary colors, which are separated by 1 shade on the color wheel, we get exactly the intermediate color that separates them. For example, red + blue = purple.

4. An equal combination of 2 contrasting colors (located opposite each other on the color wheel) always gives a gray with a hint of one of these colors. For example, red + green, blue + orange, etc. Interestingly, if you mix complementary colors in a ratio of 2/1, you get absolute gray (without additional shades).

5. 3 primary colors located side by side, when superimposed in equal proportions, also form gray, for example, green + yellow + orange. Pay attention to the striking pattern: harmonious color combinations(which you can get using the color wheel) when mixed, the shades included in them give grey colour- balancing, absorb each other.

Create new colors according to the paint mixing table

As we already know, there are only 3 colors that cannot be obtained by mixing others. But from them you can create all the other shades. These magical colors are red, yellow and blue. By the way, mixing them with each other in equal proportions, you can get black. How to create all the other shades of the palette, see the table:

The color mixing table and the color wheel are used not only in painting, they are simply irreplaceable when tinting and mixing decorative plaster in construction, in perfumery and soap making, when dyeing fabrics, batik, etc.

The color spectrum: revealing the secrets of the rainbow

Isaac Newton, passing light through a prism, received a multi-colored beam, called the spectrum. For the convenience of color combinations, the continuous line of the spectrum with all its transitional tones was turned into a circle. As you know, three primary shades are distinguished in the color spectrum (red, blue and yellow), when they are mixed in pairs with each other, three more secondary ones are obtained (green, orange and purple). It is these 6 shades that form the color wheel, and each of them has additional colors(blue and red-violet, yellow-green, purple, red-and yellow-orange, blue-and yellow-green). Newton, by the way, singled out 7 colors, adding blue to the spectrum, which, along with the six main ones, is considered the color of the rainbow. By mixing these shades, making them darker or lighter to varying degrees, you can get a full range of colors.

I would like to immediately make a reservation that the division of the spectrum is conditional and depends on the characteristics of our perception. A person can distinguish up to 1000 tones in the color spectrum. Interestingly, reptiles and birds do not distinguish shades of blue, and some fish see everything in red. It is believed that for cats surrounding us colorful world looks dimmer, but they distinguish a huge variety of shades of gray.

Color Spectrum Table

The colors of the spectrum are called chromatic as opposed to achromatic (from Latin "without color"): white, black, gray. The order of the hues in the spectrum is always the same, starting with red and ending with purple.

Shades on the color wheel from green-blue to blue-violet are considered cold, from yellow-green to red-violet - warm. This division is rather arbitrary and depends on what associations these colors evoke in us: red-orange fire, yellow sun, blue ice, blue oceanic abyss. Did you notice that when separating the colors, we didn't mention green? And this is no coincidence. Pure green (which, by the way, is extremely rare) is considered neutral. A drop of yellow makes it warmer, blue - cools.

The color wheel is extremely important in the work of the designer. With its help, you can not only determine harmonious color combinations, create the right atmosphere in the room or attractive image, but also influence the perception, skillfully emphasizing the brightness, purity, beauty of color, enhance its intensity by adding complementary shades, balance cold tones with warm ones, etc. This magic is not difficult to learn even if you are not a designer, and you can apply it not only in interior design or clothing. With the help of the color wheel, anyone can create harmony in the apartment, correctly combine colors in clothes, manicure, makeup, etc. For example, orange-coral lipstick or peach shadows will emphasize blue eyes, and a green-turquoise scarf will refresh a scarlet dress.

Have you ever wondered how professional artists work with different colors to create paintings? Do they stock up on every possible shade of color for their work? Of course not. As a rule, they have several basic colors in their arsenal and with the help of an entertaining science - coloring - they get hundreds of desired shades.

Purple in the color palette

This article is all about purple, the latest color in the rainbow.

It is not base in the palette. The main colors are blue, yellow and red. What does it mean? By mixing them, you can get a huge variety of colors and their shades. It is worth mentioning two more colors. It's black and white. They cannot be obtained by mixing. So in essence, artists use five colors when creating their magnificent masterpieces - these are three base colors plus black and white.

A bit of history

Violet (aka purple) is considered a cold and deep tone.

Its history is interesting and shrouded in mystery. Purple has always been considered a mystical and "royal" color.

In Byzantium, the purple color was called blattion and was considered imperial. Purple was very often used in the stained glass windows of cathedrals in medieval times. Purple smalts can be found in Byzantine mosaics in Ravenna.

In Russia, the purple color was called Yubagr. And in England in the second half of the 16th century, only members of the royal family or royalty.

Purple has a special meaning in Christianity. It represents the seventh day of the creation of light and is considered a day of rest. Takovo spiritual meaning this color.

Among Catholic Christians, the traditional clothing of the clergy is the cassock - this is a split dress to the floor. Only bishops can wear such a purple robe, it is forbidden for ordinary clerics.

How to get purple? The easiest way

Coloring is a very entertaining and interesting science. All children like to watch how, with a wave of a magic wand, two or three colors form a completely different, fourth. It really looks like a mystic.

For example, in order to get brown, you need to mix blue, red and yellow on the palette.

For orange - red and yellow, green - yellow and blue.

But how do you get purple? You only need to mix two colors - red and blue.

The depth and brightness of the resulting purple will depend on a number of indicators:

• tones of the original colors;
• quantities of this or that paint, their proportion.

How to get different shades of purple?

But after all, artists are not content with just one shade of purple when writing their paintings. It would then not be art, not magic. Yes, they can create dozens of different tones of this mysterious color.

How to get dark purple color?

There are two ways.

1. Add a few drops of black to red.
2. Mix red and blue, adding more of the latter, and also adjust the intensity by adding black. It will turn out a very dark, muted, but purple color.

How to get magenta tint?

It is necessary when mixing red and blue paints, put more red. If the proportion is greater of blue color, then the purple will turn out brighter and more pronounced.

How to get a light purple hue?

You need to mix pink and blue paints on the palette.

How to make the resulting color lighter?

In this case, you just need to add white to the mass.

Features of working with gouache and watercolor

The above methods are ideal if you are wondering: "How to get purple with gouache?". This type of paint is thick and well pigmented, the artist will have no problem adjusting the intensity of the color. But there is one pitfall that you should not forget about: when dried, gouache brightens by several tones. This is always worth remembering when getting the desired purple hue.

In some ways it is easier, and in some ways more difficult to work with watercolors. It does not have such a rich texture as the same gouache. How to get purple paint color and desired shades with watercolor?

The way it works is exactly the same. But if there is no white, then the pallor or saturation of the desired shade must be adjusted already with the help of water (diluting the paint with it). And, of course, it is quite clear that the same color saturation cannot be achieved from watercolor as from gouache.

Methods for dyeing mastic in purple

When preparing their delicious masterpieces, confectioners very often color mastic. And just like artists, they do not have to have all the shades and colors of dyes in their arsenal. To answer the question: “How to get the purple color of the mastic?”, You need to determine how this delicious “plasticine” fell into the hands of the master?

If the mastic is homemade, then there is nothing easier than adding two dyes - blue and red - to the still liquid mass during its preparation. They can be both dry and gel type.

If the mastic is purchased and white, then it will be easiest to first paint two balls in different colors- Red and blue. And only after that mix them in different proportions, resulting in the desired shade.

The effect of purple on humans

There is such a science - chromotherapy. She studies the impact different colors on the human condition. So purple has a very beneficial effect on almost all organs and senses.

1. Promotes a more rapid production of priceless hormones of joy - endorphins.
2. Rejuvenates.
3. It has a calming effect on insomnia and migraines.
4. It has a tonic effect on the pituitary gland and eyes.
5. Increases immunity.

But you need to use this color wisely, without overloading your space with it. Too much purple can lead to melancholy.

Now you know how to get purple. You know how it affects the human body and you can successfully apply the knowledge gained in practice, whether it is color treatment or the creation of a confectionery or artistic masterpiece. So multifaceted, from pale purple to almost black, this color personifies everything sensual, mysterious and mysterious.