How to mix paint colours

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By BrokenGirl
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mix paint colours

When working with paint, it is important to know how to mix colours... I will be telling you how to mix colours in step by step instructions...

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Step 1

To begin with in painting we need to have the 3 primary colours- red, blue, and yellow and also tubes of white & black...
Step 2

We will be creating secondary colours with the primaries beginning by mixing yellow and blue together to make Green, a secondary colour....
Step 3

The next two secondary colour created are red + blue to make purple and red + yellow to make orange... I hope you are sofening up the paints bey also mixing in water for acrylics and turpentine for oil paints...
Step 4

Now we are going to be making shades + tints with our white + black tubes of paint... Black added to your base colour makes a shade colour where white added to the base colour makes a beautiful pastel...
Step 5

With colours you can mix like brown which is created with a few different colours you can also add the white and white to, to create tints and shades...