Acrylic
Golden Heavy Body Acrylics
Mixed result
#FAFBF8
- 1. Titanium White (PW6)100%
Dry-down
Dries slightly darker and a touch warmer.
How to mix
How to mix Beige paint
Real pigment ratios for beige (#F5F5DC) in acrylic, oil and watercolour. The recipes below come straight from Chromilla’s mixer, calibrated to real manufacturer paint data.
Target colour
Beige
#F5F5DC
Live mixer
Open this colour in the mixer
The Chromilla mixer is pre-loaded with #F5F5DC. Change your brand, medium or palette and the recipe updates instantly.
Recipes by medium
One default brand per medium. Open the mixer to swap in your own tubes.
Oil
Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Colour
Mixed result
#F5F6E0
- 1. Flake White Hue (PW4,PW6)62%
- 2. Naples Yellow Light (PO62,PW6,PY138)36%
- 3. Lemon Yellow Hue (PY53)2%
Dry-down
Dries true to colour.
Watercolour
Daniel Smith Extra Fine
Mixed result
#F9F9DD
- 1. Buff Titanium (PW6)86%
- 2. Cadmium Orange Hue (PY53,PO73,PY83)14%
Dry-down
Dries slightly darker and a touch cooler.
Common mistakes when mixing beige
Beige looks like it should be the easiest neutral to mix, and that's exactly why it goes wrong: painters treat it as white with 'a bit of brown' and end up with a flat, chalky colour instead of a warm neutral. A tiny amount of a warm earth pigment and an even tinier amount of its complement, mixed into white, keeps beige from reading as dead. Add colour before you add much white, not after.
Related colours
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