Acrylic
Golden Heavy Body Acrylics
Mixed result
#AC4C4A
- 1. Cadmium Red Medium (PR108)49%
- 2. Titanium White (PW6)25%
- 3. Raw Sienna (PBr7)13%
- 4. Burnt Sienna (PBr7)13%
Dry-down
Dries slightly darker and a touch warmer.
How to mix
How to mix Brown paint
Real pigment ratios for brown (#964B00) in acrylic, oil and watercolour. The recipes below come straight from Chromilla’s mixer, calibrated to real manufacturer paint data.
Target colour
Brown
#964B00
Live mixer
Open this colour in the mixer
The Chromilla mixer is pre-loaded with #964B00. 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
#944B1B
- 1. Prussian Green (PB15,PY110)61%
- 2. Indian Yellow (PR101,PY139)15%
- 3. Permanent Carmine (PV19)12%
- 4. Quinacridone Magenta (PR122)12%
Dry-down
Dries true to colour.
Watercolour
Daniel Smith Extra Fine
Mixed result
#CA5605
- 1. Imperial Purple (PV19,PB29)36%
- 2. Bismuth Vanadate Yellow (PY184)24%
- 3. New Gamboge (PY97,PY110)20%
- 4. Pyrrol Orange (PO73)20%
Dry-down
Dries slightly darker and a touch cooler.
Common mistakes when mixing brown
Brown is what you get from mixing complementary colours together, not from a special 'brown' recipe, and painters who reach straight for a tube brown miss how much range is available by mixing their own from a red and a green, or an orange and a blue. Mixing your own also means the brown relates properly to the rest of your palette instead of sitting apart as an unrelated colour. If your brown looks muddy in a bad way rather than a good way, you likely have too many pigments fighting each other, aim for two or three, not four or five.
Related colours
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