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How to mix Terracotta paint

Real pigment ratios for terracotta (#B25538) in acrylic, oil and watercolour. The recipes below come straight from Chromilla’s mixer, calibrated to real manufacturer paint data.

Target colour

Terracotta

#B25538

Live mixer

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The Chromilla mixer is pre-loaded with #B25538. Change your brand, medium or palette and the recipe updates instantly.

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Recipes by medium

Checked August 2026

Generic pigment ratios, the same ones the Chromilla mixer solves for. Open the mixer to swap in your own brand and tubes.

acrylic

Pigment recipe

99% match

Mixed result

#B25537

ΔE 0.3

  1. 1. Yellow Ochre (PY43)64%
  2. 2. Alizarin Crimson (PR83)24%
  3. 3. Viridian Green (PG18)12%

Dry-down

Dries slightly darker and a touch warmer.

oil

Pigment recipe

99% match

Mixed result

#B25537

ΔE 0.3

  1. 1. Yellow Ochre (PY43)64%
  2. 2. Alizarin Crimson (PR83)24%
  3. 3. Viridian Green (PG18)12%

Dry-down

Dries true to colour.

watercolour

Pigment recipe

99% match

Mixed result

#B25537

ΔE 0.3

  1. 1. Yellow Ochre (PY43)64%
  2. 2. Alizarin Crimson (PR83)24%
  3. 3. Viridian Green (PG18)12%

Dry-down

Dries slightly darker and a touch cooler.

Common mistakes when mixing terracotta

Terracotta is a warm, muted orange-red, close to the colour of fired clay, and painters usually make it too clean and bright. A little of its complement, a blue-green, muted into the mix gets the dusty, earthy quality real terracotta has, rather than a saturated coral. Burnt sienna is often most of the answer here before you reach for red at all.

Short recipes by medium

Straight-to-the-ratio versions of terracotta in each medium, from the Chromilla mix library.

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