How to Mix Olive Drab in Oil
A dull, military olive drab. This guide gives you the pigment ratios that land on #6B6437 in oil, using the same solver that powers the Chromilla mixer.
Target
Olive Drab
#6B6437
Mixed result
96% matchFrom these pigments
#6E6434
Pigment recipe
Ratios calibrated for oil. Start with the dominant pigment, add the modifiers in the order below, and adjust in 5% steps to your target swatch.
1. Yellow Ochre
PY43
96%2. Ivory Black
PBk9
4%
What colours make Olive Drab?
Yellow Ochre and Ivory Black, in roughly a 96:4 ratio.
How to make Olive Drab in oil
Start with Yellow Ochre at about 96% as your oil base, then work in Ivory Black in the order above. Adjust in 5% steps until the swatch reads #6B6437.
Why mix Olive Drab instead of buying it
Mixing Olive Drab yourself lets you approximate an expensive or hard to find tube from pigments you already own, match Olive Drab across paint brands whose factory tubes differ, and rebuild the exact colour when you run out mid painting. The recipe above is the working starting point.
Common mistakes
Reaching for more black to deepen it kills the chroma, add the dark modifier already in the recipe instead.
Get this recipe for your paint brand
Open the live mixer with Olive Drab + oil pre-loaded and calibrate to your tubes.
Related mixing guides
Pigment mixing is subtractive, so small ratio changes matter. The mixer refines this recipe to your brand and updates on the fly.