How to Mix Sage Green in Oil
A soft, muted grey-green. Popular decorator colour. This guide gives you the pigment ratios that land on #9CA783 in oil, using the same solver that powers the Chromilla mixer.
Target
Sage Green
#9CA783
Mixed result
98% matchFrom these pigments
#9CA582
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. Titanium White
PW6
68%2. Ultramarine Blue
PB29
18%3. Burnt Sienna
PBr7
14%
What colours make Sage Green?
Titanium White, Ultramarine Blue, and Burnt Sienna, in roughly a 68:18:14 ratio.
How to make Sage Green in oil
Start with Titanium White at about 68% as your oil base, then work in Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Sienna in the order above. Adjust in 5% steps until the swatch reads #9CA783.
Why mix Sage Green instead of buying it
Mixing Sage Green yourself lets you approximate an expensive or hard to find tube from pigments you already own, match Sage Green 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
White cools and chalks a mix as you add it, so tint in small steps and stop before it goes pastel.
Get this recipe for your paint brand
Open the live mixer with Sage Green + oil pre-loaded and calibrate to your tubes.
Deep-dive guide
How to mix Sage Green, the long version
Common mistakes, per-brand recipes, and the honest limits when the target sits outside what real paint can reach.
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Pigment mixing is subtractive, so small ratio changes matter. The mixer refines this recipe to your brand and updates on the fly.