How to Mix Salmon in Watercolor
A soft pink-orange salmon. This guide gives you the pigment ratios that land on #F0937D in watercolour, using the same solver that powers the Chromilla mixer.
Target
Salmon
#F0937D
Mixed result
96% matchFrom these pigments
#F7967D
Pigment recipe
Ratios calibrated for watercolour. 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
96%2. Cadmium Red
PR108
4%
What colours make Salmon?
Titanium White and Cadmium Red, in roughly a 96:4 ratio.
How to make Salmon in watercolour
Start with Titanium White at about 96% as your watercolour base, then work in Cadmium Red in the order above. Adjust in 5% steps until the swatch reads #F0937D.
Why mix Salmon instead of buying it
Mixing Salmon yourself lets you approximate an expensive or hard to find tube from pigments you already own, match Salmon 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 Salmon + watercolour pre-loaded and calibrate to your tubes.
Deep-dive guide
How to mix Salmon, the long version
Common mistakes, per-brand recipes, and the honest limits when the target sits outside what real paint can reach.
Read the guideRelated mixing guides
Pigment mixing is subtractive, so small ratio changes matter. The mixer refines this recipe to your brand and updates on the fly.