How to Mix Wine in Watercolor

A dark red wine colour. This guide gives you the pigment ratios that land on #5E2233 in watercolour, using the same solver that powers the Chromilla mixer.

Target

Wine

#5E2233

Mixed result

99% match

From these pigments

#5C2232

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. Viridian Green
PG18
54%
2. Alizarin Crimson
PR83
43%
3. Yellow Ochre
PY43
3%

What colours make Wine?

Viridian Green, Alizarin Crimson, and Yellow Ochre, in roughly a 54:43:3 ratio.

How to make Wine in watercolour

Start with Viridian Green at about 54% as your watercolour base, then work in Alizarin Crimson and Yellow Ochre in the order above. Adjust in 5% steps until the swatch reads #5E2233.

Why mix Wine instead of buying it

Mixing Wine yourself lets you approximate an expensive or hard to find tube from pigments you already own, match Wine 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

Overshooting on Viridian Green is the usual failure, add it in 5% steps and compare against the target between each pass.

Get this recipe for your paint brand

Open the live mixer with Wine + watercolour pre-loaded and calibrate to your tubes.

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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.