Color Mixing Resources

Welcome painters! We hope you find the color mixing resources below useful to your painting practice. If there is anything else you need or if you have additional questions, our product support team is ready to assist you.

Welcome painters! We hope you find the color mixing resources below useful to your painting practice. If there is anything else you need or if you have additional questions, our product support team is ready to assist you.

CLASSIC COLOR MIXING CHART
Based on a selection of historically significant colors, this palette is capable of producing a wide range of traditional mixes, creating a spectrum of colors often found in nature. This wheel is built on a palette consisting of: Titanium White, India Yellow Hue, Cadmium Red Light, Alizarin Crimson Hue, Ultramarine Blue, Prussian Blue Hue, and Viridian Green Hue (GOLDEN Heavy Body Classic Mixing Set)

MODERN COLOR MIXING CHART
Using just seven colors, including organic pigments plus Titanium White artists can produce some of the cleanest, brightest mixes and a wide array of hues, shades and tints that are least likely to muddy or gray.  Recently updated, colors on this chart are mixed from a palette of: Permanent Yellow Light, Permanent Yellow Deep, Pyrrole Red, Quinacridone Magenta, Egyptian Violet, Phthalo Blue, Phthalo Green, and Green Gold.
(Williamsburg Modern Colors Mixing Set)

Color Wheel

PACK LIGHT WITH A SIX COLOR WATERCOLOR PALETTE!
 Our suggestion for a six color QoR palette selected for their own attributes and for their ability to create a spectrum of beautiful saturated colors. These are the colors recommended in this palette: Cadmium Yellow Primrose, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Transparent Pyrrole Orange, Quinacridone Magenta, Ultramarine Blue, and Manganese Blue.  You can read all about this right here in Just Paint.

GO FROM PUZZLED TO PROFICIENT WITHOUT WASTING A DROP OF PAINT!
The Virtual Paint Mixer has become the most popular resource we offer because it allows artists to experiment and play with colors from our entire palette before buying — by getting a feel for how colors interact with each other and identify the correct amounts of each color to nail a target color. You can even upload images to isolate colors and instantly create a paint mixture, convert colors from RGB or CMYK into paint mixtures – then save and share the mixtures you create!

double primary color wheelANOTHER VERY POPULAR RESOURCE FROM GOLDEN…
Maybe considered “step one”, our Color Mixing Guide is frequently cited by painting instructors for orientation to the concept of subtractive and reflective colors for artists. It is a little technical, but mostly it is a very practical guide to basic color mixing using primary colors. Like everything else we share on this page, this is a free resource you can access any time and anywhere.

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