VIDEO: Mix turquoise yourself

First try out your turquoise mix on "scratch paper" and only use the color on your actual picture when you are satisfied with the result.

How to mix turquoise out of watercolors

• Use the base color blue and the mixed color green to get turquoise, with blue being the base color.
• If you want a particularly cold turquoise, mix some opaque white with green and blue on a palette or the lid of your paint box.
• Water colors are not mixed separately in a separate container, which is also not necessary, except when using opaque white.
• Stir up blue with your wet brush until the paint starts to foam a little and paint a thick stroke on yours Scratch paper, stir the brush into the green paint pot and paint over the blue, you will see the paint mix immediately.


Turquoise - mix color

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• If you don't like the turquoise that you get from green and blue, put a pea-sized amount of opaque white in one of the compartments of your lid and mix in blue then green.
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• If you don't use opaque white, you can mix the turquoise directly on your picture by starting with blue and adding green to the still wet color.
• Switch between green and blue until you get a turquoise that suits you. There is no hard and fast rule for the ideal turquoise, go according to your own liking.
• If you don't have pure blue or green in your water color box, mix your turquoise of ultramarine blue and blue-green with some opaque white.

Avoid mixtures with yellow, this usually gives a rather swampy-looking green-blue, so yellow-green is ruled out.