VIDEO: How do you mix the color brown correctly?

If you're keen to experiment, doing different things is really fun Colours to mix with each other and marvel at the result. With the color brown you have many possible combinations, all of which are based on one principle.

Brown - a variety of shades

The tones that are commonly referred to as brown occupy a relatively large area on the color wheel. These are mixed colors that are in the warmer spectrum. They all basically contain the three basic colors magenta, cyan and yellow, whereby the blue color is only mixed to a small extent.

You can roughly subdivide the brown shades into yellow-brown and red-brown. They lie between wine red and neutral yellow, especially light brown tones are called natural colors. Due to the coloring, brown tones are called earth colors. This goes hand in hand with the theory of color types, according to which brown is associated with so-called "Earth people types".

How to properly mix the color

Mixing brown can be done in a variety of ways, as there are very different shades of brown. Rely on your eye and it is best to keep adding a little color at a time until you get the shade you want.

1. Brown as a mixture of colors. You get the color brown from the three basic colors or primary colors of the color wheel. These are the colors cyan, magenta and yellow.

   



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2. Use all primary colors. Basically, every shade of brown contains all of these colors. If you were to leave out just one, you could just mix purple, orange or green tones.

   

3. The right mix. Depending on the correct mixing ratio of the three basic colors, you get different shades of brown. You can use black and white to darken or lighten the colors.

   

4. Start with a light color. Now mix the three basic colors together, using only a little blue, but a lot of yellow and red. More yellow results in ocher-colored, light tones, more red results in a red-brown color mixture. It's best to start with yellow, then add red and later blue.

   

As you can see, it is not difficult to mix brown because brown is always created when you mix many colors. You can also see this in the wash water for the brushes. After you've painted for a while, the cleaning water will mostly be brown in color.