VIDEO: How do you mix gold?

Can you mix gold from other colors?

When painting, it can be annoying when you want to paint gold knight armor, gold coins or gold cutlery, but then unexpectedly the gold color is empty. On the other hand, it would be helpful to know how to mix gold yourself.

• Strictly speaking, gold, like silver, is not a color at all, but a metal that, thanks to its special properties, gets its shiny appearance.
• For this reason it is basically not possible to mix the basic colors together in such a way that gold comes out.
• Therefore, if you need gold paint for painting on a regular basis, then you should check out the Specialized trade get a small supply.

How to mix compelling shades of gold

If you only need the gold color in exceptional cases and therefore don't want to buy some extra, there is one couple of workarounds that actually allow you to mix up a shade that is very close to gold comes.

• It works best when you have normal yellow with it Aluminum pigments mixes. These give the yellow a fascinating glitter effect, which makes it look like gold.
• If you don't have any aluminum pigments in the house, you can mix a good gold color yourself by mixing yellow and orange with silver paint. The latter then provides the required glitter effect.
• If the silver color is also empty, you only have an emergency solution. If you mix yellow with a little light brown, the result is a shade that looks at least somewhat similar to gold.

Any of these different ways to mix gold will surely help you. You should know, however, that gold paint bought from specialist retailers will most likely look far more authentic than the result of these mixing experiments.