How to mix colours: a recipe for every colour
Pick a colour: you get two or three ways to mix it in parts, the colour each way gives, and what to add to make it lighter, darker, warmer, cooler or duller. Every recipe is computed by the Tubomix paint model, not guessed.
- Skin tones
- Peach
- Beige
- Brown
- Terracotta
- Gold ochre
- Orange
- Khaki
- Olive green
- Green
- Sage green
- Teal
- Turquoise
- Sky blue
- Navy blue
- Lavender
- Purple
- Pink
- Burgundy
- Grey
- Mixed black
The tubes these recipes use
A common box: Titanium white, Hansa yellow light, Cadmium yellow medium, Cadmium red medium, Quinacridone magenta, Ultramarine blue, Phthalo blue, Yellow ochre, Burnt sienna, Burnt umber and Ivory black. With other tubes, open a colour and press “Get it with my own tubes”: the palette finds it with yours.
A mixing chart to print
Every tube of this box with white and black, and every pair mixed in steps, on A4 pages.
Colour mixing chart (PDF)