Winton Oil Colour mixing recipes

Winton is the student range from Winsor & Newton and the most common box on the easel. Many of its colours are “hues” — cheaper pigments imitating the artist-grade colour — so recipes written for artist-grade paint rarely land. The recipes below were calculated for the Winton range specifically, by the PaintMixLab engine, in parts.

Recipes for Winsor & Newton Winton

Colour	Recipe (parts)	Predicted match
Sage Green	13 Flake White Hue + 1 Sap Green	Excellent match (ΔE 1)
Payne's Grey	7 Titanium White + 4 Pale Rose Blush + 3 Payne's Gray	Very close (ΔE 2.9)
Light Skin Tone	49 Zinc White + 1 Cadmium Scarlet Hue	Very close (ΔE 2.2)
Medium Skin Tone	17 Titanium White + 16 Pale Rose Blush + 1 Yellow Ochre	Very close (ΔE 2.6)
Burnt Orange	4 Titanium White + 3 Cadmium Orange Hue + 1 Light Red	Very close (ΔE 1.6)
Teal	6 Titanium White + 5 Cerulean Blue Hue + 1 Cadmium Lemon Hue	Excellent match (ΔE 1.4)
Olive Green	7 Titanium White + 6 Raw Sienna + 1 Emerald Green	Excellent match (ΔE 0.7)
Dusty Rose	31 Flake White Hue + 6 Pale Rose Blush + 1 Burnt Sienna	Excellent match (ΔE 0.2)
Lavender	17 Zinc White + 1 Dioxazine Blue	Very close (ΔE 3)
Navy Blue	5 Titanium White + 4 Dioxazine Blue + 1 Phthalo Deep Green	Very close (ΔE 2.8)
Forest Green	5 Titanium White + 4 Emerald Green + 1 Burnt Umber	Excellent match (ΔE 0.6)
Terracotta	5 Titanium White + 4 Lemon Yellow Hue + 1 Cobalt Violet Hue	Excellent match (ΔE 0.8)
Mustard Yellow	9 Titanium White + 8 Lemon Yellow Hue + 1 Burnt Sienna	Excellent match (ΔE 0.9)
Turquoise	26 Soft Mixing White + 1 Cobalt Blue Hue + 1 Cadmium Lemon Hue	Close (ΔE 5.1)
Sky Blue	49 Soft Mixing White + 1 French Ultramarine	Very close (ΔE 3.4)
Peach	65 Soft Mixing White + 1 Cadmium Scarlet Hue	Excellent match (ΔE 1.5)
Cream	97 Soft Mixing White + 1 Raw Sienna	Very close (ΔE 2.5)
Charcoal Grey	13 Titanium White + 12 Emerald Green + 1 Magenta	Very close (ΔE 3.2)
Neutral Mid Grey	17 Titanium White + 16 Pale Rose Blush + 1 Emerald Green	Very close (ΔE 2.2)
Mauve	17 Titanium White + 16 Pale Rose Blush + 1 Prussian Blue	Very close (ΔE 2.8)
Moss Green	3 Titanium White + 2 Chrome Green Hue + 1 Cadmium Lemon Hue	Excellent match (ΔE 0.2)
Coral	25 Titanium White + 24 Cadmium Lemon Hue + 1 Magenta	Excellent match (ΔE 1.4)
Rust	8 Titanium White + 5 Cadmium Scarlet Hue + 3 Terre Verte	Excellent match (ΔE 0.6)
Sand	25 Zinc White + 1 Raw Sienna	Very close (ΔE 2.6)
Maroon	7 Titanium White + 5 Cobalt Violet Hue + 2 Scarlet Lake	Very close (ΔE 1.7)
Brown	7 Titanium White + 5 Terre Verte + 2 Burnt Umber	Very close (ΔE 1.8)

Parts by volume; standard engine (includes the white correction). Click a colour for the two-tube alternative, the Dark Mode recipe and how to mix it by hand.

The tubes that do the most work

Across these 26 colours the recipes lean on: Titanium White (17 recipes), Pale Rose Blush (5 recipes), Cadmium Lemon Hue (4 recipes), Emerald Green (4 recipes), Soft Mixing White (4 recipes), Zinc White (3 recipes), Cadmium Scarlet Hue (3 recipes), Raw Sienna (3 recipes). If you are buying open stock for this range, those are the tubes to keep full.

Mixing with Winsor & Newton Winton

Recipes are per set because tinting strength differs between brands — see why the same colour needs a different recipe in every brand. In the app you can also tick the exact tubes you own from this range and mix across brands.

Questions

Are these the official Winsor & Newton Winton mixing charts?

No. PaintMixLab is not affiliated with Winsor & Newton. The recipes are calculated by our own mixing engine and calibrated against swatches painted with Winton tubes.

Can I use these recipes with a different brand?

As a starting point only. Pigment strength differs between ranges, so use the recipe page for your own set, or build a custom palette in the app.

Let the app do the arithmetic

PaintMixLab photographs the colour and writes the recipe in parts for the paint set you own. Free for 3 days on iPhone.