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Magicfly oil paint set mixing recipes
The Magicfly 40-tube set is the budget box many painters start with. Its colour names do not map to standard pigments — the “Viridian” behaves like a phthalo, the “Light Apricot” is an unusually useful skin base — so recipes from other brands do not transfer. These were calculated for the Magicfly set itself and calibrated against painted swatches.
Recipes for Magicfly 40
| Colour | Recipe (parts) | Predicted match |
|---|---|---|
| Sage Green | 9 Titanium White + 7 Light Grey Blue + 2 Deep Yellow | Excellent match (ΔE 1.4) |
| Payne's Grey | 5 Titanium White + 4 Sky Blue + 1 Crimson Red | Excellent match (ΔE 1) |
| Light Skin Tone | 49 Titanium White + 48 Light Apricot + 1 Burnt Sienna | Excellent match (ΔE 1) |
| Medium Skin Tone | 9 Titanium White + 8 Light Apricot + 1 Burnt Sienna | Very close (ΔE 3.3) |
| Burnt Orange | 13 Titanium White + 12 Orange Red + 1 Burnt Sienna | Close (ΔE 4.3) |
| Teal | 9 Titanium White + 7 Sky Blue + 2 Emerald Green | Very close (ΔE 2.1) |
| Olive Green | 4 Titanium White + 3 Raw Sienna + 1 Sap Green | Excellent match (ΔE 1.1) |
| Dusty Rose | 5 Titanium White + 4 Light Apricot + 1 Lavender | Very close (ΔE 1.8) |
| Lavender | 33 Titanium White + 1 Violet | Close (ΔE 3.6) |
| Navy Blue | 7 Titanium White + 6 Phthalocyanine Blue + 1 Light Apricot | Excellent match (ΔE 0.5) |
| Forest Green | 3 Titanium White + 2 Deep Yellow + 1 Prussian Blue | Excellent match (ΔE 0.9) |
| Terracotta | 4 Titanium White + 3 Raw Sienna + 1 Purple | Excellent match (ΔE 1.3) |
| Mustard Yellow | 7 Titanium White + 4 Raw Sienna + 3 Mid Yellow | Excellent match (ΔE 0.3) |
| Turquoise | 57 Titanium White + 8 Sky Blue + 1 Lemon Yellow | Close (ΔE 3.8) |
| Sky Blue | 49 Titanium White + 1 Prussian Blue | Very close (ΔE 2.7) |
| Peach | 1 Light Apricot + 1 Titanium White | Very close (ΔE 2.4) |
| Cream | 97 Titanium White + 1 Orange Red | Very close (ΔE 3) |
| Charcoal Grey | 4 Titanium White + 3 Light Apricot + 1 Noir | Excellent match (ΔE 0.5) |
| Neutral Mid Grey | 11 Titanium White + 10 Gray + 1 Noir | Very close (ΔE 2.3) |
| Mauve | 11 Titanium White + 10 Light Apricot + 1 Violet | Very close (ΔE 1.6) |
| Moss Green | 9 Titanium White + 8 Deep Yellow + 1 Phthalocyanine Blue | Excellent match (ΔE 0.8) |
| Coral | 5 Titanium White + 1 Vermillion Red | Very close (ΔE 2) |
| Rust | 17 Titanium White + 16 Vermillion Red + 1 Mid Green | Excellent match (ΔE 0.8) |
| Sand | 3 Titanium White + 2 Light Apricot + 1 Gray | Excellent match (ΔE 1.3) |
| Maroon | 6 Titanium White + 5 Scarlet Red + 1 Violet | Very close (ΔE 2.7) |
| Brown | 3 Titanium White + 2 Orange Red + 1 Burnt Umber | Excellent match (ΔE 1.4) |
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 (26 recipes), Light Apricot (8 recipes), Deep Yellow (3 recipes), Sky Blue (3 recipes), Burnt Sienna (3 recipes), Orange Red (3 recipes), Raw Sienna (3 recipes), Violet (3 recipes). If you are buying open stock for this range, those are the tubes to keep full.
Mixing with Magicfly 40
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 Magicfly 40 mixing charts?
No. PaintMixLab is not affiliated with Magicfly. The recipes are calculated by our own mixing engine and calibrated against swatches we painted with the set.
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
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