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Oil paint mixing guides
Short, practical guides on colour mixing for oil painters: how to mix greys and skin tones, why greens go muddy, why recipes differ between brands, and how to measure a mix in parts. Written alongside the calibration work behind the PaintMixLab paint mixing tool.
How to mix grey in oil paintComplement greys, value control, and why black-and-white grey looks dead.How to mix skin tones in oil paintA light, a halftone and a shadow from three or four tubes.Why your greens go muddyTinting strength, the Viridian problem, and how to grey a green on purpose.Complementary colour pairs for oil paintersWhich pairs neutralise cleanly, which turn to mud, and the ratios that matter.Tinting strength: why the same colour needs a different recipe in every brandWhat a 1:1 mix really means when one tube is five times stronger than the other.How to measure paint mixing ratios in partsPalette knife, syringe or teaspoon: getting a repeatable 4 : 2 : 1 on a real palette.
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