Colour mixing

missbiggles1

Apologies if this seems an odd question.

I'm a bit colour blind and recently bought 2 large containers of heavily discounted paint in a salmon pink colour. Having put on the first coat, I really think it's a bit much and needs toning down so thought of mixing it with either white or cream. This is the best example I can find of the colour - 51 saumon.

http://www.colorissim.com/le-cahier-de-tendance-v33/reve-de-douceur/

Anybody any ideas as to which would be the better option?

Apologies for being so useless.:o

imho

Why not buy some tester pots of white and cream and mixing into a cup full of the main paint. If you do mix paint make sure you mix more than you think your use as your never get that same colour again.

missbiggles1

imho wrote: »

Why not buy some tester pots of white and cream and mixing into a cup full of the main paint. If you do mix paint make sure you mix more than you think your use as your never get that same colour again.

Thanks for the suggestion, that's probably the way to go with it - just thought I'd get some ideas first before going down that route.

I knew it was a daft question and I was obviously right.:o

Skintmama

When mixing paint for softer tones I usually mix the coloured paint into the white paint until I get the colour that I am after. I experiment with jam jars of paint to understand the proportions before I go for the big mix up. It can take a lot of white to tone down a colour adequately.

spadoosh

Mixed paints use a white base and the neccessary amounts of colourant. A cream paint will already have the colourants in of which they might not contain the same colours as your original paint. Using white will essentially 'dilute' the colour where as using a cream will change the colour.

Its mad science.

I was amazed when asked to mix a pure brilliant white for me to put the base tin in and for the only colourant to come out of it to be the black one. Who'dve thought you add black to white to get pure brilliant white. The whole thing goes completely against everything you learnt about colours in school!

Btw, you dont need to use colour blindness as an excuse, plenty of people pick horrific colours like that without being colour blind!

TheCyclingProgrammer

The black in the brilliant white may have actually been blue which brilliant white does have undertones of.

We got a very pale greyish lilac colour (Beluga Song, Valspar) and its pigments were black, yellow and orange!

ManuelG

spadoosh wrote: »

Btw, you dont need to use colour blindness as an excuse, plenty of people pick horrific colours like that without being colour blind!

A former landlord was colour blind, we had a delightful rust orange and blue two-tone living room.

spadoosh

TheCyclingProgrammer wrote: »

The black in the brilliant white may have actually been blue which brilliant white does have undertones of.

We got a very pale greyish lilac colour (Beluga Song, Valspar) and its pigments were black, yellow and orange!

Definitely black can even give you the valspar tint code if you want! . I used to mix the valspar paint.

TheCyclingProgrammer

spadoosh wrote: »

Definitely black can even give you the valspar tint code if you want! . I used to mix the valspar paint.

Fair enough!