What to paint colors make red
How do I Make Red by Blending Paint Colors?
hi there my name is David Harris I've
been an interior exterior commercial
residential painter for the last 11
years and today we're going to discuss
how to make red by blending paint colors
the simple answer is that you can't make
red by budding paint colors red the
primary color along with yellow and blue
and what primary color means is that you
can't blend any two colors to make that
color those are called secondary colors
so the obvious next question is how then
does a paint supplier make red paint how
that happens is they take a white base
coat like they do for all paints and
they add a red pigment to it now a long
time ago it used to be that pigments
were only found in nature you would have
to go to a mineral or a plant to find a
red pigment to add to paint to paint red
nowadays especially in latex paint all
pigments are artificial in fact the only
place I think they still use natural
pigments is in fine art oil painting now
just because you can't use to paint
colors to make red doesn't mean that you
can't blend new paints to make new red
colors you're going to look at if you're
going to look at a color wheel you're
going to find that red falls between
yellow and blue and Red's that favor the
yellow side are going to look a little
more orange or maybe even a little brown
and the Reds that fall towards the blue
side are going to look more like a
purple and you can have a lot of fun
with staying inside the red family by
working around this concept so what we
have here are four different paint
colors to represent the spectrum of red
on this side we've got kind of an orange
II red or a brick red and on this side
we have kind of a a purpley red also
we've got kind of a bright yellow and a
dark blue
now what we're going to do is we're
going to take a little bit of this this
purple red a little bit of this orange E
red
I'm going to add it to a cup I'm going
to take a little bit of this blue I'm
going to add it in there
we can get it out that is
and then we're going to take a little
bit of the CLO and we're going to add it
to the orange e red
then what we're going to do is we're
just going to use a little foam brush to
kind of mix it up and get a new color
and the trick to mixing paint like this
just to make sure that you don't see any
any streaks of either of the original
colors so the tip to mixing paint like
this that you don't want to see any
streaks of the original colors on the
inside because once you apply to a wall
you can have a much harder time blending
the two colors together
so now that we have four different paint
colors why don't we put them on the wall
and see what we got
so what you see on the wall right now is
a color spectrum going from orange to
purple now on the far side of the orange
would be that bright yellow that I mixed
into the paint
and on the far side of the purple would
be that dark blue and if we continue
this process we would eventually end up
with a complete circle bleeding from one
end to the other so there you can see
four colors out of two paints
so my name is Dave Harris I'd like to
thank you for joining me today and
allowing me to share some of my
expertise with you and that is the
basics of how you blend paint colors to
make different kinds of red
