Okay, when I was trying to figure out how to make a nice little chart for myself to know how to make purple, I was unaware how many people have strong feelings about the color purple. This a bit more blue than red and a little bit of yellow The Color Purple Controversy! This is 2/3 blue and 1/3 red How To Make Amethyst This is a little bit more red than blue, and maybe a wee bit of yellow How To Make Violet
This is a little bit more blue than red, add a little yellow How To Make Plum This is a bit more red, mixed with blue, add black How To Make Mauve This color lavender is straight up purple, mixed with a LOT of white How To Make Aubergine
This color purple is straight half red, half blue How To Make Lavender Which is helpful for normal people, so I added my two cents in after that!įind out more about mixing purple with all the colors in the rainbow! How To Make Purple Here is my process… I found a color that matched in Hex# (those are computer numbers), then found the RGB (red, green, blue) and the CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black). Okay, I looked ALL over to find an easy, plain English version of how to make purple and there wasn't a great, all in one for the different purple colors. You can also make a tone by adding grey (mixed white and black) but I never do that because it makes “muddy” looking colors! How To Mix Purple In Acrylic Paints, Dye or Markers If you want a lighter, airier version of purple, use white. You shade a color by adding black to it, aubergine is purple with black (and maybe a hint of yellow) added!Īdditional Resource: What Happens When You Mix Purple and Black You tint a color by adding white to it, lavender is just purple diluted with white! So I thought I would give us an idea of how to make all different kinds of purple! Tints & Shadesīefore we get to our purples, let's talk about how to make colors lighter (tints) or darker (shades). Trouble was I wanted more of a lavender mix than a true dark purple so I wound up mixing and mixing and adding more colors (including white) to make the perfect color, making WAY more purple paint than I could ever use in one day! Just the other day I was working on one of my daily junk journal pages and I needed a purple background (it is a rainbow journal), but I didn't have purple acrylic paint so I thought, oh I will just mix up blue and red, no problem! Color theory is so fun! I know that red and blue make purple, but what KIND of purple are you trying to make? Lavender or deep purple, more of a mauve or plum? So really, what colors make purple?Īdditional Resources: What Colors Make Green? and What Colors Make Orange?
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