Watercolor Mixing - Creating Green, Gray, and Violet

Dale Laitinen shares his colour recipes for mixing greens, grays and violets in this video.

Mixing greens
Phthalo Blue + Quinacridone Gold
Cobalt Blue + New Gamboge
New Gamboge + Phthalo Green

Mixing grays
French Ultramarine + Burnt Orange/Burnt Sienna
Phthalo Green + Permanent Alizarin Crimson
Cobalt Blue + Quinacridone Red + Quinacridone Gold

Mixing violets
Cobalt Blue + Quinacridone Red
French Ultramarine + Permanent Alizarin Crimson
French Ultramarine + Cadmium Red

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