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Building Tips and technical articles. => Paint and finishing => Topic started by: Glenn (Gravitywell) Reach on January 05, 2010, 04:20:24 PM
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Hi all. I need to make a sea foam green for a project I'm working on but have no idea what colours, or how much of each, to mix. I am hopeing to stay with good old Rustoleum if possible. Can anyone out there help? I'm totally stupid when it comes to this sort of thing. I generally stick to primary colours because of it! LOL H^^
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Sounds like you are looking for an aqua color. That would be green and blue, depending on what you are really looking for, you may want more blue or more green. If you are looking for a dark blue/green, then that would be the blue and green, along with a little yellow and just a TOUCH of black. I'm not perfect on giving you ratios since I just learned how to make that sort of color today in my art class.
Hopefully I'm right H^^ ???
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Try this! www.colormatters.com/colortheory.html
Cheers Neville
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This is actually the colour I'm trying to get. It's the greenish/yellow colour.
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Grav,
Base Green (sort of a Kelly green) and white then add gray and blue as needed till you get the tone you want. Something like 4 parts green, 1 white and the gray and blue in drops.
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Many ways to aproach it, personally I would start with white, add green, slowly till it got close, then you will likely need some yellow, and if its to green looking but otherwise close, then use a drop of red to deaden the color slightly.
Its really hard to accuratly guess what it will take because the color density of each color can vary so wildly within a particular type of paint. Its much easier to darken a color than it is to lighten it. That is why i will generally start with the lightest color I anticipate using , and add the second most prominant color, ( green in this case) . I would anticipate perhaps needing a touch of brown, or like I said red to kill some of the "prettyness" of the color as it gets close. In paint tinting this is called clean, or dirty. this color is fairly clean.
the BEST way to approach this, is to mix up a small, as in one ounce batch to find out about how all the colors interact.
this way you can goof up several times and still not hurt anything.
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If its the lighter colour you are after? then its called "Sky" its an RAF/Navy colour. Its available in a large rattle can here in England, made by Spectrum (I think?) Humbrol and Revell do it too!
Cheers Neville
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If I were doing it, I would take the photo to HOME DEPOT, have them scan it and buy a quart of white Rust Oleum. The guy behind the counter would custom blend the exact shade at no extra cost.
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I have to back off a bit on the above. I stopped by HD and the paint guy said that "Rust Oleum doesn't make a TINT BASE".
But I'm still of the opinion that it's worth a try for $8.95 a quart, if you promise not to hold him responsible for the result.
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Can't thank you all enough for your help. I had no idea that rustoleum could be tinted the same as other paints....should have known though, after all....its paint! LOL LL~ I think thats what I'm going to do, it makes sense. I am also going to go to the local "Anything-for-a-Dollar" store and buy some of those cheap craft paints and try mixing them. It actually sounds like fun. Thanks again everyone, really appreciate the help. H^^
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You could buy one of those small plastic modeler tinlets of Sky paint, paint it on some smooth surface, and then get that scanned like Gravity says!
Cheers Neville
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well, Just got back from coffee which is right next door to our local hardware store. I poppe3d in and asked if they could mix the Rustoleum and they said they could. All I have to do is either bring in a colour sample or pick any colour chip! #^ Thank you Paul for the excellent tip. And thank everyone else for the great help. H^^
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NOT A PROBLEMO....JUST GO TO THE FURY'S MOUTH AT alsf8@yahoo.com and ask THE MAIN MAN OF SEAFURY!
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Red, Blue & Yellow are Primary colors.
Purple, Green and Orange are Secondary colors.
Purple= Red, Blue.
Orange= Red, Yellow.
Green=Yellow, Blue.
When you Tint a color you add White.
When you Tone a color you add Black.
Mix all 3 Primary colors and you get Brown.
Keith Ferris painted the B-17 Mural in the Air & Space Museum with nothing but the three Primary colors plus White and Black!!
Go to an Art supply store and get a color wheel. (Hobby lobby) Good investment.
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Douglas, Look at the third post on this thread!!!!!
Cheers Neville