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How to mix cream paint

The recipes below come from Paintwell's pigment model, worked out from the real tube paints named, in oil and in acrylic. Percentages are by volume of paint on the palette.

Cream
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Oil, any brand
  • 60%Naples Yellow Hue Gamblin
  • 40%Underpainting White Williamsburg
Very close match
Winsor & Newton oil
  • 96%Zinc White
  • 4%Winsor Orange Red Shade
Very close match
Gamblin oil
  • 77%Flake White Replacement
  • 23%Naples Yellow Hue
Very close match
Acrylic, any brand
  • 51%Naples Yellow Hue Golden
  • 49%Zinc White Golden
Very close match
Golden acrylic
  • 51%Naples Yellow Hue
  • 49%Zinc White
Very close match
Liquitex acrylic
  • 95%Titanium White
  • 5%Yellow Oxide
Very close match

How to get there

Put out the Naples Yellow Hue first: it is 60% of the mix.

Add the Underpainting White a little at a time, mixing fully between additions. The smaller shares are usually the stronger paints, and it is far easier to add more than to take it back.

Because cream is a light color, work the darker paints into the lighter one, never the other way around, or you will end up mixing a pile far bigger than you need.

Every brand's version of a pigment is a little different, which is why the recipes change from brand to brand. If you own other tubes, Paintwell works the recipe out from those instead.

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