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How to mix dark green 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.

Dark green
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Oil, any brand
  • 60%Phthalo Blue Greenish Rembrandt
  • 40%Sap Green Gamblin
Very close match
Winsor & Newton oil
  • 60%Winsor Blue Green Shade
  • 40%Permanent Sap Green
Very close match
Gamblin oil
  • 66%Phthalo Blue
  • 34%Transparent Earth Orange
Very close match
Acrylic, any brand
  • 71%Phthalo Blue Amsterdam
  • 29%Medium Yellow Nova Color
Very close match
Golden acrylic
  • 73%Phthalo Blue Green Shade
  • 27%Nickel Azo Yellow
Very close match
Liquitex acrylic
  • 74%Phthalocyanine Green
  • 26%Transparent Burnt Sienna
Very close match

How to get there

Put out the Phthalo Blue Greenish first: it is 60% of the mix.

Add the Sap Green 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.

Judge the color in the light you will paint in, and test a dab on the canvas: wet paint and dry paint can read differently, especially acrylic, which usually dries a little darker.

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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