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How to mix forest 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.

Forest green
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Oil, any brand
  • 83%Sap Green Gamblin
  • 12%Scheveningen Green Deep Old Holland
  • 5%Cobalt Blue Old Holland
Very close match
Winsor & Newton oil
  • 35%Transparent Brown Oxide
  • 34%Permanent Sap Green
  • 31%Viridian
Very close match
Gamblin oil
  • 87%Cobalt Blue
  • 13%Cadmium Yellow Deep
Very close match
Acrylic, any brand
  • 53%Phthalocyanine Blue Liquitex
  • 47%Hookers Green Hue Liquitex
Very close match
Golden acrylic
  • 96%Phthalo Green Yellow Shade
  • 4%Van Dyke Brown Hue
Very close match
Liquitex acrylic
  • 94%Transparent Burnt Sienna
  • 6%Emerald Green
Very close match

How to get there

Put out the Sap Green first: it is 83% of the mix.

Add the Scheveningen Green Deep and Cobalt Blue 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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