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How to mix peach 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.

Peach
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Oil, any brand
  • 88%Naples Yellow Extra Old Holland
  • 12%Quinacridone Red Gamblin
Very close match
Winsor & Newton oil
  • 90%Naples Yellow
  • 10%Winsor Red
Very close match
Gamblin oil
  • 97%Naples Yellow Hue
  • 3%Quinacridone Red
Very close match
Acrylic, any brand
  • 83%Titanium White Liquitex
  • 12%Cadmium Red Light Hue Nova Color
  • 5%Orange Hue Blick
Very close match
Golden acrylic
  • 97%Naples Yellow Hue
  • 3%Quinacridone Red
Very close match
Liquitex acrylic
  • 82%Naples Yellow Hue
  • 15%Light Portrait Pink
  • 3%Vivid Red Orange
Very close match

How to get there

Put out the Naples Yellow Extra first: it is 88% of the mix.

Add the Quinacridone Red 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 peach 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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