Many artists are familiar with the situation when a tube of paint runs out, there is no spare nearby, and there is neither the opportunity nor the desire to go to the store. The way out of this situation is quite simple: you can often mix several existing colors to get the missing one.
Instructions
Step 1
Many people remember from school, from drawing lessons, that purple is a secondary color, so to get it, you can use two primary colors - red and blue. Take some red paint with a brush and apply it to the palette. Then, without forgetting to thoroughly rinse the brush in water, take the blue paint. Paints need to be taken in approximately equal proportions, only slightly varying them, otherwise, if one of the colors is much larger, the color will vary from dark purple to crimson.
Step 2
If you want a light purple, take a pink paint, apply it to a palette, and then add blue there and mix thoroughly. Apply a couple of strokes to the canvas, perhaps this particular shade suits you perfectly.
Step 3
In order to get the purple color, you can go the other way. Take lilac paint and mix it with white paint, remembering to rinse the brush as you do so, so as not to ruin the entire tube. By varying the amount of white paint, you can get different degrees of violet color.
Step 4
Basically, any color belonging to the blue range of pigments, when mixed with cold red, gives purple. If you are serious about painting, you probably have more than just a six-color package of gouache. Therefore, to get you the much-needed violet, mix cobalt, ultramarine, azure blue, phthalocyanine blue with red. By adding some white paint to the palette, and mixing thoroughly, you can lighten the resulting color.
Step 5
Mix black paint with any cold red color. It can be phthalocyanine or alizarin red. The result is a muted purple color. It will be duller and not as chromatic as pure pigment, but nevertheless, you will get exactly purple.
