The bright crimson color in the palette is between red and pink. It is calm, noble, therefore it is considered in demand and is actively used in interiors.
Raspberry in the form of accents is used in bedrooms, living rooms, decorated in the styles of Empire, Renaissance, Baroque. Beginning artists are often interested in how to get a raspberry color, can this be done by mixing paints? It’s easy to create a shade with your own hands, you just need to know the tones suitable for the connection.
Shades of raspberry
Raspberry tone is incredibly popular among women: it is alluring, romantic, bright, it is considered the color of passion, love. The palette of raspberry shades is very diverse: there are light, dark colors, as well as a number of mixed colors. Among designers and painters, the most popular are close to raspberry shades:
- geraldine;
- Indian red;
- milling cutters;
- coral;
- dark pink;
- cardinal;
- carmine red;
- alizarin.
Raspberry color creation
To make the crimson color, you need to prepare the base paints (blue, red), as well as white and black colors. Sometimes additional shades are used, which can be made from the basic ones. For work, gouache, watercolor or acrylic paints are suitable. Professionals also use oil colors, but mixing them is somewhat more difficult.
Here is the basic recipe for making raspberry:
- squeeze onto a white palette or plate of red;
- add a tiny drop of blue;
- mix the mass until smooth;
- changing the amount of blue paint, get a raspberry color of the desired brightness;
- Dilute the mixture with white if necessary.
With the help of white gouache, you can create a beautiful pastel shade that will be close to pink, and yet it will have a gentle raspberry tone. To get a dark crimson color, a drop of black paint is introduced into the finished color. It is important only to use the minimum amount of coal color, because otherwise there is a risk of spoiling the material, making it dark and unsuitable for use.
A bright, juicy raspberry tone consists of the same red paint, but you need to mix it not with blue, but with purple color. The final shade will be so saturated that it is undesirable to use it as the main one in the interior. Too much purple should not be entered, 10-15% of the total mass is enough.
Here are other methods for making a shade of raspberry:
- for a muffled, deep tone, take red, yellow, black and brown colors, and the additives to red should be no more than 20%;
- for a piercing shade, connect bright red with azure or cornflower blue;
- for a thick, dark color they combine purple, brick with ultramarine or sapphire.
Paint Mixing Rules
To complete the drawing according to the idea, to get the color you need, when mixing paints, you must follow these tips:
- gouache lightens a little after drying, so initially the color should be made slightly darker;
- when combining three or more tones, you cannot mix them all at once - you need to act in stages;
- you should always enter an accent tone in the base, but not vice versa;
- you can’t upset the balance between the basic tones, otherwise you will end up with a dirty brown “porridge” instead of paint.
Oil paints are often mixed right on the canvas, applying strokes to each other. To get the desired shade in this way is much more difficult, therefore, for beginners it is better to try to combine the colors on the palette. Watercolors can be diluted with water, this will give approximately the same effect as dissolving gouache in white. Different in composition of the paint after mixing and drying can crack, so such experiments are meaningless. Observing these rules, you can get a beautiful raspberry hue, without looking for it in stores, quickly and without much difficulty!
