How Do I Mix Greens?
How Do I Mix Greens? “I know color theory says that to get green I mix blue and yellow together, but I’m doing that and I’m not getting nice greens! What am I doing wrong?” — AgathaAnswer: It’s not that you’re doing something wrong, but rather that when it comes to mixing greens, not all blues and yellows are equal. Some combinations produce more vibrant greens than others. Experiment with all the blues and yellows you’ve got, including using more than one blue and more than one yellow at a time. Mix the green by adding a little blue to the yellow, rather than yellow to the blue. Why? It takes a lot less of a dark color (in this case blue) to change a light one (in this case yellow) than it does the other way round, so you’ll save on paint. If you’re skeptical that you can mix spectacular greens and believe the only solution is to buy them in a tube, the greens shown in the painting here (
