Hi there! My name's Rosanne, and
I'm the co-founder of Country Chic Paint, and in this video
I want to show you how to mix different colors. As you probably already know
we are able to make custom colors in any color that you want,
so if you have a specific color you want to match, you can send us your color chip
and we'll make a quart of paint in exactly that color for you.
However, why not have some fun and play around with
the Country Chic colors, and mix some of your own
variations. In this video I'll show you how to mix
tints, shades, tones and different colors.
So let's start with mixing tints. A tint is basically a lighter version of a
color.
It's also called a pastel. We can mix a tint simply by taking your color and
adding some Simplicity to it.
Simplicity is our pure white color.
So let's, for example, take Luscious Lime
and Simplicity and create a new tint!
And I'll just show you on this piece of paper.
I'm actually using my fingers.
There's the green,
and the white.
So you can see how I've taken the Luscious Lime
and added the Simplicity to it to create a nice
light green, like a light apple green color.
The best way to create a tint is to start with
Simplicity and add a bit of color to it. If you start with the color,
you might need to add a lot of the Simplicity to get the tint that you're
looking for.
So now let's say you want to create a shade of a
particular color. We're going to be adding
some Liquorice to it. So I'm going to take
Cranberry Sauce and Liquorice to mix a
shade.
Our Liquorice is our black color, by the way!
So let me take a bit of Cranberry Sauce
and I'm gonna just add a little bit of
the Liquorice in it. When mixing shades,
you want to be careful not to add too much Liquorice, just start with a little
at a time.
Just to compare the difference between
the Cranberry Sauce and then our mixture.
This is quite bright, but compared to that, this is like a
wine red color.
This is a mixture of
Cranberry Sauce and Liquorice, and its one part
Liquorice with eight parts of
the Cranberry Sauce to create a nice wine red color.
Usually, we're attracted to colors that are a bit more toned down
because they are more sophisticated. So we can create
a tone by adding some Hurricane
to a color. Instead of using Hurricane, which is our
charcoal gray with a blue-ish under tone color.
You can also use Simplicity and Liquorice
mixed together. So you create a tone by mixing a color
with grey. So we're going take this
color, Tropical Cocktail, and mix it with the
Hurricane. And I'll show you what that looks like.
I'm going to take a dab of the Tropical Cocktail and add
a little bit of Hurricane in it. And as you can see that
really greys it. You can do the same thing by adding Simplicity and Liquorice.
Now that I've shown you a tone with
Tropical Cocktail, I also want to show you how you do
tints and shades in the same color.
We'll add a bit of the Simplicity here to create a tint
and just a tiny bit of Liquorice to create a shade.
You can obviously add a bit more of the white, Simplicity,
to lighten it up if it is too dark for your liking.
So we can do more than just mixing tints, shades and tones of a different color. We
can create a different
hue all together by mixing two different colors together
So I'm gonna show you some examples here, but I want you to
go and play around with this because you can create your unique colors by doing
this.
Let's say you wanted to create a mint color.
I'd suggest to start by mixing Tropical Cocktail
and Luscious Lime.
The color might be a bit too dark, so you'll want to add some Simplicity as well to
lighten it up.
So for example, this
mint green color that I mixed together
is a mixture of one part Tropical Cocktail, one part Luscious Lime,
and two parts Simplicity. Say I want to create a nice lilac color
I am going to take
our Midnight Sky and
our Cranberry Sauce and I'll also use some
Simplicity in it.
This color was actually made with one part
of Midnight Sky, one part of Cranberry Sauce,
and four parts of Simplicity. So it's a pretty nice color, I really like this one!