My Colour Mixing Recipe

My Colour Mixing Recipe

1) Choose your colour you are wanting to mix. For this I have chosen my colour from a Dimensions Dulux Colour swatch; the colour code was, 2060B50G. This is the second colour down on the image. 

2) Next you need to gather all of your equipment. These are the following; 

- Binder

- plastic cups work best for this
- Minerprint pigment (Blue B)
- Lollipop sticks 
- gloves 
- an apron
- a 50mls measuring cup

3) To begin with you have put your gloves and apron on. Then to make this particular colour of 2060B50G, you will need to get your 50mls measuring cup and measure out 50mls of the binder into the plastic cup. once you have used your meauring cup, before using it again make sure you clear it first. 

4) Now you have to get your lollipop stick. Using the tip oh the stick only; dip one end into the pop of the miner-print pigment to add the colour to your binder. Once you have a little bit of the colour in your binder use the same stick to mix it well till there is a flat colour. 

5) So this colour I needed a little bit more pigment and binder so I kept using a new stick every time to avoid contamination to the binder and pigments. If the colour needs to be brighter then add a little bit of binder to your mix, but if you think you are not quite on shade, add more pigment until your happy you have the colour your aiming for.