Looking for a color mixing chart? Here's a comprehensive guide to what colors make purple, red, orange, pink, blue, green, yellow, and brown . There are many possible ways on how to make brown with watercolors. E.g. you can make brown by mixing yellow and purple, or orange and blue. What colors makes brown paint? There are a few ways to make brown using acrylic paint or even oil paints. The easiest 2 ways to make brown paint is to mix 3 primary colors or 2 complementary together. For the primary colors method, simply mix equal amounts of yellow, red and blue to get a nice dark brown . For the complimentary color method, simply pick a hue on the color wheel and mix it with the hue directly opposite to it (I.e. yellow and purple)- more details on this method below. The ... This post includes a FREE PDF cheat sheet and a video of me demonstrating how to mix brown from primary colors , complementary colors and more.
