How to get black from paints

Features of black color

For an artist, this color means the darkest, and for scientists, it means the absence of color. Black is an achromatic shade that absorbs all light. In terms of absorption of light flux, it is opposite to white, which completely reflects the light and radiation incident on it. In the natural environment, there is a material close to it in tone - this is dark Vantablack carbon, which absorbs 99.96% of incident light and other radiation.

Even during the Renaissance, masters of painting tried to obtain black paint and concluded that it was impossible to do this from other paints. Therefore, they used burnt bones, from the soot of which they made a matte black paint.

Today, black paint is made industrially from natural carbon pigments such as graphite and carbon black.

Color models

In practice, 2 main color models are used:

RGB is additive, which is based on the superposition of rays reflected from the surfaces of objects. It is used in computer monitors and contains the main colors: R-red, G-green, B-blue. The remaining colors and shades are obtained by overlay.
CMYK is a subtractive model that is based on the physical mixing of pigments, with white being the absence of color, and pure black obtained by mixing cyan (C-cyan), magenta (M-magenta) and yellow (Yellow) tones, K (key color ) - key. This system is used in the printing industry and printing on printers.

How many shades of gray are there?

In computer representation, the widely used gray scale uses one byte (8 bits) of information for each pixel in the image. This scale conveys 256 shades (gradations) of gray, or brightness (a value of 0 represents black, and a value of 255 represents white).

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What colors should I mix?

To get a black color close to ideal, you can go by mixing paints of the following colors:

Red and green - the resulting tone will be close to the desired one (in fact, it turns out to be very dark, and if you look closely, it is not quite ideal).
Blue, yellow and red - if you take these 3 primary colors, then mixing them will also allow you to get a fairly rich color scheme.
Additional colors (brown, purple, blue) - you need to mix them in small quantities, then you will get an approximate color.

You can use any paints intended for painting or household purposes for mixing: acrylic, gouache, watercolor and oil. If there is no ready-made dye of a classic tone, then there are a lot of options on how to make black paint from others.

To obtain a pure color, you will have to work hard and select the necessary proportions, gradually adding different colors.

On the video: what colors to mix to get black.

For tattoo

Tattoo ink is an expensive material. That is why it is often prepared at home. To do this, you need to take a tin can, put a lit piece of rubber in it and cover it with a plate. Soot will collect on the plate. It is collected in a container and diluted with the urine of the person who will be tattooed.

IMPORTANT! For a temporary tattoo, you can prepare paint based on henna powder.

Take 0.5 liters of water and heat it up. 40 grams of henna are added to the composition and boiled. After this, a few tablespoons of sugar are added to the mixture. Next, 10 milliliters of freshly squeezed lemon juice is added to the mixture, mixed and quickly removed from the heat. After cooling, the paint can be used for tattooing.

Shades of black

There are many shades, slightly different from classic black, that will allow the artist to add originality to his work. Historically, the following shades have developed:

Slate - Essentially a dark grey, the name comes from the slate slate that was previously used in blackboards.
Karamazy – synonyms for “dark-haired”, “dark-skinned”.
Anthracite is a highly saturated color with some shine.
Ox's blood is a black and red color.
Bardadym is the name of the king of black suit in the game of cards.

Modern shades of black differ from those used previously:

Soft black - to obtain it you need to mix the following colors: turquoise, pink and yellow, sometimes adding a little white.
Medium - pink, ultramarine and light yellow paints are mixed for it.
A rich color scheme can be made not only from three primary colors (chromatic), but also using red, yellow and blue.
Blue-black - obtained by mixing brown and dark blue.

Many shades of dark and light gray can be made by experimenting with adding white paint or adding a little water at a time. Experience will show you what colors and shades you get.

Mixing primary colors (1 video)

What colors should you mix to get black?

Black and white colors are also commonly called the absence of color as such. If you need to get black by mixing other colors, then this can be done by mixing three colors - magenta, yellow and cyan.

You can get black by mixing red and green. However, in this case the color will not be 100% black.

If you need to get black from other paint colors, then you will need only three colors for this, namely:

There are also two more paints that, when mixed, will produce black: red and green. The only thing is that the color is not quite black, but very close to it.

If there are no paints with black color, and you need it right now, then black color can be obtained by mixing paints of other colors. In order to get black, you need to mix colors such as blue, red and yellow. From these three popular paint colors we get the desired black color.

In order to get black , one color, we need to have as many as three others: cyan, yellow and purple.

If you mix only blue and yellow, you get green
yellow + magenta gives us red
mix magenta and cyan to get blue
Well, we get black if we mix all these three colors.

If you mix red, blue and green in equal proportions, you will get a pure black color, but it will not be saturated.

If you need black color in paints for painting, then you can make it yourself. To do this, take activated carbon (in tablets) and dissolve it in vodka.

This is how you can get black paint for painting.

If you are faced with the need to get black by mixing different shades of paint, then to get black you will need to mix three colors, which are:

1) Purple color;

3) And blue color.

And here's the mix:

To get black, you can mix all the colors you have except white, white will turn black into gray. You can also mix red and green, or you can also mix yellow, magenta and cyan.

Using additive color mixing (RGB model), black can only be obtained with zero intensity of all three components. This mixing of colors is a matter of taste. Using subtractive color mixing (CMYK model), black color, theoretically, is obtained by mixing components C, M, Y with maximum intensities. What you get in practice is very different from black, so in practice blacK is added to the colors Cyan, Magenta and Yellow - a rich black color.

How to make blue dye in Minecraft

To make blue dye in Minecraft, you will need the following items; two of them are dyes that you will need to fuse together, and the other is a flower that you can simply place on the crafting table to create a blue dye.

Blue and White Dye : Place both dyes as shown in the picture below next to each other to get blue dye. As a result, you will receive two blue dyes .
Blue Orchid : This flower can be found in both the swamp and flower forests, and can be used to make blue dye simply by placing it on a crafting table.

Comments

if you don’t need it right now, you can buy black dye))

Blue, red and green in equal proportions - you get pure black color)))

There are 4 primary colors: yellow, red, blue and black. White separately. When they are mixed, additional colors (green, orange, purple, brown, etc.) and their shades are obtained. Therefore, you cannot get black color, no matter what paints you mix.

what nonsense. Blue, red and green in equal proportions. That's pure black.

Activated carbon + dilute with vodka. Check out the court https://forum.say7.info/topic48484.html

Raida, thank you very much. you saved me.

In the future, buy black paint without any problems.

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What colors must be mixed to get black?

red+blue+green=black
easy gray and brown, mix for a long time until black or just mix dark colors for a very long time and you will get black

when mixing yellow, magenta and cyan dyes

5 proportions of red, 1-3 blue will be a little blue or a little red, then add a little yellow 0.5-1.

I had a case when I ran out of black paint in the watercolor “Leningrad”, so I finally learned how to get black by mixing two colors (I don’t remember the exact names): this is purple, and it seems dark green.

If we talk about mixing colors. Mixing paints of three primary colors of blue (cyan), yellow and purple (magenta) or any first-order color with an additional second-order color (spectral yellow + spectral violet, for example). But this can only be done in the theory of subtractive synthesis with ideal colors (in a mathematical model, that is). In practice, this is not possible due to the physicochemical properties of dyes.

In printing, when three primary colors are mixed, a dirty brown color is obtained, and to obtain black and its shades, additional paint (in English Key) is used - translucent black. Deep dense black is obtained by mixing all 4 colors.

Special black dyes are used in painting: black mars and soot and all the many shades of dark brown.

In projectors and monitors, black means no signal and therefore no light. (but this is already additive synthesis - mixing light rays of different wavelengths, where the sum of all the colors of the spectrum gives white)

In printers this is done by mixing yellow magenta and cyan (or red green and blue)

You need to mix all the colors

in painting - red, yellow and blue. In printing (for printing presses) - cyan, magenta and yellow. But then it turns out unsaturated black, grayish. A certain percentage of black color is usually added to it. Hence the CMYK palette

To get black color, you need soot. But mixing all colors, or individual ones, will not achieve the black effect.

Soot is amorphous carbon, a product of incomplete combustion or thermal decomposition of hydrocarbons under uncontrolled conditions. It is used in large quantities to prepare black paint in the printing and paint industries.

How to get skin color from plasticine?

In clay animation, live characters are often animated, so to create their hands, faces and other body parts, they need a color that is similar to the color of human skin. Making leather color from plasticine is actually not that difficult, you just need to show a little patience.

If you couldn’t find plasticine of the color you already need in the store, you can get it by mixing other colors. To get the skin color we need the following colors:

White – the whole piece;
Dark pink – 3-4% of the whole piece;
Other colors – 5% each.

When you knead these colors into a homogeneous mass, you will approximately be able to see what color you get.

It should be remembered that skin comes in many shades, so don’t be afraid to experiment. For example, if you also add brown color to this range, you will get darker skin, and if you also add black, you can create the skin color of an African-American.

In general, if you are not sure, then it is better to take all the white plasticine and little by little mix all the other colors into it.

Features of black color

Natural black (charcoal) is, in fact, the absence of color - that's what scientists say. This achromatic tone is the complete opposite of white. If the latter reflects an overwhelming amount of light rays, then black, on the contrary, tends to absorb them. There is no absolutely black color in the world, but the darkest vantablack carbon is very close to the “ideal” - it absorbs 99.965% of the rays of the sun, microwaves, and radio waves. That is, this material reflects the minimum possible amount of light, and therefore is considered the blackest on Earth.

Black dye is made from various carbons; it is these substances that make it possible to obtain all types of paints of the desired tone. The most commonly used materials are carbon black and graphite. Previously, artists obtained matte black from burnt bone, and there was no darker tone. Today, production from minerals has been put on stream, so in any art store you can buy paint, pencil, plasticine or a dark-colored felt-tip pen.

Features of mixing, is it possible to combine different types of paints?

Experts note that you should work with one type of material, so as not to encounter the problem that after combining different compositions, a change in properties occurs. Also, such an action can lead to separation of the layer and the appearance of lumps, which means that a chemical reaction has occurred.

Some are also inclined to choose one manufacturer so that compatibility is maximum and color uniformity is optimal.

Experts note that you should work with one type of material, so as not to encounter the problem that after combining different compositions, a change in properties occurs.

The article said that black is a special color that can absorb rays, and it reflects them perfectly. For this reason, it is impossible to achieve the desired coloring material without introducing special additives. But there are still several methods for creating an approximate shade that can give the desired effect when dyeing. If you follow the mixing rules, you will be pleased with the result.

Color models and color synthesis

Scientists have “derived” two main color models that allow you to create all kinds of tones and shades. Color synthesis involves the use of one of the models:

RGB, or additive. It involves the superposition of light rays on top of each other in a certain order, with a set intensity. The main range of colors fits into the standard (basic) ones - red, blue and yellow. Additive synthesis is used in monitors, but it will not be possible to make black in the same way as the others. Black, according to RGB, is the absence of reflection.
CMYK, or subtractive. All tones are obtained by mixing paints physically. Black is created by adding all other tones, and white in this system is the absence of color. This model is used in printing, its main colors are cyan (blue), yellow, magenta (magenta).

Beige color - general information

Beige, or beige, is a light brown color mixed with a creamy or yellowish tone. Due to its neutrality and compatibility with a huge number of shades, beige occupies a special place in the palette

It often serves as a background, but can also focus attention on various elements of design and cut. Bright colors reveal well on a beige base and become deeper

ivory, or ivory;
sand;
opal;
cream;
light coffee;
light caramel;
wheat

There are also tables according to which all tones of beige can be divided into warm (with a hint of brown) and cold (with a bit of gray). Beige goes best with coffee and brown tones, as well as blue, light blue, olive, light green, wenge, burgundy, sandy yellow, lavender, and pink.

Subtractive mixing method

This method of adding colors involves creating fewer tones than is possible using RGB. In theory, this model involves obtaining black color by mixing a number of other colors. But when the pigments are actually mixed, what comes out is not a black tone, but a dark brown one, with a brown tint, which will be very noticeable when diluted.

Therefore, in a printing house where the subtractive method is used, a key tone is added to this mixture - real black in finished form. No ink obtained by mixing colors can replace true black pigment, as printers have long known.

Combining paints to produce charcoal

If you read manuals for beginning artists, you can find instructions everywhere: no combination of paints will give a 100% black tone. But there are tables with information about what paints need to be mixed to create the darkest possible shade, close to black.

The easiest way involves combining red, blue and yellow paints. Gouache and oil are best suited, but watercolor will be too transparent and will not provide the necessary depth. Any basic set of paints will do, although artists often use cyan, magenta, cadmium yellow, royal blue and alizarin red.

place a drop of each paint on a white palette (take an equal amount of all colors) at a short distance from each other;
gently mix the colors with a brush or spatula;
Mix the materials for at least 15 seconds so that there are no veins, using circular movements.

If you need to lighten the black a little, add a drop of white paint into it. To give the tone of a natural sky, add a drop of blue or violet pigment. To draw a night forest, add a little green to black, and to draw the rays of the sun on a dark surface, add a little orange. Of course, the expressiveness of such blackness will be less; for a rich tone it is better to buy a ready-made color in the store.

There are other methods for obtaining the desired color:

red + green;
purple + brown;
blue + orange;
purple + yellow;
blue + brown.

All the resulting tones will be close to black, but not ideal; upon closer inspection, it is easy to identify a “fake”. In the first option, it is better to take red alizarin and emerald. But the finished color can still have a shade of one of them or become olive, purple, or brown.

According to artists, the best color is obtained by mixing blue and brown paint, regardless of its brand and specific type. Moreover, the more brown, the “warmer” the blackness will be. On the contrary, blue greatly “cools” the finished color. Diluting this color with water gives an excellent gray tone.

Shades of black

Professionals highlight a lot of shades of the darkest dye. Not so long ago, artists designated the following tones:

slate (with an admixture of gray);
anthracite (with shine);
ox blood (mixed with red).

Nowadays, colorists and artists create completely different colors; their range has expanded significantly. With the introduction of different colors, the charcoal will not be so dark, but brownish, bluish or with a hint of purple. Many shades are obtained by adding white. Here are some interesting dark tone variations:

soft coal - to create it, mix turquoise, pink, yellow, add a drop of ready-made black;
medium coal - combines ultramarine, reddish, light yellow, adds a little black;
black and blue - combine brown and blue, and the second color should be 2 times larger.

Mixing paints is easy, and experimenting is always fun. In practice, you can select the necessary proportions to create the required color scheme for a drawing - even a schoolchild can do this.

Classic blue and its shades

You won’t be able to make blue at home, so to create different shades of it you need to purchase ready-made gouache, watercolor, acrylic paint or another type of dye (even plasticine). Then you can use other colors from the set, because when they are combined you can get incredible tones and halftones of blue. Artists have special tables with the names of shades and the required proportions for paints, but in practice they still have to experiment.

In regular gouache sets, blue is represented by the shade ultramarine. It is very bright, moderately dark, has slightly purple notes

There is an important rule that you need to remember: add white to lighten the tone, black to darken it, and different colors to change the reflection of the paint.

Blue-green

Making shades of blue with green highlights is easy. The effect of a dark green tone is achieved by introducing a small amount of ready-made green paint into the blue. If it is not there, you can do it differently. Since the combination of blue and yellow gives a green color, you can add a little yellow to the blue. Next, the paint is lightened with white, the result is a third-order shade, less saturated.

Prussian blue

The azure color also contains green shades. Artists have a recipe for its preparation - you need to combine 1 part blue and the same amount of light green or bright green (grass) shade. If necessary, the tone is diluted with white.

Blue-violet

This color is considered very rich and powerful in energy; it is prepared by combining blue with red paint in equal proportions. But the finished purple must be made to turn blue, for which blue color is added drop by drop until the desired tone is obtained. Typically the final ratio does not exceed 2:1.

Royal Blue

The royal color is a dark, cool tone, close to classic. Traditional royal blue is part of the HTML color scheme used in computer graphics. It is also the main tone of ink and paint for cartridges. To make this color, a drop of black and even less of green are added to ultramarine.

Blue-gray

This shade is reminiscent of a cloudy sky, as well as the color of water on a non-sunny day. You need to add a little brown to the base blue, the result will be a dark blue-gray tone. It is diluted with white to the desired degree of lightening. There is another option for creating a gray-blue tint - combining blue with orange, the result will be a grayish mass with a slightly blue tint.

Dark blue

The blue paint begins to darken with the addition of a small amount of black color. The ratio should be no more than 4:1. Creating such a shade is required if you need to “calm down” a color when it is initially too bright.

Blue

Blue color is easy to make. To do this, blue of any tone is diluted with white 3:1 or more. Increasing the volume of white paint results in even greater lightening, up to a sky blue or pastel blue. To achieve an original tone, you can dilute turquoise with white.

Other shades

Wedgwood tone is obtained by combining a portion of blue, as well as a drop of white and black paint. For dark turquoise, yellow-green color is added dropwise to blue. Cornflower blue is created by mixing purple, blue, a drop of brown and the same amount of black dye.