How to Mix Brick Red Paint
- 1). Squeeze a nickle-sized circle of red paint onto the center of your palette.
Squeeze a dime-sized (or smaller) circle of blue and brown paint onto your palette. You can always add more as necessary - 2). Smear the red paint with your paint brush to spread it in a large circle in the center of the palette.
- 3). Dip your paint brush in the edge of the blue paint. Pick up only a small bit--as small an amount as you can--and drag the blue into your red paint. Mix the paint thoroughly in one hemisphere of the circle of red paint. Leave one hemisphere of the red paint untouched.
If the red paint turns noticeably purple, you have put in too much blue paint. Dilute the purple paint with red paint from the untouched hemisphere. Do this by cleaning your brush (see the Tips section) and then dipping the brush into the red paint and dragging a small amounts of it into the purple hemisphere.
Do this until the mixed hemisphere of paint is a dark red, but not quite purple. - 4). Dip your brush into the brown paint. Drag twice as much brown paint as blue into the dark red hemisphere. Mix.
- 5). Continue to repeat Step 3 and Step 4 until the hemisphere of mixed paint is the appropriate shade of brick red.
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