To create a paint closest in colour to Vermilion, we recommend mixing Cadmium Red, Cadmium Red Deep and Titanium White. Learn more about how to do it here.
Creating the perfect red shade with acrylic paint
The list below outlines primary colours for three and six colour mixing systems in the Winsor & Newton acrylic colour ranges. As a guide, we also recommend that you choose transparent colours for colour mixing to ensure clean mixes.
- Azo Yellow Medium
- Phthalo Blue (Red Shade)
- Permanent Rose
Artists’ Acrylic six colour system
- Lemon Yellow
- Azo Yellow Deep
- Ultramarine Blue
- Phthalo Blue (Green Shade)
- Pyrrole Red
- Quinacridone Magenta
- Transparent Yellow
- Ultramarine
- Permanent Rose
Galeria Acrylic six colour system
- Lemon Yellow
- Transparent Yellow
- Ultramarine
- Winsor Blue
- Permanent Rose
- Cadmium Red Hue
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Creating the perfect red shade with acrylic paint
03/19/2020 |
- SOLO GOYA Acrylic
- Ideen für Künstler
Full-bodied, glowing, passionate – Fred is one of the most striking colours and seduces the eye. A characteristic that artists like to use in their works because red can be used to create pictures that set signals. It is so good that the SOLO GOYA Acrylic offers a wide selection of red tones. Brand new in the range is vermillion light. This means there are now six different SOLO GOYA Acrylic red shades: wine red, magenta, carmine, vermillion, genuine red and vermillion light. Together with genuine orange, apricot and Indian yellow, a palette of shades like the sunset is created.
All reds are not the same. Fine gradations, but also lighter and darker variations of the colour make a work of art really shine. The SOLO GOYA Acrylic vermillion light is the lightest red tone of the KREUL palette. The colour has a very strong yellow component and is located in the colour circle close to dark orange. In the middle colour range, there are vermillion, genuine red, and carmine red. The darker tones include magenta and wine red.
Red is generally referred to as a warm colour. The colour is automatically associated with warmth, heat and liveliness. With it, energy and lust for life flow onto the canvas! However, if the red contains a lot of blue components, the colour appears cooler and tends towards pink. The red tones of the SOLO GOYA Acrylic are perfect for works of art where colour gradations are to be accentuated. With the six shades of red as well as the orange tones of genuine orange, apricot and Indian yellow, almost seamless transitions can be created – perfect for abstract or objective art.
Many colour gradations in the same colour family offer variety and give a painting that certain something. Fantastic if you have many shades at hand which you only have to add to the palette in the desired quantity. Cumbersome mixing is not necessary. Like all shades of the SOLO GOYA Acrylic, the red shades are particularly colour-intensive and have a brilliant luminosity.
