black paint

[star_tchr]

precisely...how do you make black paint - as in colour combinations?

[gen2]

You won't get a perfect black by mixing paints. You might manage something close by mixing blue and red and then adding a little yellow.

If the result is too green - add red.
If the result is too brown - add blue.
If the result is too purple - add yellow.

You will get best results if the blue is a turquoise blue (cyan=C), The red is slightly purplish (magenta =M) and the yellow is yellow (=Y). The colour printing process used for books magazines and newspapers uses these three colours to get all the colours visible on the page, but because a true black cannot be made, an extra ink (black =K) is also used. You will find the same CMYK combinations in ink-jet printers and colour laser printers.

[star_tchr]

Thankyou for all of your help. i didn't have black water-based paint so I wanted to know how to make black from primary colours. I got a very very dark green and that suited me fine as i was painting a space background - and black may have been too harsh. Thankyou all for your help.

I bought black paint today!