what two colors do you mix to get the color brown?

Question

just curious, i am messing with some paints and wanted the info.

Answer 1

Generally any two colors on the opposite side of the color wheel or the three primary colors.

Answer 2

To get a lovely rust brown, mix (royal) blue and orange. If you think about it, you will need more orange than blue, so start with orange and add blue a bit at a time.
To get a rather yucky mud/grey brown, mix purple and yellow. Again you should start with the yellow and add the purple a bit at a time.
To get a very dark tree bark brown, mix red and green.
All the above colours ought to be the quality that you see in a colour wheel and you will notice, if you look at the colour wheel that the colours that are oppisite on the wheel (are compliments on the wheel) are the ones that you mix to get brown.

If you take these brown mixes and go further adding the cool colour, ie, the purple or the blue or the green (whichever mix you have chosen) then you will come up to a grey! Each grey will have its own special qualities of colour and you will be able to tell if you have actually got the grey by adding a bit of white to the mixture. If you have reached the perfect balance to get grey, then you will see only grey appearing. If you are off a bit, then the colour will be bluish or purplish or greenish and if you are off on the warm side of the balance, then the "grey" will be brownish.

I paint all my paintings with just Ultramarine blue, cadmium yellow medium, bochure rose red, and titanium white in acrylic paints. (It is hard to find the perfect red). Sometimes you need to get two reds, one slightly on the side of orange and one slightly on the side of blue so that you can mix perfect oranges and perfect purples.
I have mixed my colours for the past 26 years as an artist. It frees you from the constant searching for the right tube, and saves a lot of money! It also seems to produce canvases with very good colour that is agreeable across the canvas. You can make a lovely deep living black with lots of blue, enough red to make it a very deep purple, and then break it with a touch of yellow.

Answer 3

You should use chocolate, but if you really want to make brown with food coloring, start with mostly yellow, and enough red to get it slightly orange and then just a drop of blue to start to pull the orange toward the gray of the color wheel. That's as close as you can get. If the color you get is too green, add more red.

Answer 4

Using primary colors:

Mix yellow and blue to get green

Mix green and red to get brown

Answer 5

depends on what kind of brown you want.

but red and green is the normal kind of brown.

blue and orange gives a beigey kind of brown.

to the red and green, add some blue to make it less normal-brown.

mixing of complementary colours will always get you a brownish colour, so either; blue and orange, red and green, or purple and yellow will will. Try it out and see which one you like!

And adding white will give you a pastel-like colour which i like a lot.

Answer 6

any two complimentary colors should do it, meaning colors from opposite sides of the color wheel. red and green work best, but you can also use purple and yellow, or blue and orange. just fool around and experiment with it to really figure it out.

Answer 7

It is not two colors; try mixing in a little bit of everything, that usually gives you some shade of brown.

Answer 8

Brown would come from orange mixed with a bit of black to make it dark.

Answer 9

I use 3 colours, red, blue and yellow. To get more different shades you can also mix in black and white.

Answer 10

orange and a bit of blue but the types of colours will detirmine the shade ie warm colours and cool colours