How To Make Hot Pink Watercolor

The key to creating the perfect tint of pink in watercolors is to select the correct shade of red.

How to make hot pink watercolor. Mix in small increments of white until the paint begins to approximate the shade of hot pink you seek. This will take a day or two. All i can get out of it is maroon. I need to make a really bright hot pink color with my watercolor paints.

Hot pink can be made from two parts red one part blue and one part violet with white added to achieve the desired brightness. Watercolor pigment is meant to be diluted with water. To make pinks from acrylics oils and other generally opaque paints you will mix your selected red with a white. However not all whites are the same.

For the best results when mixing colors to make pink choose an opaque white such as titanium white. I was asked how to mix pink. To learn more like how to make pink using watercolor paints keep reading the article. If youre trying to match the color to something coat the palette knife blade or brush hairs with the color youre mixing and hold it near the surface youre trying to match.

Add a dab of purple paint to the red while the paint is still wet. On a sheet of paper it is semi transparent and not at all opaque. I have white blue red and purple but i cant get the right color. Now you will need to let your new watercolor set harden up.

Sometimes i add a tiny bit of yellow or orange to give the pink some variation. Magenta is a great color to dilute into tints from a vibrant hot pink to a very pale pink. Hot pink is a combination of primary colors and secondary colors which are colors mixed from the primary colors of red blue and yellow. You can dilute red to get pink.

If you want to make pink food coloring just add 1 2 drops of red food coloring to a white base like buttercream frosting. Mixing your own hot pink watercolor only takes a moment. The palettes i used in the video are mission gold. Using your paintbrush place an ample amount of red watercolor on your mixing surface.