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How to Make Brown From a Gray Paint By Alina McKee eHow may earn compensation through affiliate links in this story. Learn more about our affiliate and product review process here.

Things You'll Need

  • Palette

  • Gray paint

  • Yellow ochre paint

  • Thalo green paint

  • Burnt umber paint

  • Palette knife

... Gray, yellow ochre, thalo green and burnt umber paint can be mixed to create brown paint.

Creating brown paint is a simple process. Usually it entails mixing red, yellow and a touch of blue. You can also make brown by mixing gray with a primary color and two secondary colors from the color wheel. When these three colors mix, you get a darker brown that's handy in painting areas that are shadowed or in less light than the rest of the painting.

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Step 1

Squirt one pea-sized amount of yellow ochre, thalo green and burnt umber paint onto your palette.

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Step 2

Mix the colors together with your palette knife.

Step 3

Add a half pea-sized amount of gray to the mixture.

Step 4

Mix the gray into the paint with your palette knife.

Tip

Use less gray to lighten the brown. Use more gray to darken the brown.

Warning

If you are using oil-based paints always ventilate your work area.

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