How the Heck Do You get Magenta?

General Discussion
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For airbrushing. A little purple, white and red? Any ideas???

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Nova color magenta…

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Nova color magenta…

great if I time to wait for UPS

I need this color tonight

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Unfortunately, magenta is out of the color gamut possible by mixing other colors. You can get the same hue, but it will never be as intense and saturated as the real thing. Closest you’ll come is a muddy pink/purple. The magenta in inks and paints is a pure color.

Any chance it can wait? or sub in for pure crimson red? It’s as bright and saturated, just a slightly different hue.

wells

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Start with blue and a little touches of white…when the blue is bright and deep start adding little bits of red until the magenta starts showing. I have done fins this way with good results.

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and I was gonna say sumthin facetious like from a stream at summer camp and it goes away with calamine lotion in a week or so but cap definately has the real solution good call little drops of red tao avert the mud yuk…ambrose…10 points cappio

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Oh gosh, please lets hear the summer camp story…I smell a good one here! :smiley:

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Can’t help you tonight, but for future color mixing I recommend getting one of those color mixing wheels at an art supply store. It’s just a couple of cardboard disks pinned together and you turn the wheels to get the percentages of the basic colors to get the one you want. I use it for color matching on repairs, and it gets me 90% there.

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You can´t obtain magenta by mixing colors, magenta is a primary color, along with cyan and yellow. All other colors can be obtained by mixing this 3, but none of them can be obtained by mixing other colors…