How to Make Brown With Primary Colours – 3 Easy Ways

How to Make Brown With Two Primary Colours

This easy tutorial will show you how to make brown with primary colours. Read on to find out how to make brown paint, why the colour is important for painters, and how to mix different shades of the colour. As ever, we will include helpful tips along the way. Please subscribe to our email list to receive more high value free art blogposts like this one.

Table of Contents

1 How to Make Brown With Primary Colours – Mix Red and Green

2 How to Make Brown With Primary Colours – Mix Red and Yellow to Get Orange and Then Add Green

3 How to Make Brown With Primary Colours – Mix Red and Blue to Get Purple and Then Add Yellow

The colour brown is often associated with nature, wood, soil, and earth in particular. It is a lovely warm colour suggesting growth and the seasons, particularly autumn and winter.

We relate it to tanned, healthy human skin, as well as a very common colour for hair, eyes, and various different attractive races across the world.

As a result the colour brown will be important for many art and painting contexts, such as landscapes, portraits, mountains, or even animal fur.

In terms of colour psychology brown evokes a sense of reliability, strength, solidity, resilience and dependability. On the flip side it can also suggest sadness and isolation. Think of the famous painting by Edvard Munsch ‘The…