When you mix paint it s like the light gets filtered twice.
Red and green paint mixed.
Mix a deeper shade of red with your base red.
If you add some yellow or white they can change the kind of brown you get.
You were taught that if you mixed red and yellow you get orange.
For example a blue green and red may combine pigments that appear as a gray color since it is using mostly cool tones.
If you mix the blue and yellow paints together then the only light that won t get soaked up by either paint is green.
While blue and yellow combined make green and blue and red make purple violet.
Mixing 2 shades of the same color together is the best option for making minor changes to a red paint s color profile.
It s interesting to find lots of reference that purple is actually violet.
However a saccharine green and red mix to make more of a brown clor due to the yellow pigments in the green contributing to warmer tones in the combined color mixture.
You get a brown which varies according to the percentage of each you mix together.
In this case the primary color red is added to its complement green which is composed of the other two primary colors yellow and blue.
Modify a red paint by mixing it with a darker shade of red that is the same brand and type of paint.