How To Make Hot Pink Paint
Add the drop of red paint to the white silver acrylic paint.
How to make hot pink paint. Using a food coloring such as blue violet green or even brown will darken your pink making it into a hot pink and then a fuchsia or magenta. To make pinks from acrylics oils and other generally opaque paints you will mix your selected red with a white. Your entire family of pinks is then ready for your brush. Your hot pink will most likely need adjacent hues in the same tone to make your picture two or three dimensional.
Add a lighter color such as yellow to make your pink into peach. If you re trying to match the color to something coat the palette knife blade or brush hairs with the color you re mixing and hold it near the surface you re trying to match. Dip your brush into the red paint. Create them by darkening the pink by adding red or make it lighter by adding white and a dab of silver.
Hot pink can be made from two parts red one part blue and one part violet with white added to achieve the desired brightness. Blend the paint together to create a shade of pink. You can go to an art supply store and purchase a pre made hot pink watercolors but watercolor dries fast and sometimes you need to mix it on the fly while painting or you may want a particular shade to match paint something in your home. Mix in small increments of white until the paint begins to approximate the shade of hot pink you seek.
For the best results when mixing colors to make pink choose an opaque white such as titanium white. Transparent whites like zinc white may only lighten the red without creating a true pink. However not all whites are the same.