Mixing powder paint colors

[bdorman]

Can I mix powder paints (Pro-Tec) and achieve a true color? i.e. can I mix blue and yellow to get green? Or, will I get a jig head with swirls of blue and swirls of yellow? (which might look neat, but not what I want).

I have a fluid bed and suspect it would be best to use that, correct?

It's probably best to just pay the $2 and buy the color(s) I want, but I'm curious about this.

[skiptomylu]

I would just test is a small amount to see what happens. I have mixed some green and Fl Yellow to maybe it was Fl Chart, just don't remember, but got an in-between green. Have mixed some other and got not what I wanted at all. So have not done a lot of that.

[dayooper]

You can mix colors if they are close in the color spectrum and get a pretty good mix. If you were to mix colors farther apart you will get a grainy mix. A lot of times it looks good, but you will not get a true color mix.

[skiptomylu]

You can mix colors if they are close in the color spectrum and get a pretty good mix. If you were to mix colors farther apart you will get a grainy mix. A lot of times it looks good, but you will not get a true color mix.

That is what I found when I mixed some colors, don't remember for sure, but think it was white and Blue trying to get a different Blue and didn't care for the result.

[radtexan]

Ive had very good luck creating custom colors...the only time I get speckled colors is when Ive mixed a super glow color with other paint...YOu really can create any color on the color wheel just by experimenting.

[sticksteer]

I have mixed blaze orange and flo yellow to get a pumkin orange color, worked pretty good. Did the same with the blue and white to get a robin egg look.

[Fatman]

Sticksteer - yeah I saw that color mix on TJ's site and don't know what happened wicked Brain fart I think LOL but I mixed Blaze orange and Florescent Red DUH!!! and it really looked like a dark orange - I've tried to fix it but I haven't done any painting in a few days.

I've got a couple of olive colors I've mixed, the one on the left is black and yellow mixed 1-1, the one on the left is the mix with white added to lighten it up. The mix ratio I used was listed wrong so that's how I got the mix above. The right mix ratio is 1 Part Black and 2 parts yellow. But I like the two shades I got!!

[skeetbum]

I mixed black and white, attempting gray. The white was a new jar and lumpy when I opened it. I didn't have time to return it and start again so I ground it as best I could, mortar and pestle style and ran with what I got. Those of you that were in the swap and received jigs from me got some of this effort. I got gray with an occasional white spot, looked cool but not what I was after. If I were to experiment I would start with the dark and add the lighter til I got what I was after. Maybe when I start buying by the pound I'll get a little more experimental.

[bdorman]

...I would start with the dark and add the lighter til I got what I was after.

If powder paint mixes anything like liquid paint, you'd be adding white to the black for a long, long time to get gray. If I remember correctly 18% gray (standard photo reference gray; about the same shade as the borders used on this website) is 1 part black to 20 parts white. Better to start with white and add black in very small amounts. Powder paint might be different.

[jackie53]

our lakes are very clear most of the time except in spring and fall.We have a color that works well for us we use a White base and fl pink which we call( bubble gum).You have to look really close to see the difference. On days the bite is really tough two guys in the same boat fishing pink head,white grub not catching a fish the one with the white base fl pink overcoat(bubble gum) is catching fish.looking close with the eye or black light can,t see much difference but the fish seam to.I guess thats fishing.You can take fl red over a white base and get almost the same effect.Try it and let me know what you think.We have it in our photos on our web page.