GOLDEN Artist colors everything about mixing

It’s time to stop playing it safe and start mixing it up. Push your colors further, expand your toolbox, and explore what’s possible when you combine the full range of GOLDEN product lines. Professional-quality colors go further—and gels and mediums don’t just expand possibilities, they challenge you to try something new. Whether you’re mixing color or mixing media, GOLDEN has you covered.

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Cool Color Combos to Try in Your Studio!

True versatility isn’t about owning every color—it’s about knowing how to create them. With intentional color mixing, limited palettes become powerful tools, unlocking depth, harmony, and surprising nuance you can’t buy straight from the tube. Unexpected paint mixes spark discovery, turning constraints into creative fuel and happy accidents into signature style. When you master mixing, every palette expands, every brushstroke feels intentional, and color starts becoming a conversation. Don’t know where to begin? Click below to explore a few of our color mixing resources.

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Mixing with a Limited Palette

Explore the limited palette approach to color mixing and discover how it can support your practice. Identify which palettes suit your style, provide a fun challenge, or inspire your own choice of limited palette.

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What is a Chromatic Dark Color? Find out here.

These sneaky darks are blended with natural iron oxides or Ivory Black and boosted with high-energy pigments. Out of the tube they play it cool, looking almost black—but scumble, tint, or mix them and surprise!

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Mixing It Up with New QoR Colors

Discover how some of the newer QoR Watercolor colors perform and mix to form beautiful palettes.

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CURATED FOR THE WAY YOU MIX!

Carefully curated products designed to simplify color mixing. Versatile colors create an ideal starting point for exploration and discovery.

Acrylic Mixing Sets

Available in Heavy Body, Fluid, High Flow and OPEN formulas, there is a mixing set that works the way you work.

Williamsburg Mixing Set

Clean mixing colors in an affordable package. Colors are selected for versatility and harmony. Explore and discover at your own pace.

QoR Mini Watercolor Set

Compact and ready to go, the QoR Mini is perfectly sized for travel and painting on the go. Its intense, clean-mixing colors make it ideal for a wide range of painting situations.

Mix and Blend with PanPastel

This ain't your grandma’s pastel! Unlike traditional dry pastels, PanPastel behaves more like paint—you can blend, mix, and apply it in broad, painterly strokes for vibrant, smooth results.

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Building a classic Rembrandt-inspired palette just got easier! Explore these bundled deals and expand your mixing possibilities. Whether you work in oil, acrylic, or watercolor, we’ve got you covered.Additional Resources

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Discover even more ways to have fun mixing colors! Try the Color Mixer to experiment virtually before using any paint.

Learn How to Use Our Virtual Color Mixer

Don't waste paint! Get your color mix ratios virtually first and start closer to where you want to be.

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Color Mixing with PanPastel

Using PanPastel is like painting with dry media. Mix, blend and brush on fully saturated color.

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QoR Six-Pack: Big Mixing, Small Palette

A palette of six QoR paints, selected both for their individual strengths and their ability to mix into a full spectrum of beautifully saturated colors.

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Neutral Territory

Discover how neutrals can quietly do the heavy lifting in your paintings. Whether you’re building an underpainting or dialing back an intense color, neutrals help create balance, depth, and harmony.

Gray Matters: Painting with Williamsburg Neutral Grays

Take a quick peek at how Neutral Grays come to life in the Williamsburg palette—and see how these quiet colors work their magic when it’s time to tone things down.

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Color, Meet Your Chill: Neutralizing Color

Color has a reputation for being complicated, but it doesn’t have to be. Let’s talk about neutralizing color—how to dial back the intensity without changing the color’s personality. Think of it as turning down the volume, not changing the song.

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Creating Chromatic Neutrals with QoR Watercolors

Create your own neutrals using the colors already on your palette. The result? Mixes that naturally harmonize with your composition. This article introduces chromatic neutral mixing using QoR Watercolor.

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Mixologist of the Month

Names: Ulysses
Department: Research and Development
Time at GOLDEN: 22 years

In addition to working at GOLDEN, I am also a professional artist. This color mix is a go-to that I often use in my own work. It is amazing for highlights and filling any space that would typically be left white as it offers an ethereal glow.

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Try our Virtual Paint Mixer for Yourself! Take the guesswork out of color mixing! The GOLDEN Virtual Paint Mixer helps you dial in those tricky mixtures. Create a free Studio Assistant account to save your favorite mixes, build custom palettes, and much more.

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