Mix it Up!

I've been working lots of extra hours lately, so progress is slow but I'm finally getting started with the decor in my guest/sewing room. I have a long way to go, but at least I've cleared enough STUFF to begin work on it.

And the first job at hand -- painting. The cotton candy pink walls worked well with my last scheme, but just won't do for what I have in mind right now.

I had a hard name coming up with a title for this post, though. I thought about things like, "Working with Color" or "Using the Color Wheel", but rejected them....BORING! So I decided to title my post, "Mix it Up", since that's exactly what I did.

You see, I wanted to paint the walls in a nice, creamy
Café-au-Lait...

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But this is what I had on hand...


A rather icky shade of greenish yellow.
Now I could have gone out and bought a gallon of paint, but instead, I decided to mix up my own concoction.


As I'm sure you know, red and green are complementary colors on the color wheel, so I added some red craft acrylic to the paint to neutralize the green.


This is what it looked like when I finished stirring.
You can see the difference in the original color and the newly mixed color on the lid.


Now to add some richness...


I mixed in some burnt sienna.


And added some beige sponge paint that I had on hand.


Even while mixing, it was already taking on a nice, creamy Café-au-Lait appearance.

Since, paint is always lighter when wet, I decided to stop adding pigment when it reached the point of looking very creamy and before it took on a caramel color.

This is how the first wall looked after it dried.

I actually did this on Tuesday afternoon, but because of working extra hours was forced to put the
remainder of the room on hold until today. I should finish the walls and hope to get my next project started.
I'll keep you posted on my progress.

Until next time,
Sheilla