An experienced artist does not have to buy a ready-made palette consisting of many colors. Only the basic colors are enough - yellow, red, blue, as well as white and black gouache, and all other shades can be done with mixing paints. How to get peach color? The method is similar: you need to take the necessary colors, combine them in a certain proportion and enjoy the result.
Primary colors for mixing
Peach color is a light, warm tone, a kind of pink with a glow of orange dye. A real peach is very beautiful, it is cheerful, creamy, while it has a huge number of shades darker and lighter. A juicy, ripe fruit or nectar from it immediately comes to mind - just such a color is peach. It is widely used in the interior for painting walls, children's furniture, curtains; it is no less popular in sewing clothes.
When choosing paint for interior decoration, it is better to seek the help of a professional colorist. Tinting a large volume of paint without experience can be difficult - perhaps the paintwork will be too dark or grayish. But in small volumes or for painting purposes, even a beginner can mix paints on their own. To do this, you need to purchase a basic set of gouache, watercolors or acrylics, a white palette, brushes, paper, and you can proceed!
There are various shades of peach, so depending on the desired result, such paints may be required:
- red;
- white
- yellow;
- brown;
- green
- pink
- beige;
- dairy;
- orange
Most of these colors are also prepared on their own, on sale such a gamut is rare. The main tinting components will be white, red, yellow - enough for a classic peach tone. At the same time, the fruit may be greenish, bright, overripe, therefore, other colors will have to be added to the finished mass.
Peach color instruction
You can do the right paint by eye, based on your own feelings, or according to the model. In the latter case, you can cut a piece of paper from a magazine or print a photo, stick it on a Whatman paper next to the place where the test strokes will be applied. This will help bring samples closer to the original.
To get the fundamental tone you need to do the following:
- put a drop of red paint on the palette;
- add about 3-4 drops of yellow paint;
- mix the mass thoroughly;
- introduce a little white, stir;
- Continue adding white paint to the desired result.
Next, you need to make a coloring - apply smears on whatman paper. If the shade is more like pink, there is too much red in it, you need to add yellow gouache. Want to make the peach tone darker? The combination of primary colors remains the same, but a tiny amount of brown paint is added. By the way, it can also be made independently of red, yellow and black; they are mixed in a separate cell of the palette.
to contents ↑Instead of the above tones, you can take white and orange, then mix them well in approximately equal amounts. Then a little pink color is introduced into the paint, if required.To give the desired glow, you can add pistachio, green color. It is advisable not to mix more than three colors in one go - otherwise a grayish mass may result.
Peach in the interior
Peach color is combined with many tones, so it is widely used in the design of apartments and houses. Especially popular is the shade in the design of bedrooms for girls (children). Walls are painted with peach, they acquire curtains and bedspreads of this shade. For a child, peach is calming, calming, helps to fall asleep, and during classes to concentrate. You can choose a peach color wallpaper with a discreet decor. If the tone is chosen as the main one, bright accents are selected for it - orange, white, green, brown details.
In the kitchen, peach will make the atmosphere warm and friendly, family. All households will be happy to gather here. In such a pleasant atmosphere stresses, worries of the working day are forgotten. You can use peach for painting walls, and individual elements of this color will look great - textiles, tablecloths, towels, curtains, chandeliers. Also, peaches often fill out only the dining room area, or buy such a set - everything will look appropriate.
Peach perfectly "takes root" in the hall, bedroom. In the living room, it is less successful than in the place where a person rests, and yet it is also used by designers. A pastel tone creates a feeling of bliss, bliss, and helps make revival joyful. In the bedroom, its combination with pistachio, green, white, chocolate, and scarlet will be pleasant. The peach color in the interior is also well completed with other pastel colors, but bright accents will be required.
Regarding the inclusion of details or the organization of the main background of peach color in a particular style, experienced designers give the following recommendations:
- Ethnic style. A peach will look good, along with contrasting colors, as well as red, green, metallic, white.
- Art Deco, minimalism. Delicate peach shades soften the coldness of such a design, “warm” it a little, but are not used in large volumes.
- Empire. It is allowed to use peach curtains, upholstery for furniture, mainly in combination with white.
- Provence. Usually this style involves the use of small details of a peach hue - rugs, tablecloths, pillows.
- Japanese style. Peach walls with white sakura patterns perfectly accentuate this design decision.
Peach in clothes
From the point of view of psychology, this shade adjusts to positive, and when choosing indicates a romantic mood of a person. The peach is light, delicate, because women and girls often buy clothes of this color. It suits most, even magnificent ladies, hides figure flaws. The tone is ideal for bridesmaids, although some brides themselves choose dresses of this color.
Peach with white is recognized as the best combination. “Fruit” trousers, a skirt and a white blouse are suitable for any occasion, even for a business meeting. If the image needs to be given rigor, peach is put on top, and the skirt, trousers are replaced with black. A combination of peach and gray is considered to be very spectacular; the image will turn out to be soft, romantic. Sets of things of a peach tone with beige, brown, blue, blue, turquoise details look beautiful. It is also important to take into account the texture of fabrics, which will allow you to create the most suitable fashionable images on this basis.
