How To Make Hot Pink Paint
Add the drop of red paint to the white silver acrylic paint.
How to make hot pink paint. Transparent whites like zinc white may only lighten the red without creating a true pink. Dip your brush into the red paint. Add a lighter color such as yellow to make your pink into peach. Mix in small increments of white until the paint begins to approximate the shade of hot pink you seek.
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. 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. Mixing your own hot pink watercolor only takes a moment. Your hot pink will most likely need adjacent hues in the same tone to make your picture two or three dimensional.
Blend the paint together to create a shade of pink. Your entire family of pinks is then ready for your brush. For the best results when mixing colors to make pink choose an opaque white such as titanium white. Hot pink is a combination of primary colors and secondary colors which are colors mixed from the primary colors of red blue and yellow.
Continue to add dabs of red paint to the pink shade until you achieve the shade of hot pink you want. To make pinks from acrylics oils and other generally opaque paints you will mix your selected red with a white. However not all whites are the same.