How to get the color you want for woodworking or Art projects

It’s all about Primary colors.  As an example, mixing orange is a base of red with yellow copiously added.

it is good to understand the “Color Wheel” when you need a specific color. Here is an article on it:
All about Paint Color Mixing: Chart the Wheel & Mixing Guide – Artists network

Mixing Color Wheels for the Artist (9-1/4″) With a Creative Color Wheel (9.25 inch) circle with different colored sectors used to show the relationship between colors. – From Amazon; also available from artist supplies and paint stores.

My mother was an art teacher. She really emphasized the color wheel, and it was a great tool for understanding the primary colors and their relationship to all the colors. Her students became little Picasso’s!

When matching colors, you can bring your color wheel to a store, and get the paint mixed spot-on!
Here is a University of Tennessee bottle carrier I made for a friends birthday:

 

 

For the chest, I brought my color wheel to Home Depot, and they mixed the red and orange for me.  It worked out really well. 

Color makes the project, and getting the color RIGHT, now that is just Over the Top!

May you have great success with you the Color Wheel!  (My Mom would be proud – she was an Art Teacher in the NYC Public Schools).