So even though green and pink are two common colors, they can have a different mixture for every medium you use. Learning about color mixing is a great way to further your understanding of art and design.
What Color Do Pink and Green Make When Mixed?
Pink and green look great together in designs because they’re both bright, vibrant colors. Yet, when they’re mixed together, they make a color that’s almost the opposite.
So, what do pink and green make when mixed, and do the result vary based on what medium you’re mixing with? Let’s find out.
What Do Pink and Green Make in Painting?
When you mix green and pink paint, you will end up with brown or gray , depending on how light or dark the colors are. The result is similar to what happens when you mix red and green since pink is just a lighter version of red.
Mixing red and green together gives you brown because it’s like mixing all three primary colors together since green is made of yellow and blue. So, the same is true for pink except the result will be a lighter brown that’s closer to gray.
Understanding the RYB Color Model
The RYB color model is used for mixing physical art supplies like paints. It’s the color wheel that nearly everyone learned in early art classes. The primary colors are red, yellow, and blue.
You can mix combinations of primary colors to create secondary colors and combine primary and secondary colors to create tertiary colors. If you want lighter or darker versions of those colors, you can mix in white or black. When all three primary colors mix together, they create a murky brown color.
Is There an Easier Way to Mix Brown and Gray?
Mixing green and pink together isn’t the easiest way to get brown and gray paint. After all, you have to mix red and white together to get pink and blue and yellow together to get green. So, to save you some steps, you can mix an equal amount of red, yellow, and blue together to make brown.
The easiest way to make gray paint is to add a lot of white to black. Then, you’ll get a pleasant gray color as opposed to the murky one that green and pink will give you.
Mixing Lighter or Darker Colors
If you mix green and pink together, it’s unlikely that it’ll give you the brown or gray you’re looking for. Using different types of green or pink could adjust the result, but there are some easier ways to make shades and tints of gray and brown.
How to Make Tints
Tints are lighter hues of a color. They can be made by adding white to a mix. The more white you mix in, the lighter the tint will be. Since white is much lighter than brown and gray, you will need to add a lot before you notice a difference.
How to Make Shades
Shades are darker versions of a color, so they require the opposite method. To create a shade of a color, mix in a touch of black. Don’t go overboard with the black paint because too much black can easily overpower the lighter colors.
Color Meanings of Brown and Gray
Brown and gray are often overlooked because they’re not as bright and vibrant as the primary and secondary colors. Yet, they’re still crucial to art pieces, and they carry a lot of meaning. So, here’s what brown and gray might symbolize in your art.
Brown Meaning
Since brown is a color regularly seen in nature, including the ground beneath us, it’s considered a sign of stability, reliability, and comfort. People associate the color brown with honesty, wisdom, protection, and simplicity.
Brown has no shortage of positive meanings, including appreciation and support. However, it can sometimes be depicted in negative ways, such as boring, dull, timid, and predictable. Even so, the meaning can vary greatly depending on the context.
Gray Meaning
Gray is seen as a neutral color, symbolizing compromise and control. Many people see it as calming, relaxing, soothing, and stabilizing. It gives off feelings of maturity, practicality, and reliability.
Like brown, gray can have some negative symbolism too. Some see it as pessimistic, unemotional, and indecisive. Yet, since it’s such a neutral color with a wide range of shades, it can mean different things depending on the situation.
What Do Pink and Green Make in Lighting?
Pink and green lights are very different than paints. So, when it comes to mixing lights, they make white instead of brown or gray.
The reason for this is that lights use a different color wheel. So, even though green and pink still sit on opposite sides of the color wheel, the results are different. The primary colors for lights are red, green, and blue, and when they all mix together, they make white. So, pink and green lights also make white.
Understanding the RGB Color Model
The RGB color model is mostly used for lights and colored digital displays. In this diagram, the primary colors are red, green, and blue instead of red, yellow, and blue. They mix together to create the secondary colors, which in this case are cyan, magenta, and yellow.
Lights are mixed by layering them on top of each other at different brightnesses. So, when all three primary colors are mixed together at full brightness, it creates a pure white light.
White Meaning
White is another neutral color, but it still holds a variety of meanings. It’s a symbol of cleanliness, purity, and innocence. It’s considered the true balance of all colors, which is why it’s meant to refresh, purify, and simplify.
Some positive white meanings include goodness, hope, clarity, and openness. However, those who see it as a negative color might describe it as boring, cold, empty, and distant. All meanings can be true in different contexts, so decide which ones are accurate for your art and designs.
How To Mix Pink And Green Together To Make Gray Or Brown
If you have decided to work with grey and brown, you can start mixing your green and pink colors. The step-by-step guide below will show you how to mix your paints.
Gather paint-mixing supplies
To get started, you will need a paint knife or brush and a palette. Mixing your paint with a paint knife gives you a more even and uniform color when compared to mixing with a brush. Make sure you clean your paintbrush in between mixing.
Cleaning your brush will prevent paint from the previous color from mixing with the colors you are currently working with. Use soap and water to wash off acrylic paint and use turpentine or mineral spirits for oil paint.
If you prepare the paint for later work, mix them in a jar instead of mixing them in a palette. Color mixing takes experience and hard work. You can practice with more than two paints or with different kinds of combinations to help you know how they interact.
When mixing, use equal parts of the color green and the color pink. Mix them with your knife or brush. If you use unequal parts, you will skew the resulting color, and you will get more of the dominant color.
However, if you want to play with the colors, you can try. You can use a little more green than pink, or vice versa, to see what shade you create.
Use color white (or yellow) to lighten your mixture
If you want to lighten the shade of gray or brown you got, add white or yellow to your mixture.
Try small amounts
Before you start mixing, you can start with small amounts of paint. Mixing a small amount at first will help you know how much you need for a given color.
Wear something that you wouldn’t mind getting paint stains on.
Do Pink And Green Make Purple?
No, green and pink cannot make purple. As stated earlier, all complimentary colors will give you the color brown or gray. Complementary colors cannot stand on their own, so they can only produce a more neutral tone.
Suppose you are looking to create the color purple. Mix equal parts of red and blue.
How Do I Use Colors Pink And Green?
Although this article talks about what color a mixture of green and Pink creates, there are other ways to use green and Pink in your design to give you striking pieces. Instead of mixing your paints, you can place the colors right next to each other.
Placing green and pink next to each other can help your design or painting stand out in a good way. Depending on the shades of pink and green you use, you will get different reactions.
To be more vivid, you can use some specific objects to show your design with the colors pink and green. Custom made pins will be a good carrier to cover different colors.
Besides the colors, you can also make your own designs in terms of shapes, sizes, mixtures of other colors, etc.
These pins can not only make you understand these colors better but also witness the process of creation. Since these pins are customized, almost any of the colors on the Pantone book can be applied.
What you need to do first is just upload your design and personalized requirements to GS-JJ.com online system and then submit it.
When you look for something more portable and affordable as the carriers, why not choose custom die cut stickers ? It’s well known that these adorable stickers are really popular these days.
Especially when you are doing a business related to the colors, you can make different kinds of colorful stickers to make them as giveaways and gifts, which can surely draw the attention of your potential consumers.
By adding your logo, shop name, or unique signs on the stickers, there will be more possibilities for your business to be promoted.
What Color Does Pink and Green Make?
As background, my name is Lillie and I’m a teacher and artist who adores sharing my illustrations of the unexpected and beautiful results of mixing colors together — from what red and blue make, to the answer to: “Blue and brown make what color?”
Let us start our pink plus green exploration with my drawing of how different shades of these rich colors look when swirled together in paint form. Mmm… bubblegum plus lime candy!
Green + Pink = ?
To help predict what pink and green make, let’s take a step back and break down the “ingredients” of both of these colors.
Green is one of the secondary colors made by mixing primary colors in the RYB model; specifically, green is what blue and yellow make.
Meanwhile, pink is usually made by mixing red or magenta (what red and purple make) with white to lighten it.
Therefore, when you’re mixing green and pink, you’re actually mixing yellow, plus blue, plus red, plus white. Ah hah — this gives us a clue of what to expect as a result! See my illustration, below, for the answer…
Brown and Gray Results!
As you can see from my hands-on pigment-mixing experiments above, mixing pink with green makes a range of muddy, dusty browns and grays (or greys, if you’re British), depending which shades you start with! Why is that?
As you might recall from our lesson on what colors make brown, any time you mix all three primary colors — red, yellow, and blue — you get browns or even black! It stands to reason that the answer to this pink plus green inquiry is similar to that for our “What does red and green make?” quest — just with a little more white mixed in, via the pink, meaning that instead of dark brown brown and black, we get lighter tan-browns and gray.
But Wait… It’s Not That Simple
Sure, the basic colors resulting from the pink and green combination are browns and grays — but as you can see from my illustration above, there’s more nuance and variety than that. For example, if you have a slightly peach-colored pink as an ingredient, you’ll get more of a greenish-brown or olive color (what orange and green make).
Meanwhile, if your green “ingredient” is more of a blue-green teal, and/or your pink is more of a purple-magenta, the extra blue will mean the resulting color is a dusty mauve: a brownish, grayish purple. Wow!
What Color Does Pink and Green Make?
As you can see, the answer to, “What color does pink and green make?” is usually brown (though a lighter tan than the rich brown that red and green make), sometimes gray, and also possibly olive or mauve, depending on what your ingredient colors are. This is very different from the clear and jolly answer to “What color do pink and blue make?”
I hope this tutorial has been enjoyable and interesting! What colors (or colours, if you’re British) should we mix next. Do share!
Want more? Check out Tertiary Colors and Intermediate Colors! You can also enjoy the surprising answer to, “Purple and brown make what color?”
The author and artist, Lillie Marshall, is a National Board Certified Teacher of English who has been a public school educator since 2003, and an experienced Reiki practitioner since 2018. All art on this site is original and hand-drawn by Lillie. She launched DrawingsOf.com Educational Cartoons in 2020, building upon the success of her other sites, AroundTheWorldL.com (established 2009), TeachingTraveling.com (founded 2010), and ReikiColors.com. Subscribe to Lillie’s monthly newsletter, and follow @WorldLillie on social media to stay connected!
