Brass Neck Artist

[Leggyguy]

Can anyone please figure out "bluish green shade" for me?

I am so damned frustrated, 2 years now! I get blue green shade, and that just doesn't do it for the guy.

Gahhhhhh!

[hugo]

A ratio of

2 yellow
2 blue
1 red

gives green brown

However,

3 yellow
3 blue
2 red

gives greenish brown

[Elera]

Back before I got FIRED I rewrote the colour results of different primary colour combinations. The old ones were largely senseless - there was even an old note in the code saying the original writer had no idea what he was doing when it came to combining colours!

You can put 0 to 3 units of each primary colour into the mixture. 1 red + 1 yellow = pale orange, 2 red + 2 yellow = orange, 3 red + 3 orange = dark orange. The assumption is that having a higher paint to egg/oil/water ratio results in a darker paint.

1 of each colour results in pale brown, 2 of each in brown, 3 of each in dark brown. But if you have 1 or 2 of each primary colour, plus an extra unit of another colour, you get something brownish. So 1 red 1 yellow 3 blue would be brownish-blue (more blue than non-blue units), 1 red 1 yellow 2 blue would be blue brown (equal number of blue and non-blue units), and 2 red 2 yellow 3 blue would be blueish brown (more non-blue units than blue units).

That leaves three colour combos of all different amounts of red, yellow and blue (ie 1 red 2 yellow 3 blue). I believe the options were turquoise, violet, and magenta. Basically look at what the most prominent primary colour is, then the second most primary. So magenta would be something like 3 red because magenta is pretty close to red, 2 blue because it's also close to purple, and 1 yellow because that's what's left over.

[Elera]

That should be 6 combinations of all different ratios: gold, brass, copper, cyan, violet, magenta.

[namamuffin]

Wow this is an annoying quest... I've remade these paints over and over again trying to get a copper shade. I have been trying to follow the 3 part, 2 part, 1 part rule as mentioned but without much success. What I have created is:

gold: 3 parts yellow, 2 parts red, 1 part blue.
brass: 3 parts yellow, 2 parts blue, 1 part red.

I'm guessing copper has a different "base" colour, i.e. not yellow, which kind of makes the advice of "looking at the most prevalant colour" a little wrong (unless I'm colour blind).

If anyone has found the right mix for copper I'd love to hear it.

[namamuffin]

Magenta: 3 parts red, 2 parts blue, 1 part yellow
Copper: 3 parts red, 2 parts yellow, 1 part blue

Didn't have a chance to test the combinations produced by using blue as the primary colour, but at least I got copper!