LIGHT VIOLET · CURATED PAINT RECIPE
How to mix lavender
A cool, subdued violet for flowers, distant planes, interiors, and soft shadow color.
STARTING MIX
6 : 1 : 0.75 : 0.1
Use one consistent unit for every part. For the smallest fractions, scale the entire recipe up instead of estimating a partial drop.
PIGMENT LOGIC
Why this mixture works
Ultramarine and magenta make a clean violet with a cool bias. Tinting that concentrate into white gives much better control than trying to balance tiny blue and red additions in white.
The displayed #A89AC8 swatch is an sRGB target, not a promise that every brand will dry to the same color. Pigment identity, tint strength, opacity, medium, surface, and lighting remain part of the result.
BASIC-PALETTE ROUTE
Alternative recipe
Mix a blue-violet first, then tint it into white. Use a speck of yellow or ochre only if it remains too vivid.
Apply the mixture on the same ground and at the same thickness planned for the final work. Label the wet ratio, wait for a complete dry-down, and compare in neutral light before adjusting.
CORRECTION MAP
How to adjust the result
Add magenta for lilac, blue for periwinkle, or white for a paler pastel. Ochre will gray the mixture rapidly.
Correct value first, then hue, then chroma. This order prevents a lightness error from turning into an unnecessarily complicated recipe.
WATCH FOR
Common mistakes
- Mixing violet directly from a warm red and greenish blue
- Using equal strong pigment loads in a tiny white batch
- Over-neutralizing with yellow