Making Latex paint colors

[claycts]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cacole

Thanks for that tip -- I'll have to check Home Depot on my next trip. I have never heard of this brand of paint, but it sounds like a very good idea.

Not a brand but the paints that someone did not like and returned. I cheat I make my own [:D] www.leatherique.com our dye works great on anything that is pourous. Thinking of making a line of scenic paints for rail roads.

[oleirish]

Lowes will mix colors for you allso,I had an earth color done by them to cover my board not bad at all!!!

I could of used more coats but???
JIM

[cacole]

Thanks for that tip -- I'll have to check Home Depot on my next trip. I have never heard of this brand of paint, but it sounds like a very good idea.

[claycts]

You can purchase OOPS colors from Lowes or home depot and make them the color YOU WANT. Start with a close color to what you want, put some in a container and then add TINT to the color. The tint is ANY brand water based artiest colors.
A little trick is latex type clear coating, have to ask for it in a paint store, then add your own color to it. The raw colors that are required for any color in the world are:
Ochre, raw umber, greem, blue, red, red oxide,brown,yellow,black,magenta and white. This will allow you to blend any color.
We make all our own colors for everything at a fraction of the cost of buying gallons of paint.
Remember that thinned paint is batter than out of the can for what we do.
Take care
George P.