Oil Color Help

[Joshua Fountain]

Hello guys,

I am currently working on an oil painting and I decided when I started that I wanted to use the Burnt Umber color.

Unfortunately I cannot find my tube I bought, after looking for about a week. I'm also missing some other colors as well but have everything else I need for the painting except Burnt Umber.

I am wondering what I can mix to achieve a Burnt Umber hue effect?

I have left:
Lamp Black
Mars Black
Titanium White
Indian Red (alot of it :-/)
Pthalo Blue
Permanent Red Medium
Oxide of Chromium
Alizarin Crimson
Burnt Sienna
Prussian Blue
some cheap Violet hue
Brilliant Red hue
Veridian
Permanent Yellow Light
Sap Green
Zinc Yellow
Ultramarine
Quinacridone Red
and a tiny bit of Yellow Ochre

I just moved and dug out my paints and am missing quite a few including my Burnt Umber. I know I could just get some more but I figured I would make this a challenge to see if I can make a similar hue. However, I am kind of stumped right now as to how to go about making it and my attempts so far haven't been too promising.

Can anyone shed some light? I do promise I'll take better care of my supplies in the future, heh.

[Kainin]

Hmm what are you using as your primary colours as I can see any there?
as in Cadum's and Corellums. It might help putting a little black into your yellow or green before you mix them in.

[Ramon Hurtado]

hey there joshua, you know, you can paint using just yellow ochre, ivory black, titanium white and cad red (this is what anders zorn used), limited palette exercises are useful because you are less overwhelmed when picking colors to mix. To make a rich dark browns, you can mix complementary colors such as indian red and viridian. Hope this helps

[Elwell]

Burnt sienna plus black will give you a pretty dead-on color match for burnt umber. What it won't give you is umber's fast drying time, and, depending on which black you use, it may mix quite a bit differently.

[Joshua Fountain]

Hey that does help!

Thank you very much. And I agree about the limited palette, that's what I wanted to make it: an exercise.

[DecktillDawn]

Your burnt sienna and ultramarine would make a really nice dark brown. And you could avoid adding black this way.

[Joshua Fountain]

Again, thank you!

I look forward to trying to make nice dark browns with Burnt Sienna. Honestly the thought never crossed my mind before.

[Joshua Fountain]

Hey thanks, it's working like a charm. I just have to add more medium to get it to run like Burnt Umber. Drying time really isn't a big issue for me as I am doing a series of glazes anyways. So it's going to be a while either way!

I seriously need to find a more ventilated spot. I got really high from the paint fumes. And no, it's not a good high... it's the lightheaded the room is spinning gonna puke my guts out any second now because I have a massive headache kind of high.

Open doors help though at least.

[Flake]

I seriously need to find a more ventilated spot. I got really high from the paint fumes

It's not the paint, it's the mineral spirits, turps or varnish you're using with the paint.

[chaosrocks]

and odorless doesnt mean non toxic
just means it sneaks up on you,, you may me allergic to your solvent
Please be careful... turps kills braincells


And Limited pallete is a very helpfull way to go

mine is some thing like this
depending on what Im painting
Alizarin, Ultramarine or Prussian blue, burnt sienna, winsor yellow and white

period. and if you are not drawn to use a lot of purple shadows you don't need the liz... but it does make beautiful purples.