Q&A for How to Make Gray

A pure gray is a combination of white and black. However, you can get a grayish-brown shade by mixing red, yellow, and blue. Use more blue to get a cooler “color gray” or more red if you want a warmer color.

Yes. Dilute black food coloring with water or mix it into a white substance (such as white frosting) to create gray. You can also tint it with other colors, such as blue or red, to make a warmer or cooler gray. You can also try mixing red, blue, and green food coloring to get a grayish tint.

Mix it with its complementary color (purple) to make it gray. Then add white to make it a lighter gray. Yellow paint is often not a true yellow, but a yellow hue. This means you need to be careful with the amount of purple you add. Most likely a small amount of purple will turn the yellow into gray.

I would suggest adding blue. Brown, like gray, is also a mixture of red, yellow, and blue but in different ratios, and most of the time, with a smaller amount of blue. Adding blue should turn the brown into gray. Remember to add white as well to create the hue you want since brown and blue mixed together will result in a very dark gray.

Your pencil as in normal pencil that doesn't have any color. Or you can do add a light texture of black and add white. Test this on a piece of paper so you know what color/shade you like.

It depends on the tone of the colors you're using, but it could make green or a less-saturated yellow.

You can buy them at a store but if you want to make dark green with normal colors then you’ll have to mix black and green and for light green clay you’ll need to mix green and white clay.

A darker gray. Adding black to any color makes the hue darker, and adding white will make it lighter.

Add enough black to make the color almost completely black, then add white to lighten it and make it grey. Most likely what will happen is that the black will absorb the blue hue, and the white will lighten the color to make it grey.

You can't make something blue because blue is a primary color. The only way to make a gray color look blue-tinted is to add blue.

Add very little black paint at a time, and if it gets too dark grey for your liking, just add some white paint to it. Remember the more black that is added means the darker grey. While, the more white added, the lighter the grey color.

Black and white. Just use more black than white.