How A Professional Paint Mixer Creates Colors

• Tony Piloseno is a paint professional who shares videos of how paint colors are made.
• Typically in a paint store, the colors are made in a paint shaker with preset formulations.
• Tony uses pigments to show you what is actually happening in the can you typically can't see.

The following is a transcript of the video.

Tony Piloseno: My name is Tony Piloseno, and I've been a paint mixer for about four years. Instead of using the gallon shaker like they typically would use at a paint store, I will use either a stir stick or a drill mixer just to show how each of the colors are blended together. There's a lot of different research done about how different colors will affect your daily routine or affect your mood. Pinks are good for calming. Yellow actually tends to be the color that gives you more anxiety. The hardest color to pick for your room would be the color gray. When you go to the paint store, there's hundreds of different kinds of grays that have different types of undertones: warmth, coolness to the the gray, how dark it is. Typically there's 11 to 12 pigments, and some you use more than others. Black, gold, and maroon are the normal ones that you would use to create depth within the color. When you go with lighter colors, you pick a white base or a deep base. If you were to use a white base paint and added blue and magenta, it would make almost like a periwinkle color, right? And let's say that we added those same pigments to an accent base. That's when you would get, like, a nice, dark, rich purple color. For pigments like green, yellow, and red, those tend to move a color of a gallon of paint a lot quicker than most and will completely change the tone of the color, depending how much you use. So just from basic knowledge of those pigments, I can typically get a good idea of what the color will be once I mix them together.