Help please

[jigfisherman]

I am needing help makeing greenpumpkin powder paint, I know its on here somewhere I just cant locate it anywhere.

Thanks,

Brad

[Big-D]

Black, with a touch of yellow and some brown to get the right shade.

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[smalljaw]

I use watermelon, chartreuse and some black and they turn out pretty good, however pro-tec now has green pumpkin already made up.

[mark poulson]

Green with a little red gives you a brownish green.

There's a paint mixing thread on the hard baits forum with a video that explains how you can get brown by mixing any secondary color, like green (blue and yellow) with it's primary opposite (red) to get brown.

Think of the three primary colors, red, blue, and yellow, as the corners on a triangle.

It helps if you draw a triangle on a piece of paper, and label the corners red, yellow, and blue.

The secondary colors, green, purple, and orange, are half way between the two primary colors that make them. Mark them on the triangle, too, half way between the primary colors that make them.

The primary color that's opposite that secondary color on the triangle is what you add to get brown.

Depending on the kind of brown you want, you can add yellow to purple, or blue to orange, and get the same thing, but slightly different shades and tones.

I just use my fingers to make a triangle, and figure it out. I'm a carpenter, not a painter, so I never remember from one batch to the next.

I use avacado green and red to get my green pumpkin, but that's in airbrush paints.

I haven't tried it yet with my powder paints, but the next batch of jigheads I dip I will.

Edited July 1, 2009 by mark poulson

[dynamite]

T. J. with Welcome to TJ's Tackle has Pro-Tek pumpkin green powder paint at a reasonable price. I am not sure it is the exact shade you are looking for, but it will be close and it is an easy place to start mixing.

[cadman]

I am needing help makeing greenpumpkin powder paint, I know its on here somewhere I just cant locate it anywhere.

Thanks,

Brad

Brad, the easiest and fastest way to get green pumpkin powder paint is to buy it from Welcome to TJ's Tackle Unlike liquid paints you can not get a true solid pigment by combining powder paints, since the powder are granules and will not fully mix into a solid. However if you do not like that color of green pumpkin, then by all means mix powder paints and experiment. Make sure to write down your ratios so you can duplicate it later.

Edited July 2, 2009 by cadman