Starting recipe
A measured route to test with your own tubes. It is not a promise of an exact match across brands.
Who, how and why
Practical guidance, with the limits left visible.
Mix Therapy Studio builds tools and field guides for painters who want a more repeatable route from a reference color to a dry acrylic swatch. We publish the reasoning behind each method and avoid presenting a starting ratio as a guaranteed result.
Who publishes this site
Mix Therapy Studio
Mix Therapy Studio is the editorial identity responsible for the website, the mixing workbench and every guide carrying its byline. The site is maintained as a practical studio resource for traditional artists. We do not claim that a screen color can be converted perfectly into physical paint.
Questions, corrections and reproducible counterexamples are welcome at support@mixtherapy.space.
How a guide is built
Our five-step editorial method
- Define one observable problem.We start with a painter's decision such as matching a midtone, controlling dry shift or rescuing excess chroma.
- Separate hue, value and chroma.Instructions identify which property is being changed so several corrections are not disguised as one formula.
- Use parts as a starting record.Parts make a sequence easier to repeat, but pigment identity, tinting strength, opacity and brand still change the result.
- Require a physical dry check.An important mixture should be tested on the intended ground, at a comparable film thickness and under stable light.
- Correct one variable at a time.The next small batch changes the largest visible error and records what happened instead of promising a universal percentage.
Evidence labels
What the visuals and recipes mean
Editorial illustration
A visual explanation of a workflow or comparison. It is identified as an illustration and is not passed off as laboratory evidence.
Physical swatch
A paint result is authoritative only for the recorded pigments, brand, surface, film, medium, drying time and light.
Corrections and updates
Dates change when the guidance changes.
A guide's modified date is updated for substantive editorial changes—not merely to make the page appear fresh. If a correction changes a ratio, material claim or recommended test, we update the guide and its structured data together.