Universal Tints, Oxide Dark Brown, #23, 20 ml

I purchased these tints so that I could either adjust a color of wood stain or glaze for either woodworking with oil and water based products or for faux finishing on my walls. These are the most versatile tinting mediums because they can be mixed with either water based products or oil based ones. I like them for faux finishing on my walls since I like to mix my colors from scratch, but I also use them for adjusting a color or value of a premixed glaze or paint. I recently used them for wood finishing and found the tints great when I mixed them with an oil based stain to do the woodworking in my new home since many of the 25 doors and door frames were unfinished. I purchased a wood gel stain called Java from General Finishes and I mixed it with the color "black" from my Mixol tint set. It turned into a beautiful ebony color and I'm thrilled with the results. I even had to mix the colors in batches since I had to use several cans of stain, and the results looked perfect. I started with trying to calculate a ratio, but I realized that all I had to do was to compare the colors between one batch and another. I did the comparison on a white background so that I could see the true value. Q-tips on white paper are great for this job.The Mixol tints are considered to be the best in the world. They are made by a company in Germany so all the color names are written in German. They have a chart with English translations but I find I don't even use them since I use color recognition mostly when I tint colors. There are also a number of oxide colors which are so great to use since they use tones that are inherent to earth colors. I like doing Tuscan colors and these tints are perfect when you want to get a warm glow like "yellow ochre." I went to many classes years ago for faux finishing and my instructor used Mixol tints exclusively, mixing all her glazes from scratch. I never forgot that lesson and still practice those time worn lessons of success. You can find endless videos to learn how to begin.You cannot use these tints as stand-alone color mediums since they contain only pigment and no binders, but that is the beauty of them. There are other products like those made by "Golden" which sell the binders alone so that you can control the thickness, translucency, texture, sheen and open times of your paint or glaze. These are described as the most potent tints in the world so a little goes a long way, and they never dry out.If you are somewhat adventurous or creative, you will really enjoy using these tints. You can tint just about anything used in construction although it is almost unnecessary since there are already many premixed colors like grout, cement, etc. However, it is far more cost effective to mix your own. It is much cheaper to purchase a can of translucent glaze or wood stain which are void of color. I especially like to mix small batches when I want some randomness to my wall or wood piece (and I don't just use wood tone colors for my furniture!) I never paint a wall anymore using one color. My first coat is considered my base coat which I put on with a roller over the entire wall surface. After that I begin to layer color on using either a faux finishing brush, sponge, rag, etc. and may have on average, four different colors in varying intensity. This kind of faux finishing is what adds depth to a design and why our eyes find beauty in a painted work of art on canvas. When you look at a wall that is painted without a pattern, your eyes will always enjoy looking at that finished wall. Depending on your color choices, you can create a very restful or exhilarating space. Wallpaper companies get big bucks by selling you designs which mimic a faux finish. However, they cannot create a random pattern, and I find it unappealing to notice the short repeats.I am not a born artist. I just like color and enjoy working with my hands. So you don't need to be an expert to achieve pleasing results. Practice does make success though!

If you don't know how much you need, get the large bottle. I painted my front porch with nonslip paint and they give all of 6 colors to choose. I mixed a dark brown with a light tan and it was pink. So, I ended up adding 3 shot glassfuls of this tint to kill the pink and it's effectively a sandstone color. Note that what is in the bottle does not look like what I thought was ochre (a brownish color), but actually looked more army green. For my tint purposes, given I couldn't get the product tinted in a paint shop, it worked. I may look at other colors should I decide to update my porch next painting and do the flagstone sections in different shades. Note, this was paint over concrete and it's been in full sun and is colorfast.

I had some leftover eggshell ( yuck! ) paint from when we first built our house over 27 yrs. ago. i ordered a container of the yellow tint & added it to an unopened gallon of it just to see what this stuff would do. I figured for $10,hey, might as well try it. To my surprise, this stuff turned a gallon of dull, no pizazz paint into a bright, wonderful shade of yellow wall paint that has really brightened up our living room. I kept adding drops & wasn't getting much change but when I added the whole oz....I could not believe what a beautiful change it made. So I have ordered an oz. of blue tint to add to a 2nd unopened gal. to make the ceiling a sky blue addition to the room. The yellow is not school-bus bright but is a welcome change & I can"t wait to see what the blue will look like. Unbelievable that this stuff saved me from buying new paint AND worked with very old eggshell paint. GREAT PRODUCT!

Satisfied with this product. Performed as expected…

I'm using the black Mixol to tint Zinsser oil-based primer for exterior house painting. The primer is pure white and is way too bright as a base coat for the deeper pigments in my color schemes. Takes many coats of color to fully cover the white, so I tint the primer into a battleship gray with the Mixol black tint. One bottle is more than enough to tint a full gallon of primer for this purpose. I just squirted it into the can and mixed with one of those paint stirring paddles chucked into an electric drill. Blends much better than the tint they use at the hardware store which is formulated for acrylic-base paint. I find those tints never fully blend and the result is a very streaky finish, gray but with many shades of white. With Mixol, the finish is a much more uniform shade of gray. My only complaint is the price, and having to spend over $8 just to tint a $35 gallon of paint.February 2024 update: Mixol is still the only way to go for tinting oil-based primer. The price of the primer has increased dramatically since my initial review. Was $35, but now selling for upwards of $45. The increase is more than the cost of a bottle of Mixol! I tried once again to tint the oil-based primer using the hardware store tinting process. I thought it would work out if only I did a better job of mixing the paint. However no amount of mixing or shaking provides a uniform shade of color. The paint looks very streaky and inconsistent once it dries on the wall. Very unprofessional and just not worth the insignificant savings. Go with the Mixol!

The color appears strong (blue) but it consists of a powder that didn't dissolve, but rather settled to the bottom. This pricy product might work for some purposes, but it did not color the diesel based spray-on herbicide for us. We haven't tried it in a water solution.

very rich and even color, mixes well. a little goes longer than a lot with cheaper dyes

Arrived on time and performed as expected!

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Superschnell geliefert und perfekt

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