Hi, Jennifer!

I just posted a welcome message to you in the New Users channel, and am now responding to your post over here.

Others may be more knowledgeable about what type of acrylic paint, and what brand, might be best. (And if in fact that is the way to go.)

As far as the color is concerned, I double-checked, and you are right about the Pantone name for this color. Artist paints are not usually identified by Pantone name, that is more common with house paints and colors used in product design. The RGB value is more helpful to me.

This color is a grayish pastel blue. It immediately brings to mind the color Payne’s Gray, which, although a dark color, can be lightened to produce the color you are looking for (or something very close). I’ll let others chime in as to whether they agree with my suggesting that you use a combination of Payne’s Gray and Titanium White.

There are matte colors available in artists’ acrylics. One brand that is highly regarded, but not overly expensive, and which carries a matte line of heavy-body acrylics is Golden. They carry Paynes Gray (they spell it without the apostrophe!) in both their regular heavy-body line, their matte heavy-body line, and their fluid line (all artist acrylics), and probably in some of their other lines as well. If you go to their website you can see samples of their colors along with tints.

By the way, I’m not a shill for Golden! But they are good paints, and they are easily available most anywhere, at least in the US. Michaels does carry their regular heavy-body and fluid acrylics; I’m not sure about their matte acrylics. I’m also not sure if there is enough difference between regular and matte acrylics to make a difference when you are patching up a vase.

Before you commit to buy anything, though, see what other people here might advise.

It might be easiest and cheaper to buy a small boxed set of acrylic paints and mix this color, esp if you go to one of the big box craft stores that have coupons for one item.

another option would be to buy this exact shade in a bottle of acrylic craft paint…it’s more watery than tube paint, though.

Please note that acrylic paints often dry a tiny bit darker.

That is a blue-grey color:

http://www.hyatts.com/eCom/images/1/164013.jpg

A simple mix of black + white should get you close (almost all black + white mixtures produce a grey that is slightly blueish). Then if it’s not blueish enough, add a touch of a real blue (perhaps Ultramrine, Cobalt, or Indanthrone, maybe Cerulean, but not Phthalo) in tiny increments until you get just the right amount of blueness. If it’s too greenish, start over and try again with a more purplish blue (or even a mixed violet-blue). If it’s too purplish, try with a more greenish blue. Since you have the target color physically in front of you, you can judge the actual color better than here on a digital display…I’m just making an educated guess from the online sample I see…it may or may not be ‘accurate’.

Any brand can work (even cheap craft paints) but…cheap paints darken more as they dry, and most will lack opacity/coverage, requiring building up the color…making things a bit more difficult. It’s best to use fluid viscosity acrylics in a matte or satin finish like the vase.

Edit: I just read opainter’s suggestion of Paynes Grey + Titanium White. That might be the best and simplest mixing route! I would try that first.

It is a perfect example to use CMYK for mixing this color, something like Phthalo blue +Quin Magenta + Lamp Black + Zinc-Titanium White. Personally, I use mostly Cobalt Blue + Caput mortuum + Vine Black + Zinc White. The second variant I often like to mix, is Cobalt-Chromium blue-green + Manganese violet + Raw Umber + Zinc-Titanium White

Jennifer, add some blue to your gray, e.g, Ultramarine Blue (PB 29) or Phthalo Blue (PB 15:3, PB 15:1, etc).

What a beautiful match!