Hope this helps and I'm happy to help you on your artistic journey. Understanding color theory is often really important to excel as an artist. I teach this sort of thing when I start working with new students in acrylic painting, watercolor painting, and even in colored pencil drawing. White added to any color changes the value of the color. Mixing all 3 Primary Colors should make black, but in reality, makes a brown because of the pigments used. In reality, depending on the pigments in the paint colors, you may not be using a true blue, or true yellow, so your colors may give you something that you might not expect a brownish green for example instead of a bright emerald green. Artists use a color wheel that has the three primary colors red, yellow, and blue and three secondary colors orange, green, and violet as well as the tertiary colors that are in between, such as blue-green. For example, a Bluish Green or a Yellowish Green a reddish purple or a bluish purple a reddish orange or a yellowy orange.Įach color on the color wheel has an opposite or complementary color. All possible color combinations can be made by mixing just three primary colors with white and black. Mixing non-equal parts of any two primary colors will result in a tertiary color. Teaching preschool students about the primary colors of light is a fun way to introduce colors and the concept of mixing color combinations. Orange is a secondary color.Įqual parts of Red and Blue make Purple. Green is a secondary color.Įqual parts of Yellow and Red make Orange. If the two primary colors are not in equal amounts, it results in what is called a tertiary color.Įqual parts of Yellow and Blue make Green. Mixing equal parts of any two primary colors results in the creation of a secondary color.
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