Reinventing the Wheel: Why Red is Not a Primary Color
What then are the primary colors? Your color printer knows the answer: cyan, yellow and magenta. These colors mix a bright and clean spectrum. You can mix red, green and blue from these primaries. Orange and violet still occupy their familiar locations in between magenta and yellow and blue and magenta respectively.
If red, yellow, and blue can be used to mix every other color, why do our paintings turn out so muddy? Color mixing experiments and art supply shopping advice for those looking to create clean, saturated paint mixes.
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