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. 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. Mixing non-equal parts of any two primary colors will result in a tertiary color. 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.
