Color Theory 2: Paint/Pigment Primary Colors. The Truth!!!

The truth about primary colors when mixing paint!

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[5150KDA]

Why does the cyan you use look blue when you do the sample and then change to cyan when you show the colors labeled at the end? Also, kinda looks like you used acrylics for the first sample and watercolor for the second. I know the theory is theoretically not supposed to care about the medium but I know they mix differently anyway because of the white pigments added to acrylic. Thanks for the video and insight! I am going to mess around with this!

[jaredx2]

@5150KDA The only Cyan Magenta and Yellow I could find for true mixing was gouache paints also things got lighter when they dried and I white balanced the scans better than the video.

[microdesigns2000]

I worked hard in the third grade to write my first book report about the primary colors. In fact I was writing about RGB (primary additive). The teacher marked my grade down to a B because my report was "wrong". I didn't try in school again until I was a senior. I was so disappointed with the teacher's Ignorance.

[SabretoothSnowMan]

They should never teach at school that red, yellow and blue are all the primary colors the way that they do. It is a lie, and should not be taught.

[drax325]

what pigment did you use

[goldchops]

Absolutely agree with the video. I'm an Art teacher and am always amazed why it is not accepted in the Art world that CYM are the tru primary colours. The printers have been on to it for years. Why is everybody so reluctant to see the light. Keep up the good work. Well done.

[jaredx2]

get red. But look those are the facts. Sociologically you are right - but this isn't language which we can adapt based on usage. Sure our color styles have evolved based on RYB but again deep down we have to face the fact that the compliment of yellow is not purple but blue. Thanks for listening :)

[jaredx2]

I am an Art Teacher. The common use of RYB does not make it correct. RYB is only stylistically or sociologically correct (due to 400 years of us) but not physiologically or psychology or best yet scientifically accurate. I do not deny its existence but truth is truth - as has been well established for some time - there is but one color theory - and its called color theory. People just like to ignore it instead of facing it head on. Many people are shocked when you mix magenta and yellow and

[jaredx2]

What my teacher taught me - may be in common use - but that does not make it accurate. More importantly they don't teach it for the reasons of simplicity - its is taught that way because of ignorance and 400 years of the common use of RYB. If you teach someone the scientific primaries for pigment - CMY (K is not part of the model that is just a printing simplification) then they learn CMY. Purple is just as hard a word as Magenta. (more in a moment)

[jaredx2]

OK - just so you know - I do know the difference between additive and subtractive color theory (and I my sources do go beyond wikipedia on this). But they are not two different color theories - they are two sides of the same color theory - that theory is called color theory - or in light of the RYB model - we should call it scientific color theory.

The RYB model is historic or pre-scientific and is only accurate as in that we use and and promote it as accurate... (more in a moment)