Color wheel chart mixing theory painting tutorial

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[miniwargamereric]

Im really trying to understand color theory, but you say to shadow a color with the opposite on the wheel, red/green for example. but the opposite of purple is yellow....how can I shadow purple with yellow!? it will get brighter not darker...so are their rule loop holes? same with blue...I cant see how to shadow blue with orange

[PaintBasket]

@miniwargamereric No it's not a loop hole :-) Each colour absorbs light, so by adding the opposite you are causing the mix to absorb more of the light reflected by the base colour. On our channel is a colour mixing webinar where I demo this practically. Maybe have a look out for that :-)

[Quiltingresource]

Please get your facts right. The three primaries are Magenta, blue and yellow. Red is a secondary colour as it is made from yellow and magenta. If you try to create purple from red and blue you cant do it as the red conains yellow.

[PaintBasket]

@Quiltingresource there is more than one "correct" colour mixing method. Red Yellow and Blue being the most common. Magenta, Cyan and Yellow being another. Mixing red from magenta and yellow will give you a secondary colour according to the CMY system. This red can also not be used in the RYB system. You need to use a pure red. None of the various systems is better or correct. All are just different ways to accomplish the same end goal - mixing the correct colour ;-)

[MrChrisxig]

Thank you for this great help,very useful in my screen printing class. If you don't mind me asking, what is it, you are saying at 7:25? This is the time you are talking about 3 denominational colors. I didn't quite get what you where talking about on the second purple object.

Thank You.

[PaintBasket]

@MrChrisxig i said "You need a highlight, base colour and a shadow colour"

[jojhabib]

Thannk you for such beautiful tutorial.

[Leovagirl]

This is very helpful!!!

[xCraftyHD]

Good video i watched this in my K12 class for art GOOD JOB!!!

[scottnaismith]

@ratchetman4 The true primaries for subtractive colour are yellow, cyan and magenta. As cyan and magenta aren't widely used in vocabulary other than printing people have commonly called the primaries 'blue' and 'red'. However this means red can be made from magenta and a touch of orange (or yellow). Blue + Red does not make Magenta. Magenta and purple are 2 different hues. This discussion has inspired me to work on a new video about the true additive primaries.

[ratchetman4]

@scottnaismith well I see what you mean with the prims being yellow, blue and Magenta but your contradicting yourself, see, you said yellow+Magenta=red but that only applies in computers, mix those 2 and you get DarkRed, this is because red+blue=Purple and blue + yellow in computers equal nutral, which only leaves red in the equation, red+nutral=DarkRed, so red is not made, its by itself. the RBG is true, there only appear darker in paint, Green+Blue=Teal(DarkCyan), Blue+Red=Purple(DarkMagenta).

[scottnaismith]

@ratchetman4 You have a lot to learn.

The key is in the first 2 words of the tutorial, "in painting".

Try looking into the differences between subtractive and additive colour systems. Its seems your knowledge of colour is limited to digital additive colour.

[benriv16]

...how did i get here...

[ratchetman4]

@Quiltingresource um the real Primary colors are Red,Blue and Green. Green isnt made of blue and yellow, its cyan and yellow; Blue and yellow makes no sence since there opposites, think, Magenta is the opposite of green but blue and yellow make green? opposite of blue and yellow is yellow and blue, but yellow and blue dont make magenta. so magenta,blue and yellow cant be the primary colors, even though red is made of yellow and magenta, yellow is made of red and green so yellow is secondary to.

[archemis07]

Brilliant video. Very clear and effective teaching. Thank you for sharing! :-)

[bartoxha]

Finally I understood.Thank you!