some lean more one way or the other so red can be a red-orange (cadmium red) or a red-violet (alizarin crimson, permanent rose). How can we make varying Oranges, Greens and Violets- our secondary colours – by mixing the primary colours remembering they are not all created equally i.e. One of the three colours – orange, green, or purple – that can be made by mixing together two of the primary colours Think in terms of colour leaning, it simplifies our understanding and believe me colour theory can get complex! Primaries are not all equal. So why have I got all these reds, blues and yellows. the colours found in Ink Jet printers if you want to. The reality is we as artists don’t use only three primaries although you can buy process cyan, magenta and yellow i.e. These are the pigments that are used in the printing industry, the ones you find in your Ink Jet Printers and together with black they form other colours. Also it is interesting to note that true primary colours are cyan, magenta and yellow. I would take it further than this and state that they can not be made by another colour. ‘one of the three colours, red, yellow, and blue, that can be mixed together in different ways to make any other colour’ So if it is a dull Green is this a Secondary colour or a Tertiary? Hmmm… lets start with some definitions from the Cambridge Dictionary, lets go back to primaries: Primary Colour – Definition So a Blue that leans towards the Red (say ultramarine) will make a more muted green because there is a touch of Red in this Blue so when mixed with Yellow you produce a Green that is duller as it contains all three primaries. A more natural green such as that which occurs in nature tends to be muted. Hence if you have a Blue that leans towards Yellow and a Yellow that leans towards Blue a bright green is produced. We noted that if colours lean towards each other they would mix brighter than if they leaned away. In the first blog in this colour series we found out how to use the colour wheel and started to mix the primaries together.
So green, orange and purple are all secondaries. Secondary colours are simply two primaries mixed together. Photo by Sharon McCutcheon from Pexels What are Secondary Colours?
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