It s interesting to find lots of reference that purple is actually violet.
Red and green paint mixed.
You were taught that if you mixed red and yellow you get orange.
Interestingly though they all contain the same three primary colors the brown created by this mixture is different than the brown created by mixing yellow and purple or blue and orange.
Green is formed by mixing blue and yellow and it is a secondary color.
For example a blue green and red may combine pigments that appear as a gray color since it is using mostly cool tones.
Mixing red and green together makes the color brown.
If you add some yellow or white they can change the kind of brown you get.
While blue and yellow combined make green and blue and red make purple violet.
Let s suppose that blue paint soaks up everything except green blue and violet and yellow paint soaks up everything except red yellow and green.
The simple diagram above explains that if you mix the colors adjacent to each other you will get a new color.
Every preschooler knows that red blue and green are primary colors.
You get a brown which varies according to the percentage of each you mix together.
When you mix paint it s like the light gets filtered twice.
The three primary colors are red blue and yellow.
Red can be made by mixing the other set of primary colors.
And since red is a primary color that means it can not be made from either green or blue.
Of course mix paints on the palette.
Modify a red paint by mixing it with a darker shade of red that is the same brand and type of paint.
Mixing 2 shades of the same color together is the best option for making minor changes to a red paint s color profile.
Mix a deeper shade of red with your base red.
However a saccharine green and red mix to make more of a brown clor due to the yellow pigments in the green contributing to warmer tones in the combined color mixture.
The table will expand the horizons and add a daring young artists to mix colors as for the color you need to mix a few colors and 4 types 2 3 for.
Can two colors make red.
In this case the primary color red is added to its complement green which is composed of the other two primary colors yellow and blue.
He other two secondary colors are purple formed by mixing red and blue.