Michael Wilcox's book, Blue and Yellow don't make Green. In a good painting, you need both bright and muted colours.ġ. If you want to mix a muted secondary colour - mix the primary colours that tint towards complementary colours. If you would like to mix the brightest secondary colour - mix the primary colours that are tinted towards that secondary colour. As orange and green are complementary to blue and red, they will add a grey/ brown "muddy" element to the purple. The purple would now contain blue and red, but also orange and green. As each primary tint contains some of the colour it leans to - mixing an orange red with green blue to achieve a purple, would in fact mean that you would be combining 4 colours instead of two. Thus a violet red and a violet blue will create the brightest purple. To get the brightest mixture, you should choose colours which lean towards each other on the colour wheel. In practice French Ultramarine is a violet blue (warm), while Prussian Blue is a green blue(cold). Mixing each of them with another colour will have different results. ![]() (*remember that artists preferences are as varied as their personalities!) Orange Yellow - warm - Cadmium Yellow Deep Hue ![]() The general colours* that most artists use are as follows:
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