Using primary colors, you can create every color of the rainbow.
The foundation for every color imaginable is found in just three basic colors--red, blue and yellow. These are called the primary colors. These three primaries, when mixed in different proportions, make every other hue of paint.
Instructions
Secondary Colors
1. Place a sample of each primary color on your palette.
2. Use your brush to pick up a sample of red.
3. Place your sample on a clean part of your palette.
4. Rinse all traces of paint from your brush.
5. Pick up an equal sample of yellow.
6. Mix the yellow with the red. You now have orange.
7. Rinse all traces of paint from your brush again.
8. Repeat these steps to mix equal parts red and blue. You now have purple.
9. Mix equal parts blue and yellow. You now have green. Orange, purple and green are the secondary colors.
Tertiary Colors
10. Place a sample of each primary color on your palette.
11. Use your brush to pick up a sample of red.
12. Place your sample on a clean part of your palette.
13. Rinse all traces of paint from your brush.
14. Pick up an sample of yellow that is half the size of your red sample.
15. Mix the yellow and the red. The resulting color is called red-orange.
16. Repeat these steps to mix two parts yellow with one part red. This is yellow-orange.
17.Mix two parts yellow with one part blue. This is yellow-green.
18. Mix two parts blue with one part yellow. This is blue-green.
19. Mix two parts blue with one part red. This is blue-purple.
20. Mix two parts red with one part blue. This is red-purple, and you have now created all of the tertiary colors.
Other Colors
21. Select any size sample of any primary color
22. Place your sample on a clean part of your palette.
23. Rinse all traces of paint from your brush.
24. Mix in different quantities of any other color or color combination to make variations of the secondary and tertiary hues.
