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ArtMixing Colours
Painters work with a small number of pure colours and get everything else by mixing, so the results are fixed rather than a matter of taste. Below: the standard answers.
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How to play
Read the colours, then tap what they make.
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ArtWhat you are actually practicing
Painters work with a small number of pure colours and get everything else by mixing, so the results are fixed rather than a matter of taste. Red and yellow make orange, red and blue make purple, and the three primaries make the three secondaries. These are not opinions, they are the standard answers every art class uses.
Knowing the system also makes the less obvious questions answerable, because the colour opposite red on the wheel is always green.
How the game works
You are shown two colours, or a question about the colour system, and four possible answers. Tap the correct one. A wrong pick shows the answer immediately.
Easy covers the two-colour mixes. Medium adds the sets and the wheel. Hard uses the full list.
The links worth knowing
Two-colour mixes: red and yellow make orange. Red and blue make purple. Yellow and blue make green. Red and white make pink. Blue and white make light blue. Black and white make grey. Red and green make brown. Yellow and white make cream.
All three primaries: red, yellow and blue together make brown.
The sets: the primary colours in painting are red, yellow and blue. The secondary colours are orange, green and purple. Note that this is the paint set, not the light set used in screens and photography, which is red, green and blue.
The wheel: the colour opposite red is green, the colour opposite blue is orange, and the colour opposite yellow is purple. These pairs are called complementary colours.
Shades: blue mixed with green gives teal. Red mixed with orange gives a warmer red. Light blue with a touch of red gives a soft grey-blue.
How to get faster
Learn the wheel, not the list. If you can place red, yellow and blue at three points of a circle, then every secondary and every complementary pair follows by itself. The list above is just the wheel written out.
A note on the light set
If you have ever worked with screens, the primaries are red, green and blue there, and mixing them makes cyan, magenta and yellow rather than the paint set. Mixing light and mixing paint are opposite operations, which is why the answers differ.