How Do You Mix Colors For Beautiful Paintings?
Understanding colors and how to mix them will help you to create beautiful vibrant paintings. All artists have painting techniques, and they all involve color mixing and color theory. The primary colors are red, yellow and blue. It may seem hard to believe, but all other colors can be created from just these three. This is why these three are called the primary colors. Secondary colors are orange, green and purple or violet. These colors are created when the primary colors are mixed together. In addition, if secondary colors are mixed with primary, you create tertiary colors. In all, that’s 12 colors! Fortunately as artists, we do not need to mix every color we want to use in our paintings. It is important however to understand color theory and these basic mixing principles. The color wheel is a tool artists use to understand and visualize color principles. I suggest having a color wheel in your work area that you use for reference as you paint. It would be easy to make your own color
