I know this has been on here before but it's so useful for any art teachers out there

That's how you mix hues anyway. You need white and black to create tints and shades respectively, or both to make a tone.

Some notes on the chemistry presented in this post:
-Try not to use ANY pigment containing cadmium, it’s fairly toxic.
-It’s spelled “phthalo”.
-Quinacridone and Hansa are actually whole families of pigments.

I wish I understood

I know nothing about art, but I will show my artistic friends this

Printers use the latter

I didn't know this and I'm an artist! Does anyone know how to make red? :)

What about RGB?

Please stop yelling at me and I will pick any color you want me to.

Alright listen up, the color theory admits them both groups of colors as primary. You don't get better colors just different ones. #get your facts straight

Doors have just been opened for me. Thank you for posting this. I have been drawing/painting since I was in second grade (I'm 21 now and pretty fucking good) and I didn't know this. No one ever mentioned it.

If you think that those are the primary colors, you are talking about the primary colors on physics, not in art.

CYAN :) that's my name

Would people please stop posting this!! The cyan, magenta, yellow, is ONLY true for digital work. NOT traditional media. Traditional media is, and always will be BLUE, RED, YELLOW! hy not post the many many comments that explain that!

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