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Author: Don_Jusko, Contributing Editor
| Nature can be duplicated with just the pigment colors magenta, yellow and cyan.
These pigment hues were important in painting throughout time, From the earliest High Art period in 2000 B.C. when Arsinic was Yellow, Transparent Indigo and opaque frit were Cyan, and Karmes-Nacarat Carmine was Magenta, to the great vat pigments today that can make any hue. These three primary colors in food color dye can make any color. This is not about any artists work actually, except maybe mine. It's about a couple of different colorwheels and why we need this new one. |
| Here is an RGB color wheel showing how it's colors get dark. Next to it, an RGB chart plotting the crystal color curve getting dark.
On the YMC/RGB color wheel Cyan darkens to green-black as does yellow, Yellow should match a banana getting brown and cyan should match the sky getting bluer, and cyan crystals that show the darker mass colors. Here is an RGB color wheel showing how it's colors get dark, and an RGB chart showing the yellow to dark RGB straight line and the crystal color curve, both getting dark. |
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| Each of my 36 rim colors has ten sections before becoming black. My Yellow follows the color path of crystal compounds with iron, tungsten or titanium elements in them. Dark yellow is dark brown. The pure rim color yellow mixed with ultramarine blue becomes either a grayer yellow or grayer blue. The darker yellow color, brown, and ultramarine blue mix into a dark neutral to the warm or cool side.
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| Red, Yellow and Ultramarine Blue are not primary colors. I believe you were taught an incorrect color wheel in our school system if taught anything at all. This is based on the State School Standards which one can search and find on the internet.
In the Red-Yellow-Blue six color wheel, complements mixed together make brown but not neutral dark. Yellow and purple make brown and won't make a neutral dark or gray (although it's a nice dark brown). Red and green make brown. Orange and ultramarine blue make brown. Orange and cobalt blue mix neutral. Cobalt Blue is half way closer to cyan than blue is - (Blue is Ultramarine Blue in pigments and is called Blue-violet in photography). It's a translucent in oil pigment. Yellow, Magenta and Cyan are the only true primaries in pigments, and element gem crystals. A full color painting could be made using just these three colors. Yellow and magenta mix red, magenta and cyan mix blue, cyan and yellow mix green. Blue and yellow mix a shaded green because blue contains both magenta and cyan pigments. Magenta is opposite to green, they mix and neutralize to a shade. Remember, dark yellow is brown. The RYB color wheel cannot make the primary hues of cyan and magenta, but yellow, magenta and cyan can make those colors plus any other color. This fact should be taught in all schools by amending each State's School Standards. The artists are ahead of the written recorders again.. And that's a good sign. It would be interesting to see the changes in our school art programs if students were provided with transparent colors in a water base medium using yellow, magenta, and cyan instead of the opaqueness of tempura paints! |
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