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Mixing paint primaries into new colours
Age 10 · Art
Cyan, magenta and yellow are the three paint primaries. Mix any two of them and you get a new secondary colour: green, red-orange or blue-violet.
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In the picture
- Green: cyan mixed with yellow
- Red-orange: magenta mixed with yellow
- Blue-violet: cyan mixed with magenta
Examples
- A colour printer mixes cyan, magenta and yellow inks to print a green leaf or a red apple.
- When you paint a field, you can mix cyan and yellow paint to get grass green.
Key takeaways
- Mixing two primaries makes one secondary colour.
- Each secondary colour leaves out one primary: green has no magenta in it.
Quiz: Mixing paint primaries into new colours (Age 10)
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Which two paint primaries do you mix to make blue-violet?
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What new colour do you get when you mix magenta paint with yellow paint?
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Green is made from two paint primaries. Which primary is left out of green?
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