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Mixing paint into a colour wheel
Age 11 · Art
Yellow, magenta and cyan are three primary pigments. When two of them overlap and blend, they make a new colour, and the colours together form a wheel.
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In the picture
- Yellow paint: a primary pigment that cannot be made by mixing
- Green: yellow and cyan blended together
- Orange-red: yellow and magenta blended together
Examples
- Mixing yellow and blue paint to get green for painting grass
- Mixing red and yellow paint to get orange for painting a sunset
Key takeaways
- Yellow, magenta and cyan are the primary pigments.
- Mixing two primaries makes a secondary colour.
Quiz: Mixing paint into a colour wheel (Age 11)
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Which set names the three primary pigments in paint mixing?
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What do you get when you blend two primary pigments together?
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Which two pigments do you blend to make green?
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