The RYB color wheel uses red, yellow, and blue as the primary colors this is the color model This color model is used typically for printing. K, or black, is added for printing, as it easier (and cheaper) to attain a true black by not mixing all three other inks together. All colors added together, because it is a subtractive color model, Using 3 colors, cyan, magenta, and yellow, and a 4th value for black. The CMYK color model, by contrast, is a subtractive color model All colors added together ( #ffffff, or 100% red, 100% green, and 100% blue) will result in white. The RGB color model is an additive color model where red, greed, and blue lights are added together toĬreate different colors. RGB, or red, green, and blue, are the primary colors of your computer, or more accurately your monitor. Thus, using them in your mixtures will mean a brighter, less muddy painting! I hope this small color guide will help you in your painting endeavors.See this blog post for a detailed explanation of the desgin process of this color picker and algorithm They are simply truer to the ideal Yellow, Cyan and Magenta on the Visual RGB Color Wheel. The reasons being there are less secondary color mixtures/fillers in the individual blends.
With the addition of the Quinacridone Magenta to this trio of colors, it is an amazing gamut of hues (colors) that can be created!Īnd their intensity and brightness beats anything I can mix using the traditional RYB color wheel palette. If you paint in an impressionistic or abstract style, these colors will be right up your alley. If you have ever used these to mix your greens, you will find that they are an intense vivid green, so much so, I rarely use it in my own work (remember, I'm ol'school, and I use the old color guide theories). Most artists already have two of these colors on their palette! In the mean time, experiment! The closest oil paint available today for matching these same pigments on the RGB wheel are, Most of your graphic design colleges are well ahead of the game, but it's simply gonna take time for it to filter down to our elementary school systems. (And this is created by other materials) So why not teach this color guide theory in schools? When using (in theory) all 3 colors, we should get black, but alas, it's difficult to create a perfect Magenta, Cyan, or Yellow pigment, so they add black. The proof for me that the theory is sound is simply looking at an Epson Giclee Print.
Lets look at the printing and photography industry. We have to use the subtractive color theory to fully understand and apply this to paint mixing. This color theory works great when thinking about light, but how does that apply to paint? This is now known as the "Visual Color Wheel" and is based on primary colors being Red, Green and Blue light. Then science figured out a few more tricks for us, like, color television, and the fact that our eyes are set up with Red, Green and Blue receptors. Unfortunately, this theory is still taught in our schools, and I'm as guilty as the rest in that I still use it. This is the system that uses primary colors of Red, Yellow, Blue and is generally accepted as the "Mixing Color Wheel". Then a Moses Harris created what we believe was the first color wheel, then a Johannes Itten created a 12 point system that seemed to work out for painter mixing paints for a long time. But admittedly, most are based on science that was discovered in the writings of Leonardo da Vinci, and later, Leone Battista Alberti. There are volumes of books written on this subject. Not anymore! Would you like to know a secret on preventing Mud from creeping into your color mixes? Stick around for a few moments, I'll explain in this color guide a secret to keep your paintings from looking like something the cat dragged in! Then read the following article on RGB color theory, another color guide for new color paints! RGB color wheel theory - and you thought it was just for color television! Well, really only people in the color television world and optic world back in the day would really know of a different color wheel that applied to optics.