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I'd mention the book Blue and Yellow don't make Green, which taught me that my minimum set of paints should be: * A purple-inclined red (crimson) and an orange

I'd mention the book Blue and Yellow don't make Green, which taught me that my minimum set of paints should be: * A purple-inclined red (crimson) and an orange-inclined red (scarlet) * A green-inclined yellow (practically speaking, "spring green") and an orange-inclined yellow ("yellow") * A purple-inclined blue (ultramarine) and a green-inclined blue (cerulean) * White to make light tones (don't worry about black) And these let me get almost all the spectral colors because, I think, the pigment grains don't interfere and don't cause subtractive mixing (there was some sketchy explanation about light bouncing between different pigment particles before bouncing properly back from the canvas). There are gaps due to the lack of any pure primary color, which we basically give up on being able to buy.

Daub 2y ago
> * A purple-inclined red (crimson) and an orange-inclined red (scarlet) > * A green-inclined yellow (practically speaking, "spring green") and an orange-inclined yellow ("yellow") > * A purple-inclined blue (ultramarine) and a green-inclined blue (cerulean) > * White to make light tones (don't worry about black) This is excellent advice for a painter, though I would not exclude black. The six color you describe are, in essence, a warm/cool pairing of the three primaries. When I painted in color I used: Cadmium red/alizarin crimson, lemon yellow/cadmium yellow, cobalt blue/Prussian blue
- card_zero 2y ago
  > When I painted in color I gather you've moved beyond that now. Probably wise, it's a lot of fuss.
- KevinMS 2y ago
  blueish red is a pain in the ass because there are not many pigments in that range that aren't "fugitive", meaning they fade in light. Alizarin fades fast. Last I checked a pigment called Quinacridone fits that spot on the wheel and doesn't fade.
robocat 2y ago
> Blue and Yellow don't make Green Many children were incorrectly taught that Red, Yellow and Blue were "primary" colours from which you could make any other colour: wrong. Fotunately we have better teaching now. I like some of the comments here: https://nitaleland.blogspot.com/2005/10/urban-myth-blue-and-yellow-dont-make.html https://nitaleland.blogspot.com/2005/10/urban-myth-blue-and-...

Daub 2y ago

> * A purple-inclined red (crimson) and an orange-inclined red (scarlet) > * A green-inclined yellow (practically speaking, "spring green") and an orange-inclined yellow ("yellow") > * A purple-inclined blue (ultramarine) and a green-inclined blue (cerulean) > * White to make light tones (don't worry about black) This is excellent advice for a painter, though I would not exclude black. The six color you describe are, in essence, a warm/cool pairing of the three primaries. When I painted in color I used: Cadmium red/alizarin crimson, lemon yellow/cadmium yellow, cobalt blue/Prussian blue

card_zero 2y ago
> When I painted in color I gather you've moved beyond that now. Probably wise, it's a lot of fuss.
KevinMS 2y ago
blueish red is a pain in the ass because there are not many pigments in that range that aren't "fugitive", meaning they fade in light. Alizarin fades fast. Last I checked a pigment called Quinacridone fits that spot on the wheel and doesn't fade.

robocat 2y ago

> Blue and Yellow don't make Green Many children were incorrectly taught that Red, Yellow and Blue were "primary" colours from which you could make any other colour: wrong. Fotunately we have better teaching now. I like some of the comments here: https://nitaleland.blogspot.com/2005/10/urban-myth-blue-and-yellow-dont-make.html https://nitaleland.blogspot.com/2005/10/urban-myth-blue-and-...