The color wheel will help you remember some names of colors and how to mix them.
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Primary colors are red, yellow and blue. You can mix other colors from them.
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Secondary colors are orange, green and violet. These colors are created by mixing two primary colors.
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Intermediate or tertiary colors are yellow-orange, yellow-green, red-violet, red-orange, blue-violet, blue-green. All these can be mixed from primary colors.
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Related colors are next to each other on the color wheel. For example, blue, blue-violet and violet are related colors.
Can you name some groups of related colors?
COLOR: MIXING Secondary & Intermediate COLORS
Goal: Practice mixing paint to create secondary and intermediate colors. Make three sets of related colors; oranges, greens and violets.