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Fun Trivia: A : Art Techniques

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What are the three primary colors?

    Yellow, blue, red. These three colors form all the other colors except white and black; they can be formed by mixing any colors.

What are the six tertiary colors?
    Yellow-green, Blue-green, Blue-violet, Red-Violet, Red-orange, Yellow-orange. You form these colors by mixing one primary color and one secondary color together.

What is/are the secondary color(s)?
    orange, violet, green. These are the colors formed by mixing the primary colors.

How do you make neutral grey?
    Mix two complementary colors together. Neutral grey is exactly grey. All you have to do is mix two complementary colors like green and magenta together and that's considered neutral grey.

What are the cool colors?
    Yellow-Green, Green, Blue-Green, Blue, Blue-Violet, Violet. Cool colors tend to have a calming effect.

What are the warm colors?
    Yellow, Yellow-Orange, Orange, Red-Orange, Red, Red-Violet. Warm colors tend to have a warming up feeling.

No matter how hard you try, you can't mix different paint to make white.
    t. In art, black is used to darken any color mostly. White is used to lighten any color.

How many colors are on the color wheel total... including neutral grey?
    13. Today's color wheel is really simple... it only shows 13 colors on it.

Sir Isaac Newton developed the first circular diagram of colors in 1666.
    t. Sir Isaac Newton developed the first circular diagram of colors also called the color wheel in 1666.

When you mix complementary colors, what color do you get?
    Brown. Complementary colors are any two colors of light which produce white they are said to be complementary colors of each other.


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