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Summary: When mixing paint, a darker color will overwhelm a lighter color. Learn how to mix secondary colors from an art instructor in this free color theory video.

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Gretchen Kibbe Gretchen Kibbe is an artist and part-time faculty member at Appalachian State University. She worked as a scenic artist on the Spike Lee movie "School Daze." read more

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Color Theory: Mixing Secondary Colors

The next grouping of colors on the color wheel are called the secondary colors. And, if this makes it easy to remember, you mix each of the two primaries together and you will get a secondary. So, and I'm sure you've found this out one way or another. But basically when you mix yellow and red together you get orange. Now, what happens though is that sometimes one color is stronger than another color and you have to, you can't put in fifty-fifty because a lot of times the darker color will overwhelm the yellow. In this case I think I've got the, I've got it about right. So, I'm going to put in my yellow, my orange, in between the red and the yellow, the two colors that went to make it up. Now, of course you can buy this. You can buy orange in a tube, but right now just want to get the basics down and to do that we're just going to mix our secondary and tertiary colors. So, there we go. There's orange. Going to do the same, red and blue make purple. So we're going to get some red down there and stick in a little bit of blue.

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