Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green
by Michael Wilcox · first published 1990
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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-inclined red (scarlet) * A green-inclined yellow (practically speaking, "spring green") and…
on “Color Wheels Are Wrong (2011)” ↗Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green by Michael Wilcox covers the mechanisms behind subtractive colours (paints) pretty well. Also explains why it will never make a really bright green.
on “Color Wheels Are Wrong (2011)” ↗My first thought was to take the book "Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green" from my shelf. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2103727.Blue_and_Yellow_... You can't subtractively mix all colors from three practical 'primaries' If you mix Cadmium Yellow and Ultramarine Blue…
on “Mixbox – Practical Pigment Mixing for Digital Painting” ↗> 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…
on “Color Wheels Are Wrong (2011)” ↗