Color Mixing at Color

Color Mixing. Optical color mixing combines features of both additive and subtractive color mixing. In grade school art class, you probably learned about primary colors.

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Mix two colors and see the result. From a distance, the eye will merge the colors to form new colors. Color mixing all the rest of the colors.

The smARTteacher Resource Color Mixing Color Wheel

As you would probably guess, it is made by mixing red and yellow. Ryb is a color model used for paints and other physical art mediums. And finally, with the mixing of yellow and magenta, green is obtained. Most people are familiar with this form of subtractive color mixing because it’s taught in early art classes.