permanent relationship of equality
Permanent Rose and Cadmium yellow medium. Put these three angles of a triangle [pyramid] with yellow top, blue in the lower right corner and the red dot in the lower left corner. Draw a circle around the triangle. This form is your color wheel.
Put in the secondary colors. Start with the green. Mixing cadmium yellow medium cobalt blue in a relationship of equality. Enter this exactly halfway between yellow and blue on the color wheel. You will notice that is now before the red … Green is the complement of red.
Now make the secondary color of purple. Mix of cobalt blue to pink permanent relationship of equality. Put this violates exactly halfway between red and blue. You will find that is now before the yellow. Yellow and purple are complementary.
To make the color orange, mix in the same ratio of cadmium yellow medium, permanent Rose. Put this orange exactly halfway between yellow and orange color wheel. He now faces its complement of blue.
* If you think you’ve mixed the colors are too dark side … often appears dark purple … add a little white for him. The addition of color will be white color and give you a real “sense” for the color.
For the tertiary colors, or third level of the color to go around the color wheel and mix a ratio of equality, every color, making them half-way between each color:
• yellow mixed with green to yellow-green
• green mixed with blue to blue-green
• Joint purple for blue-violet blue
• purple mixed with red to get purple-red
• red mixed with orange for orange-red
• orange mixed with yellow to yellow-orange
You now have a basic color wheel. You will get a different wheel, trying, if you start with Cerulean Blue, Cadmium Red Hue cambogia and [yellow]. Or make a wheel with one of these combinations:
• Naphthol Crimson, Winsor Blue, Cadmium Yellow Deep
• indanthrene blue, magenta and yellow lemon primary
And, of course, any combination of the above formulations and other blue, red and yellow can be used to make a color wheel. Learn how to mix colors and experiment with different combinations of red, blue and yellow create and be able to greatly expand the versatility as an artist.













