Color Theory & Color Palettes
Color is one of the most exciting aspects of watercolor painting; who can resist the appeal of all those gorgeous hues of pigment? Knowing just a bit about the different hues and their relationships to each other can help broaden your palette, even if you only start with three colors. The three primary colors are yellow, red, and blue.
Mixing these three in different combinations will broaden your palette to twelve colors. Here is how you do it:
First, mix yellow and red to make orange. Then mix red and blue to make purple. Finally, mix blue and yellow to make green. These are called secondary colors; observe how ...
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