Tips for Using Primary & Secondary Colors

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Sue Rose with Expert Village and we had mentioned the book on colors and now I am going to show you a little bit about the primary and secondary colors. In painting one of the things that is important to remember, is you very rarely use black. You use the complimentary color to change or to dull your painting. So I have red, blue and green which are my primary colors and I have yellow, purple and orange which are my secondary colors. You can see some of these tubes are well worn. When I want to dull or change my red or my green, these are what you call complimentary colors; the red and the green. For the blue, it is the orange and conversely it is the orange for the blue. For the yellow, it is the purple and conversely the purple for the yellow. To dull or to darken the color. These are the basics that you will use but there is a catch here because if you mix the yellow in with the purple, it will take on a totally different color but if you mix the purple in with the yellow, so I am going to show you how to start a pallet using these 6 colors. Stay tuned for this next segment showing you how to mix your reds and greens. "