Color Theory: Mixing Primary Colors

Video Transcript

"You first need to familiarize yourself with the color wheel. There are many variations of this I'm just we're just going to build up the basic one. And we're going to start with what are called the primary colors. They're called this I guess because you can not get these from any other colors. You can't mix two colors together and get yellow. So, we're going to try to find a yellow. And we're going to put yellow at the top mostly because I guess more than anything else it's a light color. You can't really get a lighter pure color than yellow. So we're going to put yellow down here as our first color. And then we're going to use red is the second color that you can't mix from any other two colors. So, we're going to put some of that in the red and there's sort of it's a triad. So, we've sort of divided the circle so that it can be divided into even portions. So there's the red and blue is the third color that you can't mix from anything else. So we're going to put some blue in. And that's going over here. These are actually the very, you know, these always remind me of children. The primary colors, they're very bright. Because you can't mix them from anything else in their pure state they are very strong colors. So, they're very bright and they have a lot of energy to them. So there you go, you have the first color grouping on your color wheel, the triad of the primaries yellow, red and blue."