What primary colors do you mix to make black?

Question

ex:red&yellow=green
red+blue+yellow=brown

Answer 1

You can't make true black with the primary colors of paint. All you can make is brown. Also, red and yellow don't make green. They make orange. Blue and yellow make green.

To get true black, you have to start with black paint. Similarly, to make white you have to have white paint.

With lights, the primary colors are red, blue and green. Red, blue and green light combine to form white light. But to get black, you have to turn out the lights.

Answer 2

What Colors Make Black

Answer 3

You can make black with the primary colors, but you have to do it in a way that it is evenly distributed. For example, blue is darker than yellow, so you may need more yellow, etc. Not all pigments allow for a pure black. It really depends on the kind of media you are using. Acrylics and oils are often richer in color, so black can be made from them (mostly). I mix watercolor primary colors all the time to get black. If you get brown, it means you did not evenly disperse the colors and one primary is lacking. It takes a lot of practice and understanding of color.

Answer 4

For those that continue to answer this question (it's been asked before) with black is the absence of color, you need to remember that this question is in PAINTING. In order to create black from the primary colors, you need to mix the "cold" hues of the primary colors: Cadmium Red, Lemon Yellow, and Ultramarine Blue. Mixing Alizarin Crimson, Cad Yellow and Cerulean Blue will give you a nice brown.

Answer 5

primary colors mix black

Answer 6

To make black you mix all colors. Black is a combination of all colors, and White is the absence of color. I was reading some of those answers people wrote you. This is basic color theory. There are primary colors (Red, Yellow and Blue). Primary means that you cannot mix any combination of colors to achieve this color. Secondary colors are a combination of two primary colors - for example Red + Yellow = Orange, Orange is a Secondary Color. The other secondary colors are Purple and Green. There are also Tertiary Colors that fall in between Primary and Second colors - they are are colors like aquas, chartreuse, reddish orange - things like that.

Answer 7

I was always told the only color you can get when you mix all three primary colors is brown...you can't mix black - go buy a tube of it from the store...

Answer 8

Seems like I've answered one just like this before. You can't mix primary or secondary colors to get black paint. The pigment density isn't high enough. You have to buy paint with black pigment.

Paint mixing and light blending are two very different systems people, learn the difference. Black is an absence of light, or a pigment that absorbs almost all the light that strikes it. White is an even mixture of all the visible wavelengths of light, or a paint pigment that scatters most of the light that encounters it without absorbing much of it.

Primary colors of pigment= Red , Blue, Green
Primary colors of light = Cyan (Blue), Magenta (Red), Yellow
Don't believe me, go take a close look at a TV screen.

Answer 9

All you people saying you cant mix colors to get black are wrong. I mixed phthalo blue, Crimson Red and Cad Yellow, and got black. No shade of any other color. Straight black.

Answer 10

Black in artwork (oil painting, tempra, etc.) is actually a shade of color so dark it appears black. Depending upon which shade of black you want you will need to mix any number of colors. Experiment! You'll have fun finding new colors to use in your work.

Answer 11

You never want to use pure black as it tends to make things "muddy". Use Prussian Blue and Crimson with a touch of Burnt Umber to get a nice deep color that will feel like a warm black but will not get muddy. You'll be on your way to a happy little forest in no time :)