can you mix colours to make white?

Answer 1

Only with light.

Answer 2

Short answer, no. There are 2 means of combining colours to get other colours, additive and subtractive. Additive is the sort of colour mixing done in stage shows where spotlights with different gels on them are focused on the same spot and the mixture of light beams produces the different colour. Using this method, you can produce white by shining a whole bunch of different gels on one spot. The other means of colour combination, subtractive, is the method you're using when you mix paints or dyes. In this case, mixing a whole bunch of different colours will get you brown. There is no subtractive combination that will yield white.

Answer 3

Suprisingly, Yes!

er..yes, the previous respondents are all correct in saying that a pure white is impossible to mix with conventional paints, (possibly some chemical reaction can produce it) but in painting you would rarely if ever use a pure white anyway. Objects that we perceive as white-eg. snow, aren't pure white, but reflect the colours around them. Therefore it's not possible to mix white, but you can mix the blues, greens pinks, etc, which make up things which read as being 'white'.

Answer 4

Not with paint or ink, but you can with light. Suffciently high and equal intensities of Red, Blue and Green light will result in white light. If you reduce the overall level of intensity you get shades of grey all the way down to black.

A bonus fact: The 3 primary colours in paint are Red, Yellow and Blue, with green being a mixture of Yellow and blue. In light the primaries are red, blue and green, with yellow being a mix of blue and green. Strange no?

Answer 5

The others answers are correct about making white light. But I disagree with two of the points brought up. If you mix all colors together you do not get black. It usually turns out to be a dirty brownish grey. Black is the absence of all color. In reality it is still light. No light is reflecting off of something black so it appears black. With something white, all colors reflect off of it.

Answer 6

white is not a colour as it absorbs nothing from the spectrum' you cannot produce what does not exist.black is the same.the basic colours we have are red yellow and blue,from these primarys we can mix secondarys of green ,orange .purple,and when these are mixed ,different hues of brown are produced .but sorry no white

Answer 7

of course not. That onlly relates to light frequencies-all the frequencies of all colorsof the spectrum form white light. Pigments are impure so color mixing theories are different than than what actually happens with light frequencies.

Answer 8

no. But you can mix in some yellow for a warm white, or blue for a cool white.
Pigments are diffrent than light!

Answer 9

Colors are pigments. When we mix pigments together they do not make white. But, when you mix all the colors of light that we can see (a prism of colorful light waves), you have WHITE light.

Answer 10

You cannot mix colors to make white paint. White paint is made from either titanium or zinc.

Answer 11

You can only mix coloured lights - not pigments; having said that if you paint primary colours on a wheel and spin it very fast you get an off-white/grey.