2006-09-02 01:16:21 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Definitely WHITE is not a color!!! When you paint with watercolors this would be the color of the paper that your painting on. If your painting with oil or acrylic they all ready sell it so you can use it as "light".
2006-09-02 16:51:32 · answer #1 · answered by tanahcr 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would you want to mix white?
There is virtually nothing in nature which registers as pure white in our eyes. (maybe the sun or an intense light)
White paint should not be used pure but mixed with other colours to lighten them or reduce their intensity.
To paint 'white' things such as snow, or white sheets, you do not use white on it's own, but paint it in the colours you see reflecting off it. Eg. snow is often blue from reflecting the sky, and orange where the sun shines directly on it. Hence you could paint 'white' using blue and orange.
2006-09-02 21:38:19 · answer #2 · answered by richy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cannot mix pigments to make white, for that is a subtractive process that produces black (with pure colors or brown with less pure ones) if you mix complementary colors or all colors. If you blend all light, you get white though.
2006-09-02 12:07:42 · answer #3 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can mix 1 part blue with 60000000000000 parts white and get white...
*GriN*
Unless, you are working with a computer monitor and then you can mix magenta, cyan, green, aqua (MCGA, or whatever the colors are on the monitor screen)... or red, green, blue (RGB)... some monitors are different from others and use a different standard... but this is only dealing with light and not with paint.
2006-09-02 08:21:35 · answer #4 · answered by ♥Tom♥ 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You can mix two whites to make a white again
2006-09-02 08:19:17 · answer #5 · answered by Gagk 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
you cant actually make white as far as i know but to see white if you split a round disc into slices( a bit like a pizza) and then colour them in ith the colours of the rainbow, stick a bit of string through it and then twist it and let it spin like mad they all blur together to get white
2006-09-02 10:41:49 · answer #6 · answered by Laura W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
White is actually the absents of all color. You can not mix any colors to make white.
2006-09-02 08:22:42 · answer #7 · answered by Teacher 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
paint / ink wise you can't - its an absence of colour.
display / monitor its a mix of the 3 base colours (Red Green & Blue) plus luminance
on a monitor black is the absence of colour.
2006-09-02 08:25:57 · answer #8 · answered by Mark J 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ALL OF THEM.
No really. Didn't Newton prove that if you direct white light through a prism you can seperate the colours in it?
2006-09-02 08:30:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
white is absence of color you can't mix any colors to make white.... a mix of colors make black and other colors depending on mix..
but with light spectrum all colors make white light which can be seperated through prism.
2006-09-02 09:13:09 · answer #10 · answered by jj 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋