what colors when mixed make black?

Answer 1

mix all colors together and you get black

take all colors away and you get white

Answer 2

I painted for awhile without using black pigment. You can get something that 'reads as black' more or less by mixing various dark colors. Try mixing some of the darkest colors you have. If you use this in a painting most people will assume it's black even though a close look will show some blue or red, etc depending on the mix. in some ways I prefer it to standard Ivory or Carbon black (which is the truest black) because it has vibrancy where carbon black is relatively "dead" looking.
The theory that mixing all colors makes black ,because each subtracts some particular colors, is wrong. Sure they each subtract some colors but the other colors remain in the pigment and will be visible as color lighter than black!
that's why you have to use the dark colors to begin with.
Give it a try and see what you think...

Answer 3

Mix equal parts of Blue, Red, Yellow, & Violet. Stay away frome the light hues. Prussian blue is superior to cerulean; and a deep red is better than a pink, ochres to lemon yellows and a cobalt violet is about the best hue.
Mix them altogether and you have yourself a good black. It may be noted that with your own mixing of this non colour you can get some warm greys & some cool greys simply by adding more blue (just a touch more [blues mix heavy even with a little] ) and using titanium white for your greys. Or use a bit more red and yellow then use a flake white to mix your greys.

Answer 4

If you are dealing with light, black is an absence of light or absence of light's colors. It is NO color. Something appears black to you because it absorbs light, reflecting none to your eyes.

If you are trying to get black with paints, the best you can do is achieve a nasty brown by mixing a color with its complement. Paints give somewhat inaccurate ways to achieve colors by mixing. For example, you can purchase a really nice clear green oil paint made with a certain mineral. But if you take a blue oil paint and and mix it with a yellow one, you probably will not be able to match that green because the pigments, dyes or minerals in the blue and yellow paints you have are not the same as the mineral green color you have purchased.

Black is achieved in paints with certain minerals or a variety of pigments. It's impossible to mix using any paint colors. Ceramic glazes use minerals to achieve black and other colors.

In color theory, mixing all the colors together achieves white, because white light breaks into the spectrum of colors after passing through a prism. I've played with toy spinners that had colored sections printed around their disks. Spinning them made the disks appear nearly white. But mixing all the colors of paint together will never get you white. (Or black.) White minerals make white paint. Black minerals or dark pigments make black paint.

Answer 5

Why does mixing many colors of ink make black?

Ink and paint get their colors by absorbing some of the colors in white light and reflecting others. Green ink looks green because it reflects the green part of white light and absorbs all the other colors. Red ink looks red because it reflects red light and absorbs all the other colors. When you mix green, red, blue, and yellow ink, each ink that you add absorbs more light. That leaves less light to reflect to your eye. Since the mixture absorbs light of many colors and reflects very little, you end up with black.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/black_magic.html


CMYK (sometimes pronounced C-Mike, Smick, Cymkey (Simky) or spelled YMCK or CYM) is a subtractive color model used in color printing.

This color model is based on mixing pigments of the following colors in order to make other colors:

C=cyan
M=magenta
Y=yellow
K=key (black).
The mixture of ideal CMY colors is subtractive (cyan, magenta, and yellow printed together on white result in black). CMYK works through light absorption. The colors that are seen are from the part of light that is not absorbed. In CMYK, magenta plus yellow produces red, magenta plus cyan makes blue and cyan plus yellow generates green.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK_color_model

Answer 6

all the colors mix together will make black

Answer 7

GJB gave you an excellent, comprehensive & correct answer.
You cannot mix colours to make black. Or white.

Answer 8

Black is not a color, it is a shade. The primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. The two shades are white and black.
You cannot mix any colors to get shades.

Answer 9

no.. if you mix all colors together, you'll get brown... ugly shades of brown. every time.

Answer 10

Black is a primal color, like white, blue, yellow and red