The primary colors...red, yellow and blue...cannot be mixed to create the color.....SO....?

Question

...where do those colors come from??

Answer 1

creation.

Answer 2

The history of color by Victoria Finley talks about how all color we see are vibrations. That the color red is not so much a red color but a color that is "being red" . You could actually on a bright day walk past a blooming bougainvillea plant of bright red colors and in the right light see the colors sort of pop in and out of reality. Now I thought that was very amazing.
Where colors come from for paint mixing is a very interesting . Yellow was probably the first color people were able to make from ground rocks found in certain places it the world. The ocra wars of Australia is a very sad story of how the government kept the aborigines from their ocra supply by putting them on reservations and were at a loss to understand why they were so pissed off and started killing the settlers.
Red was made into a paint from several different compounds over the years, my favorite being the blood of a beetle that grows on a certain cactus in Mexico. It is still being used today as a food dye for the pink color of ham or cherry coke.
Yuck.
So if you really want to know where colors come from read her book. It is a reall eye opener.

Answer 3

Hello,
Good Q, The primary color come from the wave lengths of light that are visible to humans. Red, yellow, blue. Sunlight thru a glass prism, breaks the bright white light down to its simple forms and wavelengths. All other colors are mixed from these basic wavelengths.
Red, yellow blue, god designed, the paint makers supply, and you can mix any other color you need.
I Hope this helps.
Tim W.

Answer 4

All colors come from a spectrum, which is produced when light passes through a prism such as an angular cut of crystal, or glass, or even through water. (a rainbow) These colors were recognized centuries ago and labeled accordingly, (ie. Blue, Red, Yellow, etc...) Although, color itself is the reflection of saturated light from any object. The property of this light then becomes a "hue", and that is what our eyes see as color.

Answer 5

Primary colors are not a fundamental property of light but rather a biological concept, based on the physiological response of the human eye to light. Fundamentally, light is a continuous spectrum of wavelengths, meaning that there are an infinite number of colors. However, the human eye normally contains only three types of color receptors called cones. These respond to specific wavelengths of light. Humans and other species with three such types of color receptors are known as trichromats. Although the peak responsivities of the cones do not occur at the frequencies corresponding to red, green, and blue, those three colors were probably chosen as primary because with them it is possible to almost independently stimulate the three types of color receptors, providing a wide gamut of experiences.

Answer 6

heh heh.

Nice touch but you miss the point of primary colors. It isn't that other colors do not come naturally...It is that all other colors can be made by mixing those and black and white. It is called color theory.

All color in paints come from pigments. These come in all imaginable colors...well a lot any way.

Answer 7

Pigments are the basis of all paints, and have been used for millennia. They are ground colored material. Early pigments were simply as ground earth or clay, and were made into paint with spit or fat. Modern pigments are often sophisticated masterpieces of chemical engineering.


http://webexhibits.org/pigments/intro/

Answer 8

Pigments that you can find in nature.

Answer 9

they come from the way black and white do. :D

Answer 10

dirt .