when you mix all the paint colors together, why don't they turn white?

Answer 1

When you mix all the colors of light, you get white. That is called an additive process or you can say additive colors. But with paint, crayons, etc. it is a subtractive process, so all the colors mixed together create the opposite, which is black. A red bucket of paint is red because it absorbs all colors except red, and that is reflected back at you. The more colors you mix, the more colors are absorbed and the less there is to reflect back to you. It is complex... but look up additive and subtractive colors and you'll found out a lot about it.

Answer 2

They would turn black, because you're mixing all the pigments together.

White light contains all the other colors of light. When white light shines on a pigment like paint, the paint absorbs all the other colors in the white light, and reflects back the color that matches it. The color you see is the combination of the colors of light that match the color of the object.

Thus it is logical that when you mix all the different pigments together, every color of light is absorbed, and none is reflected back. That's why it appears as black.

Answer 3

If you put all the colors of the spectrum together, they'll be white light, but paint is made up of pigments. That's different. They're going to keep saturating one another into a darker and darker shade.

Answer 4

Pigments apear to be of a given color because they abord light /not/ of that color. For instance, blue paint reflects blue light, and absorbs other colors. So, if you mix different colors of paint together, the pigments in the result aborb most of the light, and you get a muddy, dark color.

Answer 5

Because paint of a certain colour absorbs most wavelengths and preferentially reflects a small range of wavelengths (what you perceive as one colour). If you mix it with another paint that aborbs the light that the first paint previously reflected, the amount of light reflected is diminished. The more you mix the fewer colours are reflected so you get a murky dark mess.

Answer 6

mix all colors in pigment = black
mix all colors in light = white

Answer 7

It's not if you mix all the paint colors together. When someone says that, they are talking about light. baddius is totally right.

Answer 8

because that concept only applies to light. In paints, they appear asa certain color, because they reflect all colors but that one. Mixing them all together creates black because you are basically creates a condition in which all colors are absorbed, resulting in the color black.

Answer 9

white is a neutral color just like black, white cannot be made by mixing primary colors(red, blue, green) thats why none will turn into white. im sure we all learned this in elementary school

Answer 10

White is not a color. It's like a primary color. You cannot use other colors to get it. So if you want to get white you would have to buy it.