Module 4: "Color Principles"
  Lecture 11: "Primary Colors"
 

 

Painters Primaries

Fig. 6 Painter’s Primary Colors

Ref. plate.6: http://char.txa.cornell.edu/language/element/color/color.htm May 30, 2012)

Painters Primaries (Pigment) – Painters traditionally used red, blue, and yellow as the primary colors since these colors cannot be created by mixing any color. Two Primary Colors create a Secondary Color.