![]() The “Greenish Blue” or cool blue mixes cleanly with the cool “Bluish Green”. The lower right mixture uses the same blue with a yellowish red, resulting in a biased maroon color.Įach quadrant lines up similarly. Figure 6: The upper left mixture shows a clean violet using a reddish blue with a bluish red. Mixing the Yellowish Red with the Reddish Blue would make a dull maroon (Figure 6). Our “Bluish Red” mixes very cleanly with our “Reddish Blue” at the bottom right, resulting in vibrant purples and violets. Having the two reds next to each other makes it easier to identify the color temperature. Clean color refers to having no biasness resulting in a duller or “muddy” color. Mixed together the resulting orange is “clean” (Figure 4). Not by accident, the Yellowish Red is in the same quadrant as the Reddish Yellow. The top red is a “Yellowish Red” because it has a yellow bias. ![]() Figure 5: Yellows are divided with a cool greenish yellow to the left and a warm reddish yellow to the right.Ĭlockwise, we move toward reds. The yellow to the right is a “Reddish Yellow” and identifies as a warm yellow (Figure 5). Yellow is at the top, with the left example being a cool yellow because it has a green bias, thus we describe this as a “Greenish Yellow”. To make this as easy as possible, stretch out the color wheel to eight primary colors (Figure 1). Once you begin to “see” the differences it becomes easy to identify any color. Comparing a warm red to a cool red and then compare those to a third color, you should be able to see if it’s yellower, bluer, or in between the first two reds. In the world of paint colors, there are warm AND cool greens, blues, red, yellows, earth colors, blacks and whites. Some colors are easy to discern, but looking at our 108 colors in our Heavy Body Acrylics line, “color temperature” gets tricky. To identify color temperature you’ll need to learn how to see and identify warm and cool colors. Figure 4: The Yellow Red Quadrant contains a reddish yellow and yellowish red. ![]() A red can have a yellow bias or it can have a blue bias. In describing a color to someone, we often refer to color “bias”. For example, mixing a yellowish red with reddish yellow yields bright secondary oranges (Figure 4). In order to make clean mixtures use colors with similar color qualities. Figure 3: The reds are spit into a warm, yellowish red on top and a cool, bluish red (magenta) on bottom.Ĭolor temperature is also important during paint mixing. Describing how a color leans towards another primary or secondary is also referred to as its“bias.” A red, as we can see, can have a yellow or a blue bias. But if you identify and compare the “color temperatures”, a bluish red (magenta) is cooler than a yellowish red (Figure 3). Comparing “red” to “magenta” might be less obvious since they are next to each other. Figure 2: The classic color wheel divided into Cool and Warm halves.Ĭompare “yellow” to “blue” and it’s easy to see yellow is warm and blue is cool. Regardless, the general idea is the warm colors are Red, Orange and Yellow and the cool colors are Green, Blue and Magenta (Figure 2). The line location varies based upon the reasoning of the theorist. A dividing line splits the wheel into warm and cool. Most theories start with the classic six point color wheel (three primary colors and three secondary colors). The concept of warm and cool colors has been written about for hundreds of years. Figure 1: A “split primary” color wheel with warm and cool primary colors forming 4 color quadrants.
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