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M ATERIALS A N D TECH N I QUES 1 5
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Green. You’ll see that the secondary colors live in the
halfway position between each primary. Mix a primary with a
secondary color to get a tertiary color (C). The tertiary colors
are Yellow-Orange, Red-Orange, Red-Violet, Blue-Violet,
Blue-Green, and Yellow-Green.
Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel are
analogous: for example, Yellow-Green, Yellow, and Yellow-
Orange. Opposing colors on the wheel are known as
complementary: for example, Red and Green. And each color
has what’s known as its split complementary: for example,
the split complementaries of Blue are Yellow-Orange and
Red-Orange. The complementary of Blue is Orange, so its
split complementary colors sit on either side of the Orange
panel. You can be very deliberate with these color “systems”
when you paint, as you can see in Michele’s beautiful
example of a limited palette painting above. For an image of
tranquility in Newport, Rhode Island, she used only two
primaries and a secondary: Blue, Yellow, and Green.
Newport, Rhode Island, watercolor
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