Art Teachers, you're teaching color wrong.

Red, Yellow and Blue are not the pigment primary colors. Stop teaching that they are.

Our children deserve better, those colors do not mix complements as dark neutrals. They make mud. Every school child can tell you that. The Title is a link that will explain it all to you.

If you are an artist you can use my Real Color Wheel.

Here is a link to that color wheel that places all the pigments that you or I need to paint anything in front of us. Every color on this color wheel has an opposit color that will mix with it to make a neutral black and the correct shadow color to any objects local color.

These two images are examples of what can be painted with only three colors.


These same three colors are available dry for fresco, and tubed for oil, watercolor, and acrylic (if you make your own). As of the past 4 years.



Real Color Wheel Chip Chart

Painting on Location w/3 Primary Colors

This copal oil painting was painted with only 3 color pigments plus titanium white.

The oil best oil color brands for these colors and Pigment Color Index Numbers are:
Old Holland, Indian Yellow Orange-side - PY153, Tartrazine Clear Transparent - PY100
D.S., W.N., O.H., Quinacridone Magenta - PR122
Grumbacher, Thalo Blue, Cyan - PB15.3

These pigment color numbers are the same in all media, all brands, look for them on the tube.



This Egg Tempera painting uses the same 3 pigments only.



This Maroger's Black oil also uses the same three primaries.



This Buon Fresco is also in 3 pigments only giving a full spectrum painting. These pigments are very permenant and lime safe.

Using Primary Colors in Lime Buon Fresco

This is a 75 square foot buon fresco done in Mexico, New York. Only the 3 transparent primary colors were used. The Real Color Wheel uses the true primaries and every color opposition mixes the neutral dark. This is not true with the Red-Yellow-Blue color theory. The RCW matches the element's crystal color as it gets darker.


http://www.realcolorwheel.com/fresco1mural.htm