Today’s quote:

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

– Pablo Picasso

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This article changed my life.
https://science.howstuffworks.com/primary-colors.htm

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What is the true set of primary colors? It’s not red, yellow, and blue, like you’ve been taught. Well, it is, actually. It’s not red, green, and blue, like how the TVs operate, except it is. It’s not cyan, magenta, and yellow, but that’s what I’ve named this post, so it must be, right?

This second article is pretty much the TLDR of the first. Here’s a summary:

The additive perspective for colors observes light through transparent media. The subtractive perspective observes color as it is absorbed into media and becomes pigment.

Additive color primaries are red, green, and yellow. Add these primaries together, and you get cyan, magenta, and yellow as secondary lights. All colors together make white. True black is the absence of light.

Subtractive primaries are cyan, magenta, and yellow. Add these primaries together, and you get red, blue, and green as secondary pigments. Mix all colors together to make near black. True black can only be achieved with the addition of pure black, which introduces “key” to the CYM usage in printers. CYMK introduces pure black as key.

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Here was my shock in learning these new perspectives. I always knew Red/Yellow/Blue as THE primary colors. In my art classes, we studied color theory so far as it grew from the RYB base.

As it turns out, RYB should not be taught as the only subtractive color primaries because the mixing of these colors leads to muddled and dark pigments. Maybe that’s why I could never get the right browns when mixing acrylics.

Or maybe it’s because I’m color blind.

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Brain teaser:

Which one of the colors (not all of that color, just one part of a group) should be changed to make the pattern correct : 

1) Black : Red 
2) Blue : White 
3) Yellow : Black 
4) Red : Red 
5) Black : White 
6) Blue : Black 
7) Yellow: Red 
8) Red : Blue 
9) Black : Black 
10) Blue : Red 
11) Yellow : White 
12) Red : Black