Art and painting · lesson 1 of 24 · free

Primary and secondary colours — Art and painting for kids

Painters start with three primary colours: red, yellow and blue. They cannot be mixed from other paints. Mix any two of them and you get a secondary colour: red and yellow make orange, blue and yellow make green, and red and blue make purple.

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Two make one — “two primary colours mixed together make one secondary colour”

  1. Primary colours: red, yellow, blue — they cannot be mixed from other paints.
  2. Secondary colours: orange = red + yellow, green = blue + yellow, purple = red + blue.
  3. To find a missing colour, ask: which two primaries are inside this secondary colour?

Use it for: Art class, mixing your own paints, and colouring pictures when one colour runs out.

Worked example: 🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? → orange

  1. Red and yellow are both primary colours.
  2. Two primaries make a secondary: red + yellow = orange.

Check: Orange has red and yellow inside it, and no blue ✓

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