Artist's Cheat Sheet

Artist's Cheat Sheet

Is Green A Primary Color?

How about orange and purple?

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Zoungy Kligge
Feb 04, 2024
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Color diagram painted with Golden SoFlat Matte acrylic paint. Can secondary colors be mixed to produce primary colors?

In this lesson, I’ll summarize some surprising color concepts I first learned from

James Gurney
who you can also find on Substack. His newsletter is called Paint Here.

Triad tests

These diamond-shaped diagrams are some color tests (James calls them tr…

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