Your art teachers lied to you about the primary colors

[Arkansota]

Red, blue and yellow are not the primary colors of pigment because they cannot create all colors (they can't create fully saturated bright greens or cyan)

Cyan, magenta and yellow are the true primary colors of pigment.

On a perfectly spaced color wheel, red and blue would be closer together while yellow would be farther from both of them, while cyan, magenta and yellow are perfectly spaced

Also, cyan magenta and yellow, when mixed together, form black. This is a characteristic of primary colors.

[sillyboy86]

LOL, if you study in an Art school you know these things, and thousands of others. No lies. Red is easier than Magenta, a kid doesn't know Cyan or Magenta so Red & Blue are ok. XD
Color Perception is not something you might know reading or hearing few things about it, exactly like everything else. ;-)
A true black is a total absence of light, so you can mix the primary (or many of the others) but there are specific proportions etc.

[Arkansota]

LOL, if you study in an Art school you know these things, and thousands of others. No lies. Red is easier than Magenta, a kid doesn't know Cyan or Magenta so Red & Blue are ok. XD
Color Perception is not something you might know reading or hearing few things about it, exactly like everything else. ;-)
A true black is a total absence of light, so you can mix the primary (or many of the others) but there are specific proportions etc.

I actually believe that you can create black paint by mixing fully saturated cyan magenta and yellow because it creates every color at once when you mix them, creating black (which is essentially every color at once because it absorbs all wavelengths of visible light)

white is the absence of color. Black is the presence of every color.

[TwisttheLeaf]

One of my favorite articles that I've read over the past year was this one:

Reinventing the Wheel: Why Red is not a primary color

[Evan]

creating black (which is essentially every color at once because it absorbs all wavelengths of visible light)

white is the absence of color. Black is the presence of every color.

I thought it was the other way around?

[TwisttheLeaf]

Actually, mixing every color creates an icky puky colored brownish gray.

[Arkansota]

Actually, mixing every color creates an icky puky colored brownish gray.

That's if you use the incorrect art class color wheel colors. Mixing the actual 3 primary colors creates black.

[sillyboy86]

white is the absence of color. Black is the presence of every color.

Yeah, but the proportioned presence of every color is a subtraction of light. ;-) So black is absence of light.
White is not a proper color (not even black) and like the black is a question of "proportion". White is light in the same way black is an absence of light.

[BlueStar]

white is the absence of color. Black is the presence of every color.

It's quite the opposite. When a white light is sent through a prism it diverges into colors, which means white is the presence of all colors combined on a surface.



Therefore, darkness means absence of light, it's characterized by black, absence of color.

Also, the 3 primary colors are red, blue and green. Mixed together they appear as white, while mixed in every specific quantity of each of them, they give all other colors.

[Borg69]

Full spectrum light and paint pigments are opposite regarding black and white.