The person named patrick who declard that the three primary colors are red green and blue is wrong.
Red and green paint make yellow.
Mix magenta and yellow.
In this form red blue and green are the primary colors of light used on the wheel.
Additive color color with light has a different color wheel than subtractive color.
The secondary colors are formed by the mixture of two primary colors resulting in cyan magenta and yellow.
Here is a short video that demonstrates that if you mix red and green colors you can make yellow.
Magenta would absorb green and yellow would absorb blue leaving only red to be reflected back to the eye.
Let s suppose that blue paint soaks up everything except green blue and violet and yellow paint soaks up everything except red yellow and green.
Magenta and yellow make red.
Looking at their placement on the rgb color wheel when red and green are mixed together they make the color yellow.
A demonstration of how with additive color red and green make yellow.
In the rgb color model used to create colors on television and computer screens yellow is a secondary color made by combining red and green at equal intensity.
If you mix the blue and yellow paints together then the only light that won t get soaked up by either paint is green.
If you want red mix magenta and yellow paint.
The three primary colors are red yellow and blue and these three colors are only found in nature and cannot be made by human beings.
So what two colors make red.
So the primary colors of pigment also known as subtractive primaries are magenta yellow and cyan.
Yellow is the color between orange and green on the spectrum of visible light it is evoked by light with a dominant wavelength of roughly 570 590 nm it is a primary color in subtractive color systems used in painting or color printing.