Mixing the right color with tempera is a handcraft. You need to get the feeling for the proportion in wich two colors give you a secondary one.

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Three-colour mixing system

Primary colours
With the three primary colours lemon yellow, cyan (blue) and magenta (red) we can mix any colour hue we wish. These colours are called primary because they cannot be mixed from other colours. The prin- ciples of mixing can be learned using primary colours.

To begin with, we mix yellow with blue, blue with red and red with yellow. That gives us green, violet and orange. The proportion in which the colours are mixed depends on the tinting strength of the paint.

If we mix the colours next to each other in the six-colour circle, we obtain six new colours.

If you want learn more Download the PDF “Booklet Color” from Talens.