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days of color pants ☀️🌿

The other day I was surfing the internet and I found this specialized painting colour wheel, it shows how real paint colours relate to each other. 

Outside: the purest/brightest colours.

Inside: naturally muted or earthy colors, like browns and ochres.

The Center: dark neutral tones used for mixing shadows.

The Lines: the lines connect colors that are opposites, if you mix them you neutralize the tone creating clean grays or browns instead of muddy puddles.

I want to share this with you because I think it is really illustrative!

Pigment-based colors mix differently than light-based, and it's much more difficult to achieve bright saturated purples with pigments. This wheel is for pigments (just adding for the sake of having the vocabulary)

Using copper pigments in particular vastly increases the range of blues and greens, but it still has a narrow range that can be used to mix truely bright purples and violets.

Indigo can be a little bit easier to reach. But once you're talking about pigments and dyes, "indigo" can sometimes refer to the source of the color (a dye made from the indigo plant, a deep navy blue) OR the hue on a traditional colorwheel, which leans slightly more purple than navy.