About The Gardener’s Color Wheel
By Sydney Eddison
Once Over Lightly: Understanding Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary
Colors
You have probably met primary and secondary colors in grade
school. But here they are again.
Red, yellow, and blue are the primary
colors. Each is unique unto itself. Red contains no other color than
red; yellow is yellow alone; and blue, entirely blue. From these
three hues, all other colors can be made.
The secondary colors are
orange, green, and violet. Each is made from two of the primaries.
Orange is a combination of red and yellow; green, a mixture of yellow
and blue; violet, of blue and red.
The less familiar tertiary colors are made from
one primary and one secondary. Orange-red, which is adjacent to red,
is a combination of primary red and secondary orange. The mixture
produces an orangey-red. The next color in the sequence is red-orange,
which is also made from red and orange, but in different proportions.
This mixture results in a reddish orange.
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