How to make the color yellow

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Learn how to mix neutral gray, warm and cool shades, and dark and light gray to add depth and dimension to your paintings. You can also see how to use blues, greens, reds, and yellows to make gray.

Colours are often described in terms of temperature as “cool” or “warm”. These psychological associations have a lot to do with certain physical characteristics, like red-fire-warm, yellow-sun-warm or blue-ice-cold, green-shade-cold. Still, the feeling of warm and cool is relative. The same color might appear cool in the company of warm yellows and oranges and warm surrounded by cool greens. (I’ll look at it closer later this month when talking about contrasts.) When thinking of the colour…