How to Use the Real Color Wheel

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Consider the Real Color Wheel.

   yellow light hue as its tint-tone.
   
   Transparent Indian yellow Brown/side is an ocher/brown hue in its mass-tone and a cad. yellow light hue in its tint-tone.
   
   All eight transparent Indian yellows lighten to cadmium yellow hues.
   
   PY:150, PY:153 & PY:100 make the brightest yellow, equal to cadmium yellow light or lemon yellow., Neither of these colors represent nature, they just subtract light to get darker.
   
   Rembrandt said that yellow goes through red and brown to get darker.
   
   In the sky cyan gets darker through blue.
   
   Crystal elements and the Real Color Wheel get darker this way also.
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   Step 2: Make Red: Use transparent Indian yellow PY:153 (Dioxine Nickel Complex) which has an orange mass-tone

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   Step 3: transparent Indian yellow PY:150 (Nickel Azo Complex) which has a brown mass-tone or PY:100 Tartrazine which is water based together with the color magenta transparent PR:122 (Quinacridone).

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   Step 4: Make Blue: Use transparent magenta PR:122 (quinacridone) mixed with transparent cyan PB:15.3 (phthalocyanine).These colors were made with the transparent primaries.

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   Step 5: Make Green: Use transparent cyan PB:15.3 (phthalocyanine) mixed with transparent Yellow PY:150 (Nickel azomethine) or PY:100 (water-based Tartrazine).

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   Step 6: Using Transparent Yellow: Transparent Indian yellow Org/side is a red/brown hue in its mass-tone and has a cad.

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   Step 7: Yellow darkens to brown

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   Step 8: Cyan darkens to blue: In the RGB light model that is used with the computer yellow darkens to a greenish yellow and cyan darkens to a greenish cyan.

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