Mixing Pigments

Subtractive colour

An interactive lesson with 4 steps, about 5 minutes: you predict, drag and solve, with instant feedback on every answer. It runs in your browser and needs JavaScript.

What you’ll learn

• Pigments subtract: their transmissions multiply.
• Yellow + cyan → green; C + M + Y → nearly black.

Steps

1. Each one takes a bite
2. Mix a green
3. All three
4. The first synthetic blue