You were taught that if you mixed red and yellow you get orange.
Red and green paint mixed.
If you add some yellow or white they can change the kind of brown you get.
When you mix paint it s like the light gets filtered twice.
However a saccharine green and red mix to make more of a brown clor due to the yellow pigments in the green contributing to warmer tones in the combined color mixture.
Mixing 2 shades of the same color together is the best option for making minor changes to a red paint s color profile.
While blue and yellow combined make green and blue and red make purple violet.
It s interesting to find lots of reference that purple is actually violet.
Mix a deeper shade of red with your base red.
Modify a red paint by mixing it with a darker shade of red that is the same brand and type of paint.
You get a brown which varies according to the percentage of each you mix together.
If you mix the blue and yellow paints together then the only light that won t get soaked up by either paint is green.
Let s suppose that blue paint soaks up everything except green blue and violet and yellow paint soaks up everything except red yellow and green.
The simple diagram above explains that if you mix the colors adjacent to each other you will get a new color.