Color Class: Mixing Green on the Canvas Rather than on a Palette

Visual Proof That Yellow and Blue do Mix to Create Green

Color Theory Class: Mixing Green on a Canvas

Image: © 2006 Marion Boddy-Evans. Licensed to About.com, Inc.

This photo shows the result of mixing the yellow and blue, how the different proportions of yellow to blue produce different greens. All I've done here is to start with my brush on the yellow paint I squeezed from the tube and paint back and forth, moving to the left all the time, gradually having less and less yellow on the brush.

I'll then repeat the process, mixing in the yellow into the blue more and more, adding more yellow as I need it, until I've got all the green I wanted.

• Know How Quickly Your Paint Will Dry so You Mix Fast Enough
• Adding the Yellow to the Blue, Ready to Mix into Green
• Visual Proof That Yellow and Blue do Mix to Create Green
• The End Result: Green Mixed on the Canvas