R G B C M Y 2 1 Using the Colour Wheel - Example: To arrive at Burnt Sienna (2). Start with Yellow and add small amounts of Magenta until you get to (1). Now add small amounts of Black until you get to (2). THE CORRECT PIGMENTS are: Primary Blue - Cyan PB15:3, Primary Red - Magenta PV19, Primary Yellow PY97. Maimeri (Italy) is one of only a handful of makers offering artists' watercolour and oil paints labelled ‘primaries’: e.g. Maimeri Blu: superior watercolours, Primary Blue - Cyan 400, Primary Red - Magenta 256, Primary Yellow 116, see: Maimeri Blu Watercolours These are excellent single pigment paints. Their Puro range of Oils should be as good but are as yet untested and not easily available in Europe. The only other oil set (not exact primaries and not marked as such but which work in practice) are the *W&N Atiists’ Oil and Watercolour: Cyan Winsor Blue-green shade, Magenta Permanent Rose and Winsor Yellow. To identify the good form the bad try to find the pigment numbers. e.g. PB15.3. All Artists quality paints will have the pigment numbers on the tube. Avoid any set with one or more paints which have more than one pigment. These paints are available from www.jacksonsart.co.uk  also see www.art-courses.org Adding any two complementary colours from anywhere in the spectrum will equal black The Truth about Colour peterturner.org navigation