What colours are mixed to create cyan?

Question

Using oil paints?


The colour I need is the colour of the water in this picture:

http://www.members.shaw.ca/s.c.armstrong/pages/3.3%20%20Toward%20Joffrey%20Lakes%20%20%2012%20x%209.htm

Answer 1

If the light is emitted such as on a monitor then maximum intensity blue (value 255) and maximum intensity green (value 255) will create cyan. If the color is reflective such as with a printer or paint the procedure is different. In the case of a printer, cyan is one of the basic colors (yellow, cyan, magenta). In the case of paint, try mixing 1 part white, 1 part blue, and 0.3 parts green. That might work.

Answer 2

Cyan is a printer's ink color (CMYK printing). In oil painting, you should use cerulean (sp?) as a base color to match the water. I'm sure you will need to add some white. You might also want to add a little ultramarine, just to add depth.



"Yellow and Blue don't make Green" is the best book I've read for instruction on color mixing. They suggest a simple 11-color palette for mixing any hue you can think of. It greatly simplfies trips to the paint store - no more being tempted by "sap green" or "flesh" paint.

Answer 3

Basically, green and blue.



Cyan (from Greek κυανός, meaning "blue") may be used as the name of any of a number of a range of colors in the blue/green part of the spectrum. In reference to the visible spectrum cyan is used to refer to the color obtained by mixing equal amounts of green and blue light or the removal of red from white light. As such, cyan is the complement of red: cyan pigments absorb red light.



Cyan is also called aqua and blue-green. The name "cyan" for printer's cyan has been in use since 1889. [1]



Some shades of color close to cyan in the cyan color range are baby blue, turquoise, and light blue.

Answer 4

There arwe some really ridiculous answers above but the one immediately above me has it right. In real life, white light has ALL the colours and black has NO colours at all. However, artificial colouring is different. A printer will leave NO INK AT ALL when it wants to show pure white - or your paper colour. Full marks to the answer above. Ignore anything that tells you otherwise!!!

Answer 5

Looks like green blue and white too me. Try it with some cheap paint and see if it works before going with oil paint.

Answer 6

Equal amounts of red and green make yellow, once u got yellow add equal amout of green and blue makes cyan!

Answer 7

Cyan is a base color, the 4 primary colors are magenta, black, cyan, and yellow. In 4 color printing you can make any color of the rainbow from those 4 colors.

Answer 8

Blue with a tiny bit of yellow and a bit of white

Answer 9

It looks like you should mix one part blue, with one part lighter blue.