Colors primary and secondary

Colors are all around us. We have so many different hues and shades that at times it is difficult to imagine that all of them stem from the same three primary colors red, blue and yellow. Of course it’s a simple matter to mix up the secondary colors from the primary ones and our little science project here is to do just that.

What do you get when you mix up the cellophane sheets of two different colors and shine a flashlight through them? You project a secondary color onto the wall. If you mix red and yellow you get orange. If you mix yellow and blue you will get green.  If you mix blue and red you get purple.

Now with the primary and secondary colors you can paint a rainbow. Of course the red, blue and green are considered primary colors in the computer images as the RGB combinations are used to create digital images. In fact when combined they give you the base white color for the computer screen.

Naturally colors play an important part of our lives. Without color things would be like a rainy day black, white and grey. So get out those colors and start off with your own multi hued painting adventure. You could even keep records and make a science project out of it.