Well I've cleaned off the palette and gotten ready for our last color our third and last color, which is going to be what's called a tertiary. And here we see this is a tertiary a tertiary color is a color that has a red eye, some red, some yellow and some blue and it has all three of the primary colors. That's why it's called tertiary three. And my shirt is probably a good tertiary. tertiary is anything that looks gray muddy, sort of looks like an orange but not sort of looks like a purple but not sort of looks like a green, but not so we call this khaki, which is really a tertiary green or a muddied brown green. So okay, with the tertiary.

Here's the trick instead of starting with the brightest because it's so dull and it has all three primaries in it. You can't Wrong. So what we're going to do is take a shortcut we could, the long cut would be to say, well, this looks kind of greenish. So we'll start with the brightest green. And we'll just keep mixing like we did before until we get here. But we could also start with the dullest, GREEN COMBINATION.

Remember when we made the purple, there was a blue and a red that made the Dulles purple and a different blue and red that made the brightest purple. So now we're going to pick out a combination of colors that gives us the dullest. So what would that be? Well, anything this was so great about tertiary colors Can't go wrong. No matter how you start, you're almost there. So as long as you have a yellow, red and blue, so I could actually start with a red, a yellow and a blue mixed together.

But I think what I'll do is I'll start with the dull green that I had mentioned earlier, so instead of a bright green, we're gonna make adultery. So that way we get to review what makes Bright and what makes them adult. So let's just say adult green. Well, a green is a secondary color, and it's made of blue and yellow. And if we wanted the brightest green, we don't. But let's just go backwards a little bit if we wanted the brightest green, and the green is made of blue and yellow, what is the one primary that's not in that pair?

That would be red. And red would be the complement of green or I, when I taught fourth grade, I used to call it the money, buddy. What would you add to the secondary to make it money. So the green is made of blue and yellow, any red that we add is going to make it muddy and bring it to a tertiary state like this. So one of these blues and one of these red I'm sorry, one of these blues, and one of these yellows has a little bit of red in it, and that's the ones we're going to choose. So here's the two yellows.

I'm going to pick the warmer yellow, the one that leans towards the red and we'll start with that I'm gonna wipe off my knife before I dig into the blue choice that has a little bit of red in it. Well, this is called fellow blue green shades. So that's a good clue that it's not the one that has red in it. And this is the ultramarine blue, and that's the one that does have red in it. And I'm going to take what's here, see if I need more, but I think this might be enough. Right and mixed it together.

Blue and Yellow makes green, this blue and yellow makes it incredibly dull green, bringing it pretty close to a tertiary already. And I'm pushing smush until I have a homogenized color. My off my knife and I'm going to swatch right here. Oh that's, that's pretty different. You can see neutral tertiaries in their pure form, if you will, are really very dull. Okay, so this looks too green.

It looks too dark. tertiaries are a lot easier you don't have to you can be heavy handed with your mixing, you don't have to do little light touches. So let's just go right into doing a combination of three things. It looks darker, so I'm going to add white, it looks greener. So I'm going to add the opposite of green, red. So let's just start with two.

I said three, but so I'm going to add white and a little red, which red doesn't matter. We should swish it around. And while I'm doing this, it looks like oh, it's lighter. I should add more. Something but i'm not i'm gonna wait until I gave it its proper swatch on the paint chip. Oh boy that's a lot lighter.

This one I'm really swinging all over the place but it's lighter, but it's still kind of close. It's still Looks like a green. So I'm going to just go ahead and add black because it looks a lot darker and grayer. Okay, let's see what that's like. Again, I'm putting it in an order every time I do something I put it next on the on the lineup. So I can see that I'm moving in the correct direction it should slowly Look, it should look like it's slowly fading into the, into the cart.

I don't know if you can move it around a little bit. If the light is different, it's getting close. Okay, so I'm going to just stare at it for a little bit. Is it too light or too dark? The value is pretty close. So let's go to the next step.

Instead of saying is it warmer or cooler? I could say is it redder yellower bluer greener. It looks a little greener. I could still add maybe Little Red to make $1 brighter and dollar sometimes are hard to tell with a tertiary. So I'm just going to go ahead and add a little more of the compliment or the red. Oh that's so I'm moving in the right direction it's getting a lot closer.

Okay, it looks a little lighter to me. So I'm going to add a little more black. see what that does. I almost wanted to add a little purple but that's the fun thing with tertiaries. You can add whatever you want and you'll get there eventually. If you feel like you're not understanding the color mixing, start with one of these neutral colors.

Okay, let's see where we're at. It's getting pretty close loops. getting messy here on the palette. That's getting pretty close. What I want to do is add a little bit of purple, I still want to it looks a little yellow where the opposite of yellow is purple. That's red and blue.

So I'll add a little bit of that. And if I wanted to make a clean purple, I would be adding this blue and this red. Try those two. I think I might have had too much. Yep, I did probably. But let's see.

Let's check. Ready? Yeah. I went a little too overboard with the red. That's okay. I'm going to keep going.

It's redder. So now I need to add green. I'm going to add some of this blue on the green side and the white because it's also going to get darker. If I add more of that blue. Let's just see. Sometimes there's just not a easy linear succession to getting that color.

Sometimes you just go all over the place. And that's okay because again, it's about exercising your eye muscles. And it helps like I said, it helps with more than just mixing color. It helps with decision making and painting. Okay, let's try this one. It's good thing I got extra cards.

Well, I think better. Now it needs a little yellow, yellow. Almost like our eyes are little databases and every time we add a Little have something and we swatch it, it records it. This is just my theory here records it. And then when you need to mix colors, it stays in there as a result as resource. It's getting better, I think a little more yellow.

Let's try the other yellow. And every color has its own strength, its own tinting strength. So if I wanted a little bit of blue, I'd have to add a tiny bit of this modern color, but I could add more of the mineral color. And you start to get used to that with a color mixing is that everything has its certain amount and its strength in mixing. Let's see where we're at. Oh, it's getting much better.

See, that may be pretty close. I think it needs to be a little bit lighter and a little redder. So I'm going to add not as As much as I did last time, I'm going to add a little bit of red. A little bit of white. See if we can get it really perfect. Supposed to be like watching a cooking show when we get to taste it Okay.

Let's see. That is really close. Really close. So we did it how much really close? Let's see this light. I could add just a hair black.

Okay, I'll do it. Might as well get it actually really perfect. Okay, good. I only have room for one more swatch anyway. There we go. That's a perfect match.

Now, I wanted to add something here. So, first, let me summarize. This was a tertiary color. A tertiary color has all three red, yellow and blue, all three primaries in it. And a tertiary is kind of hard to identify. You might say, Well, it looks like a reddish yellow or blue or green or purple, but it's more brown.

It's usually brown and muddy, and a tertiary instead of starting with the brightest, we could start with a dullest and take a shortcut