Yellow is a primary color in pigments. This means you must start with yellow paint.
In projected lights, such as theatre lights or tv/computer monitors, mix red and green light for yellow light.
Red and orange
Green
red and yellow
Yellow and blue.
Blue and Yellow.
Yellow and Blue
You can mix primary colors (red, blue, yellow) to create secondary colors: Red + blue = purple Blue + yellow = green Yellow + red = orange You can also mix primary and secondary colors to create tertiary colors like: Red + orange = red-orange Blue + green = blue-green Yellow + green = yellow-green
to get a tertiary colour you have to mix 2 primary colours. primary colours are red, blue and yellow.
If you mix paint of those colours, you will get a brown-black mixture. This is because paints work through absorbing certain colours of light, and mixing all three will result in a mixture which absorbs all of the colours and reflects none or very little. If you mix light of those colours, red and green form yellow, so you would get a yellow colour. Yellow because red + green = yellow and yellow + yellow = yellow.
In equal proportions, orange.
In equal proportions, green.
The primary colours: Red, Blue and Yellow, if you mix 2 of these colours together you get the secondary colours.