to get a tertiary colour you have to mix 2 primary colours. primary colours are red, blue and yellow.
In order to make a tertiary color, you have to mix a primary and a secondary color. For example: mix yellow (a primary color) and orange (a secondary color)= yellow-orange or yellow-ish- orange.
Blue-Violet (Tertiary color)
You mix the primary colours together.
If you mix equal parts of the primary colors Yellow and Blue, you will get the secondary color Green. If you mix 2 parts Yellow and 1 part Blue, you will get the tertiary color Yellow-green. If you mix 2 parts Blue and 1 part Yellow, you will get the tertiary color Blue-green.
Mixing a primary and a secondary color makes a tertiary color. The word primary means first, and the word secondary means second. Tertiary means third, which is the sum of the other two.
A tertiary color is a color made when you mix a primary color with a secondary color. Some examples are teal, violet, magenta, and chartreuse.
Yellow is a primary color and green is a secondary color. When these two are mixed you will get a tertiary color which is yellow-green or light green.
Yellow orange is a tertiary color. It is made up of one primary color and one secondary color. In order to mix it from primary colors you would use 3 parts yellow and one part red.
if you mix the primary colour red, withe the secondary colour orange, you will get the tertiary colour red-orange.
When mixing colors in pigments, yellow is a primary color. Orange is a secondary color, the result of mixing equal parts red and yellow. When you mix orange and yellow, you get the tertiary color yellow-orange.
Yellow (primary color) Yellow-Green (tertiary color) Green (secondary color) Blue-Green (tertiary color) Blue (primary color) Blue-Purple (tertiary color) Purple (secondary color) Red-Purple (tertiary color) Red (primary color) Orange-Red (tertiary color) Orange (secondary color) Yellow-Orange (tertiary color) (and then you are back at yellow)
The color that you get when you mix red and orange would be a darker orange. This is also known as a blood orange.