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Technically you can't make red. It is a primary color in the process of color creation by passing light through the result. You can't make primary colors by mixing 2 other colors. Though you can mix hot pink and orange to get something close to red

If you are using the process used in printers, layering materials and reflecting light, red and blue are not primary colors. Magenta, yellow, and cyan are the primaries. Mix equal parts of magenta and yellow to get red.

Red and blue are no longer primary colors. They were believed to be primary colors, because the true primaries, magenta and cyan were not available in a form to be used by artists. Yellow is the third primary.

Science has since shown why magenta, yellow, and cyan are the primary colors. The eye has three overlapping bands of color it is sensitive to: red, green, and blue. These are the primary colors of light (to humans).

Magenta pigment absorbs green light. Yellow pigment absorbs blue light. And cyan pigment absorbs red light.

If your teacher is still telling you that red, yellow, and blue are the primary colors, that teacher is teaching material that is over 50 years out of date. 50 years ago, as a 6th grader, I showed our art teacher the new primaries, which I found in a library book. Two weeks later, we got new watercolor paint boxes with magenta, yellow,. and cyan replacing the old boxes with red, yellow, and blue that had failed to make good color mixes.

Unfortunately, art supply dealers are still mired in the past.

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