– What happens when an artist mixes paint for a painting? Are the pigments actually changing physically/chemically? What is actually happening to make the paints change color?

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– What happens when an artist mixes paint for a painting? Are the pigments actually changing physically/chemically? What is actually happening to make the paints change color?

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To piggyback off of this ELI5, can our eyes tell the difference between these fine paint/pigment particles that are mixed and a true mixed-color paint/pigment particle?

For example, if we compared a green made by mixing yellow and blue vs. a naturally occurring green pigment like from plants?

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