– 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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Answer 1

It’s the same way tv lights work, the lights aren’t displaying the different colours (only red, green and blue) they are just so close together you’re eyes resolution isn’t great enough to tell the lights apart in the same way your eyes can’t tell the pigment particles from one another