– 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?

Question

– 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

Open up paint and select the pencil and the colour red and do every alternating pixel in a 10×10 grid red and the other pixels yellow, like [this](https://imgur.com/7doZ6tk)

Zoom out and you see orange

[Here](https://imgur.com/bOXM64g) is a larger 100×100 zoomed out, and [zoomed in](https://imgur.com/eX0RHPQ)

A similar thing is happening. The tiny tiny red pieces of paint and yellow pieces of paint aren’t making a piece of orange paint, they’re just blurred together when they get really small and our eyes blur them together to make orange.