– 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

Basically, if you have some red paint, and mix in blue paint, the pigment will become equally distributed so that some red and some blue get reflected, but they’re so close together that your brain interprets it as purple.

This is similar to how RGB Screens work, stand far away from your TV, and you can have a myriad of colours on the display, now put your nose up to the screen, suddenly you have just three colors