– 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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The pigment molecules dont change at all, they are just mixed together.

Take a look at the pixels on your screen; if you look real close, you can see that each pixel is made of a seperate red light, green light and blue light. Those lights are kind of like the pigment molecules, they’re both just really small and really close together.