Hello! Just wondering why when I mix red and white it creates pink, instead of being red and white swirls? Same with if you mix a bunch of colors together it turns brown instead of seeing all the colors you mixed individually? Thank you!
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The individual particles of each color are so small that your eye can’t distinguish them individually. So you’re seeing masses of red and white particles mixed together which your eye interprets as pink.
Imagine that you have two jars of marbles, one red and one white. You mix those together, you see red and white marbles. Now imagine you have two jars of sand, one dyed white and the other red. Mix those together and unless you’re really close, it will look like pink sand. When you’re talking dyes or pigments the actual color components are many orders of magnitude smaller than a grain of sand.
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