Traditional Colour Studio
A free colour mixing resource from Vault Canvas.
Colour wheel
Your three starting paints
Cadmium Yellow · Cadmium Red · Ultramarine Blue
The other nine wheel colours are mixed from these.
Use the arrow keys to move around the wheel.
The colour directly opposite on the wheel.
Yellow
Starting paint
Paint to use: Cadmium Yellow
Starting paints: Cadmium Yellow · Cadmium Red · Ultramarine Blue
How to mix
Use Cadmium Yellow straight from the tube. No mixing is needed for this wheel position.
Colour and greyscale
Compare the tonal contrast of the complementary palette. Greyscale is calculated from the screen colours.
Colour
- Yellow
- Violet
Greyscale
- Yellow
- Violet
Screen swatches are approximations of the paint colours, not exact matches.