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The terms 'warm' and 'cold' when it comes to colours are very misleading, because there are two ways we use those terms. None of which actually relate to temperature as in hot or cold, except for maybe how they got their name. Red and yellow are called or considered warm colours because they are associated with the sun and fire. But they also do not travel very well over long distances, so red and yellow colours close to you appear 'warmer' because they are close, while they lose their colour over a long distance. Blue on the other hand are often associated with water and sky and therefore 'cold' and blue travels very well and that is why distant hills and mountains appear bluish. The term warm and cool when it comes to colour mixing is something completely different, and just a way to describe the properties of different colours, how they mix and where they belong on the colour wheel. A better term would probably be to use 'greenish-blue' instead of cool blue, and 'redish-blue' instead of warm blue. A blue is considered 'warm' when it sits towards the red on the colour wheel, aka has some red pigment in it. A blue is considered 'cool' when it sits towards the yellow on the colour wheel. There are almost no 'pure' pigments out there, no reds or yellows or blues that do not to some extent contain any of the other pigments in them. Every blue colour leans either towards red or yellow on the colour spectrum. Every red colour leans towards either yellow or blue on the colour spectrum, and every yellow leans towards either red or blue on the colour spectrum. That is why it is so important to know where the colours you use sit on the colour wheel so that you can mix clean colours. Like I said, the terms 'warm' and 'cool' are very misleading, just look at them as a way to try and explain the difference between different blues. Whoever came up with the idea of using 'warm' and 'cool' as a way to describe the different properties of colours did not think it through properly... 😁

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And adding yellow to every color makes it warmer, right?

Hi Joann. (Sorry for my late reply, it has been a busy start to the year.) It depends on what you see as light or dark colours, and adding yellow does not make a color warmer. The term 'warm' or 'cool' colours is very confusing, because it has nothing to do with temperature. When we talk about how we see colours in the landscape, then red and yellow are both warm, and blue is cool. This has to do with the wave length of the colours and how they travel through distance. Red don't travel well at all, yellow a little better, and blue travels very well. That is why distant hills and mountains always seem to have a bluish tint to them, even if you 'know' that they are green. I guess that the term' warm' comes from our association with red and yellow to the sun and fire. Blue is associated with water and sky, and therefore the term became 'cool'. But when it comes to colour mixing, the term warm and cool has a totally different meaning. Again, it has nothing to do with temperature, it is just a way to describe the properties of the colour, and where they sit on the colour wheel. Not every colour is equal, or the same. You have yellow, and you have yellow... You know what I mean. There is the yellow that is like a lemon, with more or less a greenish tint to it. Then you have yellow like an orange, with a reddish tint to it. The orange yellow is 'warm' (it sits towards the red on the colour wheel) and lemon yellow is cool as it sits towards the blue on the colour wheel). You have red like a tomato, this is a 'warm' red ( sits towards the yellow on the colour wheel) and you have reds like carmine that has a purple tint to it, these reds are 'cool' and sits towards the blue on the colour wheel. The blue colours are the most difficult to determine just by the looks of them, and these you just have to learn to recognise. Blue with purple tints in them are 'warm', like ultramarine ( sits towards the red on the colour wheel) and the blue with a greenish tint in them are 'cool' and sits towards the yellow on the colour wheel. These are blues like prussian blue, turquoise and so on. So to get clean colour mixes, you need to choose the colours that lean towards eachother on the colour wheel. This is to eliminate that you don't have any of the 'third' colour in your mix, because as you know yellow, red and blue together becomes brown. So for a clean purple you want only blue and red, and no yellow. You achieve this by choosing a blue colour with a red tint to it, (warm blue) and a red with a purple tint to it, (cool red). This way you don't get any yellow in your mix, and your purple will be 'pure' and appear clean. I guess a more proper naming for colours when it comes to colour mixing would be to not use the terms 'warm' and 'cool' at all as they are so misleading, but describe the colours as 'redish-blue' and 'greenish-blue' and so on. I hope this helps? It is difficult to explain.

@@JennyMoedKorpelaArtohh, it makes a little more sense with this explanation. Thank you!

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