When I'm choosing the "Pure colors" to start my palette I think about how color is presented on the color wheel. I generally pick out one of each primary(red, yellow, and blue), secondary (green, orange, and purple), and tertiary colors (yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green, and yellow-green) along with white (my preference is Titanium White).
It's important for me to spend at least 30 minutes to an hour mixing colors, so that I don't paint with any colors that come straight from the tube.
1. Warm vs Cool: The color will either be warm colors (yellow, red, and orange) or cool colors (purple, blue, and green)
2. Hue: The hue means pure color, but some colors need to have tints and shades (to add black or white).
3. Saturation: The saturation is when the color is brighter or duller in the color intensity.
4.Analogous: Colors next to each other on the color wheel.
5.Complementry: Colors opposite of each other on the color wheel.
6. Split Complementry: Combines one base color with the two colors directly adjacent to its opposite or complementary color and not with the complementary color.
I hope this guild helps and inspires you to mix some colors. So, Happy Mixing!!!
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