Learn the Real Color Wheel
by Donald A. Jusko

Painting on Location


A full palette with only 3 pigments.

The three colors used to make this real color wheel in OIL paints were,
Old Holland Indian Yellow O/s PY153
Grumbacher Thalo Blue, PB15.3
Daniel Smith or W/N Quinacridone Magenta, PR122

My RCW

We paint one of these color wheels in each class I give.
This RCW is painted with ACRYLIC paint. There is no transparent PY153
in tubed acrylic paint so I made one from dry pigment, 1-15-5.


My
RCW in acrylic

10-25-04 Testimonial

msg= Hi Don, Send me a Zip of the RCW please. Yours is the first really useful colour wheel that I have found as it is good for photography as well as for paint. I'd like the zip so that it can be printed to A3 size for use as a teaching aid in a photography course in the UK.

Thanks in advance
Tom Merryweather


Hooray! My 30 grams of Sennelier's Quinacridone Red, #679, for $55 w/ship arrived. IT IS THE PERFECT TRANSPARENT MAGENTA, BAR NONE. It's Pigment Index Color Number is PR122. This is the dry pigment magenta you need for frescos and all other media. Only Sennelier has it as dry pigment.

The perfect triad is:
Transparent Indian Yellow (warm yellow-brown) PY153 from Zecchi in Florance, PY150 is the same color to my eye.
Or Transparent Indian Yellow (warm yellow-orange-greenish PG10F from Senopia.
Transparent Quinacridone Magenta, PR122 from Sennelier.
Transparent Phthalocyanine Blue (cyan) PB15.3 from Senopia. Old Holland has a perfect transparent cyan oil paint called Manganese Blue, made with Barium Manganate PB33.
Keep this list as close to your heart as I do, it took testing over $2000 worth of pigments to find these gems. At the same time I got a great fresco complete palette. I made a DVD of painting 2 frescos using the transparent primary palette. It's $35 on my order page.

Painting with a Transparent Triad Palette, all these colors were made with this triad except one ultramarine blue which was used to compare the mixed blue with the tube ult blue PB29.

First is transparent Indian yellow O/s then transparent Indian yellow Br/s

transparent Yellow

Transparent Triad Colors in 6 round color chips, except for the first ball, opaque ultramarine blue PB29.
Indian yellow O/s ball PY153. Cyan PB15.3 and Indian yellow PY153 make the green color chip sample.
Magenta and cyan made the purple ball, cyan and magenta made the blue ball, Indian yellow and magenta made the red ball.

transparent triad mixed colors

Oppositions, opaque red PR88 or cad red PR108, transparent cyan PB15.3. Using each other's color to make a neutral dark shadow.

transparent
cyan

Oppositions Transparent Magenta PR122, Transparent Green PG35, using each other's color to make a neutral dark shadow.

transparent magenta

The black ball was made with this transparent triad.

triad black
ball

Testing for black with PR122, PB15.3 and PY153 on a 14x18 panel, making a very dark BUON FRESCO without black pigment.

Latour Wine

Painting an apple with my color sample card. PR122, PB15.3 and PY153 in water colors, laying down yellow first, then magenta and cyan.

3 color
apple


Anyone that would like to test try these transparent colors from a post card with these dried water color samples on it, send a Check for $15 and your address to: Don Jusko, POB 791569, Maui, HI, 96779. These are the best triad transparent pigments, make your own little colorwheel and see for yourself. Get both the laminated 5" RCW and the pigment samples for $25. Or get the Painting on Location CD, the 5" laminated RCW plus the pigments for $50.

Click here to order with your credit card: The CD Real Color Wheel, the hard copy of the RCW, Sample Pigments or the Fresco DVD Movie using 3 colors.

Click here to Order either by check or M.O. Contact me by Email, let me know where you want them sent.



This is the cool three color transparent triad in oils makes perfect blues, reds and greens.
Bocour Cobalt Violet, color not available anymore
Grumbacher Thalo Blue
Old Holland Indian Yellow O/s

Full palette, 3 colors.


 

These links are to other 3 primary color paintings, the pigments are:

Dry Pigments;
Indian yellow PY153 from Zecchi,
Magenta PR122 from Sennelier,
Cyan PB15.3 from Senopia.

Food Coloring
The Easter Egg Coloring 6-pack.

Oil Paints,
Old Holland Indian Yellow Orange-side,
Daniel Smith Quinacridone Magenta PR122,
Grumbacher Thalo Blue, cyan PB15

Water Colors,
Daniel Smith New Gamboge PY153 (or Golden PY150) Nickel Dioxine is the best Indian Yellow O/s pigment.
Daniel Smith Quinacridone Magenta PV202 is more to the cyan side.
Grumbacher Thalo Crimson PV19 is more to the warm side.
PR122 is the perfect magenta.
Grumbacher Thalo Blue PB15

Acrylics
New! 7-1-6, Golden primary set.
Golden Acrylics, Indian Yellow Hue golden/side transparent. Nickel Complex Azo PY150 (same as PY153), with Quinacridone PR206 and Arylide yellow PY73. And.. Brown/side Golden Acrylic Njckel Complex Azo PY150
Golden Acrylics Magenta PR122
Golden Acrylics Phthalo Blue PB15.4 (a little on the magenta side, Hyplar had an acrylic phthalocyanine chlorinated copper that was perfect, they called it PB15. It is the same hue as Grumbacher's oil Thalo blue.)

Children painting with Food Coloring Colors First Grade learning the primary colors.
3 color examples Mixing the three transparent primary colors.
Lime Water Media 75 sq. foot Buon Fresco in 3 colors.
Lime Water Medium Buon Fresco #1 in 3 colors.
Lime Water Medium Buon Fresco #2 in 3 colors.
Maroger Medium Hana Paintings with Maroger's Medium in 3 primary colors.
Maroger Medium The Kaupo Hearts, Black Oil painting in 3 primary colors.
Egg Tempera Medium Still Life in 3 primary colors.
Water Color Painting with 3 primary colors.
Copal Medium with the RCW 3 Color Wheel

Transparent Yellow

I have been working with a chemical company called Spectra Colors Corp. in my home State, N.J., 4-2-6, to provide my transparent yellow color. Spectracid Tartrazine 170 / Acid Yellow 23 / Azo / C.A.S#: 1934.21.0 / H:1 F:0 R:0 P:D / APR 25,2006 / Lot # T14976 / Scc Order # : 63305, is my choice. This is it, an Indian Yellow for plotters and artists. It is very permanent, never changing at all after 2 months in the hot Lahaina Sun, the ball point writing is gone. Ethylene Glycol added to the pigment made it waterproof ink when dry. As a water color add gum arabic and a little honey. To make an excellent acrylic transparent yellow equal to PY153 dioxine nickel complex or PY108 Anthrapyrmidine, add some acrylic gel. The amount of water added to the pigment to print a cadmium yellow light is 1:9. In this image there are 3 cups of 1:9 mixtures, (they all look simular) this is the pigment and dilution I'm printing with.

The two rows are two different pigments. Printing with full strength (1:1 with water) the ink printed a cadmium yellow medium hue color. 1:9 is what the plotter needs to bring it down to cad yellow light hue. All colors with yellow included in them are rich.

Transparent yellow
printing

The yellow ink for printers/plotters is opaque today, and I found it prints weakly as a tint. Yes, the spray printing industry can use an upgrade.. Their standard Cyan is too magenta (I think) So could our National Color Index, it's lacking because it's based on calling red, yellow and blue the primary colors.

Imagine saying red (which is made of yellow and magenta), is the primary color and giving magenta a code like PR:122. That's Pigment Red #122 to the artist trade. We all know that's wrong. Or should be wrong.

Yes, the Yellow, Cyan, Magenta color wheel is accurate, not the red, yellow, blue colour wheel. Compare them. My color wheel adds to that, giving the ability to mix all opposite colors into a black hue.

This is a big problem today, because all of our State's School Standards are commanded to teaching the Red, Yellow and Blue as primary colors. Very sad.


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