Complementary Colors Combined

For my primary complementary pair, I selected Yellow and Violet, which when combined together produces a warm Brown.

It was hard to get the right Violet with the pigments I got from Guerra Paint, simply because I think the red we got was nearly vermillion-y. I added a little hint of magenta to cool the red down a bit, and then added the blue which was thankfully reliable.

Moving onto the tertiary colors got me mixing Yellow and Green to produce the Yellow-Green hue, which is spot on to the Color-aid swatch, yay! I had the help of both red and magenta to produce a Red-Violet hue to complement it. And then, when I mixed them together, I got a very damp looking soil kind of brown. Very dark olive.

And then, finally, I mixed Yellow and Red first, and then added more Yellow to produce the third tertiary pair. I was really satisfied with the Blue-Violet that I produced. It was rich, and opaque, and felt more solid and stable. Of course the middle boxes are meant to be experimental, but it was worrying me not to know what color I should wait for the mixture to be.

It was surprising to find out that the mixtures of these complements are the way they are. My stock knowledge of color harmonies end with pairs. I don't do threesomes, basically. :P I'm glad I finally got to know how to find the third color in these pairs! It gives the harmony a really interesting twist.