Mark,

This is great - our artist friend's Red, Blue Yellow primaries are
Quinacridone - a blue-shade red (also known as quinacridone magenta),
Pthalocyanine Blue - the standard SWOP cyan, and azo Yellow (the SWOP
yellow). So, in fact, his standard RBY primaries are in reality CMY.

End of discussion.


"Mark Jackson" wrote in message
...
"Jo [actually Alan] Taylor" writes:
You are correct in saying I don't think it's as simple as that... but
not for the right reasons.

a. Cyan, Magenta and Yellow are not paint primary colours but transparent
printers' ink primaries and rely on overlay not pre-mixing for the
effect.
Paint primaries are red, blue and yellow and, in emulsion paint, are
opaque.

Alan Taylor made this same argument nearly a month ago here.
Eventually he made some example images available on the Web;
unfortunately viewing them required one to be a member of the Yahoo
BritArt group. I have rehosted them with his commentary; see
http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mjackson/color.html. He's got some
further words that should accompany the images, but I don't have access
to my alumni account from work so will leave it to him to make any
additional points here.

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