Mix equal parts of red, yellow, and blue paint on a palette to make black paint. Combining complementary colors like yellow and purple, red and green, or blue and orange is possible. You can make a rich black by mixing blues and browns together.

How is the color black made?

The primary colors of light are red, green, and blue. If you subtract these from white you get cyan, magenta, and yellow. Mixing the colors generates new colors as shown on the color wheel, or the circle on the right. Mixing these three primary colors generates black.

What is the real color of black?

Black is the absence of light. Unlike white and other hues, pure black can exist in nature without any light at all. Some consider white to be a color, because white light comprises all hues on the visible light spectrum.