Editing Color wheel (section)

====Subtractive====
[[File:RGV color wheel 1908.png|thumb|A 1908 color wheel with red, green, and violet "plus colors" and magenta, yellow, and cyan blue "minus colors".]]
The typical artists' paint or pigment color wheel includes the blue, red, and yellow [[primary color]]s. The corresponding [[secondary color]]s are green, orange, and violet or purple. The [[tertiary color]]s are green-yellow, yellow-orange, orange-red, red-violet/purple, purple/violet-blue and blue-green.

Non-digital visual artists typically use [[red]], [[yellow]], and [[blue]] primaries ([[RYB color model]]) arranged at three equally spaced points around their color wheel.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Oil Painting Course You've Always Wanted: Guided Lessons for Beginners|author=Kathleen Lochen Staiger|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B4Q05KmkEdUC&q=color-wheel+artist+red+yellow+blue&pg=PA41|isbn=0-8230-3259-0|year=2006|publisher=Watson–Guptill}}</ref> Printers and others who use modern subtractive color methods and terminology use [[cyan]], [[magenta]], and [[yellow]] as [[subtractive primaries]]. Intermediate and interior points of color wheels and circles represent color mixtures. In a paint or subtractive color wheel, the 'center of gravity' is usually (but not always<ref>{{cite book|title=Color Harmony Pastels: A Guidebook for Creating Great Color Combinations|author=Martha Gill|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cl6ELZriVe0C&q=color-wheel+scientific+traditional&pg=PA6|publisher=Rockport Publishers|year=2000|isbn=1-56496-720-4}}</ref>) black, representing all colors of light being absorbed.