![]() You don't want mud to happen by accident in a bright passage. It's used when a neutral color appears by accident in part of the painting where it isn't wanted, or when the whole painting appears dull and muted. "Mud" is not an official term in color theory. When all three primaries are there in a mixture, you get a muted version of one of them, a neutral like brown or gray, or that mess in the center that I titled "Mud." The "Mud" patch includes all the primaries and all the secondaries I used to draw this color wheel. Very few pigments are exact hues (the color it is) precisely balanced on the color wheel. Notice the seven dots in the middle of my color wheel. That's where color theory falls down when it meets reality. Yellow, blue and red are Primary colors, the ones that if you were working in oil paint, acrylic or watercolors you could blend all the others from provided you had exactly the right pure pigments. You've probably seen many versions of this, some with only six colors, others like this with twelve. Color theory and mixing begins with the color wheel. ![]()
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