What are the basic and primary colors?
Red, Green and blue are the elements of light. By combining these colours ie. the television can make any colour. It is called an additive mixture. Red, Green and blue added together will make white light. Mixing you colors with paint in school is a subtractive mixture. In print they will use CMY. Cyan, Magenta and yellow. In a subtractive mix, the white light will hit the print. If the print is white, all light is reflected from it. If it is Black, no light is reflected (in theory). According to the colors, different wavelengths of the light will be reflected from it and others will not. And then there is the RYB, that is used in arts and in school. Mostly no technical usage, but is good for painting.
