The quality of light which makes colors distinct from one another. Hues which cannot be derived from other hues. Hues derived by mixing equal amounts of primary colors. Hues derived by mixing equal amounts of a secondary color to its two adjacent primary colors. The hue opposite its counterpart on the wheel.
Additive complements produce white light.
Hues adjacent on the color wheel, which therefore contain some characteristic of their neighbors. Paint on a horizontal surface, because water color, like water itself tends to run downhill. Moisten the areas of the paper which you intend to color. Mix your secondaries and tertiaries either on the paper or in the lid of your paint box. If you mix on the paper, do all of your work in yellow first, then go to red, and then blue.