
For example if you mixed the Primary colour Yellow with the Secondary colour Orange, the Tertiary colour would be Yellow Orange. If you mix a Primary colour (Red, Yellow or Blue) with it's adjacent Secondary colour on the colour wheel this will give a Tertiary colour, classed as third in order. The colour either side of the hand/pointer will be the colours used to make the Secondary colour as explained above. This time the hands of the colour wheel 'clock' point to the Secondary colours. Blue and Yellow will give a green and Red plus Blue will give purple.

Yellow and Red will give an orange, as indicated. These are referred to as the Secondary colours.

In theory mixing two colours together, that two of the hands on the colour wheel point at, will give the second colour, i.e. The three hands on the colour wheel 'clock' indicate the three Primary colours.
