what i know now

primary colors are red, yellow, and blue.
secondary colors are when you mix the primary colors: orange, green, adn purple.
complimentary colors are when you mix a primary color adn a secondary color: red-orange, orange-yellow, yellow-green, green-blue, blue-purple, and purple-red.
two ways of emphacizing things in a painting are by adding highlights and or shadows.
to create a shadow in a painting, you need to add black, or add an opposing color to tone down the shadow color.
to create highlight, i would add white to a color.
to make an object look far away, i would make it smaller and closer to the horizon line of a painting, it would also look darker than and object in the foreground.
steps that i would take to building a painting would be to layer the paint, start out with a thinner paint and more basic colors, then you add thicker paint and highlight and and shadow.