ocr: SUBTRACTING COLOR When mixing pigments, you CYAN. BLACK can create many different colors by mixing together just cyan, magenta, and yellow. All three pigments mix together to make black. Yellow and cyan make green. Yellow and magenta make red. Magenta - - - - and cyan make blue. Pigments MAGENTA YELLOW appear colored because they splity white light that falls on them by absorbing (or subtracting) part of the light and reflecting the remainder. Mixing Pigments