SHADES OF VIOLET

Exactly....shades of "violet" are what you will get when blue and red are mixed. Depending on how much of each is used and which medium is mixed, will determine the exact color shade of violet. Here are some pallets that ought to confuse ya...lol We are very creative and reinvent the names for many and varied reasons, but mostly to sell a product. '\_(**)_/'. Most people consider them shades of Purple, but Violet is the "true" color dominant when mixing the "true" red and blue pigment that do not have other colors already added.

If you’re mixing the primary color blue with the primary color red you will get a purplish color. But it will not really look like what you think of as purple. On a quick internet search just now, it will look muddy, like this color (4). Purple is a very hard color to make with paint. If you are a painter looking for a true purple, you’d buy a tube of it premade, like this… (5)

Blue and red, when mixed, make violet. (6)

Mixing red and blue together makes the color *violet*. Red and blue are primary colors, meaning they cannot be created by mixing two other colors, and *violet* is a secondary color, meaning it is created by mixing two primary colors. An artist can achieve different hues of *violet* depending on the ratio of the colors mixed. Mixing a large amount of red and only a little blue makes a magenta shade. Mixing a large amount of blue and only a little red makes a *purple* shade. Yellow is the color opposite *violet* on the color wheel, so *violet* and yellow are considered to be complementary colors.

https://www.quora.com/What-color-does-blue-and-red-make

Heather the Violet Fairy (The Rainbow Fairies)
http://bethbeingcrafty.blogspot.com.es/2015/04/book-parade-heather-violet-fairy-costume.html