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Hi Geri,
Saturated in this sense means the purest possible color; sometimes it is referred to as color intensity. The most intense, or most saturated colors are located along the outer edge of any color wheel. When you mix any color with its complement, it starts to become less intense (pure) and more neutral. When two complements are mixed in balance, you will get lovely neutrals, that are called complementary grays. (Not gray in the sense of what happens when you mix black and white). Colors that are located somewhere in the interior of the color wheel are desaturated...those in the very center are completely desaturated..in other words, the complementary grays. So saturated here has nothing to do with wetness.
The addition of white or black to a pure color diminshes its intensity, although not in the same rich way that the complement does.
Ordering info for Erica is in my Recommended Resources (Appendix A), Signilar 800-205-4904
Good luck!
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