A Gradated Blend

Making two colors blend smoothly into one another is easy: 

Two colors that butt up against each other. I use high-contrast colors to really show off the effect. 
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Smooth one color into the other. On the top, I pull color from red into the blue, and on the bottom, from blue into red, just to see if it makes any difference in the result

More blending. The final result appears to be only slightly effected by which color you pull over which.
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