Colour Wheel
Painting a color wheel is a great way to learn how to mix colors. In addition to that - you will also create a perfect reference that you can use as a color guide.
The assignment has two parts:
- Color wheel with shades, hues, tones, and tints of primary, secondary, and intermediate (tertiary) colors
- Color value scale (tints, hues, and shades) of primary and secondary colors, plus brown scale and grey scale.
Part of the grade is your craftsmanship and painting inside the lines. Take your time!
PRIMARY COLORS
There are 4 rings in your color wheel:
- color shades (hue + Black)
- hues
- color tones (hue + Grey)
- color tints (hue + White)
Paint three sections of the "hues" ring with primary colors. Make sure they are spaced evenly - having three sections in between.
There are 8 rows in the color value scale:
Paint the middle column of rows 1, 3, and 6 with primary colors.
SECONDARY COLORS
mix 3 secondary colors: orange, purple, and green
Fill in the "hue" sections between the corresponding primary colors.
- To mix orange - start with yellow, add a little bit of red.
- To mix purple - add blue into red.
- To mix green - add blue into yellow
INTERMEDIATE (TERTIARY) COLORS
mix 6 intermediate colors. These are the colors that you get by mixing a primary and a secondary colors.
For example:
- red-orange = red + orange
- red-violet = red + purple
- yellow-orange = yellow + orange
- yellow-green = yellow + green
- blue-green = blue + green
- blue-violet = blue + purple
GREY
To mix Grey - add a little Black into White.
BROWN
To get Brown - you need to mix 2 colors that are opposite of each other on the color wheel (complementary color scheme).
In other words, you get Brown when you mix all 3 primary colors together. You just need to mix them in the right proportion.
step 3 - color values
SHADES
To create a shade - add a little of Black to your color.
Colors have values.
Create 3 shades of each color by adding more black to your color
Complete the dark values (shades).
TONES
To create a tone - mix your color with Grey
TINTS
To create a tint - add your color to White.
Create 3 tints of each color by using more white paint.
- 28 December 2020, 10:15 PM