our first exercise in unit 2 involves creating a color wheel. We have 5 colors to use: white and black from before, plus phthalo blue, hansa light yellow & quinacridone magenta.
This is what the final product should look like. The wheel shows the three primary colors, red blue and yellow, and three secondary colors green orange and violet, plus another six tertiary colors which each sit between the primary and the tertiary colors. We need to mix the paints we have to get as close as we can to the small swatches of the sample colors we were provided with.
Of the 12 colors at the first attempt (which took about 5 hours or so) I was reasonably happy with the red, orange and yellow ranges, plus violet, but I clearly need to work on the blues and greens more. In class Elizabeth pointed out that my basic blue was too dark and did not “pop” so I had to start again with that color, as it would upset the balance of the whole wheel. Spent quite a long time trying to nail the yellow green and I believe I have got a decent approximation now.
I worked on the basic blue and am much more satisfied with it now and was also able to complete the greens.
