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1. Color
Wheel sheet - see example
See mat examples provided
2. A
small 6 well pallette, and a larger mixing pallette.
3. A
water container and a paper towel.
4. Paint
brush.
5. Tempera
paint, 6 colors - Red, Yellow, Two Blues, Dark Blue and Turquoise
(Primaries), and two neutrals Black and White.
Black |
Red |
Turquoise |
White |
Dark
Blue |
Yellow |
1. You
will be mixing paint to create a color wheel (with a key color ring,
a tint ring, a tone ring, and a shade ring), a color value scale,
and an intensity scale. See example for placement. A color wheel
is a mixing guide so the colors are arranged in a specific order.
The
primary colors are red, yellow
and blue, they are set equidistant
from each other and they make all of the colors on the color wheel.
The
secondary colors are orange, green
and violet. They are created when two
primaries are mixed together. Red and
yellow mixed together create orange.
Blue and red
together make violet. Yellow
and blue make green.
Each of these secondaries are placed in the center of the two primaries
that creates them.
The
intermediate colors are created when a primary and an adjacent secondary
color is mixed together they consist of Red-violet,
red-orange, yellow-orange,
yellow-green, blue-green,
and blue-violet. The primary name always
is listed first. These colors go inbetween (notice name intermediate)
the primary and secondary colors that make them. The names of the
colors are the hues used to mix these six intermediates.
2. You
will begin by the color wheel with the primary colors (red, yellow,
and blue). A primary color is a color that can not be mixed, it
is a color that is used to make other colors on the color wheel.
With red, blue and yellow, every other color can be made. It is
easier to do this wheel in pie slices, by painting first the key
color then the tint, then the tone and finally the shade. Start
with the red and then paint the key color area for red. To create
a tint you must add white to the key color, with red this will make
a pink hue. To create a tone you must add white and black to the
key color, this will make a grayish pink hue. To create a shade
you must add only black to the key color. For red this will make
a maroon hue. Repeat these same steps only with yellow.
Color
biasing is a color theory that every color has a warm or cool bias
to it. Warm colors are generally yellows, oranges and red, whereas
cool colors are blues, greens, and violets. However with color biasing
this happens with every color. Each color you purchase at the store
has a bias. The bias can be warm or cool. For example a lemon yellow
is a cool biased yellow where a yellow ochre is a warm biased color.
When you mix colors it is important to know the bias. A warm bias
and a cool bias mixed together will create a purer color. Two same
biased colors mixed together will create a less intense duller more
muted color.
The
blue color we use is a cool biased color, the turquoise color is
a warm biased blue. In order to create a pleasing green we must
mix the turquoise blue with the cool biased yellow to create the
greens. The violet however needs to cool biased blue with the warm
biased red to create the violet. Because of this we mix the two
blue colors together to create the blue key color for the wheel.
Once this color is made the tint, tone, and shade can be made from
it.
3. The
secondary colors should be made next. Once again it is smart to
continue by doing the pie slices of the key color, tint, tone and
shade of the same color. The orange key color should be made with
equal parts of yellow and red. Green should be mixed with equal
parts of yellow and turquoise. The violet should be created with
equal parts red and dark blue. Note that the placements of these
colors are directly inbetween the primaries that make them.
4. The
intermediates are the next step for the color wheel and will complete
the center section of the project. Once again equal parts of the
two colors next to these hues will make the desired colors. So for
example the red-orange key color is created with equal parts of
red and orange. So it is a redder orange color where a
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