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Project #1: Value Scales + Color Wheels



Color  explorations  
Additive Painting Investigations


This first assignment allows you to explore the world of additive painting palette in a color wheel that will include primaries, secondaries, tertiaries, and the tints and tones of those colors as well as two monochromatic value scales in eleven steps.         
Student Work color wheel
Student Work - value scales
Student Work color wheel                
Methods: 
Part One = 2 Value Scales

Student Work - value scales
 Again, do the Math
i. Float 2 scales 3" x 11" equal on Bristol board 

ii. Divide your 3" x 11" overall rectangle into eleven equal parts of 1" x 3" rectangles as above

iii. The 5th step is your middle grey
Always add the darkest color into the lighter value.

iv. For the White to Black scale you need to create equal steps moving from white to black, thus having 9 equal steps of grey.


v. You need to create a second scale in either blue / green / violet or red and follow the same method.

 Part Two: Color Wheel
Do the Math

i. Create a 10" color wheel in pencil floating in the center of an 11" x 14" piece of Bristol board paper -- How will you center this circle onto the rectangle?
ii. Divide circle into 3  equal parts, followed by > 6 equal parts with a pencil
iii. Use acrylic gouache/acrylic color to additively mix together creating your secondaries
Secure Primaries (however, add white to your dark ultramarine or cobalt blue as it is way too dark straight out of the tube)

Mix Secondaries > allow them to be close to equal in intensity and value (yellow will always be lightest)
i. Mix secondaries and place in appropriate areas on the interior of the wheel
ii. On the exterior create tints of each color 1/2" thick - see second example below. 
Your tints should each be of equal value to one and other. 

 primaries only 3



primaries & secondaries 6



Your color wheel needs to have at least 6 equal slices - or may have 12.  
Mix colors as above including:
R - Y - B Primaries + RV - V - BV - BG - G - YG - YO - O - RO Secondaries



                                        Note that the above gouache Color Wheel is illustrating the tints - the completion of colors is not accurate. 



Student work






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