Value Scale and Color Wheel Project

 

Color Wheel

Value Scale

1. Discuss what you thought about creating the Value Scale and Color Wheel.
I thought it was fun to create the color wheel and value scale.  I enjoyed painting and mixing the colors together.  I liked that we used magenta, yellow, and cyan to create green, red and blue.  Instead of using the normal yellow, red and blue.  It shows that every color will create a different color combination and depending on the amount of each color mixed will provide a different shade.  
The value scale was a bit more difficult due to trying to make each shade slightly lighter than the shade previous.  It was good practice for shading techniques.


2. Which media did you enjoy working with the best and why?
 I enjoyed working with the paints the best.  Paint is interesting to me because you can create almost any shade or color that you want just by playing with the color combination and amount of each color.  It has been many years since I have painted and now that I have picked up a brush again I intend to do more.  I find it relaxing and fun.

3. What was the most important discovery in the creation of these studies?
 In the creations of these studies I discovered that whether I was using pencils, charcoals, or paints it is possible to create different shades of a color.  

4. What is the most important information you learned from watching the videos for this project? What is your opinion of the videos?
The videos were good.  They help to give a better understanding of the textbook readings.  By seeing things being created it helps to steer you in the right path for your own project.  The most important things I learned were about the graphite pencils and how they should be used and sharpened.  The video on the color wheel was important to show the true primary colors.  I think this is important because our whole lives we were taught the primary colors were red, yellow, and blue.  It is important to see how they combined to make these same colors.