Creating my own value scale and color wheel were a bit trickier than the example videos made them out to be. As you will see by my photo gallery of this project, I took several attempts at the color wheel with mediocre success. I’ll admit that I was cheap when getting the paints and I feel that my magenta, yellow and cyan may not have been in the truest form. This likely affected being able to produce secondary colors accurately as well as a black through combining magenta, yellow, and cyan. The value scale took some playing around as well to make sure each step was slightly lighter than the previous one.
I preferred working on the color wheel with the acrylic paints. I guess I just found this to be more interesting, especially trying to get the specific colors I was looking for. The value project felt tedious to me, coloring lighter and perfecting as I went.
The most important discovery that came out of this study is the change of primary colors. The traditional red, blue, and yellow do not create black when blended. It was previously believed that these primary colors could not be created with any other color. It was proven in this video, however, that red can be formed with magenta and yellow, while blue is formed from magenta and cyan.
I felt the videos were very helpful to me for this project. The color wheel video was very interesting and had the most important information regarding the use of the primary colors. My daughter, who is majoring in art in high school, had never heard of the change in primary colors. She is still hesitant to believe it. Although the value video went into more detail with their scale than I did with mine, it was still very helpful in showing the process of creating a value scale. The little tip about the pencil point was good to know.
Check out my finished projects below. I've also included my Photobucket album of my process.
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| Color Wheel using primary colors- yellow, magenta and cyan |
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| Value Scale from black to white |
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