create a 10" color wheel
divide into 3 > 6 > 12 equal parts
use acrylic gouache color additively
Secure Primaries (add white to your dark ultramarine or cobalt blue)
Mix Secondaries > allow them to be close to equal in intensity and value (yellow will be lightest)
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.
Your tints should each be of equal value to one and other.
primaries & secondaries 6
Your color wheel needs to have 12 different mixed colors as above
methods : part two
1. Find a small natural object that you will use for this project – i.e. branch, leaf, root, etc. OR find a flat photographic image with an interesting contour edge OR Find a 3-4 letter word. See student examples below.
2. Create 2” square thumbnails and develop a series of 8 ‘abstractions’ from your visual word info. Your sketches will only take into consideration the contour edge of your letters or image.
3. Your contour drawings must be cropped on 2 or 3 edges of each square. These sketches will separate figure (word) from ground (space).
4. Decide on the contour edge that most interestingly makes use of figure and ground relationships > thus, activating both spatial areas. This will become the template for your final work. Choose one.
5. Create a cardboard stencil or template of your word. It should fit perfectly into a 2” square.
6. Substrate = Bristol or Hot Press Illustration board, minimum 12 x 14”
7. Image size needs to be 8" x 10".
8. Grid off into 2” squares (you will have 20 squares total).
9. Use your template as a pattern, insert into each individual square and trace > rotate on all directional edges to create patterns within patterns.
10. PAINT: Choose your complimentary pair.
Blue / Orange
Yellow / Violet
Green / Red
The pair must be equal in saturation of hue and intensity, allowing for illusionary optical VIBRATIONS to occur. Thus, Yellow / Violet pairing is extremely difficult.
Blue / Orange
Yellow / Violet
Green / Red
The pair must be equal in saturation of hue and intensity, allowing for illusionary optical VIBRATIONS to occur. Thus, Yellow / Violet pairing is extremely difficult.
11. When painting design areas, reverse your color methods, allowing for figure in one square = A (blue) and ground = B (orange) then in other squares figure = B and ground = A.
12. Create a variety 5 different intense color saturations by mixing complimentary pairs
13. Try to paint as smoothly as possible - do not water down your paints.
Make use of your Blue Painter's tape to create smooth edges. The lower student example image size is 16" x 16"
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student work - Complimentary Color Vibrations 
student work in progress
 
student work
student work is 10" x 8"
student work
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