16/10/14 - In this session we looked at the colour wheel. Materials I used during this session were Gouache paint, sable paintbrushes and cartridge paper. the formal elements I looked at were colour, tints and shades. Techniques I used during this session were painting and colour mixing. we filled in a colour wheel, starting with the primary colours, red, blue and yellow in the middle, and then mixing the secondary and tertiary colours. Then we looked at complementary colours, complementary colours are colours that are opposite each other in the colour wheel. I learned how to mix different browns by mixing the complementary colours. I then looked at tints and shades. a tint is where white is added to a colour to make it lighter, and a shade is where black is added to a colour to make it darker.
Primary colours are the three colours that make every other colour, and cant be mixed using other colours. Secondary colours are made by mixing two of the primary colours, and tertiary colours are the colours in between.
Areas of my work that I think worked well are my colour mixing accurate colours and painting quite neatly. I found that I had a good understanding of how the colours work and the colour wheel. to extend my skills I used colour mixing in the next session for painting a still life of fruit, this helped me to mix accurate colours for my painting.
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