Thursday, February 19, 2015

Art Making/Material Exploration #1: Exploring Value and The Subtractive Color Theory


When creating the value scale, it was a little challenging trying to make sure each block was slightly lighter than the previous one, but it was still fun shading and trying to create a scale. I have made other color wheels in the past but always with red, blue, and yellow as the primary colors. When making this one with cyan, magenta and yellow, it was interesting to see how differently the colors mix compared to the basic primary colors. I preferred to work with the paints only because I enjoy blending them. It is a fun process to see what colors can be created. The most important discovery I have made from this project and from the video was how the real primary colors are cyan, magenta, and yellow. These colors are brighter than red, blue, and yellow and create much more richer secondary colors. Although it throws me off to see cyan, magenta, and yellow to be considered primary colors instead of traditional red, blue, and yellow, it is still fascinating to see how color theories have evolved over time.

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