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This document provides instructions for a beginning painting project that focuses on color mixing and matching. Students will create a design using 12 color swatches representing the colors of the color wheel. For each color, students must paint samples that match the swatch, as well as the tint, tone, and shade. The goal is to practice color mixing and matching while creating a sense of transparency across values. Students will learn about color theory through direct application.

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S Color Mix Match Sp13

This document provides instructions for a beginning painting project that focuses on color mixing and matching. Students will create a design using 12 color swatches representing the colors of the color wheel. For each color, students must paint samples that match the swatch, as well as the tint, tone, and shade. The goal is to practice color mixing and matching while creating a sense of transparency across values. Students will learn about color theory through direct application.

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ART M43 / Beginning Painting I / Erika Lize / Spring 2013

Color Mixing and Matching


Due: February 13th Project Description In this project, we will be investigating color in relation to color mixing, values and transparency. You have been given 12 paper swatches. You will create your own design that uses these swatches in representing the 12 colors of the color wheel. In your design you will need to plan to have either 4 or 5 areas for each of these colors. For the first area, you will mix paint to match the swatch. Then you will also need to mix the tint, the tone, and the shade of that color. Your goals with the tint, tone and shades are to have these values remain consistent across your design. So far this is 4 areas for each color. You will need to attach a portion of the swatch next to the color you have mixed to match it. You can permanently attach this swatch by creating a separate segment for it, or have it be part of the original segment of the paint. Or, if you dont want to permanently attach the swatch, then you can simply tape a small segment of it to your painting for the critique and remove it afterwards. Whatever you decide to do will impact the number of segments that you will need for each color in your design. As a reminder, your piece must contain the 12 colors of the color wheel, as indicated by the paper swatches. They are: Primary colors red, blue, yellow Secondary colors green, orange, violet Tertiary Colors red-orange, red-violet, blue-green, blue-violet, yellow-green, yellow-orange It must also contain the following values for each of the 12 colors: Tint color plus white Tone color plus gray Shade color plus black Objectives To create an interesting design that incorporates the 12 colors of the color wheel. To practice handling paint, mixing and matching colors and values. To create a sense of transparency with the tints, tone and shades of these colors by keeping values consistent. To learn color theory and to understand it better through direct application. Process Start by doing a series of sketches to determine your design for the piece. Remember that you need to include the 12 colors of the color wheel, and each of these colors needs to have 4 or 5 sections: the paper swatch (optional to permanently affix to your piece), the matching color in paint, plus its tint, tone and shade. Your design can be as simple as a grid, or as complex as you wish. The design aspect is up to you, as long as you include the previously stated color and value combinations. Part of this project will be for you to learn about the difference between color mixing in theory and practice. You will be allowed to use all the paint colors on our supply list to mix the 12 colors of your color wheel, and white and black to create the tints, tones and shades. You will learn very quickly that not all paint colors are the sameeven from brand to brand hues vary. You will also learn about the subjectivity of color based on how colors change when next to each other. Your goal is to paint the 12 colors so they visually work together on your piece. Dont feel locked in to matching the colors on your store bought color wheelespecially when painting the tints, tones and shades. The values on your color wheel are just a guide. The idea of transparency (when you can see through something) comes into play when painting the tints, tones and shades. These changes in value make it appear as though a veil or filter has been placed over your color, making it consistently lighter (tint), muted (tone), or in shadow (shade). You want your values to remain consistent to help with this illusion.

Supplies 18 x 24 canvas board Color wheel Scissors, Acrylic paint and medium, painting supplies Sketch pad, pencil, eraser, (graph paper/transfer paper optional) Compass, protractor, ruler Vocabulary Additive color: color that is created by light. Subtractive color: color that is seen when light bounces off a surface. Primary colors: colors that cannot be mixed by any other colors; red, blue, yellow. Secondary colors: colors that are created when primary colors are mixed; violet, green, orange. Tertiary colors: colors that are created when a primary color is mixed with a secondary color; red-orange, redviolet, blue-green, blue-violet, yellow-green, yellow-orange. Hue: the name of a color in the spectrum. Value: the lightness or darkness of a color. Tint: a color plus white. Tone: a color plus gray. Shade: a color plus black. Saturation: (also called Intensity or Chroma) the amount of pure hue in a color, its vividness. Warm colors: reds, oranges, yellows (aggressive, advancing in space). Cool colors: greens, blues, violets (receding in space). Achromatic color: also called the value scale, using a range of color from black to white. Monochromatic color: any shade, tine or tone of the same color. Analogous colors: any shade, tint or tones of colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. Complementary colors: colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel. Split-complementary colors: using one color in conjunction with the two colors that are next to the original colors complement. Triad: using three colors that are equally spaced apart on the color wheel. Tetrad: Created by placing a square or rectangle in the center of the color wheel. The corners will point to four colors that make up a tetrad. Contrast: the degree of difference between compositional parts or between one image and another. Key Color: a color that dominates an image creating an overall emotional or visual effect. Emotional color: a subjective use of color that is meant to elicit an emotional response from viewers. Symbolic color: the symbolic meaning attached to colors in particular societies. Simultaneous contrast: the optical alteration of a color by a surrounding color. Visual color mixing: the optical mixture of small units of color, so the eye perceives the mixture rather than the individual units. Transparent: If something is transparent, it means that you can see through it. It allows enough light to pass though it that you can see what is behind it. Translucent: If something is translucent, it means that the material is dense enough that you can see through it, but the image behind it is greatly obscured. It is the quality that is in between transparent and opaque. Opaque: If something is opaque, it cannot be seen through.

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