Exploring Value and Subtractive Color

1. Discuss what you thought about creating the Value Scale and Color Wheel.

I really enjoyed making the Value Scale and Color Wheel.  I love doing hands on assignments because it is a lot more fun and I never get a chance to do something like that for other classes.  I didn't have a problem with the color wheel at all, but I did have a little trouble with the value scale.  It was hard blending it and making it look like it gradually went from dark to light.  I had to use the eraser a few times to try to make it seem like a more gradual transition.  Overall, it wasn't too bad and I enjoyed this assignment very much.

2. Which media did you enjoy working with the best and why?

The medium I enjoyed the most was the acrylic paint.  I liked mixing the paints and seeing the colors they made.  It reminded me of when I was in elementary school and first learning about how colors blended to make new colors.  It was a lot easier to make the color wheel rather the value scale.  As long as you put equal parts of each paint to come up with the secondary colors, you couldn't mess it up.  

3. What was the most important discovery in the creation of these studies?

The most important discovery in the creation of these studies was how the primary colors created black!  I honestly always thought when mixing them you came up with a muddy brown.  I was just telling someone there is no way this is going to make black, this makes no sense; and sure enough I was proven wrong!  

4. What is the most important information you learned from watching the videos for this project? What is your opinion of the videos?

The most important information I learned from watching the videos for the projects was what the true primary colors are.  Of course I always had thought they were red, yellow and blue.  I was shocked to find that the true primary colors were yellow, magenta and cyan.  I thought these videos were very helpful in showing not only what a value scale and color wheel look like but how to actually make them.  Also for the color wheel video, I like how it showed the difference between the true primary colors and the false ones.  I was able to understand and see how the one grouping created brown and the other grouping created black.