Color Wheel

Color Wheel Painting

Print out the color wheel template.

Painting a color wheel is a great way to learn how to mix colors. In addition to that - you will also create a perfect reference that you can use as a color guide.

The assignment has two parts:

Color wheel with shades, hues, tones, and tints of primary, secondary, and intermediate (tertiary) colors
Color value scale (tints, hues, and shades) of primary and secondary colors, plus brown scale and grey scale.

Part of the grade is your craftsmanship and painting inside the lines. Take your time!

Painting Hues

Primary Colors

There are 4 rings in your color wheel:

color shades (hue + Black)
hues
color tones (hue + Grey)
color tints (hue + White)

Paint three sections of the "hues" ring with primary colors. Make sure they are spaced evenly - having three sections in between.

There are 8 rows in the color value scale:

3 primary + 3 secondary colors
Grey
Brown

Paint the middle column of rows 1, 3, and 6 with primary colors.

Secondary Colors

In plastic cups mix 3 secondary colors: orange, purple, and green

Fill in the "hue" sections between the corresponding primary colors.

Always start with the lightest color, then add darker color (a little at a time):

To mix orange - start with yellow, add a little bit of red.
To mix purple - add blue into red.
To mix green - add blue into yellow

Intermediate (Tertiary) Colors

In plastic cups mix 6 intermediate colors. These are the colors that you get by mixing a primary and a secondary colors.

For example:

red-orange = red + orange
red-violet = red + purple
yellow-orange = yellow + orange
yellow-green = yellow + green
blue-green = blue + green
blue-violet = blue + purp

Mixing Neutrals

GREY

To mix Grey - add a little Black into White.

BROWN

To get Brown - you need to mix 2 colors that are opposite of each other on the color wheel (complementary color scheme).

In other words, you get Brown when you mix all 3 primary colors together. You just need to mix them in the right proportion.

Color Values

SHADES

To create a shade - add a little of Black to your color.

Colors have values.

Create 3 shades of each color by adding more black to your color

Complete the dark values (shades).

TONES

To create a tone - mix your color with Grey

TINTS

To create a tint - add your color to White.

Create 3 tints of each color by using more white paint

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