Art Making/ Material Exploration

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

* Creating the Value Scale and Color Wheel was a great experience. The process brought me back to my childhood and made me feel like a kid again. It was interesting because I found myself very engaged in the projects, making sure every detail was as flawless as it can be. My favorite part was mixing the colors on the Color Wheel. These two projects were fairly simple and not time consuming at all.

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

* I enjoyed working with the paint. Although, I love to draw and creating lines was satisfying in itself, I had a great time using the different colors to learn about how primary and secondary colors work together. I liked watching the colors change as I mixed with my brush. 

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

* The most important discovery I made in the creation of these studies was how careful and patient I had to be while doing them. Taking measurements and making sure the pencil lead did not smudge was very important while creating the Value Scale. While creating the Color Wheel, it was crucial to mix the right colors (and clean the paint brush) and leave enough space between the mixture to show the correct combinations.

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 that I learned from the video on creating a value scale is how to properly sharpen the pencil. The video shows that using a knife or a box cutter to sharpen the pencil is more beneficial when shading in the values. The video also notes that special paper named vellum shows the different values more clearly because the texture of the paper is bumpy. The most important information that I learned from the video on creating the color wheel is that primary colors include cyan, magenta, and yellow and that they produce secondary colors which are red, green, and blue that combine to make black.

Value Scale

Subtractive Color Theory Color Wheel