Colour Workshops

Acrylic paint

Here we were using the colour wheel to explore different shades of colours. From the page at the bottom you can see that different colours fall on different places on the wheel. The sheet above was the work we did on colour bias. Basically, we used  colours such as French ultramarie and Cerulium blue on the top (the tube colour) and then added white underneath (tint to see the undertone). 

Here we mixed colours both by aligning the bias and by crossing the colour wheel. We found that by aligning the bias the colours produced were a lot more vibrant and had a stronger hue. Whereas, when crossing the colour wheel the outcome was a duller, less saturated colour.  

The aim of this was explore tone and try to get the tone the same as the colours already on the sheets, only using the three primary colours.

From what we had learnt about trying to match tone we then tried copying a picture of some lemons. We were only to use 3 colours: yellow, white and a mix of ultramarine and crimson red. It was more about matching tone rather than getting the colours exactly the same. Also, it helped to us to look for all of the different tones within a picture ( ie, it's not all exactly the same!)