Week 5: Color wheel, monochromatic value scale, and complementary color mixing

1. Create a 12-step color wheel with two rings. The outer ring will be the pure hue, the inner ring will be the tint of each hue (ignore the tone and shade)

2. Create a 5-step monochromatic value scale in equal steps. Place the pure color in the middle. Mix it with increasing amounts of white to create two tints to the left and with increasing amounts of black to create two shades to the right.

3. Create a 5-step complementary color scale that slowly combines two complementary colors. Begin by putting the two complementary colors on the end squares. The middle square should be an equal mixing of the two, the 2nd and 4th squares should show more of the color next to it on the end.

You will be graded on:

Technique/Craftsmanship: (neatly painted, each paint applied opaquely) Understanding of concept of assignment: (Each exercise shows even

steps between colors) Experimentation/ Idea development: (good use of class time)

PAINTING ABSTRACTION

While working with the colors, create 4-5 painted pieces of paper to use up your leftover paint. Experiment with keeping the paint opaque, adding water to thin it, layering colors, scumbling with a dry brush, dabbing colors, creating lines, shapes, textures, etc.

Think about composition as you do this—how can you move our eye around the paper? Where can you add variety and emphasis through color, shape, mark-making? Where can you add darks and lights?

Think about emotions, sensations, or actions you can express through the colors and mark-making: joy, anxiety, fear, sadness, hope, anger, frustration, order, dissolving, rising, falling, etc.

Try to make paintings that show these different color schemes:

1 mainly monochromatic (one color plus white and black)1 with mainly analogous colors1 with mainly complementary colors1 with your own color choices

We will be using most of these papers in a later class for a collage.

Inspirational artists: Joan Mitchell, Grace Hartigan, Richard Diebenkorn