Color Chart

Art 105: 2-Dimensional Design  

Professor: Kyle Stevenson

Due: Thursday, November 15

Project 5 (Part A):  COLOR (Mixing paint to understand the basics of color including value, hues, tints, and shades.)

MATERIALS :

Oil Paints: ivory black, titanium white, cadmium red (hue), cobalt blue (hue), cadmium yellow (hue)

Water Color Paper for swatches.

Turpenoid (Turpentine substitute)
            Liquin (oil based medium/dryer), 4 oz. bottle

1- Illustration board (Hot Press)

Comes in a pack of 2 (15”x20”) or 1 (20”x 30”-can be cut into 2 pieces)

            Rubber Cement or Glue Stick

            Scissors and Exacto Knife

Disposable Palette pad

Palette knife: bent shank (plastic or metal)

Circle Template

            Ruler
            Graphite Pencils

INSTRUCTIONS:
First, Measure and Split your illustration board vertically so you have 2 10”tall x 15”wide sections (divide with light graphite line):
Next, make 5 (1” tall x 9” wide) horizontal strips broken down into 1 “ square increments. (see diagram) 
The first row will be nine steps of grayscale value.
(white to black)

The next three rows will show steps of tints and shades with primary colors.
(white - primary - black)

 And the last row will show your choice of one complimentary mixture.
(blue-orange, red-green, or yellow-purple)

Using the supplied oil paints on water color paper go through the following steps:
1. Grayscale:
Starting with pure white, slowly add small equal increments of black to make steps of subtle gradation until you reach pure black. 

2. Primary tints and shades: (3 different sets Red, Yellow, and Blue)
Start by making a 4” swatch of the primary color you will be using first without any mixing, this will be your pure swatch of local color.

Next, beginning with pure white, slowly add small equal increments of a primary color to make steps of subtle gradation until you reach pure local color, at this point begin adding small equal increments of black until you reach pure black.
Finally, continue the same procedures for the other 2 primaries.

3. Complimentary Mixture:

Start by mixing equal* amounts of the three different possible pairings of primary colors (Red with Blue, Blue with Yellow, and Red with Yellow).  Make a 2 inch swatch of each of the results.  You should get a second set of colors, called secondary colors, which are Orange, Green, and Violet [Purple].

Next, choose one complimentary pair (Red/Green, Blue/Orange, Yellow/Violet) .  Begin with one of the secondary colors and slowly add small equal increments of the complimentary primary color to make steps of subtle gradation until you get back to pure local color.

4. Drying and Arranging:
We will let our paints dry overnight (you may stash them here) and will resume cutting out our color swatches in the next class period.  In the meantime you can start laying out your illustration board.  Follow the directions on the following diagram and lightly center and sketch in where you paste in your cut out swatches.  Remember to always start measuring from the center so your borders are of equal spacing.  Also, think about incorporating text to label the diagram.  Try your best to make it neat, legible and interesting.   Start lightly in graphite and finish by inking your final text in.

           

*Actually, because of the differences in the tinting strength of the different (imperfect) pigments, you’ll need to experiment a bit to find the right mixing percentages of each color to affect a new secondary color that appears to be exactly between the parent colors.