Part two Building a visual vocabulary.

Stage 1 Introduction and preparation.

I started off by mixing the colour wheel and then moved on to mixing the tones and saturated colours. I found that I could mix a wider selection of colours with white than I could with the black as the black killed the colour quicker. Doing the colour mixing has help me focus on colour and the importance of getting the colour as accurate as possible.




Stage 2 Colour perception

Exercise 1

I found after doing this exercise that the smaller coloured squares shade changes, it would become duller or brighter depending on what coloured background it was on. If it was on its complementary colour, the line where the two colours meet zing.








Exercise 2

I found that the grey square did take on a shade of the complementary colour.

Stage 3 Recording colour accurately

Exercise 1

I used Acrylic and watercolour paints for this exercise. I set them out the same and tried to mix them as similar as possible to get a comparison of colour and how the different paint looks. I expected the watercolour to look softer than the acrylic, and found that it was easier to see the subtle differences in the colour mix with the watercolour.




Exercise 2

I really enjoyed doing this exercise mixing the correct colour, I really had to think and draw on what I had learnt from all the previous colour mixing exercises.