For the final few weeks of the Art Class in Term 4 2023, I thought we could take a basic look at colour harmony.

To that effect, I found an interesting video on YouTube showing some interesting stuff on colour harmony. In this video called "Understanding Color" by a bloke called the "Blender Guru" , he goes through a few different ways to use a colour wheel.  He just uses sections of the colour wheel to explaining how Artists used a "limited palette" to create their artworks. Looking at some of the simpler examples, I thought we could give them a try ?

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Some of the video covers some more complex ways to address the colour wheel.  He speaks about using sections of the colour wheel often referred to as Gamut Masks like monochromatic, analogous, triadic, complementary, split complementary, double complementary.  Confused ?  Don't worry because I copied the part of the video with the simpler examples, so you don't have to watch the whole video,...  Or try to understand the more complicated masks. From there, I did some screen dumps of the simpler images this bloke used, thinking you could print them out and try them during the end of year break.

Here's the images, with the section of the colour wheel he used, so you have a quick reference of what parts he used.

When you are doing this, don't just confine yourself to one colour, like one yellow. 

To create the gradients in each section you will notice that the colour flows from a light shade on the inside of the colour wheel, to darker shades as it goes to the outside of the colour wheel.

To achieve this, you will need to check your paints for different shades of the one colour (hue). 

For example, look for a light yellow, a middle tone/value yellow and a dark tone/value yellow.
Do the same for the blues, reds, greens, etc..

When you're mixing secondary colours (greens, oranges and violets) you may need to increase one of the primary colours to get to the darks of that colour.

You can also make your mixes weaker (a lot of water/less pigment) for lights, and stronger (more pigment/less water) for the darker values. 

Here are some of the easier images from the short video clip I made,...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you want to try the other (more complicated) images in the video, you can try doing screen dumps,...