Assignment 1

A World in Color  In this first assignment, students were asked to create a color wheel featuring the twelve primary, secondary and tertiary colors. This wheel was rendered on illustration board using a protractor and compass. For this project I worked with specific color formulas to make the best pure hue. Moving inward in the figure, the hues were tinted adding white. While in most cases the color grew duller, yellow specifically became brighter with the addition of white. Looking toward the outer layers of the figure, the colors were darkened by adding black. The goal was to have equal gradation moving from the inner most ring to the outer most ring. Similarly, each ring moving around the circle (traveling across hues) should have its own unique look. To illustrate, the inner loop consisted of the least intense color while the final ring on the outside was the darkest, most saturated. Final touches included painting the inner circle white and adding a middle grey tone to the background. 
    The most challenging aspect of this project was finding the right formula between the different pigments for gradating the cool hues. Because they are so dark to begin with, there is not a wide range from dark to light so making seven distinct rings proved difficult.  As shown in my wheel, the gradation for yellow has more distinctly different colors than that of violet. All in all, this was a good starting project that introduced me to the world of color. I found it very intriguing to learn how different colors consisted of diverse pigments that mix differently than they would according to color theory.