Painting Projects
Creative Color Wheel with Watercolor Paint
Watercolor wheel Template
-Make your project looks different and unique!
Use a 1/2 sheet of one of your mixed media papers given to you.
Choose ONE option for your Color Wheel:
1) More advanced/creative: Create a color wheel based on a theme. Then add small objects or things that illustrate that theme. Arrange all the objects in a circle. For example an ocean theme. Add fish, whales, dolphins, crabs, seaweed, coral and arrange them in a circle like the example below.
2) Draw out a large drawing that will include all the 12 hues in it.
Color Terms:
*Hue: the generic name of a color-pure color
*Tint: hue plus white
*Shade: hue plus black
1) Primary Colors: All other colors are mixed from these:
Red, Yellow, and Blue
2) Secondary Colors: These are made by mixing two primary colors.
· Green (Blue plus Yellow)
· Violet (Red plus Blue)
· Orange (Red plus Yellow)
3) Tertiary Colors: These are made by mixing one primary color with one secondary color next to it on the color wheel.
· Red-Orange (Red plus Orange)
· Red-Violet (Red plus Violet)
· Yellow-Orange (Yellow plus Orange)
· Yellow-Green (Yellow plus Green)
· Blue-Green (Blue plus Green)
· Blue-Violet (Blue plus Violet)
Requirements:
- include 12 pure hues
- include 12 tints by adding water. 1 tint for each hue/color.
- Include a minimum of 3 watercolor techniques from your Watercolor Chart
- Show you put time and effort into your artwork.
- Show excellent craftsmanship: attention to detail, all 12 pure colors are visible, 12 washes/tints of each color are visible, have an organized format, clean lines, purposeful brush strokes...