This assignment required us to gather three shades of each color of the rainbow, and then to mix paint to create that same shade. After creating each shade, we needed to paint (from light to dark or vise versa, offset squares, which progressively get smaller of each color.
In the photo to the left, you can see the colors I gathered from the magazines and the ones I created to match them. Glare from light made some of the gathered colors appear a little differently, which is the cause of some difference. I wasn’t perfectly exact, but I did get pretty close to the actual color, which is why I believe this was a successful project for me.
The pink (light red) was created by adding white paint that is about half the size of the red paint. The medium red had just a touch of white mixed in; not much. The dark red contained sienna that was about a fourth the size of the red with just a touch of blue (barely an
The light orange was created by taking around the same size of sienna and yellow, and addding a very tiny bit of blue. The mediem orange is made from the same color as light orange, but with more sienna and a tiny bit more blue. The dark orange contained light red, red a small amount of sienna and blue for darkness, but only a tiny bit.
The light yellow was created by adding a lot of white to yellow. The medium yellow just adds a bit of white to yellow paint. The dark yellow is made up of sienna that is about half the size of the yellow paint.
The light green was created by adding a lot of yellow to green paint. To make the medium green, add a ton of sienna, a tiny bit of yeellow and white, and then very slowly, add blue until desired green is reached. The dark green contains around a fourth of green as turquiose, and a small amount of black.
The light blue was created by adding white that was about half the size of blue, then add just a touch of green (more if needed). The medium blue had just blue paint and adding white little by little un the desried blue is reached. The dark blue was made up of blue with a little black.
The light purple is created by adding white that is about half the size of magenta, then adding more if needed. The medium purple contains about the same size of magenta and violet. The dark purple is made from black that is about a third the size of violet, with a small amount of magenta.
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