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Colour Wheels

Hi this is Kik's journal all about arts, but my first project is about Colour Wheels and I will be giving you some information about it


Primary Colours

Red, yellow and blue
In traditional color theory, these are the 3 pigment colors that can not be mixed or formed by any combination of other colors.

Secondary Colours

Green, orange and purple. These are the colors formed by mixing the primary colors.


Tertiary Colours

Yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green and yellow-green.

These are the colors formed by mixing a primary and a secondary color. That's why the hue is a two word name, such as blue-green, red-violet, and yellow-orange.

Color Harmony

There are many theories for harmony. The following illustrations and descriptions present some basic formulas.

Analogous is one of the example. Analogous is a color that is neighbor in the color wheel. For an example: yellow and yellow-green is near by in the tertiary colour wheel.

Complementary colors are any two colors which are directly opposite each other, such as red and green and red-purple and yellow-green. In the illustration above, there are several variations of yellow-green in the leaves and several variations of red-purple in the orchid. These opposing colors create maximum contrast and maximum stability.

Practical Color Mixing Test Reflection

On the 18th, Wednesday during in art class we did a test on color theory. We did the test first then we had to do a practical color mixing test. I got a blue tone and I thought that it would be really hard because the school blue paint is not the same colour as the tone card. Then when I started to paint it, I did not get the right colour even I tried to mix all of paint on the table. I then realize that it was really hard to mix it. Later on, I tried and tried and still I did not get it. But then I got the darkest blue, the last tone color on the card.

But unlucky I did not keep the colour so I had to mix it again. But if I keep it I may have a chance to do all the tints, by adding white to it to make it lighter. It took me a long time but at the end I managed to have 2 correct out of 4. Mr Pat gave me 9 out of 10 for criterion B, which it is out of 10. I agree with the score that I got because I tried my best even if I got 2 correct. I am proud with the score even I only got 2 out of 4 tints, but I tried my best.

Well in that lesson I would say that most of the tone cards are hard to try to make that colour. But I think that the most hardest tone colour to make is green, the one that Kevin, Keith and Som got.

Color Wheel Reflection

In our art class we had a big project to do. It is about the colour wheel, it needs to have the information about the colours and the colour wheel. Then Mr. Pat our art teacher marked it and I got a really good score. He checked on the criterion a b c and d. My score for A is 8, B is 9, C is 8 and D is 8. Well A is out of 8, and b is out of 10, and C is out of 8, and D is out of 8. I am proud with my project because I worked hard on it and I put alot of effort into it. First I thought that it would be so hard but then it came out easy, which I have no problem doing it. Because some of the answers, I already know it.