Tip of the month – March, 2007
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Not everyone can picture color and color relationships without a visual tool. If I said that I would be using yellow, red, and blue to create a painting, the information would not be complete enough to visualize my intent. In your imagination you would see the image of your idea of what yellow, red, and blue are.
The first decision that I need to make is what kind of yellow would I choose. Would it be light or dark, warm or cool, dull or intense?
What kind of red would I choose?
There is a lot of choice in the blues, too. Which one would I choose?
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The color wheel is a visual tool which helps me to make these decisions.
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In my classes, I sometimes bring a large selection of my watercolor tubes. On a piece of white paper, I arrange them into two color wheels, one in the twelve color palette and the second one with a larger selection of colors.
On the second wheel, I place the extra colors into slots that make sense to me. I love color and I buy many varieties of each of the hues.
Colors which appear to be less intense are placed inside the color wheel close to the color of origin.
Using part of the color wheel, I have inserted colors between the major colors on the wheel. To the inside of the color wheel, I have placed colors that are not as pure as the chromatic colors. These colors have been placed close to the color from which they originate.
Take out your colors and create a color wheel with them. You will learn many things about your personal color choices and you may discover that there are some colors that are missing to make your palette more complete.
Other tip pages about the color wheel are:
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