Finally! I finished my color wheel and, frankly, I’m surprised. I was just sure the red section needed redoing. Since the last time I posted a photo of the color wheel, I had to move over two of the greens and redo the purple.

Let there be colors!

I also had to correct a few other pages that will go in my color-mixing book. This page has red, yellow, blue (with just a little white mixed in), burnt sienna, viridian green, raw umber. I may have the burnt sienna and raw umber names mixed up. I’ll know when I put the labels on next time (I’m letting them dry before labeling them). The class sample has the structure as in this photo: three, two, one. But the first time I did it my instructor was off helping another student, so I decided to “improve” the page layout and ended up with two, two, and two. There was nothing in the instruction book that explained the layout, so I changed it. And then I had to go back and redo it.

Three, two, one

On this color-mixing guide, I had to redo the purple, just as I had to redo it on the color wheel. It looked okay when I first painted it, but when the instructor looked at it with me, it looked too brown. That’s why it’s a bigger slot than the others: I had to put more of the new purple to cover the one underneath. (It looks black in the photo, but in person, it looks purple.)

Primary colors mixed to produce secondary colors

The next assignment was to create nine tones of green, using different amounts of yellow with it. I’d like to say it’s finished, but my instructor hasn’t reviewed it yet. By now we all know how that might go, don’t we? I started with the lightest and worked my way to the darkest. The class sample doesn’t have the breaks between the tones, but that made it hard for me to see how the tones looked. I worked right-to-left on this page. I put the green glob on the canvas with the palette knife then spread it around with my fingers. I had green paint on my hands for days.

Green and more green