How to make this up- There are two parts to today's assignment.
Color Wheel On a sheet of your paper, use pencil to draw a large circle toward one end of the paper, leaving a few inches margin between the circle and the edge of the paper. Then do the following:
Primary colors- Draw 3 boxes along the rim of the circle, half inside the circle, half outside, equally spaced around the circle. Inside the boxes you'll paint the three primary colors- Red, Yellow, and Blue, one in each. Put the full strength color in the part of the box outside the circle, the color plus white on the inside. (in the above example, red is at 3:00, blue is at 7:00 and yellow is at 11:00)
Secondary colors- Draw 3 more boxes, equally spaced between the primary boxes. These will be for the secondary colors, equal mixes of the three primaries. Mix them using the same 3 shades you used for the first part, and as with the first part, use the full strength mix outside the circle, and the color plus white inside. Your secondaries should appear to be halfway between the source colors, not closer to either one. Make sure that the secondary colors are located between the primary colors used to make them. (in the above example, orange is at 1:00, violet is at 5:00, and green is at 9:00)
Intermediate colors- Draw 6 more boxes, spaced equally between the previous 6. These boxes can be smaller. Mix the tertiary colors, halfway between each primary and the adjacent secondaries. (red-orange, red-violet, blue-green, etc) You don't need to do the mixes with white this time, just the 6 colors. Like with the secondaries, try to mix colors halfway between the two, not closer to one or the other.
Complement Mix Every color around the color wheel has a complement, it's exact opposite, which is located directly across the wheel from it. Choose either red/green or blue/orange. In the remaining part of your paper, draw a row of 5 boxes, with 3 adjacent boxes centered beneath it. Put the full strength primary color in your pair (red in the above example) at one end of the row of 5, and the full strength secondary (green above) at the other end. In the third box mix an equal combination of the primary and secondary so that it doesn't look closer to either original color. Add white to it and put in the box directly below it. In the remaining boxes mix colors that have both complements, but more of the one that the box is closest to, and again add white and put that color in the box below. (in the above example, from left to right, green, green with a little red, equal amounts of green and red, red with a little green, and all red)
If all these directions are a little complicated, talk to me in class next week. This is a portfolio exercise, so you have until the end of the semester to finish it.
