A2: Proj3 Stage 3 Recording colours accurately - exercise 1

Assignment 2: Stage 3 Recording colours accurately - exercise 1

This exercise involved mixing colours—from page 62 of class notes:

You can dilute colours with white to obtain paler tints.

• You can mix colours with black, which will take the light out of them and make them
  much duller.
• You can mix colours with grey which will make them less intense.
• You can mix pure colours with their complementary colour to make all the darker,
  duller tones of a particular colour. It is often better to mix these darker in-between colours in this way rather than using black. Black seems to deaden colour, whereas colours toned down by their complementary seem to have much more life about them.mixing colours — watercolours
  I spent a while on this exercise.

  initially I used watercolours as this is all I had available to me at the time.

   

   

   

  mixing colours — guache
  then, later I repeated the exercise with gouche paints.

   

   

  for some of them I mixed the colours directly onto the paper: