ART EXPLORATION NO. 1

1. Discuss what you thought about creating the Value Scale and Color Wheel.
I had a lot of fun creating the Value Scale and the Color Wheel for this project! I have done similar projects before but it was a few years ago so it was really nice getting to do it again. The Value Scale had its difficulties when it came to the gradation and how to spread out the value. I noticed in the book that we were to refer to that the scale only contained 9 boxes and we were to create one with 10 so finding a spot for the extra square was interesting. I started the color wheel with the primary colors blue, yellow and red because I wanted to test the difference between those and the new primary colors of cyan, magenta, and yellow. To my surprise the new primaries worked so much better than the ones I had previously been using!

2. Which media did you enjoy working with the best and why?
I enjoyed working with the acrylic the best, mixing the colors- even though it took a couple attempts- was fun to create new ones from only three. I used pencil instead of charcoal for the value scale only because of the messiness of the charcoal and honestly I do not particularly love the feel charcoal has when using it.

3. What was the most important discovery in the creation of these studies?
I learned that I was wrong about the primary colors. Growing up I always thought they were blue, yellow and red and even had to test it out compared to the magenta, cyan and yellow that we were to use for this project. I was definitely surprised about this and thought it wasn't going to work. 

4. What is the most important information you learned from watching the videos for this project? What is your opinion of the videos?
The video was interesting because again I did not realize that I was wrong about the primary colors. I liked watching the video because at first I said to myself no that is not right. But upon watching it again and trying it myself I stood corrected. Slightly changing the primary colors made a huge difference on the result of the mixed outcome.