Module 4

Discuss what you thought about creating the Value Scale and Color Wheel.

I found that creating the Value Scale and the Color Wheel allowed me to truly experience what I saw in the videos and both creations were a lot more difficult than I thought! I has a lot of trouble using the charcoal pencil in order to create steps 3-8 on the value scale. When I tried to apply the charcoal it was difficult to control the value when it was slight. I attempted to smudge the pencil to lighten some of the values but I feel it did not work entirely. 

The color wheel was another learning experience. This experience was only difficult because the first set of paints that I purchased looked like the Cyan and Magenta but ended up being the primary blue and red. I did the color wheel with these primary colors and then went back to the store to purchase the Cyan and Magenta. The photos attached include both color wheels. 

I definitely enjoyed working with the acrylic paints better. I liked the thickness of the paint and I enjoyed the way the paint went on the paper rather smooth and richly. Mixing the colors was actually fun. I think that I would enjoy trying more acrylic painting. 

I think that the most important discovery that I made in this activity was the truth about the primary colors of red and blue being too dark in comparison the cyan and magenta when combining them. I learned this through a trial and error.

I enjoyed watching the videos because they gave me a visual guide on how to create these experiments. Without the videos an in experienced artist like myself would have been very confused through the process. The videos were an important part of the content included.