In his book The Art of Color, Johannes Itten used the concept of the “color wheel”. The color wheel is a pretty useful gimmick for colorists and designers. It is also useful for a child at the first acquaintance with paints, colors and their shades. You can build such a circle yourself.
It is necessary
A sheet of paper, a protractor, a ruler, a compass, an eraser, gouache, a brush, a jar of water
Instructions
Step 1
Prepare a simple pencil, compass, ruler, paints, brush, palette and so on that you will need when working. Place a newspaper under a piece of paper to avoid staining the table. Using a compass, pencil and ruler, start drawing the color wheel.
Step 2
Using a compass, draw a circle of arbitrary radius on a sheet of paper, but so that it does not go beyond the boundaries of the sheet. If you don't have a compass, use a mug, cup, or any other object with a round plane instead. Next, inside the main circle, draw a circle with a radius of about half. Use the ruler in the inner circle to draw an inscribed equilateral triangle. From each side of the triangle, draw a midpoint perpendicular to the center of the triangle. This will divide the triangle into three equal parts. Then add a hexagon from this triangle. Divide the distance between the outer and inner circles into 12 equal sectors
Step 3
Use the protractor to construct the inscribed triangle, hexagon and 12 sectors. If you have no desire to do this, then print the template from the Internet. Now start filling the diagram with color. For work, it is better to choose gouache, it gives more accurate colors.
Step 4
Choose three colors - red, yellow, and blue - first-order colors (primary colors that cannot be obtained by mixing). With each color, color the three parts of the inscribed triangle and the sectors opposite them.
Step 5
Next, mixing these colors, gradually fill in the parts of the circle. Mixing blue and red colors, paint purple one of the vertices of the hexagon (located between these colors) and the sector opposite. Do the same, mixing red and yellow, then yellow and blue. Be sure to mix equally each color at 50 percent for true second order colors. Check the drawing, the sectors should be painted over one after another - yellow, empty, orange, empty, red, empty, and so on.
Step 6
Next, fill in the empty sectors of the circle with third-order colors. To do this, mix the 1st order color with the neighboring 2nd order color in equal proportions and apply paint. So, by mixing yellow and green, you get yellow-green. Or mix blue and purple for blue-violet. The color wheel is ready.
