So color class today! It was freezing in the old church where the class was held.
Important things learned today were:
On Compliments (what you use to get shadow)
The compliment of any primary is the mixing of the other two primaries.
That may require a little explanation. If you have red - and you want to get the shadow color and you don't know what the compliment of red is - just mix the other two primaries together (blue and yellow) and there you have it - the compliment of red is green.
The compliment of a secondary color is the primary color left out.
To explain that further - secondary colors are green, violet and orange. If you want the secondary of say orange, you know that you mixed red and yellow together to get that color, so the primary that is left out is blue. So the compliment of orange is blue.
Puttitng it that way - breaking it down into very simplistic terms is extremely beneficial to me. Now I won't have to carry around my color wheel all the time!
We didn't paint a painting in class today - instead we practiced mixing colors. So I did this rather quickly when I got home to have something for today. I'm not very impressed with it, but a little orange does warm up a cold day. Ha!
