First Sketchbook Assignmnets

Sketchbook Assignment #1: Good/Bad Color Mixing

• Experiment with mixing colors.
• So you don't overuse your gouache, mix using the technique we went over in class.
• No more than four colors can be mixed into each color you create.
• When you have a finished color, look at it and determine if it is a "good" color or a "bad" color.
• How you define these terms is up to you.
• You will occasionally come across colors you don't feel strongly about either way.  In those cases, classify it as "good" or "bad" arbitrarily.
• Create two charts in your sketchbook, one for "good" colors and one for "bad" colors.
• In each chart, create a column of squares, no less that 1"x1", on the left side of the page, leaving space between squares.
• Use as many sheets in the sketchbook as it takes to complete the assignment.
• Fill each square with a color that you have mixed and designated as "good" or "bad"
• To the right of each square, write down your "recipe" for that color.
• Include the names of each color used and the proportions of each.
• Continue until you have TWELVE GOOD COLORS and TWELVE BAD COLORS and their "recipes" entered into the sketchbook.
• 24 colors total.
• Materials:
• Gouache, all colors
• Sketchbook
• Water
• Round & flat brushes

Sketchbook Assignment #2: Color Mixing 1st Attempt

• Attempt to mix a color to match each of the colors I have on the sheet of watercolor paper I have given you.
• So you don't overuse your gouache, mix using the technique we went over in class.
• No more than four colors can be mixed into each color you create.
• Fill each empty circle next to a colored circle with what you mixed.

Due March 1 when you turn in your sketchbooks for midterm.

Color Terminology for January 23

• Hue – The name given to a color to describe its location on the color spectrum based upon its wavelength.
• Value – Th relative quality of lightness or darkness in a color.  The only structural aspect of color visible in a black and white photograph.
• Saturation – The relative purity of hue present in a color.  A highly saturated color vividly shows a strong presence of hue; conversely, low saturation refers to a weak hue presence.
• Luminosity – The amount of light reflected form the surface of a color.  Value is a measure of luminosity.
• Chromatic Gray – Subtle colors that result from considerably lowering the saturation level of prismatic colors.  Chromatic grays weakly exhibit the distinguishing quality of the hue family to which they belong.
• Achromatic Gray – Grays that are created by mixing black and white.  Achromatic grays have no evident coloration when seen against a white background.  Black and white are also achromatic.
• Muted Color – Rich but softened colors that reside on our color wheel between prismatic color and chromatic gray.
• Monochromatic – A color scheme based on one hue.  Monochromatic schemes can include a range of values and saturation levels and may also stretch the definition of one hue to include several different versions of it.
• Analogous Hues – Hues that lie adjacent to each other on the color wheel.
• Complementary Hues – Hues that lie directly opposite each other on the color  wheel.
• Grayscale – A graduated representation of the value continuum broken down into a finite number of steps, usually teen, eleven, or twelve achromatic grays.
• Saturation Continuum – A graphic representation of the infinite gradations of saturation that exist between any two complementary colors.