Color Wheel: assignment 2

This is my Color Wheel Assignment 2

Natasha Keller
1 February 2010
Intro to Modeling and Post Production

Color Wheel

For our Intro to Modeling and Post Production class we were assigned our first big assignment. This assignment was assignment two. For this assignment we were asked to make a color wheel and color strips. We were to make the color wheel from picture/ photographic sources. We could either make it digitally or on a poster board. For the color wheel we had to find all the colors on the color wheel and make them from cutting out and gluing pictures either found in magazines or books or how ever else you can make them. We had to have twelve pure hues and for each hue we needed three different values. Then for the color strips we had to use complementary colors from the color wheel and have one at each end of the strip and meet in the middle as gray. Complimentary colors include Red and Cyan, blue and yellow, and green and magenta.

For my color wheel I decided to do an actual physical color wheel on a poster board. First I went to Walgreens and bought a white poster board and a thing of Elmer’s Glue. When I got home I drew a circle on my poster board in pencil that had an eighteen-inch diameter. The circle did not come out perfectly circular but it was all right. Then I got the circumference of the circle and calculated how many inches wide each color should be at the edge of the circle which came out to be about 4.7 inches for each color. Then I divided each color space into four sections. Then I labeled each spot with color with red on the top and green on the right and blue on the left.

After I had my color wheel divided up I went and got magazines. I found four of my sister’s magazines, which are all Seventeen Magazine, which was great for a color wheel because these magazines have many ranges of color because of all the clothes for teens. The four magazines I got were Seventeen Magazine March 2003, February 2008, October 2008, and November 2008. Then I started looking for colors. Whenever I found a color I wanted I ripped the whole page out from then magazine that way if there was more than one color I could use on the page I’d have it. I didn’t go in any particular order when making my colors, just when I found the color I used it. All the colors I used could be found in the magazines. A lot of the colors came from clothes and accessories in the magazines. Some came from adds and close articles in the theme of candy. When I found the color I needed I cut it out with scissors and glued it on with Elmer’s Glue. On my color wheel my colors went from the pure hues on the outside to white in the middle. My color wheel took a long time to make since it was so big and detailed. When I finished my color wheel I made my color strips. My color strips are on the right side of my color wheel on the poster board. I did red to cyan and yellow to blue vertical and underneath them I did green to magenta horizontal. For these I used colors found on all the pages I had ripped out from the magazines. For the strips I put each of the complimentary colors at an end of a strip and found colors starting from the pure hue and moving towards gray in the middle. For the strips the colors I cut were more jagged than the ones on the color wheel to bled them in and glued them on with Elmer’s Glue.

So in conclusion this was how I made my color wheel and my color strips in detail. A lot of work and creativity went into this color wheel. I was also very lucky to have my sister’s magazines with all the wonderful colors. And that’s how to make a color wheel with color strips on a poster board with four Seventeen Magazines.