Part Two: Project Three – Stage Three Exercise 1.

 The adding of grey (Gouache paint) to nine other colours created slight changes in value.  The difference was not significant and more experiments with greater amounts of grey should be tried to show a wider range of shades and outcomes. The saturation of pure colour changes/decreases by tinting with more white, grey, black or a colour compliment.

 In the mixing of paints both water coloured and Gouache, the eye produced varying effects depending on what colours and the amount that is being experimented with – a deeper and more demanding study will obviously produce a better understanding of the theory and practice of the colour wheel  – it seems however that any subjective taste is not enough to produce an objectively correct colour judgement. There is a limit to just how much time one can spend on these experiments at this time.

I found it difficult to determine the values of warm and very bright colours accurately because their warmth and saturation get confused with their value – a warm colour that is saturated seems to be lighter in value because the saturation fools the eye. I need more practice. I have only scratched the surface in these exercises as their will be many other possible variations.