Module 4

1. Personally, I found creating the color wheel and value scale assigned to us in this week’s module very relaxing. Both a rewarding and educational experience. I think that it’s important to practice values and different types of color studies to truly understand art and where certain pigments and shadows come from. How types of light and saturation’s are born. 
2. I found that working with the paint medium, acrylic, to be my favorite out of either medium used in this assignment. I believe I was drawn to it not only because of its vivid colors, but also due to its mixture. Applying the paint was easy, and mixing the paint was both languid and peaceful. 
3. To me, the most important discovery I found in this lesson was the realization that red, blue, and yellow are not the primary colors. This is what I have always been taught in school. And having been through art college for almost 2 years now, I’m shocked that it’s never been pointed out to me before, even in my years of higher art education. 
4. To further discuss the videos, I want to go back to the point made that red, blue, and yellow are not the primary colors. But in reality, cyan, magenta, and yellow are the true primary colors. I almost didn’t believe it at first. I was skeptical about the source of this video and wasn’t sure if it was something I could believe as I had always thought red, blue, and yellow to be the true primary colors. I had been taught it all my life, and never challenged the idea of it. What made it factual for me, was watching cyan, magenta, and yellow being blended together to produce black. I had always been told that all the colors mixed together would produce black, but whenever I had done that before it always produced brown. I now realize it was because I was not using primary colors, but secondary. And I’m now a believer!