Before artists are ready to paint, they must become comfortable with mixing colors so that they can trust themselves to always create the exact colors that they want or need. By drawing a color wheel and filling it in with the spectrum of colors, this artist creates a sort of visual blueprint for herself. This will be used as a reference for how she can create secondary and tertiary colors from the three primary colors of red, yellow and blue.
Working from her drawn blueprint, the artist is comfortable as she starts to blend paints. The more practice that she has with mixing colors, the more control she will have over purposefully deciding how to make those colors, and the less likely she is to become frustrated when performing such a task. Building these skills leads to increased confidence and skill building in other areas, which allows the artist to continue to take risks and learn on her own by actively engaging.
After producing a variety of colors that please her, the artist experiments with them all. She first creates a Spring-themed painting, based on the variation of hues and tones in her mostly pastel palette.
Continuing with that theme, the artist uses a smaller piece of paper to hone in on contrast and focus on how different colored brushstrokes looked on top of and next to each other. This miniature piece serves as an example of how the artist can use her paints a bit more playfully.
The final pieces show the artist's ability to fill in space on the page as she discovers various techniques and color combinations. Possibilities are endless when mixing colors, and a paint palette can become a fun learning experience each and every time that primary colors are introduced.
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