Module 4 Value Scale and Color Wheel

Module 4 Questions

1.    Discuss what you thought about creating the Value Scale and Color Wheel.

I thought creating the Value Scale and the Color Wheel was interesting because I have never done either of these before, so it was cool doing it myself.

2.    Which media did you enjoy working with the best and why?

I enjoyed working with the Color Wheel more than the value scale because I enjoy working with color more than just black, white, and grey. I am not an art major but color paintings and just color interests me more.

3.    What was the most important discovery in the creation of these studies?

The most important discovery in the creation of these studies would be learning the relationships between the colors, and for the value scale it creates a focal point within a painting or a drawing, the light and dark help create illusion and depth.

4. What is the most important information you learned from watching the videos for this project? What is your opinion of the videos?

The most important information I have learned from the videos would be that the color wheel helps artists mix, determine, and select their colors. The value scale video helped explain the transition from light to dark, or vice versa. My opinion of the videos would be that they were helpful with showing me how to do the project, and were good tutorials of how to make the color wheel and a value scale, it helped me out pretty well. 

Module #3 Questions and Answers

1. Describe Color and it's effects on emotions. Use the appropriate vocabulary of color in your posting.

Color is the light that is reflected back at us, the color wheel is used in our everyday lives. It exposes your primary, secondary and tertiary colors meaning it explains how two colors can make a new color and how one color can stand by itself. Each color has its own unique characteristics. We use color to manipulate our perceptions. Colors can have significant meanings, for example people wear darker colors in the winter and light/bright colors in spring and summer, or red and green typically represents Christmas, or the colors representing the flags of countries. 

2. What is a theoretical aspect of color that most intrigues/fascinates you? Why? 

A theoretical aspect of color that fascinates me the most would be how you can use a color to bring out emotion. For example, if you were to paint or color something blue, you would get a sense of calmness or sadness, versus painting it orange or an brighter color it would give the illusion of happiness. I think it is interesting how colors can bring out emotions. 

3. In the Color video, what made the biggest impact on you in regards to color and it's effects on emotions?

What impacted me the most from the Color video was how she said she would think like she was 5 years old whenever she painted, when she is revising her painting she explains how she does not want her painting to look violent, she wanted  it to look more mysterious and soft. Certain colors would attract your attention more than others. The idea of bold colors to be used to express strong emotions. 

4. In the Feelings video, what made the biggest impact on you in regards to color and it's effects on emotions?

What impacted me the most from the Feelings video would be that we would speak to each other through objects, monuments and signs. We can express ourselves in ways other than talking; paintings, sculptures, pictures, etc.  Art it is a chance to open a door for new values and give us new ideas, and help us discover new things, it helps us be better than what we are now.