The Colour Wheel

The Colour Wheel

A couple of lessons ago, we had to paint a colour wheel in order to learn about primary, secondary and tertiary colours, as well as tints and tones. In the first picture you can see that the wheel goes around in an order, primary, secondary, primary and so on. The second picture shows that the colours turn darker towards the centre of the wheel, and lighter or paler, towards the outside of the wheel. These are called tones and tints; tones being darker and tints being lighter.

Painting the Mask

Painting

Right now I'm halfway through painting the main part of the head of the mask. I have decided to stick with the original colour scheme, which is shown on the right. It's difficult to paint under and above the tentacles, where they meet the actual mask and to make sure that there is no space left without paint, especially between scales.

MOdElLiNg pAsTE

This lesson we used modelling clay to design the texture for our masks. I decided to do fish scales, so I needed to make it look like they overlapped each other. I did this by using my finger to smear the paste on the mask and a broken paddle-pop stick to create the scales. Once I am finished with the moddeling paste, I can begin to paint my mask.