Color Mixing Boot Camp

Students in Honors Painting practiced mixing colors for a real life object in order to gain practice with color mixing. 

  
First, students learned about complementary colors, tints and shades.  Next, each student chose a fruit or vegetable and began mixing a "local hue" that is an exact color match for an area on their object.  They then used that color to make many tints (lighter) and shades (darker) that could be useful for highlights and shadows on their object.  They also mixed any other colors that they saw within their object.  This amounted to an abstract painting of their object in colors. 



 

Finally, the students used those same hues, tints and shades they found to paint their object for 3 days, in order to make their object look realistic and 3-Dimensional.