Art Making Project 1

While creating the value scale it was interesting trying to stay inside the boxes while shading. Usually, shading can be messy while creating your artwork so it was different for me trying to casually stay neat and inside the each box. Also, after I took the photo of my value scale I thought that my scale looked much better because I could see the difference from black to white. For my color wheel I used chalk pastels because I do not like to use acrylic paint for a medium and I did not have the colors I needed. I did not anticipate that I would be able to depict the colors in my wheel for secondary colors but it actually came out better. I was actually able to mix the colors to get green and magenta. I did have a separate sheet of paper that I was testing the colors on before drawing it on my wheel because it depended on the way I was holding the chalk pastel or how hard I pressed with it for the colors to come out correctly. But, I enjoyed working with the chalk pastels best because you never know how your artwork can turn out with blending, pressing firmly, or erasing. I thought the videos were self-explanatory for the color wheel and value set; although the explanation about the way you hold your pencil is important in shading. But overall, I enjoyed creating both the value scale and color wheel using pencil and chalk pastel mediums.

Value Scale

Color Wheel