Make your own color wheel using paints.
Introductory classes in fashion design, painting and other visual arts often include color-theory tutorials. Creating a color wheel teaches students mix primary colors (red, blue and yellow) to make secondary colors (orange, green and purple). Artists can later refer to their color wheel when mixing colors for more advanced art projects.
Instructions
1. Draw a large circle on a sheet of fabric.
2. Draw a smaller circle inside the larger circle.
3. Draw lines to divide the smaller circle into three equal parts, as if you were dividing a pie.
4. Draw lines around the space between the large circle and the small circle to divide it into six equal sections.
5. Fill the top (first) section with yellow dye. Going clockwise from the top, fill the third section with blue dye, and the fifth section with red dye. Fill only the space between the large circle and the smaller circle.
6. Mix yellow and blue dye in a small container to make green. Paint green dye in the section between the yellow and blue on the color wheel. Mix blue and red to make purple, and fill the section between red and blue with purple dye. Mix yellow and red to make orange, and fill the section between yellow and red with orange dye.
7. Look at the color wheel. The colors opposite each other on the color wheel are your complementary colors. Yellow and purple, orange and blue, and green and red are all complementary colors.
8. Mix yellow and purple dye in a small container to make a greyish brown tone. Paint this color in the section of the smaller circle that aligns with your yellow and purple dye. Mix green and red together to create a burgundy tone. Paint this in the section that aligns with red and green on the color wheel. Mix blue and orange together to create a greyish teal tone. Paint this color in the section aligning with blue and orange on the color wheel.
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