The artful field journal: The Amazing Double Primary Color Wheel

materials list

• Please print out the “Color Wheel Template” before our class. This is important! Find it here, below this list. Save and print with Portrait setting. (You can also access the template by clicking here.)

• A sketchbook, journal, or watercolor paper at least 8.5 x 11 inches. It is recommended to use a journal that opens flat, with pages thick enough for watercolors or to use a single sheet of watercolor paper.

• No. 2 or HB pencil

• A 1-quart yogurt container lid (or a compass)

• Any type of watercolor brushes. A No. 4 or 6 round (or a “water brush”) are recommended.

• Palette for color mixing. This can be a plastic lettuce bin lid, a paper plate covered with saran wrap, a china plate, or a traditional paint palette, if you have one.

• Water container filled with water for painting

• Paper towels or rags

• One push pin or thumb tack

• Any type of paint. Tube watercolors are recommended, but any type of watercolors, tempera, acrylics, or colored inks, can all work. What is VERY important is that you have these six specific colors to create your color wheel (we will go over how to identify these colors at the beginning of our class):

1. Quinacridone rose, quinacridone pink, or permanent rose (purple-biased red)
2. Cadmium red or pyrrol scarlet (orange-biased red)
3. Ultramarine blue (purple-biased blue)
4. Phthalo blue, or manganese blue, or cerulean blue (green-biased blue)
5. Lemon yellow, or cadmium yellow pale, or hansa yellow light (green-biased yellow)
6. Hansa yellow deep or cadmium yellow deep (orange-biased yellow)