1. For someone who has probably not really done anything artistic like on paper for a while I found these exercises interesting and enlightening as well as a bit difficult. These exercises gave me a greater appreciation of artists and envious of those who have a natural ability to easily complete these tasks. The value scale was challenging in that the book illustrated nine steps, the video eleven steps and the assignment ten steps. Looking back you could probably continue making steps until the pencil was gone.
2. I enjoyed working with the acrylic paint better because once I got into it and experimented I found it a bit easier than shading a pencil. Working with the paint I was able to experiment more with mixing the colors on a palette and trying to get the colors right before actually completing the color wheel.
3. I discovered how values could be created with using a pencil as well as paint. With the paints it was interesting to see how a dab more or less gave a different shade, tint or in some cases a color that I wasn’t expecting.
4. From the videos the most important information I learned was that based on the balance theory the primary colors are cyan, magenta and yellow and not red, blue and green. I thought the videos were helpful and to the point. They were short enough so it was made easier to watch several times to get the steps down before completing the exercises.
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