Color Wheel Project

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Not Another Boring Color

Wheel Painting

Glenn Brown, Spearmint Rhino, 2009


Oil on panel
76 1/2 x 102 1/2 inches (194 x 260 cm)

Arbitrary
Color- Color
that has no
realistic or
natural
relation to the
object that is
depicted
Ex: a blue
horse

Cactus Land, 2012 Oil on panel 66 15/16 x 55 7/8 inches (170 x 142 cm)

Go out into the courtyard!


Take a picture of something with interesting lines
and forms.
Try a strange angle or extreme close-up.
Think about composition.

Then
Use your picture for reference and
draw the contours on your paper
Paint the image using arbitrary color

Includes the 12 colors on the color


wheel
Includes tints and shades of each color
Mixes each color with a little bit of its
complement to get neutrals
Is based on a picture you take in the
courtyard
Incorporates arbitrary color

and+be
creative! mix with
ColorExperiment
+ Tint + Shade
Neutral(5:1
complement)
x 12 colors =
48 different colors in your painting!

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