Coyotebreaks
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Colour wheels done with watercolour paper and a selection of six (Sol yellow, Aldebaran red, Antares red, Tesla blue/Mediterranean blue, Violet, Irati green) SC75 colours:
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On the second try, I corrected a bit the gradations between yellow and red. Discovered that Mars Orange is a bit more desaturated than the mix of Aldebaran Red and Sol Yellow. I also changed the Tesla blue for the Mediterranean blue, so the colours at 7, 8 and 9 o'clock are a bit different on the second wheel and seem more in accordance to what the book says, although the mediterranean blue seems to have a bit of white in it.
Also discovered that Tesla blue is much more transparent than it seems, having problems to cover well the three types of paper on which I tried it.
Also tested by myself that the mix between violet and Aldebaran red produces a "muddy" violet-red, whilst the mix between Antares red and violet produces a bit nicer Violet-red, supposedly for the orange contents in the Aldebaran.
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Before the colour wheels I had "fun" mixing 8 colours (Same as above plus mars orange and flat black) from the SC75 colour range and produced the following colour swatch chart, were the diagonal is the pure colour, the rows have 80% of their colour and the columns have 20% of their colour. So you can check the difference between 80%tesla blue and 20% sol yellow (1st column, 6th row) compared to 80% sol and 20% tesla blue (6th column, first row)
Pitty that I used a high weight SATIN paper that gave some very brushstrokes "problems" and not the nice watercolour paper that I used for the colour wheels
On the other hand the satin paper let me better evaluate the opacity of the colours. ^^'
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awesome, I was just thinking about asking if anyone knew what scale 75 colours would be closest to the primaries and tertiaries , as I am planning on getting more deeply into colour theory .
This post has answered many questions, cheers
