Exploring Value and Subtractive Color Theory

The idea of subtractive color theory is something I am very familiar with, and I'm sure something that people have learned over and over again since elementary school. I thought this was a simple task, but one can always learn new things through repetition. Even though I have done value scales in the past, they can always be a challenge to get just the right gradation from one level to the next. It took some addition and subtraction of charcoal to get just the right values. I enjoyed working with paint because of its fluid nature and because I love mixing and experimenting with colors. One thing that I learned when doing this is that you must have cyan to make just the right color wheel, because I only had phthalo blue and this made my purple come out too dark. I I learned that certain kinds of paper, such as vellum can be more receptive to graphite and you want to used a blunt tip of the pencil instead of a sharpened tip to make flowing and even passages. I thought both of these videos were very informative to the process.