Starting to create color charts.

I'm just getting started but I did finish my first color chart today:


It's the colors I mentioned in my previous posting with the secondary colors listed between them:

As listed from left to right on the top row:
1st column - Alizarin Crimson (primary)
2nd column - Alizarin Crimson + Cadmium Yellow Light (secondary)
3rd column - Cadmium Yellow Light (primary)
4th column - Cadmium Yellow Light + Ultramarine Blue (secondary)
5th column - Ultramarine Blue (primary)
6th column - Ultramarine Blue + Alizarin Crimson (secondary)

Each box below the top color is an increased mixture of white into the base color in the top box to reproduce 5 shades of each color.

Even though the results aren't perfect I did learn a good deal from this first chart. The biggest one is after doing the 3 primary colors I went to paint the 2nd column (orange) but I didn't clean my brush enough and there was a small amount of blue in the brush.... Ugh, blue and orange are opposite of each other on the color wheel:


Mixing colors from opposite sides of the color wheel will deaden the color and bring it closer to a gray. I only had a very little blue mixed in so it was very slight shift but as you can see the orange is leaning towards brown a bit.

I also found I need to work harder on making sure I get the correct color before laying it down on the canvas. For instance the first square below the Ultramarine Blue doesn't have enough white mixed in it. It's still too pure.

I'm happy enough with what I'm learning. I'm hoping to start on the next color chart soon. I'm going to lay out the top 6 boxes with the same primary and secondary colors but then start mixing in other colors into each chart. For instance, the next chart will be mixing the first color, Alizarin Crimson, into each color. Then another chart adding orange into each color. so on...

**James