I couldn’t wait to make one of these and will be doing the next color combo right after I post this.  The most challenging part of it for me was making the green and the orange. I also realized that I have new glasses with filters on the lenses and they tint everything with yellow. Great for the computer, not so good for working with colors. The colors I chose for the first mandala:

- Hansa Yellow Medium

- Quin Rose 

- Ultramarine Blue

 

MANDALA COLOR WHEEL 2

I may upload a better image tomorrow as daylight would help make the colors more like what they are. I had a heck of a time with this one! I kept misjudging the thickness of the pigment and so it was just too thick for some colors. Also, the yellow (Quin gold) is so far over toward orange that I had a hard time distinguishing the yellow from the oranges - which were a whole other challenge to mix!

Colors I used: Quin Gold, Phthalo Blue (green shade), Pyrrol Scarlet

 

 MANDALA COLOR WHEEL 3

Colors used: Azo Yellow - cool, Alizarin Crimson - cool, Ultramarine Blue - warm

I am more fascinated by this exercise with each one I do. Comparing the first and third has gained me a glimmer of light about the differences - I’m further along the path to understanding. I also see the genius in how the wheel is set up.

Oh, I have taken note of pigment concentrations before I paint and using puddle pulling to create more even washes. There is a big difference in 3 and 4. The 8” diameter of these circles is beautiful to look at but I am considering making them smaller.

 

04042020: MANDALA COLOR WHEEL #4

Lemon Yellow, Indanthrene Blue, Quin Rose 

Hmmm. The colors look bleached out in this photo. Oh well, you get the idea! I actually had another one mostly done when I realized I made a mistake in where I put a color. : (

 

ADDITIONAL COLOR EXPLORATION

This isn’t a color wheel! I am going to upload it anyway as it was part of how I decided on the colors to choose. I gathered all of the blue and yellow tubes I have and made color swatches. I wanted to understand what colors I had and how they related to one another in warm/cool aspect. Then I got really curious about one blue (used in the color wheel) as it related to all the different yellows I had. It occurred to me after I was done that it would have been even more insightful if I had tried to mix a similar green for all of them. Next, the reds...