Colour System Experiment

This experiment explores how to represent the full spectrum of colour. I've got the three primaries and two secondaries (didn't have a purple pastel on me) in their full, pure hues. Then on one side I have a black bar blending into the hues and on the other side a white bar blending. This is sort of like a colour diagram... The hue runs from top to bottom and the tint/shade runs from left to right.

Colour Wheels

Below are two colour wheels I created, the first using chalk pastel and the second using water colour. You can see that the two mediums give quite different results. They were all done simply by mixing the primary colours (no premixed greens, oranges or purples were used). I found it quite challenging to mix the colours accurately, especially with the chalk pastels which are very hard to blend smoothly!