Mixing Colors

These are some of my color swatches that I am mixing to create the 48 color Color Wheel for class. We are mixing the primary, secondary and tertiary colors, to get a total of 12, then adding white to make 12 tints, adding black to make 12 shades, adding the compliment to create 12 neutrals. What strikes me about mixing paints vs. dyes (which I have done a lot of in the past), is that the measuring is much more precise in my dyeing methods, and easier to reproduce the results. I suppose if I were mixing larger quantities of paints, I could figure out some formulas much like I do with my dyes, but for making the color swatches for this class, that won't really work.

Above, is a page out of my Dye Notebook, where I keep track of my dye formulas and fabric swatches. A few years ago, I did the 12 step color wheel with dyes, plus 12 tints and 12 shades, but I haven't done fabric samples using the compliment--which would be a fun experiment to do. The next time I get the dyes stuff out, I will have to try it.