Midterm Project (Color Theory) - Self Portrait Mosaic

The title of the post basically explains on what we had to make for our color theory midterm. I first drew out (a really ugly) sketch of myself. I then added triangles and lines on my face, hair and background to create a mosaic. Once I finished doing that, I painted my mosaic according to the kind of person I am. I don't really know why I chose colors though... And for the background, we were allowed to use mixed media. So I chose to use images from the newspaper which had the color green. So below is the final product and the picture I am supposedly supposed to draw (it doesn't look similar at all)!

Epic fail!

Manual Eye Drop Tool

What we basically had to do for this task is pick up the main colors being seen in the image. Once we chose the colors, we paint it on a 200gr paper and cut it into any shape, as long as it's clear of course. 

For this first task, we had to use poster paint. The image I chose was pretty simple because the colors being seen are just shades of blue and brown. The photo was taken from my friend's flickr account!

For this task, we had to use watercolor paint, which was slightly more tricky. Not only that, we had to use a well known painting. I chose a painting by Georges-Pierre Seurat called A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (and I chose this painting because of The Office!). This one was a little hard because it turns out that this painting is made out of dots.

Color Wheel

We had our first color theory class on the 2nd of October and we learned about... burgers. Haha, we obviously learned about color! We just learned some basic stuff and we were told to make a color wheel.

Sorry for not posting 'before photos', I forgot to take them. This is the final product!

So what we had to do first was to make the outline of the color wheel using a compass, ruler, pencil and an arc. After that we painted in the primary colors first using poster paint. Afterwards, we got onto the secondary and tertiary colors.

It was actually really fun making this! Sadly I had a difficult time making it as neat as possible. I'm assuming that painting reflects who you are as a person (in this case you can probably tell that I'm somewhat sloppy). Oops.