Inventive Subtractive Color Wheel

This is my Inventive Subtractive Color Wheel. The wheel depicts the 12 colors of a standard subtractive color wheel and it offers a tint, tone, and shade for each respective color. A tint is the result of adding white to a color. Tones occur when grey is solely added to a color. A shade is a variant of a color that is made by adding black to the original color. Each color faces its complimentary color, which is on the opposing side of the color wheel. There are three primary colors (colors that cannot be made by mixing other colors; they are only their true color in their natural state) which are Red, Blue, and Yellow. There are also three secondary colors: Violet, Orange, and Green; colors made by mixing the primaries. Between the secondary and primary colors are tertiary colors, which are made by mixing two colors which are next to each other on the wheel. This interaction is clearly labeled on the wheel above as "Tertiary."

The color wheel is a balanced example of how color interacts as well as a demonstration of how it can blend. The concentric design serves to show that although separate, the transition in primary and secondary color can be united indeed.

-Brian Shafer

Inventive Linear Greyscale

The image above depicts an inventive linear greyscale. The values in the scale are depicted by spades and are labeled for clarity. Starting at the bottom of the image, at value scale # 10 (the highest and brightest value), represented by white, the values in the greyscale darken and dim as they head toward value scale # 0 (the lowest and darkest value), represented by black. Values are the subtle or extreme (depending on which values are being compared) differences between black and white. The differences between black and white were evaluated and the variants in value were turned into, and dubbed, a Linear Greyscale by Albert Munsell. My depiction of the scale is a spaced example of the classic greyscale bar Munsell is responsible for.

-Brian Shafer