Yurmby Color Wheel

Here's the Yurmby color wheel, approximately 12 x 12 inches in diameter. A valuable exercise in toning the colors on your palette. I used the primary colors on my existing palette including magenta and cyan. All you need to do is progressively add more gray to each color step as it approaches the center of the wheel. The middle value gray dot used in the center of the wheel is the same value gray I used to tone all the colors. Colors I used: Y=cadmium yellow pale, R=cadmium red, M=Permanent Magenta, B=French Ultramarine, C=cyan (manganese blue phthalo), and G=cyan+cad yellow pale. You will find that mixing your batches of paint with a palette knife is critical, you will build a sensitivity to how value alone affects color and you will also learn to be more organized when mixing batches of paint on your palette.

Here's a great website created by Richard Robinson and offers an interactive color wheel where you can create your own gamut masks in virtual reality!

http://www.livepaintinglessons.com/gamutmask.php