A ride on Colour Wheels

Colour Wheel with a difference!
As the heading goes, we were given this task of making our own colour wheels with the materials available at home rather than painting with colours!

The most interesting part was thinking about the materials and spotting them, as yellow is my favourite colour, I guess finding yellow colour in any material, like in fabric, edible products or in nature was very easy but finding other colours of the same family in terms of texture, use or appearance was brainstorming. There were quite a few ideas of painting shades of sky or capturing them and putting into the wheel format, cutting the waste fabric or making a collage, keeping pulses and spices in the format.
And here I was with my first Colour Wheel with a difference!


COLOUR Wheel 1.0.

A Colourful Mess!

While I was preparing for the colour wheel, my mom got nostalgic and she said, " Seeing you with all these materials I am getting reminded of the scene when you were first doing water colour at the age of 6 or 7".


Behind the Scenes

After I thought of yellow to red, the first thing i noticed is the different green colour on either side of any leaf, especially in betle leef. The most challenging was magenta and blue.




This one i could see just when I had put ink to besan, shades of violet, purple and little bit of mauve was coming out.
I totally forgot about having potassium permanganate crystals at home which could have made my life easier.
I presumed that if i put lime to ink, it will turn to cobalt blue, but was amazed to see the mauve colour coming up!!!
And this time I was successful in making cobalt blue without using traditional paint colours!!
Yaaay!!!I mixed body powder with ink and it gave me the desired colour for the wheel to complete!
And its a Colourful mess!
This was the colour wheel after a day it was made!I was so unsatisfied with my colorful mess that I explored two more ideas which are better than this. This made me do three different type of colour wheel at one go within the day the assignment was introduced.
But it was fun to know how different daily use products behave with each other upon mixing.
With this, I noticed myself noticing each and every colour of my surrounding.

COLOUR Wheel 2.0.

Colours Attached
This is the most fun, satisfying and time taking colour wheel out of the three made like a thread art.
I took the whole night to make this as it was my first time working with threads. Also, because the pins were put on a uncompressed thermocol, at some places it was not stable.
i dipped a white thread in turmeric water slurry for the yellow thread as I didn't have that. Similarly, with mixing potassium permanganate crystals with sindoor got the orangish red and blue ink to a grey thread to get the prussian blue.







Please Click on the video to see a very short glimpse of while making the wheel 

https://youtu.be/dNNgsv08un0

COLOUR Wheel 3.0.
Rang Chakra 
This is the last one in the series of exploration done and in my opinion it goes with the saying, "sasta, sundar, tikaau".
I did it in just few minutes. So, here I see how i developed from a messy one to the minimalist one within 24 hrs.




I extend my gratitude towards Shekhar Da, Kuntal, Saurabh and Namrata for letting us drive in colour wheels and spread colours!!!


















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