Radial Symmetrical Color Scheme Painting

 

We began by folding a square piece of paper into a rectangle, then back into a smaller square, and finally into a triangle.  Then the symmetrical radial design begins with drawing four basic lines with black crayon, not too complex but not too boring either, this is one eighth of the design.

Next we unfold the paper back to the smaller square and fold it backwards "smooshing" the crayon lines in the middle.  Then we rubbed a pencil very hard over the whole surface.  This transfers the crayon lines from the first triangle to the other.  To finish this step, we traced the faint lines with the crayon, now we have one quarter of the design completed.

Now we repeat this process of folding over and smooshing the crayon lines again.  This time from one quarter to another quarter.  After rubbing we retraced the faint lines again, now we have one half of the design.

To finish the design, we then folded it backwards one last time to transfer one half to the other half, giving us our completed radial symmetrical design.  Radial designs are based on the circle.  You can see, even though these are one a square piece of paper, it still very much has a circular eye movement to the design.  Creating the design in this way also allows us to create perfect symmetry.

Next, we selected a color scheme.  The choices were either analogous or complementary.  Above is an example of the complementary intensity color scheme.  Complementary colors are across from each other on the color wheel (red/green, orange/blue, yellow/violet).  For this color scheme, we could use the two colors on their own as well as mixing them together to get different intensities.

Above is an example of the analogous color scheme.  The analogous color scheme is three colors in a row on the color wheel, here we see blue, blue-green, and green.  This also demonstrates the final step which is to retrace the black outlines.  If you notice, the bottom has much darker solid black outlines.  Imagine how good these will look once they are finished!!!