The 100-Color Challenge tested the paint mixing abilities of my un-artistic husband and I. Together we had to create 100 different colors, 50 of those using water-colors and the other 50 using tempera paint. When we started on this project I thought it would only take us about twenty minutes to figure out all the colors, but in the end it took us over an hour because we had to think of ways to mix only the primary colors and black and white to create all these colors. We started out with watercolors which actually ended up being the harder paints to mix into 50 colors because the colors changed when they dried, making it almost impossible to tell if some of the colors were different or not until after the colors had dried, slowing down the process immensely. The tempera paint was a lot easier and more fun to use and we ended up with a lot of different and fun colors that I would have never known about beforehand. If I were to do this differently I would make sure that before we started my husband knew that he could mix black and white to the primary colors because I found out half way through the watercolors that he hadn't realized that and that is why he was taking much longer than me to figure out a new color to paint!
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