Featured Artists: Abstract Color Wheel

Greer S.

                                           Cassie S.

Zoe A.

 

                                  Christina Y.

Jodi D.

                                                 Anna C.

Hailey G.

                                                Molly Y.

Derek Z.

                                         Patrick B.

Hannah F.

                                       Tristen F.

Color Unit

 We have spent the whole 2nd marking period on the Color Unit consisting of 3 color based lessons.

Color Mixing:  Students learned how to use the primary colors to mix secondary colors (orange, green, violet) and tertiary/intermediate colors (yellow-orange, red-orange, red-violet, blue-violet, blue-green, yellow-green).  Students also learned how to mix tints and shades of any color, as well as how to use complimentary colors and their intensities.

Abstract Color Wheel:  Students creatively designed an interesting expressive color wheel using their knowledge of color mixing to make all 12 colors of the color wheel (all primary, secondary, and tertiary colors).  Then students learned about value and used the drawing techniques hatching and cross-hatching to fill the background with different values of light and dark.

Color Scheme Painting:  For the final culminating project, students drew a symmetrical radial design and choose one of three color schemes they learning about during the previous two lessons to paint their design.  Students were able to choose a monochromatic, complimentary, or analogous color scheme for their final big painting.  This truly allowed students the opportunity to show off their color mixing skills by applying the previous knowledge they learned to mix colors specific to the color scheme they selected. (Theses are my examples I used in class: Outline, monochromatic, complimentary, and analogous).