For this art piece, students were challenged to combine the use of color and imagery to express an emotion. Students learned about the analogous color scheme, which is three colors in a row on the color wheel. They discovered that when taking three colors in a row from the color wheel, they are often grouped together in ways that could show an emotion; for example blue, blue-violet, and violet would communicate sadness or red, re-orange, and orange would communicate anger. Students then decided how to draw imagery to showed that emotion; either through illustration or through shape and design. Once the imagery was drawn out, painting began. Below is an example of a "happy" emotional painting using the analogous color scheme yellow-orange, yellow, and yellow-green.
The final stage was to retrace all the outlines and add a few details to the illustration.
