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Project Description
Color Mixing project to develop an understanding of color attributes and palettes, terminology, Paint application techniques, and sensitivity to Color Contrasts and Progressions (gradation) in creative designs.
Project Overview
Problem: Create a Color Wheel that represents exact primary, secondary, & tertiary colors.
Materials: Sketchbook, pencils, Bristol Board 11″ x 14″/Color Pencils/ Gouache Paint ONLY, brushes, palette, rags, water container, scissors, exacto knife, ruler/t-square, glue/adhesive.
Concepts: Hue, Saturation, Pure/Prismatic Color, Muted Color, Desaturated/Chromatic Gray, Achromatic Gray, Luminosity, Primary Colors, Secondary Colors, Complementary Colors, Warm, Cool, CMY, RGB, RYB color models/systems.
Technical Skills: painting techniques, draughtsmanship with ruler/t-square, & exacto knife
Outcomes:
- Ability to recognize and define major color properties: hue, value and saturation (chroma)
- Ability to see individual hue in terms of its value and saturation, in relation to other hues.
- Recognition of Temperature in color palettes. Use Nature and memory as inspiration to guide you.
- Ability to determine and utilize color palettes: monochrome, analogous, warm/cool, complementary, triads (primary, secondary) etc. using CMYK and RGB systems
- Comfortable with paint mixing, paint application, formatting pages, and using rulers and tape for edges.
1. Discover
- Research Color wheels, Bauhaus Color theory, including Paul Klee, Albers and Itten
- Color Background. Color Wheels
- Primary Colors, Secondary Colors, and Tertiary Colors
- RGB lights combine to make white & CMYK inks combine to create black.
2. Define
- Color Wheel: A visual spectrum of colors that represents their relationship to one another. It has green categories as listed below
- Primary Colors: Red, Blue, Yellow
- Secondary Colors: Orange, Green, Purple
- Tertiary Colors: Amber, Magenta, Violet, Teal, Chartreuse, & Vermilion
3. Develop
- In-Class Activity: On Sketches, Use colored pencils to make a color wheel.
- On Bristol Paper 11″ x 14″; Create inter section on paper and create 16 Squares. Only 4 Squares are 1.5″ x 1.5″ squares. All other squares are 1″ x 1″ square. Please take a look at the color wheel image below as an example.
- Use Gouache paint ONLY: here is the link to set of 6
- For Primary Colors: Paint primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) first on the color wheel
- For Secondary Colors: Mix red + blue = purple, yellow + blue = green, & yellow + red = orange
- Use a Palette knife to blend several mixtures before painting onto the grid.
Ruler measurements with decimals and fractions.
- Use Colors from Illustrator: Primary Red, Primary Yellow, and Primary Blue
- For Tertiary Colors: Mix Primary and Secondary colors;
- Find the Correct shade: yellow + orange, orange + red
- Find the Correct shade: red + purple, purple + blue
- Find the Correct shade: blue + green, yellow + green
- For Tertiary Colors: Mix Primary and Secondary colors;
