Color theory projects

Yes, you saw that right. It's a Crafty Friday post! Since I'm teaching an art class on Friday to middle and high schoolers, I have to come ...

Okay, so I had NO idea that my painted gemstone project with my Art I, 9th grade students, would get so much attention. To say that I am surprised would be the understatement of the year. I started out by posting their results of their large scale gemstone paintings using tempera cakes (which are highly underrated in my opinion) in a few Facebook groups for art teachers and WHAMO! So, now free to anyone who wants it in my TPT store at…

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We invent monsters to work with COMPLEMENTARY colors. We draw and color four monsters with mixed technique, each monster must be colored with a pair of complementary colors: red-green, blue-orange,…

Okay, so I had NO idea that my painted gemstone project with my Art I, 9th grade students, would get so much attention. To say that I am surprised would be the understatement of the year. I started out by posting their results of their large scale gemstone paintings using tempera cakes (which are highly underrated in my opinion) in a few Facebook groups for art teachers and WHAMO! So, now free to anyone who wants it in my TPT store at…

This was one of my first lessons of the year. I didn't know this group of 6th graders so it provided a strong opportunity for any ability and type of learner. The students began by doing figure drawing exercises and drawing one another in poses. We also did a class project cutting out colors from magazine and working as a class to create these cool color wheels. I did this with all of my class at the beginning of the year. Students chose a pose to draw the silhouette of. Then they filled in…

By the time students get to high school, they either know the basics of color theory already or they move through the information pretty quickly. For this reason, I’m a huge advocate of getting rid of your color wheel lesson. There are so many more resources out there that give kids the same exposure. It’s […]

Lesson Objective: Study Josef Albers and Color Theory Apply knowledge to a still life of art supplies done in 9 different color sche...

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Today was all about color. Before class I assigned the girls a color to wear so they could sit at the table in the color wheel. So perfect that we have exactly 6 girls. The table isn't round, but they still got the "wheel" idea. :) As usual, these little sweeties took this idea and ran with it. At one point one of them said, "I sure hope Orange gets here soon!" From then on, they each were known as their color instead of their name. Then, when I asked what you got when you mixed yellow and…