Finished Color Wheel Projects

Here are just a fraction of the beautiful color wheel projects my students have completed.

Students are Finishing up the Color Wheel Project and Starting Drawing this Week!

Students are finishing their paintings, doing a written artist statement, and learning about Observational Drawing this week.  Stay tuned for a slide show with photos of fabulous student color wheel projects.

Off to a great start!!

I'm thrilled to be back in the art room!  We are already starting are color wheel project.  I am excited to see everyone's unique plans.  For my students who were out on Friday, we worked on sketching out an idea for the color wheel project.

Here is the assignment/color vocab sheet:

The Color Wheel Project Requirements

NOTE: 3 Total Color Schemes

·         A well-measured/divided colorwheel with all 12 primaries, secondaries, and tertiary colors in order

·         Your choice of subject matter that is school appropriate

·         2 additional color schemes which may include: Monochromatic (1 color+white and black), a black and white value scale, analogous (3-4 side by side colors on the color wheel), or complementary colors (opposites on the color wheel) other color scheme options are available if you speak to me about it.

In your sketchbook/on a separate piece of paper make a small sized planning sketch of what your large sized color wheel painting will look like.  Consider your subject matter—are you a sci-fi/fantasy person (how could you incorporate that), do you love nature? How could you incorporate that?  Do you love to shop? Are you a history buff?

Vocabulary that is helpful for the color wheel project.

Color Wheel-a chart that shows the relationship of different colors to each other.

Hue-another word for color

Primary colors-colors from which all other colors are made (red, blue, and yellow), 1^st colors, cannot be made from mixing other colors

Secondary colors-colors that are created from a pair of primary colors (green, orange, violet)

Tertiary colors (Intermediate Colors)-colors made from equal amounts of a pair of primary and secondary colors (red-violet, blue-violet, blue‐green, yellow‐green, yellow‐orange, red-orange)

Analogous colors-3-4 hues that are next to each other on the color wheel

Complementary colors-the colors opposite to each other on the color wheel: (red & green, blue & orange, yellow & violet).

Tint-a color plus white, also called pastels

Shade-a color plus black

Monochromatic-having one color (or using different tints and shades of the same color in an artwork)

Cool Colors-the hues on the green/blue/violet side of the color wheel

Warm Colors-the hues on the red/orange/yellow side of the color wheel

Value Scale-Black and white and different shades of gray

Neutral Colors-Black, white, grays, brown

And here are some examples:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRwIWmoywTcm3IePAXrv53IALLhTYplwM9wnbeyHJ8zRglmIi1STiFCNXtlBLU-BUces7PnlTWkK7wg/pub?start=true&loop=true&delayms=3000

Welcome Back!!

I'm so excited to meet my students and get some new art projects started!  It has been a fun and relaxing summer. 

Finishing Out The Year!!

Hard to believe we are in the last few weeks of school! Time is flying!  Right now, classes are working on 1 point perspective and eagerly awaiting their clay projects final glaze firing.
Here are some 1 pt perspective videos you can draw along with at home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb0YBT0dgzI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRrKohWdpeQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfilRUu8BMU

Fresh Art and Fresh Faces

Thank you for last semester's students who loaned me their oil pastel Georgia O'Keeffe inspired flowers and landscapes, or their Rousseau inspired fantasy forest, or their pet portraits.  I finally got some of their artwork on display outside of the art room.  It has been awesome to meet all of this semester's art students.  I look forward to getting to know you better and seeing what inspires you as we begin our color wheel projects.

I can't believe we are starting a new semester!!!

I'm so excited to meet all of my second semester students tomorrow!!

Here are the supplies you need:

Art Supply List; Required Supplies 

• Sketchbook (spiral bound will hold up the best, about 8x10inch or the size of a sheet of printer paper (9x12 is also ok)).  This should have 100 or more white pages for 7th and 8^thgraders.

• Sharpened Pencils (#2 pencils are fine, but I recommend a set of 4-6 graphite/drawing pencils with different hardness of pencils, ex: 4H, H, a 4B, and HB etc.)

• 4 Black Sharpies- 2 Fine Tip, 2 Extra (or ULTRA) Fine Tip

• Zipper Pouch (optional) or Mrs. Fallon can provide a Ziplock bag for you to put your name on it for your materials.

Useful but Optional Supplies  

• Apron or Smock (old shirt)
• Eraser—vinyl, plastic, gum, or pink pearl eraser—your choice 
• Sharpener—small hand held pencil sharpener 
• Colored Pencils/Marker Set—does not need to be a fancy set, but some students prefer to have a small basic set available for sketchbook assignments