Color theory projects

Use this color wheel art project to teach color theory to your elementary students. Stop by for a free, easy step-by-step lesson.

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Have you ever heard of a three marker challenge? I'm not sure where the concept originated, but my daughter is ALL about the three marker color challenges lately. Essentially, we dump our markers into a big bowl, close our eyes, and randomly pull out three markers. Whatever colors you get are the ones you have

These projects began as a balanced, asymmetrical design using nonrepresentational geometric and organic shapes. Once the students from Port Huron Northern High School created their original design, they transferred it to a larger piece of paper four times to create a symmetrical design. From there the students painted each square using complementary, split complementary, analagous, and monochromatic color schemes. This project allowed the students to see how colors react with each other and…

Vocabulary: Form – In terms of art, form refers to objects that have length, width, and height. 3-Dimensional objects. Geometric Forms (Regular) – Forms that usually have a name associated with them, and are typically man-made. (examples: sphere, cube, py

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A free in depth 6 part lesson on Color Theory, applications and definitions by Artist and Teacher Sheri Doty.

Today's Class- Today we started a new graded project dealing with the idea of specific limited color palettes. While artists have traditionally painted realistic scenes by approximating the colors of nature, sometimes artists will purposely choose alternate approaches to color. We looked at a few dozen slides with examples of some of the common variations of limited palettes, then the class spent the day reproducing their chosen photos with different color schemes, as in the student examples…