Color Wheel Assignment (this is a 3 part assignment)
Adopted form Rachel Robinson
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LEARNING GOALS FOR COLOR WHEEL ASSIGNMENT: (INSTRUCTIONS ARE BELOW THIS SECTION)
Why this assignment is important knowledge: Understanding the fundamentals of color is important for designing better web sites, posters, package design, and multimedia. You are also learning about how to create shapes that can be made in vector art that can be cut out of different media like wood, paper, etc as well as understanding how to create clean line/shape art that can be used as clip art and be used for making money on many different sites such as Cricut etc. It's not just about knowing how to do something like creating a web site, it's about how to design it effectively for our global marketplace. This will give you the edge to make your media look better and will help you understand hex codes for web work and give you an introduction to working in Photoshop and taking files back and forth between programs, among other things. |
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Part 1 - VIEW THE COLOR VIDEOS BELOW
Part 2 - CREATE MANDALAS (CHOICE OF 3 PROGRAMS)
- The True Color Wheel Explained - understand why you were taught lies about color and what the real truth is.
- Color Method Game - Color Method Game, play the game 3 times and take a photo of your scores that you will later hand in. A screen shot on a mac is command +option+3
- Same As or Different - will show you how colors look different depending what colors they are with. Color is science.
- Color Blindness Test - Some of you will find the games very hard and you might not be able to differentiate between colors. The last link is a color blindness test to see if you may be color blind in some way the links we will use to help understand the real color wheel and how colors work together.
Part 2 - CREATE MANDALAS (CHOICE OF 3 PROGRAMS)
- Create your mandalas in class on Corel Painter or go to the freeware listed on the tutorial. Either way, click on the tutorial button labeled Creating Mandala Using Mandalagaba. There is also a video tutorial below it for Refining the Lines of your Mandala in Photoshop. After you have completed creating your 3 mandalas and refining them in Photoshop, you can go on to the steps below.
- Include 12 sections (pieces of pie) and 10 spaces in each section (10 cherries for each piece of pie).
Images above provided by Rachel Robinson
Part 3 - COLOR YOUR MANDALA
Color wheel information step by step in videos below:
Step 1: Fill the 3 primaries - Cyan, Yellow, Magenta (also known as Rose Red)
Step 2: Fill the 3 secondaries - Violet (also known as Purple), Green & Orange
Step 3: Fill the 6 tertiaries - Ultramarine Blue, Red Violet, Red, Yellow Orange, Yellow Green and Turquoise Green, (also known as Blue Green)
Image above provided by Rachel Robinson
WHAT YOUR COLOR WHEEL MUST CONTAIN:
Your Color Wheel Must Contain The Following for each pure color on the color wheel: (All are identified on the wheel shown)
1. The true colors of the color wheel which are:
- Primaries: Cyan, Yellow, & Magenta, (also known as Rose Red)
- Secondaries: Violet, (also known as Purple,) Green, & Orange
- Tertiaries: Ultramarine Blue, Red Violet, Red, Yellow Orange, Yellow Green and Turquoise Green, (also known as Blue Green)
3. A Complementary Spread, (so you can see the neutral colors made from those 2 colors together)
4. A Tint, (Pure color plus White,)
5. A Tone, (Pure Color plus Gray/Grey,)
6. A Shade (Pure color plus Black,) for each color on the color wheel
7. An Analogous spread, (gradation of 3 colors next to each other)
8. A value spread from Pure to light
9. The Complement to each color