Tag Archives: Color Theory
Edible Color Wheel
Materials Before class, use red, yellow, and blue food coloring to tint three bowls of frosting. (Tints of each color work fine; it’s not necessary to mix a dark blue or dark red for this to work well!) Cover the … Continue reading
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Tagged Art Education, Color Mixing, Color Theory, Color Wheel, Edible Color Wheel
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Monochromatic Paintings with a Technological Twist
For this project, students use the cutout filter (Filter > Artistic > Cutout) in Adobe Photoshop to alter and abstract a reference photograph. While the cutout levels do not accurately correspond to the actual number of values in the altered … Continue reading
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Tagged Acrylic Painting, Adobe Photoshop, Art Education, Color Theory, Monochromatic Painting
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Complex Color Wheels
As part of a unit on Color Theory, students were challenged to create a color wheel in which their design, color mixing ability and craftsmanship were all important aspects of the piece. They could use only the primary colors (red, … Continue reading
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Tagged Art Education, Color Theory, Color Wheel, Complex Color Wheel
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