COLOR

COLOR

ACTIVIDADES PARA EL 5 DE JUNIO (MÁS ALLÁ DE ESTA FECHA NO SE RECOGERÁ NADA)

Read pages 32  and 34. 
Watch this short video to understand better how primary colors (pigments ) work. 

Pigments...do you know what is a pigment ( in Art)?
Watch this curious video about PIGMENTS. 

Read also, the following information. 

1. The colour wheel. 

1. 1. Definition.

The colour wheel is a visual framework used for facilitating the understanding of colour and:

      - We can sort primary and secondary colours. 

      -  We can group  warm and cool colours.

      -  We can analize the complementary colours. 

              1. 2. Warm and cool colours. One way to group colours is to associate them   with a temperature.

  2.1. Cool colours. Many natural elements transmit a sense of cool, for   example, snow, ice, water, sky, etc, …Cool colours are mainly bluish, violet or greenish colour with more than 50% of blue in their mixture.

                   2.2.Warm colours. Warm colours convey a sensation of  warmth.  They are many elements in nature that transmit the idea of heat, such               as the sun, fire, summer, the desert…Their hues are yellows, oranges              and reds with more than  50%  of yellow in their mixture.  Red is the                 warmest colour.

1. 3.  The complementary colours.

A colour is complementary to another when it does not contain any amount of the opposite colour. For example, yellow is complementary to violet because it contains nor blue or magenta, which are the colours that make up violet. They are opposite in the color wheel. 

These colour pairs are magenta/green, yellow/violet and red/cyan.

2. Colour harmonies.

We can establish relationships between colours. To create a combination of colours that is agreeable to the eye we must look for what we call as colour harmony.

There are five simple ways to create colour harmonies:

2.1. Warm colours harmony: Use the warm colours that you already know: red, orange, yellow, brown…

2.2. Cool colours  harmony: Use the cool colours that you already know: blue, green, violet…

2.3. Complementary colours harmony: In spite of being the most contrasted colours in the colour wheel, putting them together creates an interesting and eye-catching sensation of harmony.

2.4. Colour families: These colours are next to each other on the colour wheel.

2.5. Value ranges: This kind of harmony consist on mixing one colour with black or white or using colours with the same value of darkness or lightness.

3. The meaning of colour.

We can use colours  to transmit feelings and thoughts.

3.1. Cold and warm colours. Cold colours have been associated with infinity, calm, transparency, spirituality, solemnity. Warm tones are related to passion, festivities, happiness and sometimes with war, death, and destruction.

3.2. The colours of the rainbow. These colours symbolize a lot of things such as:

Color Symbolism Chart
	Red: Excitement, energy, passion, love, desire, speed, power, heat, danger, fire, blood, war, violence.
	Pink symbolizes love and romance, tenderness and calm.
	Beige and ivory: Quiet, pleasantness,  simplicity.
	Yellow signifies joy, happiness, optimism, idealism, imagination,  jealousy, illness.
	Blue: Peace, tranquility, cold, calm, stability, harmony, confidence,  order, loyalty, technology, sadness.
	Turquoise symbolizes calm, sophistication.
	Purple: Royalty, nobility, spirituality, ceremony, mysterious, wisdom.
	Lavender symbolizes femininity, grace and elegance.
	Orange: Energy, enthusiasm, warmth, vibrant, expansive.
	Green: Nature, environment, healthy, good luck, spring, malice.
	Brown: Earth, stability, home, reliability, simplicity and comfort.
	Gray: Reliability, intelligence, modesty, dignity, maturity, solid, old age, sadness, boring.
	White: Purity, birth, simplicity, cleanliness, peace,  innocence, youth, winter, snow, good.
	Black: Power, sophistication, formality, elegance, mystery, fear, unhappiness,  sadness,  night , death.

Marco wants  to share with us this engaging  video about the meanings of color.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

ACTIVITY 1.

NOW ASK THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS TO TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE.

ACTIVITY 2. 

DO THE  ACTIVITY IN THE TEXTBOOK. DON´T FORGET THAT YOU MUST USE PRIMARY COLORS (MAGENTA -NEAR TO PINK COLOR- YELLOW AND CYAN) TO MAKE THE RIGHT  MIXES. YOU MUST USE ONLY COLORED PENCILS. TRY TO BE ACCURATE WITH TECHNIQUE. 

ACTIVITY 3.  (OPTIONAL)

DO THE  ACTIVITY IN THE TEXTBOOK  WITH THESE NEW INSTRUCTIONS. 

COPY THE LANDSCAPE UNDER THE FIRST IMAGE. 

COLOR BOTH  LANDSCAPES   USING DIFFERENT KIND OF HARMONIES.  (REMEMBER THERE ARE 5  DIFFERENT  HARMONIES)

I WILL PAY ATTENTION TO THE QUALITY OF DRAWING AND THE GOOD TECHNIQUE OF COLOR PENCILS. (CUIDADO CON LOS RALLAJOS)