In 6th grade art we will study the elements of ART including COLOR!
Click to see a bigger view of these great color wheel ideas. Including fabric, CANDY, rocks and natural items, yarn, paint, the computer, pencils, shoes and dolls. What could YOU make into a color wheel?
To prep this assignment, you will need bins of objects for each table. For management purposes it is best if each table has the same items, so that students do not wander to other tables looking for something. Have students lay an object one at a time on their paper and trace around the outside and any inner holes in the object. Each time they add another object it must OVERLAP a previous object. After the pages is filled, monochromatic paints are mixed and the objects are painted. After drying the painting I have the kids go over the outlines of the objects in a black marker. (from http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/high/monochrom.htm)
A Mondrian style artwork is created by cutting out strips of black construction paper and filling the areas with other color construction paper. Look at art work by Mondrian for inspiration. Lesson idea from Kinder Art
Divide the paper into 6 sections. Label them with the following categories: Primary, Secondary, Intermediate, Warm, Cool and Neutral. Use oil pastels to mix the needed colors. Fill the box with a shape or design using those colors. Learn more about this 1800’s Russian Artist. This lesson from the Great Artists Workbook
Get tissue paper in the basic colors and white glue. You will also need an overhead transparency, a paintbrush, a sharpie and a metal brad. Draw a circle with 12 sections on the transparency using the sharpie. (Fill the whole page.) Tear little pieces of tissue paper and glue them on the opposite side from your sharpie on the transparency, layering colors to make each section. (hint: get tissue papers wet with water to let color bleed into another color.) Once each section is completely dry label it with the sharpie. Cut out the circle, carefully punch a hole in the center for the brad and attach to a white sheet of paper. (please note: scan is not very good, as it is hard to get a good picture of a transparency.)
Draw and label a color wheel. When paint is not the medium of choice or time is of an essence, the basic order and understanding of color can still be accomplished by making a color wheel from colored pencils, crayons, markers, oil pastels and even construction paper. Students have the choice of using any medium to make their color wheels. The only requirement is the basic 12 colors and they must be in proper order.
Draw and label a color wheel using unique shapes. To do this version of the assignment I have them label 12 index cards with their name and the color that it will need to be painted on the lines side, so they paint on the blank side. Then using only the 3 primary colors they paint each of the index cards. After the cards are dry they use a self-created or purchased stencil to draw and cut out the cards into shapes. These shapes are then glued down to a black construction paper in the proper order. All the colors are labeled with a white colored pencil or black paper gel pen. This project turns out nicely but is a labor intensive way to make a color wheel, the management of 12 index cards per person, drying with different mixed colors, can easily cause chaos as cards get lost or damaged. Perhaps instead of index cards several colors could be painted on larger pieces of card stock, one per person. Less chance of loss this way. But when I did this project with them painting directly onto the final paper they would make errors in mixing or place them in the wrong order and then have to start all over. SO the mixing, painting then putting in order work best for those new to color mixing.
