Special Education Lessons: 5/5 & 5/6

Directions For Today's Assignment:
There are 7 Elements of Art: Value, Form, Shape, Color, Space, Texture, and Line. Today we will focus on Color.
1. Look at the types of color, the Color Wheel, Color Psychology, and Business of Color below.
*Know that artists and designers use color to evoke different emotions and to symbolize many things.
2. Watch the video about color...you can fast forward if you need to :)
3. Create a drawing using your favorite color and only that color! Why is that your favorite color? What does this color say about you? 
4. Take a photo and attach it to an email to me.
*If you pressed down harder in different areas of your drawing then it probably got darker. This is a way to show another Element of Art called: Value.

Types of Colors

3 Properties of Color

1. Hue: Another term for color
2. Value: lightness or darkness of a color
3. Intensity: Brightness or dullness of a color

Primary: Red – Yellow – Blue
Secondary: Orange – Green – Violet
Intermediate/ Tertiary: y/o, r/o, r/v, b/v, b/g, y/g
Opposite/Complementary: Colors across for one another
Analogous: Colors next to each other
Warm Colors: Yellow – Red – Orange (pop out visually)
Cool Colors: Green – Blue – Violet (recede or go back visually)
Neutral: Black – White – Grey (absent of a hue)
Tint: add white or a lighter hue
Shade: add black or a darker hue
Polychromatic: Many colors – more than one
Monochromatic: one color, plus tints and shades

Another Silly Color Video