Lesson 1: Color Theory
Duration of Days: 2
Lesson Objective
Students will create a color wheel or similar color theory model in colored pencil.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of color relationships in their color exercise.
How can you create a variety of colors with a limited pallet?
How does color define artwork?
How can understanding color theory enchance a drawing?
Color Theory
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Tint
Shade
Complementary
Split Complementary
Analagous
Triadic
Content NCCAP Standards:
VA:CR:HS:1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
VA:RE:HS:9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work
Graduation Standards:
1. Create: Students will engage in a process to produce new artistic ideas and work.
2. Present: Students will develop and present artistic ideas and work.
3. Respond: Students will interpret and evaluate meaning within different artistic mediums and processes.
Aquisition of skills and knowledge requires practice and perseverance.
Learning Plan:
Students will use a sketchbook or other surface to practice, develop and refine drawing skills.
Students will apply practiced technique toward finished drawings.
Students will respond and reflect through critique.
Individual student progress will be assessed through pre/post tests, self crtique and class rubrics.
Students may observe color, color relationships and color variation in their environment.
Students may see the color wheel as an exercise without understanding the value to an artist of understanding color theory.
Lesson delivery -visual exemplars, written instructions, demonstration of process and techniques, google classroom.
Check work in progress, immediate and individualized feedback to students.
Performance Task: What skills will be assessed?
The ability to create a correct color wheel.
The ability to create a gradation of value in color from dark to light.
The ability to use color to define the principles of design in a drawing.
Students will demonstrate improved skill in the use of color in their artwork.
What specific aspects of task will be assessed?
Individual project evaluation based on project objectives.
Critique assessed through the Fine Arts Critique Rubric.
Visual Exemplars of project
Demonstration tools -document camera, SMART Board, Dry Erase Board, Google Classroom
drawing paper, various drawing tools: pencils, colored pencils,