Color Theory

This is my favorite lesson!  For this lesson, students must first learn and understand the basic colors that you can mix to make other colors.  Primary colors are red, yellow and blue.  The secondary colors are orange, green and purple and these are created by mixing the primary colors..  The tertiary colors are formed by mixing the primary colors with the secondary colors and these are yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green and yellow-green.

The students will first create a color wheel demonstrating their understanding of correctly mixing colors.

Once they understand how to mix the colors, they will then be taught how to shade and tint these colors with an achromatic scale

and a monochromatic scale.

For their project, they will demonstrate their understanding of color theory with shades and tints in creating a monochromatic self portrait!  I will take photos of each student and using Photoshop, change the photo into black and white so that they can see the different tints and shades of their picture.  We will then grid the picture on 1":1" ratio.  They will draw their picture on a larger piece of paper on a 2":2" ratio.

Here are also some examples of my classmates!

This is a really fun and cool lesson that your students will love!