Spring 2015 – 25 – Color Week Day 3 – Color Vocabulary

Objective:

Use web resources to identify and explain the concepts of Color Theory and Color Harmonies.

Student-Friendly Learning Target:

I can use the Internet as a resource to discover the meanings of color theory vocabulary terms.

Links:
Sensational Color: Color Theory:
Sensational Color: Getting to Know the Color Wheel:
Sensational Color: Color Harmonies:
Sensational Color: Color Temperature:

Topics Discussed:

  • Color Theory
  • Color Harmonies
  • Color Wheel
  • Primary Colors
  • Secondary Colors
  • Tertiary Colors
  • Triad
  • Complementary
  • Split Complementary
  • Analogous
  • Monochromatic
  • Shade
  • Tint
  • Swatches Panel

Instructions:

Use the websites below to read about and define the following Color Theory terms:

https://www.sensationalcolor.com/category/understanding-color/theory
https://www.sensationalcolor.com/understanding-color/color-theory/know-color-wheel-806#.Uup6bPZgMQU
https://www.sensationalcolor.com/understanding-color-theory/color-theory/color-harmony.html
https://www.sensationalcolor.com/understanding-color/color-theory/color-temperature-warm-cool-relative-815#.Uup7XvZgMQU

After you have visited the websites, go to your third artboard and using a headline and a subhead (large font, then smaller font), write the following vocabulary words along with their definitions:

    1. Color Harmony
    2. Hue
    3. Primary Colors (Hues)
    4. Secondary Colors (Hues)
    5. Tertiary Colors (Hues)
    6. Warm Colors
    7. Cool Colors
    8. Triad
    9. Primary Triad
    10. Secondary Triad
    11. Tetrad
    12. Complementary
    13. Split Complementary
    14. Analogous
    15. Monochromatic
    16. Tint
    17. Tone
    18. Shade

 

When you have found and written all your definitions, save your document. We will continue to work with this document tomorrow.

Assigned: February 12th, 2015
Due Date: February 13th, 2015