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Spring 2014 – 26 – Color Week Day 4

Friday, January 31st, 2014

Objective:

Demonstrate a deeper understanding of Color Theory and Color Harmonies by creating a Color Wheel in Illustrator.

Student-Friendly Learning Target:

I can use the shapes and color tools in Illustrator to produce a Color Wheel.

Online Lesson Link:

See the online tutorial presentation titled “The Color Wheel” in the StudentsTempFiles/Student Pickup Folder number 26.

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 your knowledge of the Color Wheel and Color Harmonies to produce a color wheel in Illustrator demonstrating the key Color Harmonies discussed in class.

  1. Go to the fourth artboard in your Color Week 1 document.
  2. Using the Shape tool, draw a square at the top of your document. Fill this square with RGB Red from the Swatches Panel.
  3. Consider the square you have just drawn as the 12 O’clock on a clock face. Continue drawing squares at 1 O’clock, 2 O’clock, 3 O’clock, all the way around to 11 O’clock. You should now have twelve squares arranged in a circular formation.
  4. Fill the squares with color in the following manner:
    1. 1 O’clock: Red-Orange
    2. 2 O’clock: Orange
    3. 3 O’clock: Yellow-Orange
    4. 4 O’clock: RGB Yellow
    5. 5 O’clock: Yellow-Green
    6. 6 O’clock: RGB Green
    7. 7 O’clock: Blue-Green
    8. 8 O’clock: RGB Blue
    9. 9 O’clock: Blue-Violet
    10. 10 O’clock: Violet
    11. 11 O’clock: Red-Violet
  5. When you have filled all the squares, use the Line Tool to draw a straight line from the Red square at 12 O’clock to the Green square at 6 O’clock, and use the Text tool to label this “Complementary”.
  6. Next, use the Shape Tool to draw a triangle that represents the Primary Triad (the points of the triangle should touch Red, Yellow and Blue). Label this the “Primary Triad” with the Text Tool.
  7. Continue drawing triangles and using labels to identify the Secondary Triad and a Split Complementary color harmony. Make sure your triangles are not filled so they do not cover each other, and make each triangle’s stroke a different color.
  8. Finally, use the Pen Tool to draw an arc over the four colors in the upper left quadrant (Red, Red-Orange, Orange, Yellow-Orange), and use lines to point to these four colors. Label this arc Analogous.
  9. You now have a Color Wheel with several key color harmonies identified. Save your document. We will continue to work with this document on Monday.

Assigned: January 31st, 2014
Due Date: January 31st, 2014

Spring 2014 – 26 – Color Week Day 3 – Color Vocabulary

Thursday, January 30th, 2014

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:

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/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: January 30th, 2014
Due Date: January 31st, 2014