2/23

Focus: To create a tint of blue, what should you add?


Objectives:

  • Color Theory Review
  • Complete & Turn in Albers Experiment and Modern Corp Exercise
  • Demo Circle Project
  • QUIZ FRIDAY - Make sure your journals are updated. 

Analogous Colors: are groups of three colors that are next to each other on the colour wheel. These create color harmony and often seen in nature. For example, during the fall, one might often see the changing leaves form an analogous sort of color scheme, progressively moving through the color wheel to create a gradient in its natural pattern.


Closure: If I told you to use an orange analogous color scheme, what two color would you add to the color scheme?

2/22

 Focus: What is the complementary color of red?


Objectives:
  • Color Theory Review
  • Josef Albers  - Color Activity (Name File: Albers Experiment)
  • Continue Illustrator tutorial (Modern Corp)
  • QUIZ FRIDAY - Make sure your journals are updated. 

Closure: Adding white, black, and gray to a color creates...

White:
Black:
Gray:

2/19

 Focus: When mixing orange and purple, what primary colors are you mixing?



Objectives:
  • Review Complimentary Colors
  • Review Tints, Shades, Tones
  • Begin Illustrator tutorials
















Psychologically, blue gives off a subtle message of trust and reliability. Monochromatic color schemes are extremely effective at creating an overall calming mood while looking clean and elegant. 










Closure:  Name 3 characteristics of complementary colors?

2/18

Focus: Second Set of Tertiary Colors: These colors, often referred to as russet, citron, and slate, are created by mixing two secondary colors.








Objectives:

  • Review Tertiary Colors (2nd set)
  • Complete feedback of sketches
  • Begin Illustrator tutorial
Closure:  When mixing orange and green is actually mixing primary colors?  What are they and what amounts are used?

2/17

 Focus: Name this color scheme.


Objectives:
  • Photograph your (7) sketches from yesterday
  • Upload grouping sketches to google slides
  • Period 1/2 Link
  • Period 3/4 Link
  • Review each slide and select the best sketch/word combination by adding your name next to the appropriate word.
Closure: Name this color scheme.






Grouping

 

2/16

Focus: What are the secondary colors?  Secondary colors are also what type of color scheme?

Objectives: 

  • Grouping Sketching Activity
    • 10 pieces of paper
    • 1 pencil
    • 10 pennies
  • Review Tertiary Colors

Closure: What's the most obvious clue when identifying tertiary colors?

2/12

Focus:  What are the primary colors?  Primary colors are also what type of color scheme?

 
Objectives:

  • simple vector graphic (sun, snake, car) -choose your best
  • funny face graphic
  • simple self-portrait graphic
  • Add all three to the Student Vector Graphics file
  • Using all three assignment files, create an original scene.  
  • Add scene  to Student Vector Graphics file in a slide underneath your original slide (be sure to add your name to the scene). 
  • Color Theory Review

Secondary Colors: Orange, Green, Purple (Also - a Triadic Harmony)







Closure: Why might an artist choose a secondary color scheme?




2/11

Focus:  What key should you press when changing the size of an image if you do NOT want it distorted?


Objectives:

  • simple vector graphic (sun, snake, car) -choose your best
  • funny face graphic
  • simple self-portrait graphic
  • Add all three to the Student Vector Graphics file
  • Using all three assignment files, create an original scene.  
  • Add scene  to Student Vector Graphics file in a slide underneath your original slide (be sure to add your name to the scene). 
  • Color Theory Review

Primary Colors Scheme: RED, YELLOW, BLUE

Primary colors can be combined to create the rest of the colors in the color spectrum. They are also considered a triadic harmony. A triadic harmony is defined as 3 colors that are evenly spaced around the color wheel.  They offer a significant amount of color contrast, while maintaining color harmony. 


Closure:  Why might an artist choose a primary color scheme? 

2/10

Focus: What type of graphics contains the following characteristics?

  • formed by various shapes
  • scalable
  • made using anchors and paths

Objectives:

  • simple vector graphic (sun, snake, car) -choose your best
  • funny face graphic
  • simple self-portrait graphic
  • Add all three to the Student Vector Graphics file
  • Using all three assignment files, create an original scene.  
  • Add scene  to Student Vector Graphics file in a slide underneath your original slide (be sure to add your name to the scene). 
  • Discuss plagiarism - Sheppard Fairey
  • Watch for more clarification about Vector Vs Raster (Bitmap)


Closure: What type of graphics contains the following characteristics?
  • comprise of pixels
  • loses quality when scaled
  • file types: JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG