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| Students practice finding the right hue, saturation, and value to get match a target color on the smart board |
It's been fun helping students understand the science of color. There are so many great videos and podcasts about it. We talk about refracted light, how cones in our eyes receive color, how color can evoke emotions, the history and use of symbolic colors in art, why some of them are color blind...it's all fascinating.
My students responded well to the Science of Color videos and activities on Kahn academy. The color scientist from Pixar explains concepts in an easy to understand way, and shows how color was applied to certain scenes in movies to create a mood and communicate a message.
Students got a chance to try to create and match colors, and edit colors from movie stills to create more contrast or greater harmony. Below is an example of how I adjusted color in a watercolor to make it more coherent. It's important for my students to learn that they can adjust what they've put on paper or in a digital piece of artwork to make things better.
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| When color range is too wide, it looks chaotic |
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| Adding blue to the yellows makes the composition analogous. |
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| the dark background make the colors look like they're glowing |
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