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Spring is the perfect time to explore color outside. New plants, weeds, and colors are popping up all around. Try taking a hike or exploring your own backyard to create a color wheel. See how many different colors you can collect! (Can’t get outside? … Try collecting objects inside your home instead.)
Spring is the perfect time to explore color outside. New plants, weeds, and colors are popping up all around. Try taking a hike or exploring your own backyard to create a color wheel. See how many different colors you can collect! (Can’t get outside? … Try collecting objects inside your home instead.)
Step 1:
Step 1:
Collect as many different colors as you can from your own backyard or hike around your neighborhood.
Collect as many different colors as you can from your own backyard or hike around your neighborhood.
Step 2:
Step 2:
Arrange your flowers in a circular design like the color wheel below.
Arrange your flowers in a circular design like the color wheel below.
The Color Wheel
The Color Wheel
Shows how colors relate to each other
Shows how colors relate to each other
Primary Colors - Red, blue, and yellow. All other colors can be created by mixing them.
Primary Colors - Red, blue, and yellow. All other colors can be created by mixing them.
Secondary Colors - Orange, violet, and green. Colors made by mixing two primary colors.
Secondary Colors - Orange, violet, and green. Colors made by mixing two primary colors.
Analogous Colors - Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.
Analogous Colors - Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.
Complementary Colors - Colors that are across from each other on the color wheel.
Complementary Colors - Colors that are across from each other on the color wheel.
Step 3:
Step 3:
Go over the definitions of primary, secondary, analogous, and complementary colors. See if you can identify them on your color wheel.
Go over the definitions of primary, secondary, analogous, and complementary colors. See if you can identify them on your color wheel.
Movement Break:
Movement Break:
Check out this fun video on primary colors and dance along!
Check out this fun video on primary colors and dance along!
Step 4:
Step 4:
Take a photo of your color wheel and email it to Mrs. Newport!
Take a photo of your color wheel and email it to Mrs. Newport!
Once you're done making your color wheel, try using the items you collected to knoll like artists Emily Blincoe and Ja Soon Kim. Knolling is the process of thoughtfully arranging related objects at 90 degree angles or in parallel lines.
Once you're done making your color wheel, try using the items you collected to knoll like artists Emily Blincoe and Ja Soon Kim. Knolling is the process of thoughtfully arranging related objects at 90 degree angles or in parallel lines.
Emily Blincoe
Emily Blincoe
Ja Soon Kim
Ja Soon Kim
Step 5:
Step 5:
Decide if you will use everything you collected or just part. Consider working with just primary, secondary, analogous, or complementary colors.
Decide if you will use everything you collected or just part. Consider working with just primary, secondary, analogous, or complementary colors.
Step 6:
Step 6:
Take a photo of your work and email it to Mrs. Newport!
Take a photo of your work and email it to Mrs. Newport!
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