It's time to start talking about Color. We only have 3 weeks before the end of the school year!
The first thing we're going to do is take a look at this power point about color:
Colour from Dolors Cubí
You'll find some exercises about color in The Artist's Toolkit: Primary and Secondary colors.
Artyfactory is a very interesting Art webpage full of information. Please, read the lesson Color terms 1.
ACTIVITIES
- Mixing colors: In an A4 carbdoard, use your compass to draw 9 circles in 3 lines. Paint 2 circles in every line with 2 Primary Colors (for example blue and magenta), and the third circle with their mixture. It must be something like this:
- Build a Chromatic Triangle:
- Painting like Frank Stella:
Frank Stella is an American painter and printmaker. He was born in Massachusetts in 1936. In the 1960's he painted some series of abstract printings using geometric shapes and a great amount of colors.
Frank Stella, 1962 - Gran Cairo
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| Frank Stella, 1967 - Harran II |
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| Frank Stella, 1966 - Untitled |
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| Frank Stella, 1968 - Agbatana II |
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| Frank Stella, 1929 - Tahkt-I-Sulayman Variation II |
You can find more information about him and his artwork in
My suggestion for you is to create an artwork simulating Stella. So it is: using geometric shapes and a wide range of colors.
