Color

Curriculum Integration: Physical Science

 Concepts 

	NC Course of Study Objectives:	21st Century Skills:
Naming Colors	1.07	B.1
Color Theory and the Color Wheel	2.01	B.1
Mixing Colors	1.06, 2.02	B.4
Color Pallettes	1.07	B.4
Emotional Impact of Colors	7.03	C.7
Electromagnetic Spectrum - Visible Spectrum - Rainbow	7.01	B.7
Caring for Tools, Materials, and Workspace	2.05	C.2, C.9

 Skills 

• Mixing colors
  
  
• Care of brushes and paints
  
  
• Value studies
  
  

 Artists 

• Georges Seurat - 1859-1891 - developed 'Pointillism' - used small dots of bright color to create final colors. His most famous painting is "Sunday on the Isle of the Grand Jatte"
  
  
  
  
• Yellow Submarine - 1968 - graphic designer Heinz Edelmann worked with a team of animators/illustrators to create the artwork for this Beatles film
  
  
  
  

 Words We'll Use 

• Analogous Colors: Colors that are closely related to each other - next to each other on the color wheel; for example: blue, blue-violet, violet colors.
  
  
• Arcoiris: Arc of Iris, Greek goddess of the rainbow - spanish for rainbow.
  
  
• Color: The effect of different wavelengths of light reflecting from an object onto the eye.
  
  
• Complementary colors: Colors that are exactly opposite each other on the color wheel; for example: blue and orange.
  
  
• Hue The name of the color.
  
  
• Intensity: The brightness or dullness of a color; amount of saturation.
  
  
• Palette: A color scheme – the selection of colors used in an artwork. Also, the board or plate used by an artist for mixing paints.
  
  
• Primary Colors: The basic colors that can't be reduced into component colors and can be used to mix all other colors.