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

    The Visible Spectrum - How many colors do you see? Have you ever seen a double rainbow? A triple?



     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"

      Most famous painting - 'Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grand Jatte' Detail of Pointillism brushstrokes

    • Yellow Submarine - 1968 - graphic designer Heinz Edelmann worked with a team of animators/illustrators to create the artwork for this Beatles film

      Art from original movie poster The Blue Meanie!



     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.

    • Secondary Colors: Colors made by mixing two primary colors. When red, yellow and blue are used as primary colors, the secondary colors are orange, green and violet.

    • Shade: A dark color achieved by adding black.

    • Spectrum: All the wavelengths of electromagnetism, including x-rays, gamma rays, radio waves, infrared, ultraviolet, microwaves, etc.

    • Tempera paint: A water-based paint that is inexpensive and easy to use. Can be purchased as a powder, or pre-mixed with water.

    • Tint: A light color achieved by adding white.

    • Tone: A color mixed with gray (black and white).

    • Value: The relative lightness or darkness of a color.

    • Visible spectrum: The range of wavelengths of light that is visible to the human eye.




     Projects 
    • Pointillism - Painting ribbons of color
      Use dots of a color and its analogous color to fill in each stripe. Use your creativity to fill in the background areas in an exciting way.

    • Value Study #1

    • Mixing skin tones

      Hand with bracelet is my niece Kelsey at Chapel Hil High School




     Keeping Busy 

    • Finding rainbows in strange places -
      Use colored pencils to make a drawing that is black and white except for a rainbow in some unusual place.



     Enrichment 

    • Rainbows - CDs, Bubbles

    • Color Transparencies - mixing colors

    • Video - Yellow Submarine



     Homework/Makeup Work 

    • Find 10 photos of rainbows or examples of rainbow artfrom magazines, commercial art, or printed from the internet. Mount them neatly on a background paper.

    • Look up color blindness. Write a report and/or bring in interesting graphics to show the class.

    • See also - General Homework options on the Homework page.