Scheming with Colors

What is the most favorite color in the world? The series of lessons all about color and the color wheel, asks kids to research color, create an eye-spy activity, watch videos, and examine the color choices made by artists in their...

Pointillism is the focus of a lesson that asks young artists to compare Vance Kirkland's painting style with aboriginal dot art, and then to produce their own piece of dot art.

Young scholars are shown a PowerPoint presentation on the various color schemes. As a class, they are shown the same color scheme in the classroom on paper. They are introduced to new vocabulary and review the color wheel. To end the...

Students view a film about Hans Hofman and consider his use of color and layering. They experiment with the concept of 'push and pull' by using warm and cool color schemes in a tracing of leaves and shapes. Students view their work using...

Think about your favorite place ... now, think about what it looks like at different times during the day. How does the change in lighting affect the colors you see? Young artists explore the tools available in digital art software to...

Students discuss the importance of using the proper color combinations in a quilt. In groups, they use the color wheel to design their section of the quilt for the class. To end the lesson, they are introduced to the various types of...

Students use the medium of visual arts to demonstrate how colors can evoke different ideas and feelings.

Students investigate expressive colors in painting and practice painting with bold colors. They examine the Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci before painting on a photocopied example.

Students use music and art to categorize line and color into specific emotions. They hear music and do a line drawing stemming from the emotions that they feel from hearing the music. Then they paint the drawing using a color scheme.

Students explore the elements of contrast, emphasis, pattern, and color schemes by identifying how the artist manipulated tesserae in the mosaic. They create original mosaics by manipulating torn paper to depict different textures and...