Primary Colors:
a group of colors from which all other colors can be obtained by mixing.
SECONDARY COLORS:
A GROUP OF COLORS MADE BY MIXING THE PRIMARY COLORS WITH ONE ANOTHER.
A GROUP OF COLORS MADE BY MIXING THE PRIMARY COLORS WITH ONE ANOTHER.
THE COLOR WHEEL:
The typical color wheel includes the blue, red, and yellow primary colors. The corresponding secondary colors are green, orange, and violet or purple. The tertiary colors are red–orange, red–violet, yellow–orange, yellow–green, blue–violet and blue–green.
ANALAGous Colors
Analogous colors are groups of three colors that are next to each other on the color wheel, with one being the dominant color, which tends to be a primary or secondary color, and one on either side of the color.
PAINTINGS AND PAPER CUTS by artists Marc Rothko & Henri Matisse are examples of the use of analagous colors.
COMPLEMENTARY COLORS
Complementary colors are pairs of colors which, when combined, cancel each other out. When placed next to each other, they create the strongest contrast for those particular two colors. Due to this striking color clash, the term opposite colors is often considered more appropriate than "complementary colors".
"It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony." - Henri Matisse
THE PROJECTS:
COLOR EXPLORATION:
Students will first explore paint and making colors - mixing colors to create a color study. The colors should create analagous colors - in a composition of their own design.
Paper Cut-outs:
Looking at Henri Matisse's paper cut outs - students will create their own paper cut-outs in the same manner - mixing colors and painting paper, cutting the paper and arranging it on other colors to illustrate color relationships.
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2014/matisse/the-cut-outs.html
COLOR EXPLORATION:
Students will first explore paint and making colors - mixing colors to create a color study. The colors should create analagous colors - in a composition of their own design.
Paper Cut-outs:
Looking at Henri Matisse's paper cut outs - students will create their own paper cut-outs in the same manner - mixing colors and painting paper, cutting the paper and arranging it on other colors to illustrate color relationships.
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2014/matisse/the-cut-outs.html
Matisse Cut-outs at the TATE : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLgSd8ka0Gs