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PLO- IDENTIFY COLOUR AS AN ELEMENT OF DESIGN

 WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE
COLOUR?

Red : action, confidence, courage, vitality

Pink : love, beauty
Brown : earth, order, convention
Orange : vitality with endurance
Gold : Wealth, prosperity, wisdom
Yellow : wisdom, joy, happiness, intellectual energy
Green : life, nature, fertility, well being
Blue : youth, spirituality, truth, peace
Purple : Royalty, magic, mystery
Indigo : intuition, meditation, deep contemplation
White : Purity, Cleanliness
Black : Death, earth, stability
Gray : Sorrow, security, maturity NEXT
 WHY IS COLOUR SO
IMPORTANT?
Visual Cohesiveness and Balance
Color schemes that hold together well tend to be derived from the
color wheel in a way that is logical and almost mathematical in
nature.

Emotional Impact
Colors affect the emotions of the people who see them. In general, cool
colors are colors of calm, sadness or peace, while warm colors are colors of
passion, aggression and excitement.

Personal Symbolism
The use helps the artist become more expressive and develop
greater levels of meaning in his creations.

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Understanding the colour wheel helps us when we are designing our
own projects. To give us desired effects and to stimulate our senses.

THE COLOUR WHEEL

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Primary colours
Primary colours are the three key colours - Red, Blue and Yellow. They cannot be made from any
other colour.

Red Yellow Blue

Secondary colours
If you mix equal amounts of the primary colours, you
get the Secondary colours - Purple, Green and Orange.
Red + Yellow = Orange
Red + Blue = Purple
Blue + Yellow = Green

Orange Purple Green

Tertiary colours
If you mix a primary with a secondary colour, in a ratio of 2:1, you get a Tertiary colour. Red-
Orange, Blue-Green etc. Cool versus hot. Look at the colour wheel and you will see the right hand
side of the colours are 'warm' or 'hot' and the ones on the left are 'cool' or 'cold'.
Yellow - Blue- Red-
Orange Green Orange NEXT
CREATIVE COLOUR WHEELS

In class we will be working in partners to

create your own version of a colour wheel.

You will present your work to the class

using a medium that works well for your
choices.

All work must be completed in class time.

This means you are to come up with your
idea and bring any necessary supplies with
you to class.

You may video tape yourself creating this at

home and bring it in to show me if
materials are not transportable.
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 PART 2
COLOUR COMBINATIONS
Creating 6 Different Colour Palettes

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 #1 - MONOCHROMATIC
COLOURS ARE TONES OF THE SAME COLOUR

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 #2 - ANALOGOUS
COLORS ARE ADJACENT TO EACH OTHER ON THE
COLOR WHEEL

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 #3 - COMPLEMENTARY
COLORS OPPOSITE EACH OTHER ON THE COLOR WHEEL

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 #4 - TRIADIC
THREE COLORS EQUALLY SPACED AROUND THE COLOR
WHEEL

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 #5 - NEUTRAL
ONLY COLORS NOT FOUND ON THE COLOR WHEEL
(VARIOUS TONES OF BROWN AND GRAY)

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 #6 - ACCENTED NEUTRAL
NEUTRAL COLORS AND ONE OR MORE SPLASHES OF COLORS

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 YOUR CHANCE TO CREATE

1. Go to the website http://www.colourlovers.com

2. Click on the sign up button
3. Complete the 5 text boxes making sure that your user name is your first
name and last initial
4. Create a password that you will be able to remember and be sure to keep
that password to yourself.
5. When putting in your email address make sure it is one that you will want
notifications being sent to, or change the settings to make sure this wont
happen every time.
6. Click on the heading Create at the top of the page
7. Choose Basic Palettes and begin making your own six types of palettes

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 THE 6 PALLETTES

1. MONOCHROMATIC
2. ANALOGOUS
3. COMPLIMENTARY
4. TRIAD
5. NEAUTRAL
6. ACCENTED NEAUTRAL
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 CREATE YOUR OWN
PATTERNS

When you have had your 6 palettes checked by me, you can create
one pattern of your own and colour a pattern that is already
there.

Be sure to add a description for each and remember that this will
be published onto the web for all to see.

Use your Netiquette please!

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 EXTENSION

Once you have completed at least two different patterns,

Head to the following website:

Ployvore.com
Choose one of the colour palettes types that we learned today and create a
design board that goes with that colour scheme.

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 FINAL PROJECT

So what are we going to do with all this knowledge?

We have learned about colour theory and how it helps us to create designs that are
both visually appealing and can create a mood, so now I want you to design your own
name card/logo that uses these ideas of design and colour to tell me about yourself.

These cards will be used throughout the year and if you want to make them into a
smaller version we can use them as tags for the projects that you design over the
course. You can use Polyvore if you like or any other program that works for you.

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 PROJECT CRITERIA
Principals and Originality and Effort and Attitude Practical Skills Set up /Clean
Elements of Design Creativity up

- Awareness of design and used - Generated a -Participated with - Work completed with - Assisted willingly
3 elements and space effectively number of ideas enthusiasm a high level of
- Great use of - Followed through with craftsmanship
combinations their ideas to complete
project

- Project is adequately - Not trying out ideas - Participated adequately - General craftsmanship - Assisted when asked
2 completed but could have used first - Completed project well - Finishing touches
either the space more effectively - Based work on would have enhanced
or the elements are not clearly others work
used

- No evidence in planning and - Used other peoples - Did not participate well - Poor craftsmanship - Minimal effort given
1 use of design elements is ideas without much - Parts are not
minimal thought completed