This shows the colors and how they are related to each other. To organize colors and show their relationship to each other, we use a color wheel.

What is your favorite color? What do you think the most common favorite color in the world is? (Scroll down further to find the answer.)

Humans are what is called 'trichromats,' meaning our retinas have three different kinds of cells that can receive color.

Your eye can see different colors because a part of your eye called the retina is sensitive to different wavelengths of light.Color is a way that we describe an object based on the way that it reflects or emits light.How about this one? What colors do you see here? List the three colors you think the artist used most in this painting. What colors do you see? List the three colors you think are most easily visible in this painting. Conduct independent research on color and analyze that research.Design an 'eye spy' activity for a painting, focused on the use of color.Create a reverse color scheme of a painting.Evaluate the use of color in fine art painting.Identify color terms using the academic vocabulary of the discipline.What is color? How do we represent and create color? Learning ObjectivesĪfter completing this project, students will be able to: Gifted children are often tuned in to the aesthetic nature of things at an early age and can appreciate the nuances of color, as well as the way colors are blended, tinted and shaded. Color and color theory form the foundation of art as well as design.

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