Exploring Color Relationships

Funded Sep 9, 2017

The access to watercolor palettes and acrylic paint has given our art classes something to look forward to, and strive to be better students in a classroom community. When we first opened the materials, students were excited, and shocked to believe that we would be painting in our art classes. Unfortunately, the classroom was not stocked with supplies before I was hired, so we have struggled to respect our materials, and understand how vital, and valuable, art supplies are. Although we have not started painting with the acrylic paints, we learned how color is chosen by an artist to support their message, and express an emotion. Along with color's emotive qualities, we also experimented with mixing color using watercolor, to better understand color relationships, and how to mix colors. The student artwork images are of student's unique color wheels, in which they could decide their layout or format of the wheel, as long as they included primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. Our next step is mixing colors using acrylic paint, and then using what we have learned to create a portrait style project, by using a monochrome color scheme for the portrait, and a pattern in the background. The background and portrait should complement each other, and that can be achieved by making one a warm color scheme, while the other is created using a cool color scheme. We are starting the pattern backgrounds now, and then will work our way towards painting our portraits. I am so excited to see where my classes can take these materials, and continue to surprise me with their open-mindedness, dedication, and appreciation towards materials while they are able to creatively express theirselves.”

With gratitude,

Ms. Fraga