In Art I, we have just finished up our unit on color theory, which of course included the color wheel. I decided to do a small scale “creative color wheel” drawing this year, in hopes that we wouldn’t spend too much time on it, but still come out with a nice product.
I found the challenge for students to be generating ideas. They were to draw a scene or image of their choice into which they had to somewhat prominently work the color wheel. The could render the drawing in whatever media they chose — graphite, marker, colored pencil — but the color wheel itself had be to painted, as they had to mix their colors.
Students had to complete thumbnail sketches of ideas for their drawings, but still it seemed difficult for many of them to come up with ideas. What can I do to improve this next year (if we do it again)? And what was the difficulty this year? Not sure…there are so many neat ways a color wheel could be worked into a picture.
Here are some of the color wheel drawings from the assignment that turned out very nice. . . enjoy!
