Color Wheel

 - Julia

 

Julia's Color Wheel.
 

Another student of the Wednesday Open Studio has submitted her color wheel.

 

Rather than the standard color wheel, where you mix paints to achieve the right hues, we took another approach.

 

 The assignment was to make a color wheel using found objects and arranging them on their choice of wheel. The object was to help them learn to judge color, to work with color in a real world situation. The student could use any object(s) to populate his/her wheel. And any round object to put the wheel on. Mix and match was fine. Objects could have a theme or not, as the artist/student choose.

 

Julia finished her wheel, a mix of fabrics, pompoms, marbles and butterflies. She decided to locate the butterflies as compliments of color, adding a nice touch to the wheel.

 

Color Wheel-Beads

Justin, my 10 year old drawing student, finished his color wheel this week.

His wreath is homemade, from vines from his yard. I think this is fine. It is not necessary to always throw a lot of money on an art project for it to be well done and creative.

He had to collect beads in colors that would complete the color wheel, string them and then wrap them around the wreath. A lot of them his family already had from other projects. He simply needed to collection and sort them. This took a while. He laid them out on a printed color wheel to see which actually worked on the color wheel. This took a while. Rather than help him, I let him work it out, learning to judge color himself. I only stepped in when he asked my opinion.

 He strung them on colored pipe cleaners, which he also matched to the color wheel. They are of course, wire so would wrap and he would not need more wire or glue.


I think he did a great job with this.

Creating a Color Wheel

sorting beads

Classes this month are working on creating their own color wheel. One caveat, it must be made from found objects. Ea. no painting them. You have to work with color in real objects.

 

Putting things in their places.

It can be anything. Mostly solid colors, but it does not have to be. Collect objects, then using a printed color wheel, select and arrange the objects.

 

More difficult than they expected!

 

Things they have found out?

 

Color is not consistent nor constant!

 

When have trouble remembering color.

 

Problems to solve?

 

Where does it fit on the color wheel. Is it a pure color, or a compound color (made up of non adjacent colors)? It is a primary with white? Black? Gray?

 

How is it affected by other colors around it?

sses this month are working on creating their own color wheel.

One ca

Art Show

Color show now on display

The Renaissance Art Gallery will host a reception for both artists and the art loving public May 2, 2010, in the Kumkum Majumdar Exhibition Hall. The reception is for the 3rd Annual Spring Fine Arts Exhibition. Every one is invited. Admission is free. Refreshments will be served. Reception is from 2-4 pm.

The theme for this show is Color complements, and it is a colorful show! Vivid and subdued, the range of work is outstanding. Included are abstracts, realistic paintings, impressionistic paintings as well as woodcarvings and glass sculpture. We have fabric artists and expressionist as well as several experimental pieces along with a Color Wheel Installation by the Junior Fine Arts Class.

Reception is from 2-4 pm at:

The Renaissance Art Gallery
900 8th Street, Suite #20
Huntington, WV 25701

Gallery (304) 525-3235
Appointments: (304) 453-3187
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http://renaissancegalleryart.blogspot.com/

Gallery hours are:

Friday & Saturday 12-4 pm, Sunday 1-4 pm
Studio hours Monday 10-Noon, Wednesday 1:00-7:30 pm and Saturday 10-Noon

Color Complements will run for the month of May.

Complementary colors Exhibition
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This is the press release I am preparing for the opening reception of the Spring show.

I know all you artists enter these shows, and remark on all the work you do to get ready for them. I also read how disappointed you are sometimes when how you and your work fair and are treated.

But I have to wonder if you have any idea how difficult it is to pull off one of these shows?

I have been working since last December on this, and frankly, I should have started sooner, and done more! The photo shows just two walls, and we have six for this show. I did not hang this show myself, two other members of the gallery did so, but all of us worked flat out to bring this show together.

From the early planning through this weekends event, putting on an quality art show is difficult, but so rewarding.

Staging the Color Wheel

Working With The Color Wheel.

We hear about color wheels and color complements and triads, but how you to apply this to real life? The colors you see printed on the wheel don’t always match what you run into in life or in paint.

My junior drawing class took a stab at relating to the color wheel this week in preparation for the Spring Fine Arts Exhibition, “Color Complements”, being staged at The Renaissance Art Gallery next month.

Today, rather than doing all the preparations myself, I engaged these art students to help work on an installation piece, “Working With The Color Wheel”.

First we needed a color wheel to display in the welcome to the exhibition. Also we needed to highlight primary colors and their complements and show what happens when you mix them.

First came the color wheel. I am sure you remember how boring doing this can be. But this had to be more than a simple wheel, it also had to be art and decorative.

I collected a basket of silk flowers, a grapevine wreath and a pair of wire cutters, put them on the table and away we went.

After an 15 minute explanation of the color wheel, and a simple demonstration via watercolors, the students had to sort through the silk flowers and find the best examples of the colors needed. This is where they found their understanding of the wheel was not as good as they thought! You remember how your eyes crossed in class when color theory was presented, but listening to teacher and working it are two different things. And with the various shades and highlights presented in the flowers they had to think about it!

After the sort, the flowers were cut, inserted and the wheel hung.

Next we needed the color complement display. Glass marbles served as the color constant, placed in clear votives, they shine through. Next, the best complement was selected from the remaining flowers and stood up in the votive, the votives were arranged in the window, where light can shine through them.

Food Coloring and clear glass bottles make up the last presentation, working with color. Batches of water were mixed up with the 3 primary colors, and 3 bottles were filled with these. Then the remaining colors were used to mix the complements, and the last 3 bottles were filled with these. Then the bottles were arranged on the windowsill where the light will shine through them. A little fiddling and re-arranging for the most pleasing presentation was made.

This installation piece both brightens the gallery and is already proving to be a handy learning tool. The adult photography class, which follows the junior class got a first hand look at color and how light effects it.