Collage - 701

A pochoir print of Matisse’s “Polynesia”

Inspired by the need to create something positive in our class, you are now working on two large Collage pieces for the bulletin boards outside the Art Room. In your last lesson I set you a challenge to create a Collage of cut-paper shapes inspired by the work of Henri Matisse in the length of one period, which you did. Your first collage is based on the themes of the Sea, Underwater, Creatures. This week you will continue to mount the Underwater Collage and then move onto deciding a theme for the second board working under the same tight time constraints. Good Luck!

Colour 2

Complementary Colours are the colours that are directly opposite each other on the Colour Wheel.


In art class this week you are going to make your own Complementary Colour chart for your Development Sketchbooks. While you are painting your chart you will probably notice how a colour and its complement seem to work very nicely side-by-side. You will also notice that the colours appear to be strong and might even feel like they vibrate when they are together. This is because when the two colours (red & green, blue & orange, yellow & purple) are together they seem brighter and more intense.

Your first painting assignment in Art this year is going to be a Complementary Colour painting. We will talk more about that in class. Right now you should note the colours in the painting called La Musique (Music) by Henri Matisse (1869-1964) ...

La Musique (1939)
by Henri Matisse

Colour 1

Grade 6 this week you have started making your colour charts which you will use in future painting assignments. To complete this project you will be using the Primary colours (Yellow, Red, Blue) + Black and White. After talking in class you know that using these five colours you can create all the colours that you might need when painting + all their Tints and Shades.

Your colour chart will represent the following HUES: Yellow, Orange, Red, Violet, Blue, Green, their Shades and Tints, and you will also create a Grey Scale. This exercise will teach you how to mix your own colours successfully while getting to know the properties of the paints we are using in class. It will also show you how to determine Value (the lightness or darkness) and Intensity (the brightness or dullness) of a Hue.



Words that we talked about:

1. Hue - in painting means pure colour
   
2. Tint - is a Hue with White added to it (see above)
   
3. Shade - is a Hue with Black added to it (see above)
   
4. Value - the lightness or darkness of a colour
   
5. Intensity - the brightness or dullness of a colour

I have posted some interesting links connected to colour over on the right-hand side of the blog under the heading Colour - go take a look at them.