These were done by 7th and 8th grade everyday students. They worked very hard on them for several weeks. They are quite large. The guitars are life size and the color wheels are 14" diameter. I saw the color wheel guitar idea here at the dieviantArt and tweaked it for our assignment needs.
Students had to either design a color wheel wedge slice with four sections and then trace twelve times or they had to draw their guitar body neck and head and divided into twelve sections then divided into four sections.
In each section students had to mix the parent color, a tint, a shade and show the complementary color of the parent color.
I allowed the kids to use: Red, Yellow, Blue, White, Black and Magenta tempera paint.
To top it off each student had to paint a gray scale for either the neck of the guitar or that corresponded with the content of their color wheel design.
more to come in the next few days
Very cool, but I'm not understanding one thing. -did the students make both the round color wheel and the one fitted to the guitar? Or did they cut out the round color wheel to fit the guitar? Or did they just do a round color wheel OR a guitar? I love the idea of the value scale guitar neck! Terrific!
ReplyDeleteThese are great! I've never seen value studies and color wheels done in guitar form, what a great idea!
ReplyDeleteHi Phyl,
ReplyDeletestudents could choose to either make a complex color wheel OR the guitar. The kids who chose to make the guitar drew the guitar body and then divided it into 12 wedges and then each wedge into four sections. Glad you like them
Very nice idea! I love the guitar variation. I wonder if you could open that up to other shapes as well? drumset? basketballs? etc?
ReplyDeletehappy new year for all
ReplyDeletethanks for sharing I will try to do it with my students
must give a try
ReplyDeleteDo you have a rubric for this assignment?
ReplyDeleteWhy did you have them use magenta paint?
ReplyDeletethe blue and red tempra our school gets makes a very odd purple...very close to almost a black so we have to add some magenta to get a better purple
ReplyDeleteWhen my kids were in High School Art they had an assignment to make a color wheel out of something that wasn't a traditional style. It had to be through the tertiary colors and have at least one tint and shade of each color. My daughter used a classic spiral stair case. My son used a map of the solar system. They turned out really well...
ReplyDeletewhat is a parent color? excuse my ignorance!
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