The Elements of Art (cont.) COLOR

We have learned about five of the seven elements thus far; line, shape, form, space, and value.

We will study color for two and a half weeks (October 25th through November 10th). The first week we will make a color wheel and learn about the primaries and secondaries. The second week we will focus on color schemes and during the short three day week of Nov. 8th -10th we will focus on mixing tints, shades and tones.

Color is my favorite element. It isn't what most people think it is. People think of color as a tangible thing, like something you can hold, but it is really energy. It moves like a sound wave and its vibration stimulates little sensors inside of your eyes, just as sound vibrates little sensors in your ears. That is why color can actually produce an emotional response.