Tag Archives: Spring 2025

Computer Graphic Design

Color Theory – Spring 2025, Day 3: Exploring the Color Wheel and Color Harmonies

Objective:

I can use a color wheel to identify hues and their related color harmonies.  

Links:

Sensational Color – Understanding the Color Wheel: https://www.sensationalcolor.com/understanding-color/color-theory/know-color-wheel-806#.Uup6bPZgMQU 

Color Wheel – Color Calculator:
https://www.sessions.edu/color-calculator

Color Game – Method of Action:
https://color.method.ac/

Topics Discussed:

  • Color Theory
  • Color Harmonies
  • Color Wheel
  • Primary Colors
  • Secondary Colors
  • Tertiary Colors
  • Triad
  • Complementary
  • Split Complementary
  • Analogous
  • Monochromatic
  • Shade
  • Tint

Instructions:

Follow along with the in-class discussion on the color wheel and color definitions.

  1. After you have watched the tutorials, check out the color calculator to see an easy utility for calculating color harmonies based on a given color.
  2. Next, play the Color Game at the Method of Action website. Try to get the highest score possible for each of the Color Harmony levels.
  3. Take a screenshot (Command+Shift+4) of your highest score. You may replay the color game as many times as you wish to try and increase your final score.
  4. Place the screenshot on the third artboard (lower left) of the Adobe Illustrator document we started this week to complete today’s activity.
  5. The highest score in each class will win a prize!

Assigned: February 11th, 2025
Teacher Pacing Due Date: February 12th, 2025

Computer Graphic Design

Color Theory – Spring 2025, Day 1: Color Vocabulary

Welcome to our Color Theory unit!

For the next couple of weeks, we are going to explore the many ways that Illustrator allows you to enhance your artwork with color. We are also going to explore color theory and the different meanings colors have for different groups. With this knowledge, you will be able to more effectively communicate your desired message to everyone who looks at your artwork.

Objective:

Students will be able to identify and explain the concepts of Color Theory and Color Harmonies by using web resources to determine the meanings of color theory vocabulary terms so that they can gain expertise in communicating using correct color theory terminology.

Links:

Sensational Color: Color Theory

Sensational Color: Getting to Know the Color Wheel

Sensational Color: Color Harmonies

Sensational Color: Color Terminology Glossary

Topics Discussed:

  • Color Theory
  • Color Harmonies
  • Color Wheel
  • Primary Colors
  • Secondary Colors
  • Tertiary Colors
  • Triad
  • Complementary
  • Split Complementary
  • Analogous
  • Monochromatic
  • Shade
  • Tint
  • Swatches Panel

Instructions:

Use the information linked below from Color Expert Kate Smith’s outstanding Sensational Color website to read about Color Theory concepts and terminology:

Sensational Color – Color Theory Explained:  https://www.sensationalcolor.com/category/understanding-color/theory

Sensational Color – The Color Wheel and Color Relationships:  https://www.sensationalcolor.com/understanding-color/color-theory/know-color-wheel-806#.Uup6bPZgMQU

Sensational Color – Color Harmonies:  https://www.sensationalcolor.com/color-theory/creating-color-harmony/

Sensational Color – Color Terminology Glossary: https://www.sensationalcolor.com/color-theory/color-terminology-glossary/

After you have visited the websites, create a new Illustrator Web document with four default-sized artboards, on the first (upper left) artboard, use a headline and a subhead (large font, then smaller font) to write the following vocabulary words along with their definitions:

  1. Color Harmony
  2. Hue
  3. Primary Colors (Hues)
  4. Secondary Colors (Hues)
  5. Tertiary Colors (Hues)
  6. Warm Colors
  7. Cool Colors
  8. Triad
  9. Primary Triad
  10. Secondary Triad
  11. Tetrad
  12. Complementary
  13. Split Complementary
  14. Analogous
  15. Monochromatic
  16. Tint
  17. Tone
  18. Shade

When you have found and written all your definitions, save your document. We will continue to work with this document this week and next week.

Assigned: February 5th, 2025
Teacher Pacing Due Date: February 6th, 2025