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Lesson Plans


Analogous Colour Lessons

From: Laura McCoy (Laura_McCoy.ca)
Date: Tue Feb 01 2000 - 16:06:59 PST

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    Hi,

    I hve two analogous colour lessons that I have used with success. Both are
    slightly adapted from others' work (including something that was posted
    here some time back.

    1. A Cubist Contour Drawing. We talk about cubism, fragmentation of the
    objects, etc. Students do a contour line drawing of a still life that I
    have set up in class. They fragment this using various shapes drawn over
    the still life (I give instructions, like 2 diagonal lines, 1 semi-circle,
    a triangle). Choosing an analogous colour scheme, they colour using pencil
    crayons, thinking about blending and shading, focal point etc.

    2. Analogous Painting. Students select a small portion of a photograph
    from a magazine that has a lot of visual interest and a variety of
    colours. They reproduce this on a larger scale (can use gridding for
    this). This is then painted (tempera, acrylic or watercolour would be
    fine) using an analogous colour scheme. The small segment does not
    necesssarily identify the object (I remember a student doing a part of a
    wing of a butterfly, for example) and it becomes a more abstract colour
    study.

    Hope these are of interest.

    Laura 

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