8/12/2019 Color Wheel Exercise

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Objectives: Students will be able to...

1. Understand the effect of color on emotion.

2. Use the color wheel and images from the web to create an

emotional self-portrait.

3. Make associations between color usage and personal self

expression.

Materials/Preparation:

1. Magazine images, web photos, drawings, scissors.

2. Colorwheel_template.jpg, downloaded and imported into:

3. Kidpix/Paint, or

4. Printed Colorwheel_template, Paper and color pencils/

pens.

5. Scanner.

Definitions:

1. Color any tool or technology used for sending and/or

receiving messages.

2. Emotions any tool or technology used for sending

messages from a central source to many receivers;

usually only one-way communication is possible.

3. Communication any message sent via media; could be

words, pictures, sounds - or multimedia.

Step by step instructions:

As a group, students watch the Lesson on Color in Creativity

Express and do the quiz together.

Students will make their own emotional color wheel by filling

in each slice of the wheel with collected images that represent

the emotions they connect with that color and then tint slice

the appropriate color.

Color and Emotion Cutouts

Using web images, drawing materials and found images collect

and create a group of images that each reflect the emotions

evoked by each color of a color wheel.

1. Right Click on the link to the template colorwheel_

template.jpg.

2. File>save as

3. Save the template in your folder on your computer.

4. Open up Photoshop or Kidpix or Paint

5. Go to File>open>colorwheel_template.jpg

6. In Photoshop/Kidpix or Paint, open images that

represent the emotions you connect with one of the

colors. You may use images from the internet, take

photographs, scan images or drawings, or paint in

Photoshop. This does not mean items of a certain color,

it is about the emotion that you connect with this color.

7. Cut and paste these images into a slice on the wheel.

Instructions for this are on the assignment #2 page.

8. Erase or transform the images as needed to make them

all fit into one slice.

9. To tint the slice: double click on the color square and

choose a color

10. Double click on the paintbrush tool

11. Look for the opacity dial on the paintbrush controls

12. Slide the dial down to about half way. now when youpaint, the paint will be translucent, or see-through.

13. Paint the slice

14. Repeat for each color slice...make sure the colors are in

the proper place on the wheel!!!!

Color Name Emotions you connect with this color

Things that make you feel this emotion (people, places,

objects, activities)

Red mad, humiliated, offended, outraged, insulted,

arrogance, messes, ignorance

Orange silly, cheery, comforting, friends, mac n cheese,

reading, talking about literature and art, going to museums

Yellow alert, exposed, weary, desert, Miami, sun, smile

Green fresh, natural, clean, safe, peaceful, ferns, woods,

moss, pine trees, hiking, putting things away, riding my bike,

knitting, gardening

Blue mysterious, unknown, vast, suffocating, ocean, sky,

airplanes, Jaws

Purple important, old and wise, confident, decadent,royalty, when Im old Ill wear purple, plums

Resources:

http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-meaning.html

http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Fall05/rosenblatt/red.html

http://www.colormatters.com/brain.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_symbolism_and_psychology

MAKE AN EMOTIONAL COLOR WHEEL!