Create > Color Scheme Still Life

Create > Color Scheme Still Life


(Triad Harmonies: 3 equidistant hues)

Goal: Create an accurate still life rendering in a chosen color scheme.

Studio Activity:
Take a photograph or sit and draw from observation a still life arrangement.  
Choose a color scheme using the list and image below.

• Triad Harmonies: three equidistant hues
• Complementary Colors: opposite hues
• Split Complementary: One hue with hues on either side of its complement
• Analogous: adjacent  hues

Accurately render the composition using your color scheme and a full range of values.

Visual Examples:

(Complementary Colors: opposite hues)


(Split complementary: one hue with hues on either side of its complement)


(Analogous: adjacent hues)

Generalize, Reflect & Publish:

Instructional Strategy

• Evaluate the results

Learning Activity

Reflect > Should I go back and rework anything? Have you done anything special with the art elements (line, color, shape, texture, value)  and principles? (Unity/variety, balance, emphasis contrast, rhythm, proportion/scale, figure/ground relationship) What are the dominant shapes, expressive forms, color schemes, and textures that carry significance? Is there symbolism used in the work to convey meaning other than what one sees? Is the work ordered and balanced? Or chaotic and disturbing? What gives the work its uniqueness? Does the work evoke any feelings?

Instructional Strategy

• Providing Recognition

Learning Activity

Publish > Share your album to our G+Community > Concepts & Creations category

Instructional Strategy

• Providing Feedback

Learning Activity

Critique > Give positive feedback > +1 every image that deserves it Give peer feedback > VTS Visual Thinking Strategies > http://goo.gl/1WWmBY

Self-assess > Evaluate > AP Thinglink Rubric Scoring Guidelines >  http://goo.gl/ejQq7B Life Skills Survey > http://goo.gl/iEUqr View responses > http://goo.gl/8YDnYF