MAKE AN EmOTIONAL COLOR WHEEL!

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. Denitions: 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 lling 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 reect 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 t 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 you paint, 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, condent, decadent, royalty, when Im old Ill wear purple, plums Resources: http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-meaning.html http://iml.jou.u.edu/projects/Fall05/rosenblatt/red.html http://www.colormatters.com/brain.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_symbolism_and_psychology