COLOR

Introduction

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There's hardly an everyday subject about which people have more confusion and mis-information than color. Even professional scientists are often — perhaps I should even say “usually” — confused about color.

The main cause of this widespread confusion is the misinformation we're all fed in grade school. But that really only pushes the question back a step: why are schoolteachers so confused about color?

With colors you can set a mood, attract attention, or make a statement. You can use color to energize, or to cool down. By selecting the right color scheme, you can create an ambiance of elegance, warmth or tranquility, or you can convey an image of playful youthfulness. Color can be your most powerful design element if you learn to use it effectively.

Colors affect us in numerous ways, both mentally and physically. A strong red color has been shown to raise the blood pressure, while a blue color has a calming effect.

Being able to use colors consciously and harmoniously can help you create spectacular results.

Task

This Webquestis designed to help Pre-school pupils for them to familiarize the different primary colors . In making this Webquest, we aim to let our expected audience be able to give some examples of each color they commonly see around them and later appreciate and enjoy knowing by the things that belong to each color. We hope that you will enjoy and learn from our WebQuest!

You and your team members are a committee of art experts in charge of creating an art display to showcase the many aspects of color, including the science of color, its formal qualities, and its emotional qualities. Though the display is to be a collaborative effort, each member is responsible for the following work:

Fill out a coloring sheet.
List the 3 primary colors.
Define the following terms:
- color
For each of the following colors, list an emotion(s) or word(s) that immediately comes to mind:
- red
- yellow
- blue

Process

CIRCLE TIME

After completing theactivity sheet, meet with other team members to discuss your answers. Decide how you are going to apply what you've learned so far to your project. Each team member will use information that specifically pertains to their role in the assignment. After each member has chosen a specific role from the following list, he/she will surf the links provided and collect any information (text or graphics) to create your display.

The Project

Choose one of the following roles:

Scientist: Find examples of color mixing, color theory, and color interaction, and create a poster using the information and visual examples that you find.
Historian: Surf the links and find examples of artists and artwork, from a variety of time periods and cultures, that will be used in the display. Include a description of the color scheme used by the artist, and a brief explanation of that artists' color theory.
Artist: Explore the links provided, and create a design for each of the color schemes. Your artwork may be in the style of particular artists you have studied.

Evaluation

For each of the following emotions/words, list a color(s) that immediately comes to mind on the right side of the table:

HOT
HAPPY
COLD
PEACEFUL
ANGRY
EXCITED

Conclusion

COLOR

Is the aspect of things that is caused by differing qualities of light being reflected or emitted by them.
It is a powerful tool.
It tied to religious, cultural, political and social influences.
It affects mood.
It can communicate.
It has cultural significance.
It has political associations.

3 PRIMARY COLORS:

To see color, you have to have light. When light shines on an object some colors bounce off the object and others are absorbed by it. Our eyes only see the colors that are bounced off or reflected.

The sun’s rays contain all the colors of the rainbow mixed together. This mixture is known as white light. When white light strikes a white crayon or marker barrel, it appears white to us because it absorbs no color and reflects all color equally. A black crayon or marker cap absorbs all colors equally and reflects none, so it looks black to us. While artists consider black a color, scientists do not because black is the absence of all color.

All light rays contain color. Light is made of electromagnetic waves. These waves spread out from any light source, such as the sun. Light waves travel at tremendous speed (186,000 miles or 300,000 kilometers per second). Different colors have different wavelengths, which is the distance between corresponding parts of two of the waves. The longest wavelength of light that humans can see is red. The shortest is violet. Ultraviolet has an even shorter wavelength, but humans cannot see it. Some birds and bees can see ultraviolet light. Infrared has a longer wavelength than red light, and humans can not see this light but can feel the heat infrared generates.

Why are school teachers so confused about color?

Complexity

I think there are two reasons. One is that color is by no means as simple a subject as it appears. For example, there are two kinds of color mixing (additive and subtractive). Worse yet, our earliest experiences with color usually are concerned with common technologies like paints or watercolors or crayons; but these media involve a complex mixture of both additive and subtractive color mixing. So our everyday experiences with color can't be analyzed in a simple way. No wonder we're misled by it.

2. Terminology

The second problem — related to the first — is that our everyday vocabulary of color names is both inadequate and ambiguous. For example, it fails to allow for the three different dimensions of color: we just have a number of named categories (like red, green, blue, purple, white, black, brown, …) that involve different dimensions of color, without distinguishing between them. So we need to have names for the dimensions of color space before we can discuss colors sensibly.

Worse yet, discussions of color are often confined to two-dimensional surfaces: the pages of books, school blackboards, computer screens. That makes it even harder to think of color as three-dimensional, because one of the three dimensions has to be suppressed to fit on the two-dimensional surface we're looking at.

Now that you have explored the scientific, formal, and emotional aspects of color, you are more likely to recognize its uses in your surroundings and its effects on society. Hopefully you are more aware of the infinite number of choices you have when creating your own art, and the environment in which you live

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