More year 9 colour wheels

The next lot of my year 9 students colour wheels are pasted below.

Gorgeous pencil work.

Fantastic use of colour in this collage.

Great use of different textures.

Food wrappers (slightly blurry for unknown reason)

Year 9 colour wheels

I have included some images below of my year 9 students finished colour wheels. Their task was to complete a colour wheel where they thought outside of the box.

Colour pencil and painted origami stars.

Coloured icy pole sticks and buttons.

Cupcake paper wrappers.

Flowers/leaves my student picked from her garden. Colours were 

as closely matched as what she had available.

Year 9 colour theory basics

As I mentioned in a previous post, I believe in teaching colour theory to all year levels. I make the information they learn more and more complicated each year.

Below is a copy of the colour theory sheets I use with my year 9's when starting the colour theory unit.

Primary colour collages

I've just finished teaching my grade 7 art class (12 year olds) the basic of colour theory. Below are a few examples of their primary colour collages. I was really thrilled with some of their creative results.

My work place has given me permission to publish photos of my students work as long as I don't publish their names or photos of the actual students.

Silkworms made to spin coloured silk - Australian Geographic

Silkworms made to spin coloured silk - Australian Geographic

I thought this was a really interesting article, I had no idea that the actual silk worms changed their colours. This is the link to the article
silkworms-spin-coloured-silk

Colour theory tasks

I believe that colour is one of the fundamental elements of art and design. I always do a series of basic sheets with all my year 7,8 and 9 students, and then give them a more detailed project.

For the year 7's it is often the first time they have done much colour theory. It is more of a refresher for the year 8 and 9's. The practical task they do will change every year so they don't do the same project more than once.

My year 7's main task is a primary colour collage (photos coming)

My year 8's made a secondary colour collage (no photos sorry).

My year 9's complete a colour wheel as creatively as possible. (photos coming)

I have pasted images below of a few of the handouts I use with my students. Feel free to use these with your own classes.

I use the sheets below in my year 8 class.

        

The sheet below is one I often do with the year 8's as a bit of a fun fill in activity. 

Publishing of student work

I had asked my workplace a while back about posting photos of students work on here. I just got an answer- Yay. As long as I don't publish student names and ask their permission I'm allowed to.

I have discussed with my students the pro's and con's and what it all means for them.

I will start posting photos of their work really soon.

I've been away for a while

I haven't been posting on here for a while as I've had some major life changing issues going on. I won't go into detail at this point but I have had a very long and difficult few months.

Things are moving forward now and I've been busy at work and have a lot of textiles/artwork to catch up on.

My cats are still keeping me company as always. One of them just scared me half to death by putting her paw on my shoulder. I didn't realise she had snuck onto the back of the couch behind me.

This is Millie below making use of anything she can for a pillow.