Media Arts // Graphic Design // Color Theory

1.0 Quick Write Activity

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In-Class Quick Write

Select a location you have visited that made a lasting impression good or bad. Describe the environment as
you remember it in relationship to color, include color themes, color values, and textures. Describe the way
the colors affected you emotionally and how you reacted as a consequence.

Describe the environment:

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Identify colors in the environment:

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Describe your emotional reaction:

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2.0 During Video/Lecture Activity

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Video Reflection Worksheet

As you go through the video please address the following questions in relationship to your quick write.

1. What type of colors were predominantly present at the location you described in your quick-write? Please
list them by name and also by the family they belong to (i.e primary, secondary, or tertiary color schemes)
Focus on the predominant colors or top 5.

2. Of the top 5 colors mentioned in question 1. what hue, saturation or value differences you can identify?

3. When thinking about the location you described in your quick-write, what color harmony would you most
identify it with? (i.e monochromatic, analogous, complementary, split complementary, triadic, tetradic)
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2.1 During Reading Activity: Vocabulary List

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Color Theory Vocabulary List & Definitions

Resource: ShawkiDesigns // www.shawki.com
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3.0 After Reading Activity

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End of Class Quick Write Refined – Color Theory Writing Assignment

Now that you have had the opportunity to learn about color theory and harmony and are able to identify it’s
terms and definitions. Please build on your initial quick write description by adding the art vocabulary terms
you learned in today’s lesson as well as incorporating concepts from the previous lesson on color
psychology. You may refer back to any of your notes

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