Teacher Resources
Psychology of Color
This is a resource that describes the psychology of color and how the human mind perceives it. It lists each color of the spectrum and describes how the human mind sees it and what emotion it conveys. This is a useful sources for teachers because it can help the teacher explain to the students how color plays an important part in our memory recall.
Basic Color Scheme: Intro to Color Theory
This is a resource that describes the color wheel and all of it’s small detail like primary/secondary/tertiary colors, hues, shades, tints, and so on. It also includes a small interactive of a color wheel that can show just primary/secondary/tertiary colors, shaded color, or tinted color. This is an important resource for a teacher because it provides the interactive that can be shown to students who are confused and can provide information on how colors are affected why shade and tint.
Explanation of Van Gogh and His Use of Color
This resource is a web-based description of Vincent Van Gogh and his paintings. This isn’t necessarily a resource for every teacher, but for any teacher teaching the lesson above. It is filled with all of Van Gogh’s paintings split into series and describes his painting style, brush strokes, and color palette. This could be an important resource for the teacher teaching the above lesson because it could be important to learn everything possible about Van Gogh and his work before using one of his paintings as an example in a lesson plan.
Five Minute Film Festival: Color Theory
This is a resource with 10 videos with topics that range from the basics of the color wheel and the rainbow, to the physics of how our eyeballs and brains process light, to the more abstract question of why colors can make us feel certain ways. This could be an important resource for teachers teaching this topic because this website offers numerous videos to choose from that can teach any age level. Not only does this site provide videos, it also provides links to interactives at the bottom of the page that can be used with students.
Color Theory Tutorial
This site provides explanations of the color basics (color wheel), color combinations, and it has an interactive palette picker. It also provides explanations on color theory, shades and tints, and provides color studies to help students understand complementary colors and triad relationships and how they will look in a composition. This could be a very important resource, especially the interactive palette picker because it could be so helpful for students to pick their palette before they began their paintings.
The Dimensions of Color
This resource is a website made by an art teacher in Australia that explains the principles of color. I thought that this resource was different and more helpful than some of the others because it explains the three different ways of applying color to a piece of work: glazing, mixing, and by interspersing small patches of color. This would be helpful in helping the teacher explain these three different ways of applying color and what effect each option gives a painting.
Color Uncovered: An Interactive Book for iPad
This resource is an app made by Exploratorium and is an interactive book filled with activities, lessons and questions, and articles about color and how we use it in our everyday lives- whether it’s art related, science related, or neither. It is an educational app so teachers who have access to iPads in their classroom could spend a single class looking through this app and making a lesson. It’s also FREE.
Basic Color Schemes: Introduction to Color Theory
This web page is a great source for teachers looking to find a summary of color theory. All major aspects of color are covered on this sight. There are understandable definitions of all kinds of color schemes and harmonies. If a teacher was ever in need of a refresher on what colors were about, this would be very helpful. There is also a color scheme design system that can be purchased through the website.
Color Theory: Hue and Saturation
This Youtube video is a good source for teachers to show their students if they are trying to teach about the color wheel. He explains the saturation of color and how adding complementary color can help mute a color better than just adding black. This teaches students to use other colors instead of using only black and white to add shade and highlight.
Painting Lesson: Color Mixing
This video is very dry, but can be useful to a teacher as an example for students on how to mix their paints. This should not be shown in it’s entirety, no student could ever pay attention to this whole thing. Rather, it should be played at certain colors and can replace physically mixing and wasting paints for class instruction and example.
This is a resource that describes the psychology of color and how the human mind perceives it. It lists each color of the spectrum and describes how the human mind sees it and what emotion it conveys. This is a useful sources for teachers because it can help the teacher explain to the students how color plays an important part in our memory recall.
Basic Color Scheme: Intro to Color Theory
This is a resource that describes the color wheel and all of it’s small detail like primary/secondary/tertiary colors, hues, shades, tints, and so on. It also includes a small interactive of a color wheel that can show just primary/secondary/tertiary colors, shaded color, or tinted color. This is an important resource for a teacher because it provides the interactive that can be shown to students who are confused and can provide information on how colors are affected why shade and tint.
Explanation of Van Gogh and His Use of Color
This resource is a web-based description of Vincent Van Gogh and his paintings. This isn’t necessarily a resource for every teacher, but for any teacher teaching the lesson above. It is filled with all of Van Gogh’s paintings split into series and describes his painting style, brush strokes, and color palette. This could be an important resource for the teacher teaching the above lesson because it could be important to learn everything possible about Van Gogh and his work before using one of his paintings as an example in a lesson plan.
Five Minute Film Festival: Color Theory
This is a resource with 10 videos with topics that range from the basics of the color wheel and the rainbow, to the physics of how our eyeballs and brains process light, to the more abstract question of why colors can make us feel certain ways. This could be an important resource for teachers teaching this topic because this website offers numerous videos to choose from that can teach any age level. Not only does this site provide videos, it also provides links to interactives at the bottom of the page that can be used with students.
Color Theory Tutorial
This site provides explanations of the color basics (color wheel), color combinations, and it has an interactive palette picker. It also provides explanations on color theory, shades and tints, and provides color studies to help students understand complementary colors and triad relationships and how they will look in a composition. This could be a very important resource, especially the interactive palette picker because it could be so helpful for students to pick their palette before they began their paintings.
The Dimensions of Color
This resource is a website made by an art teacher in Australia that explains the principles of color. I thought that this resource was different and more helpful than some of the others because it explains the three different ways of applying color to a piece of work: glazing, mixing, and by interspersing small patches of color. This would be helpful in helping the teacher explain these three different ways of applying color and what effect each option gives a painting.
Color Uncovered: An Interactive Book for iPad
This resource is an app made by Exploratorium and is an interactive book filled with activities, lessons and questions, and articles about color and how we use it in our everyday lives- whether it’s art related, science related, or neither. It is an educational app so teachers who have access to iPads in their classroom could spend a single class looking through this app and making a lesson. It’s also FREE.
Basic Color Schemes: Introduction to Color Theory
This web page is a great source for teachers looking to find a summary of color theory. All major aspects of color are covered on this sight. There are understandable definitions of all kinds of color schemes and harmonies. If a teacher was ever in need of a refresher on what colors were about, this would be very helpful. There is also a color scheme design system that can be purchased through the website.
Color Theory: Hue and Saturation
This Youtube video is a good source for teachers to show their students if they are trying to teach about the color wheel. He explains the saturation of color and how adding complementary color can help mute a color better than just adding black. This teaches students to use other colors instead of using only black and white to add shade and highlight.
Painting Lesson: Color Mixing
This video is very dry, but can be useful to a teacher as an example for students on how to mix their paints. This should not be shown in it’s entirety, no student could ever pay attention to this whole thing. Rather, it should be played at certain colors and can replace physically mixing and wasting paints for class instruction and example.