INTERPRETING ART

PROMPTS FOR CRITIQUE AND UNDERSTANDING

Here are a few presentations to help you interpreting art, structuring a critique, examine and evaluate creative works.

COLOUR ONLINE GAMES

INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES COLLECTED BY ROSA FERNÁNDEZ and NOELIA CALLE: 

• Colour Method. A fantastic game to help you understand the colour wheel. It is created for Method of Action, which is a collection of tools, games and articles to help you learn design. 

• educacionplastica.net: Without getting dirty!... 
• Color in motion: Colour and emotions. How colour can provoke feelings or moods. 

• Color Shecheme Designer: working with warm and colod colors, opposite ones... and colorblind.

• Color of my sound. Enjoy! Music in color.
• Color Palette Generator. Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image a client wants to work with.
• Color Hunter. A similar one.
• El color. All about color with a lot of interactive activities. 
• Creating colors: You can work right here with RGB COLORS.

Crab this colour pallete widget here

• 7 activities to be creative using colors in Plas-TIC I.
• 6 activities to learn more about colors in Plas-TIC II.

SUSO33

This is the next exhibition in the Centro de Arte Tomás y Valiente, if you are interested, there will also be a workshop based on his work. This is a documentary about him. I hope you enjoy it.

Suso33

COLOUR THEORY

This term we will experiment with colour, you should have already experienced colour before, so it should not be a difficult task. Here are some videos, presentations and the worksheets we will be working on in class to help you understanding the theory of colour:

These are the COLOUR WORKSHEETS we will be working on in class:

Now check this out!!! A video about colour, a very interesting explaination about colour perception:

THE USE OF TEMPERA PAINT

TEMPERA PAINT

Tempera, also known as egg tempera, is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigment mixed with a water-soluble binder medium (usually a glutinous material such as egg yolk or some other size). Tempera also refers to the paintings done in this medium. Tempera paintings are very long lasting, and examples from the 1st centuries AD still exist. Egg tempera was a primary method of painting until after 1500 when it was superseded by the invention of oil painting. A paint consisting of pigment and glue size commonly used in the United States as poster paint is also often referred to as "tempera paint," although the binders and sizes in this paint are different from traditional tempera paint.

 You have a lot of tutorials online, here are two four minutes examples to show you how to use temperas and how to draw the colour wheel:

WHAT ARE ART MOVEMENTS?

From the first term we have done from selfportraits to posters, black and white to colour, little pieces of art using different techniques and our previous knowledge. But what is art? What are art movements? Why are we doing what we do?