Faceted

Painting Gemstones using Color Theory

Essential Question

How do artists/designers use knowledge of color theory to plan and execute artwork?

Faceted Part 1

Drawing Gemstones Using Colored Pencil

Objectives:

• Select a gemstone according to a shape or color that represents some aspect of your personality.
• Apply observational drawing skills to render the gemstone as realistically as possible.

Artist CJ Hendry uses colored pencils to draw hyper realistic gemstones.

CJ Hendry

Faceted Part 2

Painting Gemstones with Tints, Shades, and Tones

VOCABULARY:

-color wheel-a circle with different colored sectors in the order of the spectrum

-tertiary colors-mixing a primary and secondary color ex. red-organe

-monochromatic-one color and it’s tints, shades, and tones

-analogous-3-5 colors dude by side on the color wheel

-tint-adding white to a color

-shade-adding black to a color

-tone-adding grey to a color

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Angie Crabtree

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Objectives::

• Use primary colors to complete a color wheel
• Demonstrate skill in creating a palette using 3 tints, shades, and Tones if each of the colors represented in your gemstone
• Demonstrate the ability to apply tempera to represent the different values in the gemstone painting final piece.

Materials:

• Gemstone images
• Chipboard (18”x 24”)
• 6”x 10” chipboard for palette
• Ruler
• Tempera cakes
• Brushes
• Water cups
• Paper towels
• Color pencils
• Sketchbooks
• Color wheel handout
• Palette grid practice sheet
• Transparencies and overhead projector
• Sharpie markers
• White color pencil

Procedures:

• Select a gemstone image and complete the tints, shades, and tones practice (see next slide.)
• Place a transparency over your image and use a sharpie to trace the contours including all the value shapes (reflections, shadows, and highlights.)
• Use an overhead projector to project the image into the larger chipboard and trace it with a pencil
• Paint each shape with the correct tint, shade, or tone from your palette practice.

Option 2: trace from the promethean board

If you have access to a promethean board that uses a projector, you can simply project their gemstones onto the board instead of using the overhead and a transparency. Then they tape their paper onto the board and trace the projection.

Mixing Colors

Using only red, yellow, and blue tempera cakes, mix the colors to fill in ALL the sections of the color wheel

Try to stay inside the lines and create smooth, opaque colors. .

The Color Wheel

Use this color wheel or the one in your textbook as a reference to mix and match your colors to to make your own color wheel. .

Tints, Shades,& Tones oh my!!

Tints=adding white to a color

Shades=adding black to a color

Tones=adding grey to a color

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Looking at your gemstone image and your color wheel, identify 5-7 analogous colors and paint them in the top row of your grid. Next, paint 3 tints, then 3 shades, then 3 tones underneath each row just as I demonstrated.

Drawing

the grid

You will be given an 8”x 10” piece of chipboard which is like a thin cardboard. You will be able to actually just trace the width of a standard sized ruler all the way across and down the board to create a grid with 8 squares going across and 10 going down. The original 3-5 analogous colors go across the top.

Labeling the grid

Use a white colored pencil to label the first column as follows:

Original Color

T1

T2

T3

S-16-30

S2

S3

To1

To2

To3

Identifying the colors

Students should place their color wheel next to their gemstone to determine what 3-5 analogous colors they see

A Note for the Teacher…

The following slides contain images of actual gemstones that can be printed for students to use as resource images. The slides with one larger gemstone image can be projected onto the promethean board and students can trace directly from there without having to first trace onto a transparency.

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