Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life....Pablo Picasso

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  Students love colors right "out of the bottle", and it takes time and experience to realize how much more fully their command of color to designate importance, direction and distance can be achieved by utilizing the benefits of neutralized tones. We need to think beyond the 3 primaries! Beginning Level students practiced this design for just that purpose.

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MAKE A CITY SKYLINE

city contour

  This city contour is divided into 3 parts as indicated by the outlines. Students were to design their own facades--stairs, windows, arches, balcony's, bridges, doors, canopes, etc. and change the contours as they desired.
  They were to select one complement group, create 9 intensites with them and repeat these in different areas of each section. The blends used were indicated as "color keys" at the top of the page. The complements below demonstrates Orange + Blue. How about a "skyscape" of your own?

YELLOW + PURPLE
RED + GREEN
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flashing arrow     How the tools were used in finished work can be viewed at Summary Designs where Level 3 and 4 students "did their thing".

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