For this first project I want everyone to
bring in as many "color" magazines as they
possibly can.
During the first two weeks we will be creating
what are known as Hue studies.
In order to do this we will need to cut up
the magazines.
I will want you to locate large fields of
color in the magazine images and then cut
them into roughly one half to three eighths
inch squares.
Then you will create three primary color Hue
studies
You will construct your Hue study like this.
I advise you to keep your color swatches in
envelopes so that you can work on this in
places other than in this classroom...it's
time consuming.
You will need a sheet of white card stock,
a cutting mat, an x-acto knife and a glue
stick.
Here I am about ready to complete the upper
left hand corner of my Hue study....
You should cut your white card stock material
to 8 inches wide by 10 1/2 inches high.
This is so that they will fit inside the sleeve
of your three ring binder.
The dimensions that I want you to use to create
the quadrants are shown here.
They are 3 inches by 3 inches per quadrants
with the center of the overall four quad being
four inches with three inches either side
of the center.
The overall quadrants are thus six by six
inched and it is positioned two inches from
the top of the page.
Your finished Hue Study will look like this
Blue example shown here.
Notice that we have four quadrants and that
the colors (hues) are associated with one
another by value.
The darkest value is in the upper left hand
corner and the lightest in the lower right.
The next darkest to the upper right and the
second lightest in the lower left.
Please note that I am not specifically asking
you to locate hues of exact or precise value
to position inside of each individual quadrant.
I simply want you go come close.
The idea is so that when the quadrants are
completed, you will have an "overall" sense
of a specific value.
This is the way we are going to train your
eye to begin to look at color.
You will be creating three of these, each
one representing one of the three primary
colors....1 for blue, 1 for red , and 1 for
yellow.
Also be sure that your three boards have....your
name, Hue Study Assignment and the specific
Color information in the lower left corner
of each board.
