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Additional resources for educators and students

A page dedicated to additional resources, useful to your lessons and or extension tasks for students.

Additional resources for educators and students

Various resources related to colour theory for teachers to supply to students or to implement in their lessons.

 

Colour theory overview

  1. colour matters, a useful link to extra information about colour theory. http://www.colormatters.com/ 

  2. http://color.hailpixel.com/

  3. http://colorhunter.com/

  4. http://paletton.com/#uid=1000u0kllllaFw0g0qFqFg0w0aF

  5. Web Color KiloChart. 1068 color chips with decimal. RGB codes. https://www.visibone.com/color/kilochart.html

  6. colour calculator is a useful link with more information about colour theory http://www.sessions.edu/color-calculator

  7. adobe colour wheel, has selections of different types of colour such as 'analogous' and complementary. Good for students who are struggling to understand the different types of colour. Can also aid media/vis com students in web and graphic design https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/ 

  8. colourpod, a website that sources most/all of colour theory, has good sources for colour pallettes as well http://www.colourpod.com/

 

Mixing colours

  1. 1500 Colour Mixing Recipes For Oil, Acrylic & Watercolour, William F. Powell, Walter Foster Publishing, ISBN9781600582837, Hardback – 176 pages http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/shop/item/9781600582837

 

Colour theory related apps and games

  1. sketchbook express for ipad https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/sketchbook-express-for-ipad/id410871280?mt=8

  2. ‘brushes’ for ipad https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/brushes-3/id545366251?mt=8

  3. 'trymix' weblink, a game for experimenting with mixing colours http://trycolors.com/

  4. http://www.ipadartroom.com/the-color-mixing-medley/

  5. 'blendoku a free colour arranging game, app for smartphones and ipads https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lonelyfew.blendoku&hl=en

  6. Color Zen is a new kind of puzzle game for phones and tablets. One that invites you to put on your headphones, relax, and find your way through an abstract world of colors and shapes. There is no score. No penalties for failure. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.largeanimal.colorzen&hl=en

  7. True Color is a game inspired by the Stroop effect. You need to check if the name of the color written matches with the color displayed. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aurelhubert.truecolor&hl=en

  8. Solve a jigsaw of light by blending colors and combining geometric shapes, in a cerebral challenge that's as relaxing as it is addictive. Chromixa is a unique and highly stylized puzzle title https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/chromixa-free/id360094655?mt=8 demonstration at  https://youtu.be/MTOc6bzpsSY

  9. http://randomcolour.com/

  10. arrange and select correct hex codes, good for advanced web design students http://www.rgbchallenge.com/

  11. MOMA art lab https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moma-art-lab/id529886963?mt=8

 

Colour theory related exhibitions/artists

  1. ​'Wootini meets MoMA in a color-theory smackdown' article on 'I Will Miss You When I'm Gone' exhibition on colour theory http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A216592

  2. MOMA's Macheine for living colour; This installation of twentieth-century color charts shows that there is no one “true” model for color. Rather, visualizations reflect the orientation of their creators. http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/livingcolor/

  3. colour and light, an exhibition at art gallery of NSW, good information on how colour theory was implemented in past works, http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/education/education-materials/education-kits/exhibition-kits/sydney-moderns/colour-and-light/ which linked into a lecture series http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/calendar/colour-theory/

  4. Exhibition link at heidi, very well put together, useful for students to look at http://www.heide.com.au/assets/files/Education/Colour-BazaarNine-Contemporary-Works.pdf

 

Other useful resources related to colour theory

  1. A VISUAL ARCHIVE OF COLOUR SYSTEMS http://culturevore.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/a-visual-archive-of-colour-systems.html

  2. useful link to breif descriptions of colour systems in art and science throughout history http://www.colorsystem.com/?page_id=551&lang=en

  3. idea for an activity related to colour theory https://www.pinterest.com/pin/21955116908295796/

  4. colour pallette website/blog, useful for sourcing ideas for colour pallettes http://chromaa.com/

  5. COLOR. By Tom Sachs, Tom Sachs Movies, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBM_9W_e_D4

 

Colour theory & supporting theorists + history behind it's evolution into modern colour theory

  1. munsler colour system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munsell_color_system (as an activity, an expantion on creating a colour wheel, students could create their own munsler colour tree https://www.google.com.au/search?q=munsell+colour+tree&es_sm=122&biw=1366&bih=599&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=K3teVdygKcHt8gXviYPwBw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ)

  2. Itten's colour theory http://a-mushtaq1114-dp.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/colour-theory-lecture-3-ittens-7.html

 

Educators: I have included these resources as a reference page of sorts for teachers to access so that they don't have to search for useful links. This page includes various resources related to colour theory for teachers to supply to students or to implement in their lessons. 

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