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Use color theory in applied work
Assessment Strategies
Project, Skill Demonstration, and Written Product or Quiz
Criteria
Skill Demonstration: create color wheels for additive and subtractive color spaces
Project: show effective use of the three properties of color—hue, value, chroma; show atmospheric perspective’s effect on spatial composition; show effective color contrast by attribute and simultaneous contrast
Written product or quiz: identify role of light and vision in color perception
Written product: compare color theories; discuss optical mixing in art
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Create harmony based visual communication
Assessment Strategies
Skill Demonstration, Project, Written Product and Oral Presentation
Criteria
Skill demonstration: complete a color gamut map for digital illustrative work
Project: apply color harmony strategies like monochromatic, analogous, complementary, split complementary, triad, and tetrad harmonies to a typographic design problem
Written product: compare color temperature in effective graphic communication, and analyze artist, illustrator, filmmaker and /or graphic designer use of harmonies in creating meaning
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Use tone and value effectively
Assessment Strategies
Skill Demonstration, Project
Criteria
Skill demonstration: generate tonal modeling of three-dimensional form using photoshop
Skill demonstration: generate value, tone, and complimentary color charts using wet media
Skill demonstration: apply monotone and duotone effects in photoshop to alter meaning and value pattern in a composition
Project: create heightened achromatic and monochromatic illustrations; employ a secondary light source to enhance the work
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Implement color association
Assessment Strategies
Graphic, Skill Demonstration, and Written Product
Criteria
Graphic: graphically interpret quotes and statements about color
Project: create a class wide color index resource
Written product: describe associations of color-—physiological, universal and individual
Written product: evaluate color associations in applied work such as films, animation, campaigns and environments.
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Evaluate color contextually and across all color spaces
Assessment Strategies
Skill Demonstration, Project
Criteria
Skill demonstration: Apply accessibility tools to digital files and make corrections
Project:
Concept a color strategy and design for an information graphic
Generate isometric graphics and charts using Adobe Illustrator
Apply alternate color models such as cmyk, rgb and html, and pantone spot color to the project palette
Apply global color to palette
Grayscale work to ensure contrast
Proof work for color blindness
Apply Web aim level 2 accessibility test to work Modify palette to ensure work meets standard
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Use a colorist’s “color first” mindset and build color confidence
Assessment Strategies
Project, Written Product
Criteria
Project:
Analyze observations and photographs of color over 16 weeks
Generate an original creative response to the process
Written product: recommend color resources to class
Identify colorist roles in creative industries