Objectives

  • Understand that color is a property of light and how that affects mixing colors

  • Describe the effect of light in color

  • Differentiate the properties of color: hue, value and intensity

  • Understand how the weight of color can balance a composition

  • Identify the three basic ways color can be used in painting

  • Describe how color can evoke emotion

  • Understand visual rhythm

  • Describe how shapes and repetition can conjure feelings of rhythm in an image

  • Describe how design elements are arranged to achieve alternating rhythm within an image

  • Identify examples of where inherent rhythm is found 

  1. Start by downloading and reviewing the vocabulary terms for Unit 3, below.

Download Unit 3 Vocabulary

2. Watch the videos below and learn the stuff!

 

3. Review the link on Rhythm and Proportion.

4. Review the following notes: Design Principles

5. Unit 3 Project: Rhythm & Color in Music Design

Goal: To visually interpret music/rhythm in a variety of media, shapes and marks, while using a full range of colors.

Watch these two videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygRNoieAnzI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8paMx5Hphf4

Guidelines:

• Step 1 - Select a song. Listen carefully to determine the instruments used and assign a different visual element/mark-making system to each instrument.

• Step 2 - Listen to the song and determine the rhythm, style, and mood of each instrument: fast/slow, dull/sharp, etc. Think about how these instruments interact with each other and how this might be presented visually. Think about continuance, flow, and movement.

• Step 3 - Select a color scheme (complementary, analogous etc....) for your composition based on the mood of the song.

• Requiring color does not mean your work has to be vibrant like a rainbow, colors can be softened, dulled or faint, OR  they can be bright, poppy, and saturated... You could have 3 large bright colorful areas and other areas with darker more shaded or lighter colors...Really explore the range of color possibilities with the media you choose.

• Step 4 - Create your finished piece in a combination of at least two different media-for example-colored pencils and paint, ink and collage materials

• Fill the page! LEAVE NO WHITE SPACE.

• Step 5- Submit your composition along with a link to your song.

TIPS:

• Instrumentals, jazz, symphonies, songs with minimal lyrics work best. If you choose a song with lyrics, do not illustrate the lyrics. Do not depict images of instruments, guitars, drums, horns etc.

• Non-representational marks only-this is an important vocab word-this means that the marks you’re making are abstract and not an exact representation of an object. For example: A repetitive red smudge for repetitive trumpet noises, or flowy blue lines for violins.

• A common representation of music is a graphic equalizer, ie “sound waves” or bars that go up and down with the music. This is not the only way to depict music. Think beyond a simple left to right movement, (something different than how we read words on a page).   

Materials:

• 1 sheet of 11 x 14 paper

• Colored paper, pencil, pen, ink, marker, paint, collage materials

Written Portion: Include a written portion, 100-150 words long, explaining how your work effectively expresses and explores rhythm and color. Why did you choose the song? What color schemes did you demonstrate? What is the significance of the colors, lines and marks you made. Identify the type(s) of visual rhythm and how your mark making expresses the rhythm(s). Define the methods/process you used. Reference and highlight at least 3 of the unit's vocabulary words. Your writing should be college level, essay format.

You know what works really well?? If you submit your image AND your written summary together in one doc, pdf, or google slide file! 

Demo Video- watch one of our course instructors work through the design prompt.

• Getting Started https://youtu.be/3ugxoOH2GJ4

• Work Demo https://youtu.be/zd1vJrgaqkA