5th Grade: Week 3 of our Digital Lesson

These already look so awesome as a black and white image, adding color helps make the design pop! It also disguises the name, by emphasizing the repetition!

*If you did not create a radial design last week, don't move on to the color! Use this week to redo it! If you're not sure make sure, you shared it with me so I can help!

Adding your Color!

I used marker on mine but you can use any materials you'd like! Remember, outlining with sharpie is optional, it all depends on the look you're going for in your piece. I would select the colors you want to use and test them on another sheet of paper to make sure you like how they all look together. Once you start, you can't really change your mind!

The key to adding color is keeping the symmetry. Think of it one triangle at a time. If I start by coloring the U red in my name, TUCKER, then the u has to be red in the whole design. This makes the colors the same as they go around the piece.

Look at the images below to see how I started and repeated the colors throughout.

Each letter repeats 8 times. Once I color it once, I have to use that same color the 7 other times it shows up in my artwork. It works the same way for the spaces in between each of the letter. Below, see how the colors from one triangle continue to repeat?

Repeat until finished!

You can work one triangle at a time, or one letter at a time. Whatever makes the most sense to you! Work carefully! For most materials in color there is no erasing to fix it!

What colors are you going to use? Analogous (colors similar to each other that are neighbors on the color wheel), Complementary (opposite each other, make colors pop!) There are so many options and color combinations!

Check out more examples below! Can you still read their name in the design still?

When you are finished, find the new activity in Seesaw and upload your final piece!