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In this lesson, students explore additive primary colors (RGB), alongside traditional subtractive primaries (RYB). Through hands-on activities, they’ll learn how these color models influence both digital and physical art, enhancing their understanding of color mixing and its application in various mediums. The lesson will include demonstrations on how to blend light for digital media and paint for traditional art, encouraging experimentation and creative expression.
Students will explore the integration of additive primary colors (RGB) through the use of electric circuits, while also learning how the human eye perceives primary colors. Using simple circuits with red, green, and blue LEDs, students will observe how these colors blend to form other hues when combined at varying intensities. The lesson will also include an explanation of how the retina’s photoreceptors (cones) respond to different wavelengths of light, allowing us to perceive the full spectrum of colors. This will help students understand how the additive color model works in both digital media and the natural world. The project combines science, technology, and art, offering a hands-on approach to mastering color mixing.
1. Identify the primary colors in both the subtractive (RYB/CMY) and additive (RGB) color systems.
2. Mix colors using both systems—experimenting with paints (RYB/CMY) and LED lights or a digital tool (RGB)—to observe differences.
3. Understand how electric circuit works.
4. Compare and analyze the results of color mixing in each system, explaining why paints create darker colors while lights create brighter ones.
5. Recognize real-world applications of both systems in art, design, printing, and digital media.
6. Apply their knowledge by creating a small project that incorporates both traditional and digital color mixing techniques.
Conversation about color perception, about the meaning of Primary colors for painters, experimantation with colors and their mixtures.
First experimentation tran explanations. What do you think questions how does it work,
First experimentation then explanation about mixing colors with RGB LEDs.
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