Monochromatic Painting

Monochromatic Painting

Lesson Summary

In this lesson the teachers introduced us to the concepts of tints and shades of a base color. A tint of a color is when you add white to the color. A shade of a color is when you add black to the color. For this project we had to draw at least eight of the same type of shape on the paper. We then had to have at least one shape that was painted our base color, 3 shapes painted with different shades, and 3 shapes painted with different tints. When we were done with the monochromatic painting we had to write on our rubric why 3 things about our painting, such as why we picked the shape we did, why we did not make darker shades or lighter tints, or why we picked the color that we did. 

Extension Activity

An extension activity for this activity would be to give students a quilt pattern and have them paint in in a monochromatic color scheme. The teacher would provide many different patterns for the students to work from. They would be able to choose any base color they wanted from the primary and secondary colors. They would have to have a minimum of 3 tints of the base color and 3 shades of the base color as well as the base color in their painting. Students would need to make sure they painted the quilt pattern so it would look like an actual quilt.