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Kaleidoscope Eyes

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The grade 9 art class is busy, working on their new project that is helping them learn about colour theory, painting techniques, and math.  "Kaleidoscope Eyes" is a new project that allows all students to contribute their design to a larger project that will be displayed in the new year. To begin, students learned some theory by creating colour wheels that helped them identify primary, secondary and tertiary colours.  They also learned a bit about mixing and brush techniques. After this, the class was introduced to a video about colour theory that also helped them learn about a few colour plans: The colour plans that we are paying the most attention to are:  Monochromatic :  ONE COLOUR, plus its tints and shades Analagous :  THREE or FOUR COLOURS side-by-side on the colour wheel Complementary :  TWO COLOURS directly across from each other on the colour wheel The class decided to create paintings of their eyes (which involved plenty of fun 'se