互补色花田

色彩理论中一个非常有趣的话题是互补色——即伊顿色环中彼此相对的色彩。当它们并置时，会产生强烈的对比，并在我们的视网膜上引发色彩振动。六年级学生观察了这些成对的互补色，并探讨了它们在广告、电影、摄影、时装、戏剧、平面设计与绘画等各类视觉艺术中的应用。我们还在线查找了大量基于互补色相互影响的视觉游戏与光学错觉。

我们以互补色为基础创作一幅绘画作品：每位学生首先选择自己偏爱的一组互补色，随后在两张不同的画纸上分别作画。第一张画纸仅绘制花朵；第二张画纸则绘制背景。这幅想象中的风景画使用了多种尺寸的平头与圆头画笔，最终效果需呈现鲜明的画面感与材质感——关键不在于精确描摹，而在于探索恰当的色彩层次。

针对每种选定的主色，我们都调配出一系列该色的变体：更深、更浅、更暖或更冷的色调，从而形成一组相近色系。首先，我们用所选颜色的不同明度，在同心圆环中绘制10–12个椭圆形——这些椭圆将成为我们的花朵。

为绘制背景，我们先粗略勾勒出一个太阳及其周围的同心圆，再于下方画出一片田野。接着自由涂绘，以交替的彩色条带完成。

田野部分先平涂单色，再用所选颜色的各种明度绘制茎秆，形似草叶：

随后，在花田背景上，我们用与花朵同色的油画棒勾画花茎，并将先前绘制的椭圆形花朵剪下、粘贴上去：

这就是我们的互补色花田——所有画作并置在一起，宛如一场缤纷的色彩爆炸！

Flower field in complementary colors

A very interesting topic of color theory is the complementary colours, colors that are opposite to each other in the Itten circle, which when put together are in strong contrast and create chromatic vibrations in our retina. With 6th grade students we observed these pairs of colors and how they are used in various fields of visual arts such as advertising, cinema, photography, fashion, theatre, graphic and painting. We have also found various visual games and optical illusions online, based on the mutual influence of these colors.

We created a painting work based on complementary colours: first of all each student chose the pair of complementary colors they preferred, and then we painted on two different sheets. On the first sheet we painted just the flowers, on the second sheet we painted the background. For this imaginary landscape we worked with flat and round paintbrushes of various sizes, the final effect must be very pictorial and material, so it is not a matter of precision but the search for the right range of colors.

For each chosen color we created a palette of various shades of that color: darker, lighter, warmer or colder, in order to have a series of similar colors. First we painted 10-12 ovals with various shades of the chosen color in concentric bands. These ovals will be our flowers.

To create the background we roughly drew a sun surrounded by concentric circles, and a field underneath. We painted freely, in alternating colored bands.

The field was colored in a solid color and then we painted some stems, like blades of grass, using always the various shades of the chosen color:

Subsequently, on the background of the flower field we drew the STEMS of the flowers with an OIL PASTEL of the same color as the flowers and we cut out and glued the ovals of the flowers:

Here are our complementary colors flower fields, the paintings all together are an explosion of colors!