彩铅色彩理论课
原文链接:https://thatartteacher.com/2022/02/23/colored-pencil-color-theory-lesson/
日期: 2022-02-23
作者: Sierra Machado
分类: 彩铅、彩铅绘画、远程教学、长篇教案
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快在你的美术课堂、在家上学的学生中,或远程教学中尝试这堂彩铅色彩理论课吧!
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抽象色彩理论彩铅作品——我的学生再次惊艳了我!我简直无法相信这群艺术二班(十年级至十二年级)学生所展现的创造力和技艺水平!他们使用Prismacolor学者系列彩铅,专注探索色温。他们利用自制模板创作构图,以正负形组织画面,呈现暖色与冷色配色方案。本课聚焦于色彩理论,但学生总能找到方式让个人风格熠熠生辉。我在网站上提供了免费的详尽教案、视频教程及学生范例链接。#creatorsearchinsights #coloredpencils #colortheory #abstractart #artteacher #artteachersoftiktok
♬ Sailor Song – Gigi Perez

彩铅色彩理论课
本视频将带你逐步了解我在十年级至十二年级混合班级中所采用的教学步骤。欢迎直接使用该视频;若你更倾向文字形式,也可继续阅读下方内容。

我的艺术二班学生以极简材料开启色彩理论探索之旅,并借鉴艺术家贾斯珀·约翰斯的抽象构图展开创作。我一直钟爱约翰斯——他与我一样成长于南卡罗来纳州,其大胆的图像语言与富有趣味性的配色方案也深深吸引着我。他亦是那种在课堂讨论中绝不会令人失望的艺术家:无论学生喜爱或反感他的作品,总能就其艺术表达提出富有思考的见解。

练习色彩理论与混色
我们首先借助彩铅探索混色与色彩理论,重点聚焦于色温(这个词可真拗口!)。这份PDF资料灵感源自另一位美术教师早在我2009年开启教学生涯前分享的类似版本。我已据此开发出多个版本,以便更高效地引导学生集中训练最需掌握的技能——有时我还会轮换使用不同版本!



我们先将色谱整体混色,再更独立地练习互补色及色温组合。我逐渐意识到,学生必须被明确教导如何用彩铅混色并营造明度变化。他们往往本能地轻柔排线,对混色显得拘谨而犹豫。
我通常在第二节课示范球体混色技法,随后学生即可按自身节奏完成各项色温示例练习。许多学生发现黄色较难驾驭,因其颜料本身明度较高;橙色与绿色又极易压过黄色,因此这一配色方案十分适合练习通过叠色控制明度。
教学材料
以下是我课堂中最爱用的部分材料。它们适配多种预算,且成套教具非常实用。本文含部分我真心喜爱并实际用于课堂的推荐商品之联盟链接。若您通过这些链接购买商品,我可能获得佣金,而您无需额外付费。衷心感谢您支持这位公立学校教师的副业,让我得以持续提供免费教学资源。










彩铅混色技法免费下载!
如需简略版,请尝试上方讲义。我在YouTube 教程中使用的就是此版本,为该技法的浓缩精要。
请尝试这一变体练习:我运用了包括球体在内的多种形状。
2025 更新版彩铅混色技法下载
构图
学生完成混色练习后,我们进入构图环节。我让学生临摹我在教具柜中找到的模板,但主题选择其实有无限可能!学生可自行设计模板,也可尝试有机形与几何抽象形。
我们使用普通素描纸,但学生亦可选用任意尺寸、任意色调的有色纸。我建议不要选太大尺寸——为实现富有表现力的色彩混色,这件作品耗时颇多!就连我们用的小尺寸纸也画了很久。下次我打算把纸裁成稍小的正方形。
彩铅·色彩理论·操作指南下载
自制模板!
另一项有趣的选择是让学生自主挑选并制作模板。我要求学生思考一个自己感兴趣的形状,但须确保其轮廓简洁且易于辨识。可在谷歌搜索:“____ 剪影 矢量图”,并尝试变换关键词,例如加入“简洁”“轮廓线”“黑白”等。学生将所选图像粘贴至 Google 文档,并共享给我以便统一打印。我们借助透写台将图像转印到厚卡纸上,再用美工刀或剪刀裁出模板。复写纸或转印纸效果也非常好。
这一方式赋予学生更强的个人表达空间,最终作品也格外生动有趣!完成作品展示于本文末尾。
模板制作指南免费下载!
当学生已熟练运用大、中、小各类形状,并能令形状相互重叠、延伸至画面边缘后,便到了综合运用此前所学配色知识的阶段!

选择配色方案
本环节重点聚焦于色彩冷暖关系,因此学生需决定其正形或负形采用暖色还是冷色。起始点并无限制,我通常建议学生先选择自己最得心应手的一组配色。
我借助便捷的Elmo 实物展台演示混色过程——它彻底改变了我的课堂示范方式!当然,学生围在桌边观看示范自有其乐趣,但这种方式显然高效得多!我结合前期练习回顾色彩冷暖关系,并提醒学生注意混色、叠色、明度控制,以及如何在一组颜色中辨别其冷暖倾向。





这段视频教程对缺勤学生及复习非常有帮助。它也非常适合作为远程学习任务——你只需最基础的一套彩铅和一张纸即可开始。当然,若使用顶级品牌彩铅与优质有色纸,作品效果会更上一层楼;但我的日常教学环境,始终是#公立学校生活。
色彩冷暖是相对概念,本单元仅聚焦基础认知。我丈夫是一位油画画家,多年来我常与他探讨色彩问题。他喜欢将色彩比作钢琴琴键:每个音符的音高可依演奏情境及与其他音符的关系而调整。
本单元的教学目标,是帮助学生建立对色彩的直观感知能力,并更审慎地规划配色方案。同时,我也认为这是教授混色与明度控制的绝佳途径——这些技能将贯穿学生整个艺术创作生涯。
更新的学生作品范例
以下作品均使用 Prismacolor Scholar 彩铅,在黑色或蓝色 Canson Mi Tientes 纸上绘制而成。


















以下是早些时候学生使用现成模板(而非自制)完成的部分旧作范例。

















自制模板作品























我对学生在此单元中建立的色彩理论关联深感欣慰。最令我欣喜的收获是:他们学会了用互补色相调和来替代直接使用黑色——每当他们在后续绘画单元中主动提及这一点时,我都由衷高兴!
本创作可根据所选主题进一步个性化,并提供了大量机会,供学生探索自己喜爱的艺术家。
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Colored Pencil Color Theory Lesson
Original: https://thatartteacher.com/2022/02/23/colored-pencil-color-theory-lesson/
Date: 2022-02-23
Author: Sierra Machado
Categories: colored pencil, colored pencil drawing, distance learning, long form lesson plan
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Try out this colored pencil color theory lesson in your art classroom, with home school students or distance learning!
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Abstract Color Theory Colored Pencil Artwork My students have done it again. I can’t get over the creativity and skill level this group of Art II (10th-12th grade) demonstrated! They used Prismacolor scholars to focus on color temperature. They created compositions using homemade stencils to create positive and negative space to organize their warm and cool color schemes. This is a lesson focused on color theory, but students always find a way to let their individual styles shine. I have a free detailed lesson, video tutorials and student examples linked on my website. #creatorsearchinsights #coloredpencils #colortheory #abstractart #artteacher #artteachersoftiktok
♬ Sailor Song – Gigi Perez

Colored Pencil Color Theory Lesson
This video walks you through the steps I used with my mixed group of 10-12th graders. Feel free to use it, or keep reading if you don’t prefer a video format.

My Art II students embarked on their color theory exploration using minimal materials and an abstract composition inspired by artist Jasper Johns. I always loved Johns because he was raised in South Carolina, just like me, and I am drawn to his bold imagery and playful color schemes. He is also one of those artists that will not disappoint during a class discussion. Love him or hate him, students always find thoughtful things to say when looking at his artwork.

Practicing Colored Theory and Blending
We start out using colored pencils to explore blending and color theory focusing on color temperature (that’s a mouth full!) I created this PDF inspired by a similar version another art teacher shared way before my teaching career started in 2009. I have created several versions of this to streamline the skills I want students to focus on the most, which sometimes I like to switch up!



We blend the spectrum together and then move more independently on the complementary colors and color temperature combinations. I’ve learned that students have to be taught how to blend color and create value with the pencils. Their natural inclination seems to be shading really lightly and being timid with their color blending.
I demonstrate how to blend the sphere, usually on the second day, and then students can move at their own pace with each of the color temperature examples. Yellow seems to be a struggle for many due to the lighter pigment. The orange and green can overtake the yellow easily, so this is a great color scheme for practicing layering colors with value.
Materials
Here are some of my favorite classroom materials. These work with a variety of budgets and the classroom sets are great. This post contains affiliate links to products I truly love and use in my classroom. If you use these links to buy something I may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. Thank you for supporting this public school teacher’s side hustle so I can continue to provide free content.






Colored Pencil BlendingDownload for free!
If you are looking for the shortened version, try the handout above. This is what I used in my YouTube tutorial and is the condensed version of the technique.
Try out this variation where I use multiple shapes including a sphere.
UPDATED Colored Pencil Blending 2025Download
Composition
Once students have practiced blending, we move on to composition. I had students trace stencils I found in my supply closet, but there are so many directions to go with subject matter! Students can create their own stencils or play around with organic and geometric abstract shapes.
We used regular drawing paper, but students could used toned paper of any shape or size. I do recommend not going too large, to create dynamic color blending this artwork takes TIME! Even our small paper took forever. I think next time I will cut the paper into slightly smaller squares.
Colored-Pencil-Color-Theory-DirectionsDownload
Make Your Own Stencils!
Another fun option is to have students pick out and create their own stencils. Students were to directed to think of a shape that interests them, but make sure that it has a simple but recognizable outline. Google: “____ silhouette clip art” and play around with keyword variations like: “simple” “outline” “black and white”. Students attached their images to a Google Document and shared with with me so I could print them. We used light boxes to transfer them to sturdy card stock and then cut them out with Xacto knives or scissors. Carbon or transfer paper also works really well.
This option allowed students to have more personal voice and made for some really fun artworks! The finished artworks will be at the end of the post.
Stencil-DirectionsFREE Download!
Once students had used a variety of large, medium and small shapes, overlapped and extended shapes to the edge, it was time to apply all that color scheme practice!

Choosing a Color Scheme
I focused on color temperature, so they had to decide if their positive or negative space would be warm or cool. It doesn’t matter where they start, I often recommend to pick a color combination they feel most comfortable with.
I demonstrate blending colors using my handy Elmo document camera, which has been a game changer for my demos. Sure, all standing around a table as I demonstrate has its own fun, but this is so much more efficient! I review color temperature using our practice work and remind students to blend, layer using value and how to see color temperature within a set of colors.





This video tutorial is really helpful for absent students and for reviewing. This would be a great distance learning assignment because all you really need is the most basic pack of colored pencils and a piece of paper. Sure, your work can be elevated with the nicest brand of colored pencils and beautiful toned paper, but most of my world is #publicschoollife.
Color temperature is relative, and we focus on the basics here. I am married to an oil painter and have listened to and engaged in many debates about color. He likes to describe color as keys on a piano that you can tune depending on which note you are playing and what it’s relationship is to the notes around it.
My goal for my students with this unit is to feel comfortable seeing color and being more thoughtful about color schemes. I also think this a great way to teach blending and value, which can translate to any other artwork they may create throughout their artistic journey.
Updated Student Examples
The artworks below were created using Prismacolor Scholar colored pencils on black or blue Canson Mi Tientes paper.

Here are some of the older examples when students used premade stencils instead of making their own.

Handmade Stencil Pieces


I am so happy with the color theory connections students made during this unit. The takeaway I’m most happy with is mixing complementary colors instead of using black. It makes me so happy when I hear them reference this during our painting unit!
This artwork can be made more personal depending on the subject matter selected and has many opportunities to explore artists of your own preference.
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