Colour mixing is fundamental to learning to paint. Students in visual
art classes in secondary schools face problems in manipulating paint
and discriminating colour. The kinds of base paints to be presented
to students could be an important factor in learning about colour
relationships and pigments.
The purpose of this study was to determine whether Year 7 students
generating colour mixes with paint using a triad of magenta, cyan
and yellow were able to mix and discriminate more colours than if
they used a triad of red(scarlet red), blue (ultramarine light) and
yellow (lemon yellow) which is a base triad commonly used in
schools.
The Weddell Colour Discrimination Test was developed for use in
this study which was a test that involved colour mixing with paint.
The study used quasi-experimental designs for both a pilot study and
a main study.
Results indicated a significant difference in the ability to mix paint
advantage of groups that used cyan , magenta and yellow.
Implications for the use of particular colour triads in art classrooms
and methods of teaching colour theory have emerged from this
study. The Weddell Colour Discrimination test instrument developed
in this study could be useful as both a diagnostic tool and a teaching
tool as well as a data gathering method for further research.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/219443 |
| Date | January 1995 |
| Creators | Weddell, Di, n/a |
| Publisher | University of Canberra. Education |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | ), Copyright Di Weddell |
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