Comic Color Matching

This is a project that my 10th grade Introduction to Art students are completing this week.  The goal of the project was for students to learn the color wheel (including tints and shades) and then use their color wheel to identify and re-create colors that they observed in an existing picture.

It may not be the most 'creative' project, but it is a project whose goal is to teach students basic painting and color mixing techniques (as a basis for future work), as well as how to use a grid to aid in the drawing process (also a skill that will be employed again, later in the course)

Overall - the students were very successful in their pursuit to recreate an existing picture.  Students chose their compositions (zooming in on an existing picture), and could only use the primary colors and black and white to recreate the colors they observed. Many students created 2 or 3 paintings...taking paper, grids and pictures home with them so they could draw them and bring them back to school to paint!