what-is-color

Get Art Smart

by Tea Benduhn

Isolates the artistic element of color, discusses what thoughts and feelings can be conveyed by different colors, and examines how they contribute to a work of art through various examples.

Paperback

First published August 1, 2009

About the author

Tea Benduhn lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her two cats. She has an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College in Boston, and a BA in English and secondary education from Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Of Gravel Queen, she says:
"I wanted to write an uplifting story about teen love that had a positive outcome. When I was growing up and discovering my identity, I read a lot about the tragic consequences of following desire lines, as well as negative stereotypes about the South, but did not see much evidence of either in my real, daily experience. So I wrote Gravel Queen to show the celebratory and fun part of teen life."

Reviews

[Cami Weaver]

This is a great book to read to kindergartners or first graders. It has simple words, pictures, and questions to read along to. It talks about how we need light to have color and how darkness makes everything black and grey. It introduces what the primary colors are as well as the secondary, complementary, warm and cool colors, and the colors of the color wheel in order. It also talks about how to use colors to tell the audience how they feel. It goes through the definitions of tents, shades, and hues that will make our pictures more realistic.

I like this book because it hits all the basics when working with colors. I love how they use popular artists paintings when talking about certain colors, techniques, and schemes. It would help a student learn in a simple way.

I would teach this to kindergartners or first graders at the beginning of the school year to further their knowledge about colors.