Hue planes model
DESCRIBING COLOURS:
Colour characters
Map colour characters into an expanded hue plane
Details:
All ages
Time: 15 minutes
Learning Outcome: Map colour characters into an expanded hue plane
Colour Concepts: Recognize how a hue plane visualizes many variations for a specific hue, into an expanded hue family.
Materials:
Vivid, pale muted and dark tiles from the green hue family
Green hue plane from Kolormondo 3-D Colour Model (**link to Materials)
CLP Handout - CHROMO Hue Planes Model
Instructions:
Figure 1: Arrangement of coloured tiles in a hue plane.
Each hue family, with its diamond-arrangement of vivid, muted, pale and dark tiles, can be considered a hue plane (See Figure 1).
It is possible to extend each hue family into many more coloured tiles, each made of distinguishing steps to the left and right for more or less vivid tiles , and up and down, for paler or darker tiles. Many 3-dimensional models of colour are organized in this way, for example the Kolormondo model (See Figure 2).
Figure 2. Kolormondo model, with two hue planes shown separately.
Figure 3: Matching tiles according to character.
Choose the green hue family from the Kolormondo model, and match the vivid, muted, pale and dark tiles.
(See Figure 3)
Figure 4: CHROMO Hue Planes Model
Build the Kolormondo Mini
OR
Print the handout and build the CHROMO Hue Planes Model
(See Figure 4)
Vocabulary:
Questions & observations:
How are the various colour attributes organized on a hue plane?
More to explore:
Repeat the exercise using different hue families.
