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OUTLINE OF A COURSE IN COLOR INSTRUCTION.

METHOD.

Ask the pupils to separate the six standards from the twelve spectrum hues. Standards to be arranged in spectrum order.

Teach the names of the standards.

Test natural color perceptions by the attempts of the pupils to lay the spectrum in the eighteen papers.

Explain the intermediate hues by the color disks, and drill with the tablets. Continue the practice of having the pupils lay the entire spectrum with the papers until it is familiar to them.

PRACTICAL OCCUPATIONS.

Pasting simple designs in either of the six standard colors, on white or gray background, with ready-cut papers. Mark- ing forms from tablets and cutting and pasting them on back- grounds.

Study of Tones.

MATERIAL.

Folding models to show light and shade. Crumpled satins and plushes.

Standard color disks with white and black, on wheel or tops.

Paper tablets, Selection No. 2, Tints No. 1, Shades No. 1, White, Black and Neutral Grays.

METHOD.

Ask each pupil to lay spectrum in eighteen normal colors. Lay tints and shades of the six standards.

Have the children complete tints and shades No. 1 of entire spectrum circuit.

Illustrate neutral grays by white in shadow with folding-model, also with white and black disks combined.

Begin to classify into families the miscellaneous color material brought by the pupils.

PRACTICAL OCCUPATIONS.

Pasting of ready-cut papers in standard and shade on a background of the tint of same scale.