The grocery store is somewhere where you can find an abundance of colours. There is so much packaging that it would be difficult to find a colour that is not present. Schimmacher and Fox (2009) state that “adult artists are consciously concerned with how the viewer will be affected by their choice of colour” (p.136). This concern can be applied to directly to grocery shopping as I’m sure every single product has an advertiser behind it obsessing over every detail to ensure that you will purchase their item.
ART WORD OF THE WEEK: The element of COLOUR
This week we had to choose a type of food and find as many items in the grocery store that related to that item. I chose the world milk, and not counting any other diary products this is my list:
- Infant (Milk) Formula
- Milk Bones
- Condensed Milk
- Milk Shake
- Powdered Milk/Instant Milk
- Milk of Magnesia
- Buttermilk
- Milk (skim, 1%, 2% whole, coconut, goat, almond, soy, chocolate)
- Milk Chocolate (caramilk, milkduds, milk chocolate chips)
Milk is white. But the packaging ranged from reds, blues, golds, yellows, pinks etc. These items come in boxes, cans, containers that are small and big. There is a huge range! Bringing a child to the grocery store is an excellent way of exploring colours with them. "What colour is this container? What about this one? But they both have milk!" In a child care center, often there is a grocery center area. It is important to create this environment to contain not only the food but also the containers.
Below are my three pictures that I drew. Milk, Milk Bones and Condensed Milk. Milk Bones is a bright red box, condensed milk is smaller and round and the actual milk includes many different colours, symbolizing which type of milk. What I think is very interesting is that every single package includes red.
Schirrmacher, R., & Fox, J.E. (2009). Art and creative development for young children (6th Ed.). Belmont, CA: Delmar.
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