Title: What Rich Colors!

Background: The look of items is important to us. We rely on the good taste of designers to mesh textures, shapes and colors in a way that is pleasing to our eye.

Process: Go to: www.ccny.cuny.edu/wmorris/morris.html#Morris Society and use the info there to answer the following questions. Please print the indicated images.

Questions:
1. Scroll down and click on the link to The life and work of William Morris. Create a
    200 word summary (your own words) of the information there. Include his: birth and
    death dates, birthplace, history as a designer (including design interests), literary
    achievements, experience with politics, and, business interests.
2. When Morris was creating colors on surfaces, e.g., paper, fabric, wood, why was he
    following the subtractive color processes? (Note: Approximations with colors will have
    to be made as we move between Morris's images and the subtractive color wheels.)
3. Back out and scroll to the page bottom and click on the word Index. On the subsequent
    page, scroll down to designs by William Morris and click on Tapestries.
    a) Name the dominant color in the vertical margins of Design for Flora and color in its
        spot in the subtractive color wheels. Print this image.
    b) In The Orchard, look at the dress of the left hand subject. Name the color and color
        in its spot in the subtractive color wheels.
    c) In Pomona, name the color of the fruit hanging from the branch held by the subject
        and color in its spot in the subtractive color wheels.
4. Move down to Textiles.
    a) Look at the vivid, lovely pattern of Evenlode and name the secondaries you see there.
    b) Sketch one shape or area containing a different secondary. Print this image.
    c) Name the color of the background of Strawberry Thief. What colors combine to
        create this background?
    d) Name the background color in Brother Rabbit. (Look carefully!) What colors
        combine to make the background. Print this image.
5. Move down and click on Sanderson range of wallpapers and then on:
    a) "Fruit" 1864. Name the skin color of the fruit in the upper right corner. Color in its
        spot in the subtractive color wheels.
    b) Trellis 1864. Name the background color of this image. Could the background be
        produced by mixing more and more paints together? Explain. Print this image.
    c) Indian 1868-70. Do you find the purplish foliage color in the subtractive color
       wheels?
    d) Chrysanthemum 1877. Name the background color of this image. How would it be
        created? Print this image.