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Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT) created a classroom in the city to coincide with the launch of the Faculty of Creative Industries. Various classes were held in the shop window of the Westpac Bank building in High Street. The Certificate of Interior Decor programme was scheduled in for a lesson and as it was early in the semester, the concept of colour value (darkness and light) was the focus of the lesson.

The hero in the exercise was a rather impressive pile of dried up Resene testpots left from classes that had been sitting waiting for an excuse to be creative. The task required students to create a large shade scale collage from selected scraps of newsprint, then to match each testpot to a perceived level of darkness. The students then chose suitable testpots from this shade scale array to create a picture using a large format greyscale image adhesive fixed to MDF as a guide. Each testpot was glued to the board after considerable discussion.

The lesson was a success. Students honed their colour sense and created an eyecatching display, plus learnt an important lesson on sustainability that even items like empty testpots that might appear to be of no value can be put to good use if you put your mind to it.

From the Resene News – issue 2/2010

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