Introduction to colour wheel and tertiary colours

Here you have some interesting videos about the colour wheel and tertiary colours:

 Colour wheel tutorial

Primary, secondary and tertiary colours

Painting and mixing

Colour wheel chart

Colour theory elements

Warm and cool colours

Colour in nature

TINTS AND SHADES AND SHAPES - COMPOSITION

Here you have different compositions made by 5th grade students. They designed a composition based on tints, shades and tones.

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TINTS AND SHADES - THEORY

5th grade students learned about HUE, TINTS, SHADES and TONES.

Hue: pure colour
Tint: hue + white
Shade: hue + black
Tone: hue + white + black

Students were able to choose a HUE and from there, they created their own tints, shades and tones.

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COMPLEMENTARY COLOUR WHEEL

5th grade painted a complementary colour wheel. The result was amazing!

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WARM AND COOL COLOURS

Warm colours are red, yellows and oranges. Cool colours are blues, greens and purples.

5th grade choose warm or cool colours to create an African sunset or a night in the North Pole. They draw an animal silhouette, paint the paper warm or cool colours (mixing paint and water), let they paper dry and paint the silhouette black.

They did an amazing job!

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COLOUR THEORY

In September, 5th students learnt about Primary colours: red, yellow and blue. Using paintbrushes, paint (yellow, red and blue) and plastic cups they created an abstract composition.

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TINTS AND SHADES

We can create tints mixing a colour with white colour.

We can create shades mixing a colour with black colour.

6th grade students coloured 6 sections of a paper with three tints and three shades. The 7th section was coloured with brown colour.

Tints and shades - diapositivas

Next day, they will cut and glue the papers in the correct order and the brown section will be the cone of the ice cream. I will upload pictures, I promise!



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COLOUR WHEEL AND SHAPES

Two weeks ago, 6th grade students did an activity based on the colour wheel. They had to draw a shape 10 times and colour each one with a different colour. After this, they had to glue the shapes in the correct colour order.

The result is amazing! They did a great job.

This is the model I showed to them:

 

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COLOUR WHEEL

This activity is based on the colour wheel. We used ready-mixed paint to colour it and the result was amazing!

Students had to colour each section of the paper using a colour from the colour wheel. The important thing was that they had to colour the sections following the correct order!


 

Colour wheel - diapositivas



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COMPLEMENTARY COLOURS (again!)

Yesterday, 6th grade students did their second activity about complementary colours. Here you have an example:

They had to choose a shape to draw on each space and then, they had to colour (with ready-mixed paint or wax crayons) three of them using the following combinations:

blue and  orange
yellow and violet
red and green

Students were able to choose the fourth  combination. They did an amazing work!

Here you have some pictures of the process:

 

Complementary colours - diapositivas



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COMPLEMENTARY COLOURS

Last week, 6th grade students learnt about complementary colours.

The main complementary colours are:

blue and orange

green and red

yellow and violet (purple!)


Students also did this activity based on complementary colours and lines:

(As soon as I can I will update this post with some examples made by my students)



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WOLF KAHN - UNREALISTIC FORESTS

Wolf Kahn is a German painter who uses oils and pastels to create unrealistic coloured forests.

Using ready-mixed paint mixed with water and wax crayons 5th grade students did this:

They are ARTISTS!

Fast finishers had the opportunity to practise other techniques and create free style artworks:

Unrealistic forests - diapositivas

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PIET MONDRIAN - PRIMARY COLOURS

At the beginning of unit 2, 6th grade students learnt about Piet Mondrian and his artworks.
Piet Mondrian, a dutch painter, used primary colours, white background and black lines in his compositions.

 Piet Mondrian artwork in MoMA museum in New York City

6th students did not finish their compositions inspired in Piet Mondrian. I will upload the pictures as soon as they finish!



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WARM AND COOL COLOURS

Last week we learnt the difference between warm and cool colours and how to classify them.

We also did the following activity based on warm and cool colours:

Did you like the activity?



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MIXING PRIMARY COLOURS

As you all know primary colours are blue, red and yellow. What happens if you mix them?

Blue and yellow is green.

Red and blue is violet.

Red and yellow is orange.

Last week we did an activity about mixing primary colours to get secondary colours. Students mixed some paint and then, they coloured some circles. look at the pictures:

 

There is a common are between the circles that is coloured with a secondary colour, 

according to the colours of the two other circles.

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UNIT 2 - COLOUR THEORY

This term is about COLOURS and its classification and characteristics. To start the unit we did a little review of different colours (blue, green, red, yellow…). Then, we learned about primary and secondary colours.

Primary colours are BLUE, RED and YELLOW.

Secondary colours are ORANGE, GREEN and VIOLET.

 To have some fun in class we also did the following experiment with water and colouring. We mixed primary colours in order to get secondary colours. Look at the result!

 Primary colours

Secondary colours

Red and blue is violet

 Yellow and red is orange

 Yellow and blue is green

And here you have a presentation with some other pictures:

Coloring experiment - diapositivas


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