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

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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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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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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