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

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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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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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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