The Colour

What is colour?

Color is the element of art that is produced when light, striking an object, is reflected back to the eye.

Primary Colours• They cannot be made from any other colours

•All other colours are made from these

•Equal distance from each other on colour wheel

Yellow

MagentaBlue cyan

Secondary Colours•Made by mixing equal amounts of 2 primary colours

•Found halfway between the primary colours on the wheel

Colour Mixing

Primary Primary Secondary

Tertiary Colours

Made by mixing equal amounts of adjoining primary and secondary colours.

The whole colour wheel

The colour wheel is…

3 Primary colours

3 Secondary colours

3 Tertiary colours

Made up of 12 hues

Complementary Colours

•Complementary colours are pairs of colours of opposite hues.•They appear opposite to each other on the colour wheel. •The complementary colours are:

Yellow- Purple Cyan- Orange Magenta- Green

Complementary colours used by Van

Gogh

BLUE + ORANGE

Complementary colours used by Monet

RED + GREEN

Colour intensity

Colour intensity

Call out what COLOUR you see…

Your next task

• You will have to paint the “Colour Wheel” but as a part of something else: you will have to design a CLOCK!

• Any type you want. It might be a watch, an alarm clock, a grandfather clock, etc.

• You will have to add different values of the same colour in your project.

Cyan Magenta

How can we use what we have learnt today in the future?

Colour mixingBlending

Graduated Tone

Layering colourModulated colour

What colours are cool? What colours are warm?

Warm colour are yellows, orangesand reds

Cool colour are greens, blues and purples.

•Warm colors (reds, oranges, and yellows) catch your attention.

•They are lively and energetic.

Cool colors give an impression of calm, and create a soothing impression.

Hope

Sunflowers (1888) by Vincent Van Gogh

What words do you think when looking at this picture?

Joy

Warm

Welcoming

Sadness

The Tragedy (1903) by Pablo Picasso

What words do you think when looking at this picture?

Despair

Cold

Hopeless

Lonely

COLOUR COMBINATIONSMONOCHROMATIC COLOUR SCHEME•It is a colour combination which uses only one color. •This colour can have different values (adding white or black)•Using only one hue has a calmingeffect and is balanced.

PICASSO

COLOUR COMBINATIONS

ANALOGOUS COLOURS

• Analogous colour are coloursthat are next to each other on the color wheel.

• They usually match well and create serene and comfortable designs.

• They are harmonious and pleasing to the eye.

Analogous colour scheme

COLOUR HARMONY

Second colour projectYou have to create one artwork using warm colours and the second time using cool colours.