Colour and Emotions

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Colour and Emotions

We can use colour to describe how we are feeling.

Colours can have warm and cool tones.

We can choose warm and cool tones to create an atmosphere or mood in our art work.

Look at the following colours and talk about how they make you feel.

Is it a warm or a cool colour?

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Red

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Turquoise

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Yellow

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Orange

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Blue

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Mixing Colours

What do you already know about mixing colours?

• Can you name the Primary colours?

• Can you name the Secondary colours?

• What are Tertiary colours?

Experiment with mixing colours using paint or chalk pastels.

What have you learnt? How will this help you?

The Colour Wheel.• Colours opposite each

other are called Contrasting Colours• Colours next door to each

other are called Complimentary Colours We can use this to help

create atmosphere in our art work.

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Paired Task: Cut out coloured paper shapes and arrange on coloured

backgrounds.

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What have you learnt about Contrasting Colours?

We use Contrasting Colours to create drama and impact in our work.

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What have you learnt about Complimentary Colours?

We use Complimentary Colours to create subtle effects and balance in our work.

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Circle Time: Can you name some feelings or emotions?

Happy Frightened Proud Content Anxious

Nervous Angry Sad Excited Jealous

Confused Upset Unhappy Relaxed Calm

Confident

• It can be difficult to understand how people feel.

• What clues have we got to help us understand how someone feels?

Can we see emotion in a person’s face?

• Think about an emotion and describe a situation when you have experienced it.

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Look again at the painting by John Elwyn

• How does the artist show emotion in the picture?• What can you say about the peoples’ expressions?

Images courtesy of : John Elwyn

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Colour and Emotions

Task: Pick an Emotion. Make a colour study to

describe the emotion

Think about….Which materials will you use? paint ink chalk oil pastel coloured paper wax crayon

fabric pencilWhich process will you choose?painting drawing printing

collage mixed media

Happy or Angry

What do you think?

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Display your finished work and talk about it.

Ask each other……• Can you guess which

emotion the colour study is describing?

• Why do you think this?

• How can you use your finished work in another task/subject?

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Class Task: Make a class book of emotions.

Plan• What will you put in your

book?• How will you do this?• Will you use colour in

your book?• Will you use pictures in

your book?• Will you have a book

character as a link?• What character/symbol

could you use?

ReflectThink about……• How did you plan your

work?• Where did you find ideas

for your book?• How would you describe

the task to someone else?• What would you change if

you repeated this task?• Can you think of different

situations in which your book would be useful?Develop

• Who will read your book?• Do you need to make any changes to the book?• Why?

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