C o l o r sCreated by Mrs. Miller

and

5th Grade Students

at

Vine Grove Elementary School

2004-2005

Primary Primary Colors• Primary colors are colors that cannot

be made by mixing other hues. They are the first colors.

• They are redred, yellowyellow, and blueblue.

• Primary colors are the colors from which the secondary colors are made.

R E DR E D• Fire engines

are redred.

• Some flag stripes are redred.

• Anger is redred.

Y E L L O WY E L L O W• The sun is

yellowyellow.• Some Lab dogs

are called yellowyellow.

• Some people have yellowyellow hair called blonde.

B L U EB L U E• The sky is blueblue.

• The American flag has white stars on a blue blue background.

• Moods can be blueblue.

Primary Colors SongPrimary Colors Song(Sung to the tune of Are You Sleeping?)

Primary colors, primary colors;RedRed, yellowyellow, blueblue; RedRed, yellowyellow, blueblue.

These are the first colors.Mixing them makes all the others.

RedRed, yellowyellow, blueblue; RedRed, yellowyellow, blueblue.

SSeeccoonnddaarryy C Coolloorrss• Secondary colors are colors that

contain an equal amount of two primary colors.

• These colors are greengreen, orangeorange, and violetviolet.

• BlueBlue + + YellowYellow = = GreenGreen• RedRed + + YellowYellow = = OrangeOrange• BlueBlue + + RedRed = = VioletViolet

GreenGreen• Grass is greengreen.

• Frogs are greengreen.

• Emeralds are greengreen..

OrangeOrange• Oranges are

orangeorange..

• Pumpkins are orangeorange..

• Apricots are orangeorange..

VioletViolet• Flowers are

violetviolet.

• Grapes are violetviolet.

• Amethysts are violetviolet.

Secondary Colors SongSecondary Colors Song(Sung to the tune of Hokey Pokey)

Chorus:Secondary colors; secondary colors,

VioletViolet, greengreen, and orangeorange,That’s what they’re all about.

You put some redred color in.You add some yellowyellow color, too.You blend them both together And you get an orangeorange hue.

Equal amounts of redred and yellowyellow Make an orangeorange secondary color

That’s what it’s all about.(Repeat Chorus)

Secondary Colors SongSecondary Colors Song(continued)

Chorus:Secondary colors; secondary colors,

VioletViolet, greengreen, and orangeorange,That’s what they’re all about.

You put some yellowyellow color in.You add some blueblue color, too.You blend them both together And you get a nice greengreen hue.

Equal amounts of yellowyellow and blueblueMake a greengreen secondary hue.

That’s what it’s all about.(Repeat Chorus)

Secondary Colors SongSecondary Colors Song(continued)

Chorus:Secondary colors; secondary colors,

VioletViolet, greengreen, and orangeorange,That’s what they’re all about.

You put some redred color in.You add some blueblue color, too.You blend them both together

And you get a violetviolet hue.Equal amounts of redred and blueblueMake a violetviolet secondary hue.

That’s what it’s all about.(Repeat Chorus)

W a r m C o l o r sW a r m C o l o r s

• RedRed• OrangeOrange• YellowYellow

• Derivatives of these colors

C o o l C o l o r sC o o l C o l o r s

• GreenGreen

• BlueBlue

• VioletViolet

• Derivatives of these colors

NeutralNeutral ColorsColors

White Black

Gray

Brown

The Color Wheel

• P = Primary Colors (first colors)

• S = Secondary Colors (made by mixing equal amounts of 2 primary colors)

• T = Tertiary (or Intermediate) Colors (made by mixing un- equal amounts of primary colors)

• N = Neutral Colors (black, white, gray, and brown)

T

S

T

P

TS

T

P

T

S

TP

Neutral

Neutral and Complementary Colors

• Complementary Colors are located directly opposite each other on the color wheel, i.e. red and green, blue and orange, etc.

• Neutral Colors can be made by mixing com- plementary colors or by mixing the warm and cool colors together.

T

S

T

P

TS

T

P

T

S

TP

Neutral

Monochromatic Color Monochromatic Color SchemeScheme

• Mono means one.• Chromatic means

color.• A monochromatic

color scheme is one color with all its tints and shades.

Analogous Color Scheme

• Analogous Color schemes consist of four colors side by side on the color wheel with each one containing a common hue. The common hue will be a primary color.

Blue-violet

Blue

Blue-green

Green

Commonhue

Color VocabularyColor Vocabulary• HueHue: The classification or name of a

color.

• ValueValue: The amount of light or dark contained in the color ranging from black to white.

• IntensityIntensity: The strength or weakness (brightness or dullness) of a color.

Resources

• Linderman, Marlene Gharbo. 1997. Art in the Elementary School, fifth edition. Brown and Benchmark Publishers.

• Pictures and clip art were taken from personal photographs, Microsoft program clip art, and the Internet.

• http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/TEACH/floral/color.htm (Internet site)