Cool and Warm Colors

COOL

Warm Colors

Warm ColorsWarm, or advancing colors, are

those that resemble fire and heat. Red, red-violet, red-orange, and yellow-orange are examples of warm colors.

Warm colors appear closer and are more eye catching than cool colors.

Warm Colors

•Red•Orange•Yellow

How do you feel when looking and these pictures?

Cool Colors

Cool Colors• Cool, or receding colors, are associated with

peace and calm. Blue, blue-green, and blue-violets represent cool colors.

• Cool colors in a composition tend to visually recede and look smaller. They are not easily seen from a distance.

Cool Colors

•Green•Blue•Purple

Peace

Cold

“I’m Feeling “

Pablo PicassoSpanish Artist

How do you feel when you see this painting?

The Old Guitarist by Pablo Picasso

When you put this two colors together you bring cheerful and bright contrasting colors!

YOUR ART ASSIGNMENT…

Draw an Eclipse and apply the cool and warm colors with oil pastels

Why an eclipse?....

Moon…

Sun…

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Your “Eclipse” oil pastel drawing must have…

• A drawing of the moon and the sun

• Creativity• Must show cool and warm colors with oil pastels

• Background

It will be graded by using the 4 C’s Evaluation

1. Composition :25 pts

2. Creativity :25 pts

3. Craftsmanship :25 pts

4. Completion :25 pts

Total of : 100

.Paintings by Pablo Picasso

Cool and Warm colors

visual complements

afterimage demonstration of visual complementary hues Stare at the center of the colored square for 20 seconds,then look at the black dot on the right.