The Colour

Wheelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BHHf1-dmco

Watch up until the colour wheel is made (3.17mins)

Primary Colours

Primary Colours

Primary Colours

•Cannot be made from any other colours

•All other colours are made from these

•Equal distance from each other on colour wheel

Secondary Colours

Secondary Colours

Secondary Colours

•Made by mixing equal amounts of 2 primary colours

•Found halfway between the primary colours on the wheel

Tertiary Colours

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

The whole colour wheel

Complementary Colours

This colour scheme uses opposite colours on the colour wheel. These colours are across from each other on the wheel and have great contrast.

Complementary colours used by Van

Gogh

BLUE + ORANGE

Complementary colours used by

Monet

RED + GREEN

What is the final pair of complementary colours?

PURPLE + YELLOW

The whole colour wheel

• Your challenge is to make your own colour wheel using items from around the home.

• Here are some examples..

The whole colour wheel

• You need to decide where each coloured item should go in your ‘colour wheel’.

• Please start with grouping the primary coloursfirst – RED, BLUE and YELLOW

• Then add the other coloured hues around these.

• Lay them all out first before sticking.

The whole colour wheel

Today we learnt about the colour

wheel in art.

We made our own colour wheel

by sticking a number of coloured

everday items into colour groups.

It was easiest finding … colours.

I found it hardest to find tertiary

colours that were between...

Evaluation:

Extension: Can you describe what Primary, Secondary and Tertiary colours are?

Key words: everyday items, sticking, coloured, tone, primary, orange, purple,