The document discusses color theory, including: - What color is and how it is produced when light is reflected off objects. - The three primary colors - yellow, magenta, and cyan - which cannot be made from any other colors. Secondary and tertiary colors are made by combining primary colors. - The color wheel, which arranges all colors in a circular format, with primary, secondary, and tertiary colors spaced equally. - Complementary colors which sit opposite each other on the color wheel, such as yellow and purple. Complementary colors were used by artists like Van Gogh and Monet. - How to mix colors and use color intensity, blending, layering, and other

1. The Colour

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

3. 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
Magenta
Blue cyan

4. Secondary Colours
•Made by mixing equal amounts of 2 primary colours
•Found halfway between the primary colours on the wheel

5. Colour Mixing
Primary Primary Secondary

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

7. The whole colour wheel
The colour wheel is…
3 Primary colours
3 Secondary colours
3 Tertiary colours
Made up of 12 hues

8. 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

12. Complementary colours used by Van
Gogh
BLUE + ORANGE

13. Complementary colours used by Monet
RED + GREEN

14. Colour intensity

15. Colour intensity

16. Call out what COLOUR you see…

20. 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.

21. Cyan Magenta

24. How can we use what we have learnt
today in the future?
Colour mixing
Blending
Graduated Tone
Layering colour
Modulated
colour

25. What colours are cool? What colours are warm?
Warm colour are
yellows, oranges
and 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.

26. Hope
Sunflowers (1888) by Vincent Van Gogh
What words
do you think
when looking
at this
picture?
Joy
Warm
Welcoming

27. Sadness
The Tragedy (1903) by Pablo Picasso
What words
do you think
when looking
at this
picture?
Despair
Cold
Hopeless
Lonely

28. COLOUR COMBINATIONS
MONOCHROMATIC
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 calming
effect and is balanced.
PICASSO

30. COLOUR COMBINATIONS
ANALOGOUS COLOURS
• Analogous colour are colours
that 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.

31. Analogous colour scheme
COLOUR HARMONY

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