The document discusses color theory, including: 1) The three primary colors - yellow, magenta, and blue - which cannot be made from any other colors and are equally spaced on the color wheel. 2) Secondary colors - orange, green, and purple - which are made by mixing two primary colors in equal amounts. 3) Tertiary colors - which are made by mixing a primary and secondary color. 4) The color wheel organizes all colors in a circle based on their relationships as primary, secondary, or tertiary colors.

1. The Colour

2. Primary Colours
• 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

3. Colour Mixing
Primary Primary Secondary

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

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

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

7. What colours are cool? What colours are warm?

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

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

10. 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.
Yellow- Purple Blue- Orange Red- Green

14. Complementary colours used by Van
Gogh
BLUE + ORANGE

15. Complementary colours used by Monet
RED + GREEN

16. Colour intensity

17. Colour intensity

18. 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.

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

23. Call out what COLOUR you see…