Introduction
Welcome: Learning Color Theory!
Description: This is designed for students learning ranges of color, shades, tints, tones, and hues!
Grade Level: K-5
Curriculum: Art
Author(s): Chardonnay Clark
We will be learning about Coloring Theory!
Color theory is a nutshell is a color circle, based on red, yellow and blue. It was actually developed by Sir Isaac Newton 1666, well the wheel was, not color itself! Since then, artists, scientist, and everyone in between has used this wheel to learn about hues, range, and shades!
There is color theory in everything around us!
Even if we don’t think about it, color is everywhere, and color theory is just the way that we can understand it in a structure. Within in the theory is a wheel that separates the color wheel, color harmony, and the context of how colors are used.
Theses colors are identified as Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.
The Primary Colors are red, yellow, and blue. These colors are able to mix most other colors in the spectrum.
Secondary Colors are the colors that appear when you mix only two primary colors together. These colors will display as green, orange and purple, depending on the mixture. But if you mix all three together, you will get a muddy gray color.
Tertiary Colors are what you see when you mix a primary color with a secondary color.
When we see the world around us, it is easy to see how color interacts with each other. If we had an array of fruits, vegetables, or toys we could sort them by color and put them on a circle that shows each color in relation to one other.
Task
The task for today is that we will create our own color wheel to see how the colors relate!
Get your acrylic paints out, a cup for water, small brushes, a paint pallet, and follow the PowerPoint to make your wheels!
(You may need a ruler for the lines)
Color Wheel Step by step:
Process
Follow the process in the PowerPoint
Be sure to make note of all of the colors that are made out of just 3 primary colors.
Identify the Primary, Tertiary, and Secondary colors
Adding white to a color is called tint. Adding black to a color is called shade. Adding gray is called tone.
Next, add a bit off white to all of the primary colors, and a bit of black to the secondary colors and add a bit of gray to the tertiary colors. Observe how the hues change.
Evaluation
What colors mixed well?
Was it difficult to continue to build off each primary color?
Did you add a bit of white and black? How did that change the colors in the wheel?
Can you identify warm and cold tones/ colors?
What would the color pink be?
What would you have to mix to get a lavender color?
Which shade of lavender did you get closest to?
Conclusion
Today we learned to identify and mix our primary colors, and our secondary colors. We observed the difference between mixing whites to lighten color and blacks to darken color. We mixed our white and black to create gray, and we learned new vocab words!
Credits
Teacher Page
I'm Ms. Rose! I love art and I love to show others how to have fun with it!