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Art and Design

Mix it

Vocabulary:

Colour wheel, hue, primary colour, secondary colour. 

 

This terms art project (as the name suggests) is all about mixing colours! The children will learn about basic colour theory by studying the colour wheel and colour mixing. We will explore primary and secondary colours and how artists uses colour in their artwork. After learning about primary and secondary colours and experimenting with mixing, we will be creating our own piece of artwork. 

A Colour Wheel

Primary Colours

Secondary Colours 

Here is a painting by Wassily Kandinsky. How many different colours can you name in this painting?

The children enjoyed mixing the primary colours to create pictures that had primary and secondary colours.

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