Colour Theory

The Colour

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

MagentaBlue cyan

Colour Mixing

Primary Primary Secondary

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

The colour wheel is…

3 Primary colours

3 Secondary colours

3 Tertiary colours

Made up of 12 hues

What colours are cool? What colours are warm?

Hope

Sunflowers (1888) by Vincent Van Gogh

What words do you think when looking at this picture?

Joy

Warm

Welcoming

Sadness

The Tragedy (1903) by Pablo Picasso

What words do you think when looking at this picture?

Despair

Cold

Hopeless

Lonely

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

Complementary colours used by Van

Gogh

BLUE + ORANGE

Complementary colours used by Monet

RED + GREEN

Colour intensity

Colour intensity

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.

How can we use what we have learnt today in the future?

Colour mixingBlending

Graduated Tone

Layering colourModulated colour

Call out what COLOUR you see…