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
Secondary Colours•Made by mixing equal amounts of 2 primary colours
•Found halfway between the primary colours on the wheel
The whole colour wheel
The colour wheel is…
3 Primary colours
3 Secondary colours
3 Tertiary colours
Made up of 12 hues
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
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