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How many colours do you know?

What is the colour?• Colour is a property of light as seen by people.

PRIMARY COLOURS• Primary Colours can be mixed to make the other colours.

MAGENTA YELLOWCYAN

SECONDARY COLOURS• Secondary Colours are a mixture of two primary colours

GREEN BLUE-VIOLET

PURPLE

RED

THE COLOUR WHEEL• A colour wheel is a circular chart that shows primary and secondary colour.secondary colour.

• Try this at the computer.

TERTIARY COLOURS• The tertiary colours aremade by mixing asecondary and primarycolour together.

• On the colour wheel, the• On the colour wheel, thetertiary colors aresituated between theprimary and secondarycolours they are madefrom.

Activity: DrawDraw a a colourcolourwheelwheel

• Draw a colour wheel by using only primary colours temperas.temperas.

• Use black to shade colours.

Colour harmonies• Monochromatic.• Warm colours.• Cool colours.• Cool colours.• Complementary.

Monochromatic harmonie• One colour (or family of colour) with white to lighten and black lighten and black to shade.

Warm colours• Red, Orange and some Yellows and Purples are considered warm colours.

• Red is the main warm • Red is the main warm colour, and a symbol of fire and heat.

Cool colours• Blue, Green and some Yellows and Purples are considered to be cool colours.

• Blue is the main cool • Blue is the main cool colour, a symbol of water, ice and sky.

Complementary colours• Two colours oposed on the colour wheel are Complements.

• Mixing complementary colours together colours together produces a neutral grey.

What harmonie can you identify?

PICTURE 1

1. Warm colours harmonie2. Monochromatic harmonie3. Complementary harmonie4. Cool colours harmonie

PICTURE 2

What harmonie can you identify?PICTURE 1

PICTURE 3

1. Wamr colours harmonie2. Monochromatic harmonie3. Complementary harmonie4. Cool colours harmonie

PICTURE 2