Today in art class, we talked about color – which is one of the basic Elements of Design. We learned a little bit about theory including some color vocabulary:
Primary colors: Red, Yellow, Blue Secondary colors: Orange, Green, Purple
And we learned some color relationships:
Analogous colors: Colors that sit next to each other on the color wheel Complementary colors: Colors that lay opposite each other on the color wheel
To reinforce these concepts, we made our own color wheels using oil pastels! These color wheels will stay in our art portfolios (that we made during the first art lesson) so that we can refer to them all year.
At the end of the class, we played with color blending and color relationships by making an Underwater Scene with oil pastels and water color paint. Using oil pastels, we blended the analogous colors of Blue and Yellow (and where they merged they made green) and tore the page into long strips to make ‘reeds’. We then blended Yellow and Red (and where they merged they made orange) and tore up little bits to make fish. We glued these pieces onto a new sheet of paper then washed with blue watercolor. The blank paper, of course, turned blue, but the oil pastels resisted the water and remained reeds and fish.