The Color Wheel and Color Mixing excercises last week were expanded in this art lesson. Using just Primarycolors
(Red, Yellow and Blue), each child created an oil pastel rendition of a
'Hot' pumpkin and a 'Cold' pumpkin. The assignment was to blend the
colors such that one pumpkin became mostly orange, warm red and warm
yellow (Hot colors) and one was mostly blue, cool green and cool purple
(Cold colors). At the same time, the students needed to keep in mind
where the light source was coming from (a faint moon or street light)
and incorporate shadows using darker valued color mixes and light spots
using lighter valued mixes. We found that by varying the amount of each
primary color, placing layer upon layer of subtle color and using
fingers and the 'main' color (yellow for the hot pumpkin and blue for
the cold) to blend, it was possible to come up with all of the colors
needed! It was challenging, but the results are beautiful!
