This is a color wheel.
It shows the colors you see in a rainbow.
These are called pure colors.
Can you name them?
Basic Color Wheel
Warm colors can make us think of warm things.
Cool colors can make us think of cool things.
Name the warm and cool colors.
An artist drew this picture of a cat.
Henri Rousseau – Tiger Cat (1863)
He used many neutral colors.
Neutral colors are brown, black, grey and white.
Plan a crayon drawing using neutral colors.
Project – Color: Color Families
On gray paper, draw a picture using one of the pure colors and all of the neutral family of colors.
examples:
a foggy day
Isaac Levitan – Gray day. 1895.
rainy day
Hasui Kawase – Rainy Night at Maekawa. 1932. (Detail)
buildings
Egon Schiele – Stein on the Danube. 1913.
pets
William Wegman – Washed Up. 2002.
zoo animals
Find a zoo animal to draw at the Cleveland Zoo!
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